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Termyn8or -> Ultrasonic rodent repellers (4/30/2008 9:44:43 PM)
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You can never keep them from getting in. We get them from time to time, mice.
The main time is when the weather gets cold, in fact here this bit of a cold shift this spring brought us a few. So I heard about these things and decided to look it up on the web. Conflicting accounts of course. Of course any place that sells them says they are the best thing since sliced rice, or is that canned bread ?
But I see on a blog about it most people saying they do not work.
One company's site does sound interesting, because it outlines the limitations of these devices. There are no doubt other things invented over the years that would work but for whatever reason people could not use them correctly.
In theory it makes sense to me, it would be like a car alarm going off in your house all the time to rodents, in theory. The one claims to have a certain waveform that they do not get used to, unlike some others. They also refute other manufacturer's claims that they work on insects.
The units are not really expensive, and probably ten of them would do my whole house except for the attic. Maybe a few hundred bucks, but if it is a permanent solution I would do it.
I have heard of other methods purported to be permanent as well. Or pretty permanent, like bobcat urine. That seems to maybe make sense. I got a buddy that says if you burn a mouse in the basement of a house so it permeates all the way through, the smell will abate to the point where humans can't smell it, but mice can and they stay away. Another tells me if you have a cat for a long time some of it's scent gets into everything and there is a lasting effect, probably shorter, but even if the cat is gone they still smell it.
I don't know what is old Husband's tales and what is fact. But I really don't want to deal with anymore traps. I'll buy 50 of those things of it'll work.
Has anyone tried these devices ? Do they work or are they just a moneymaker for the company ? I don't mind spending the money for something that works, but if it doesn't I certainly do not want to waste it.
Anyone know ?
T
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