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renegade

I've bought some peppermint tea bags. Mice are said to hate the smell of mint, so I will put the bags in my cereal boxes to keep the mice out.

There's an idea, 'Mace' for mice.

Your mice swear by your rubbish? Mine swear at what I put out (full of mousetraps, not like here and full of mouth-traps)

You should refile on the puns thread.renegade!

> A Pun in the oven, or no Pun intended < under advanced search.

The mice seem to be steering clear of the peppermint tea bags. .

I'll remember that.

I know it won't work for kangaroo rats.

The little devil stole all my peppermints.

There might be other spices that he doesn't like. Would cinnamon work?

She, definitely a female.

These desert creatures will eat almost anything.

The only thing I know of they'll refuse is desert croton, spurge family, related to gopher purge plant, smells kind of like eucalyptus, but no repellent value.

...still...

I've hard that you can leave buckets around, only a third full. The rats get in but can't get out.

Works for kangaroo rats, now that you mention it.

Frequently found them drowned in the cat's 1 gallon water dish.