I had mice this spring (I learned about this by finding one curled up dead in the supplementary dog food bag). My response was: 1. OH HELL NO, and traps; 2. Do not buy more dog food than will fit in the plastic tub. The traps worked fine; I caught 3 mice and I haven't seen any more.
This was in the city, mind you. At the cottage we are resigned to finding mouse poop all over everything when we come up for the first time in the spring. We just clean everything and don't worry about it. They don't seem to hang around in the summer.
And I'm happy to say I've only had glancing encounters with cockroaches. YICK.
We will not speak of the occasional raccoon problems. ;)
I lived in Kenya as a child and in the rainy season we would be inundated with winged ants (termites). They would crawl into our house through any opening and shed their wings and it was vile, but there wasn't much you could do about it (well, sitting in the dark so they wouldn't come towards the light was helpful, but only a bit). It only lasted a couple of days.
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This was in the city, mind you. At the cottage we are resigned to finding mouse poop all over everything when we come up for the first time in the spring. We just clean everything and don't worry about it. They don't seem to hang around in the summer.
And I'm happy to say I've only had glancing encounters with cockroaches. YICK.
We will not speak of the occasional raccoon problems. ;)
I lived in Kenya as a child and in the rainy season we would be inundated with winged ants (termites). They would crawl into our house through any opening and shed their wings and it was vile, but there wasn't much you could do about it (well, sitting in the dark so they wouldn't come towards the light was helpful, but only a bit). It only lasted a couple of days.