What is the best method for repelling mice?
Cats only know how to hunt if their mother teaches them. Our cat is an adopted stray, with no mother to teach him anything. He was very young when he was found by a crazy cat lady*. We picked him up specifically for our mouse problem (very old house), and he hasn’t disappointed. He took out two mice in one day last week, after an electrician left a large hole in the wall. He also takes care of flies, crickets, etc. Unfortunately, he also tries to get into the fish tank on a daily basis. *We adopted the cat from a small organization that wanted us to sign away everything in order to take him home. Among the more interesting things in the contract were clauses that stated we didn’t own the cat, the cat could be taken back at any time, and the organization could come into our house at any time if they felt the cat was being mistreated. There was also a very long paragraph about de-clawing, comparing it to amputation. No comment on how we got around actually signing this contract, but it t
