Winning a War (Finally)

With four cats around, our mouse population is kept pretty much under control. I think only once or twice we’ve seen a mouse in the house (which didn’t last long). Even so, every winter we’ve had mice move into the walls in one particular corner of the house. We can hear them. The cats can hear them. But they stay in the wall so we never see them. 

The problem with mice in the walls is that they gnaw on things. Thinks like electrical wiring. Not good, and not a risk we want to take, so every year Dan has diligently tried to mouse-proof the house. He’s blocked off cracks and filled holes, but when the cold weather months arrive, they still get into their hidey spot in the wall. 

We’re pretty sure that they’ve been getting in somewhere around the HVAC. 

When it was installed, the new unit was set on the old oil heater’s concrete pad. It overhung it by several inches, but Dan figured that framing it where it butted up to the house would seal off the crawl space. After years of trying to second guess mousy holes and entrances, Dan finally pulled it out to see what he could do to keep mice out for good.