Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

While I agree with those that have mentioned removing the food source is critical....rats, mice and roaches will eat anything to survive....paper, soap, furnishings.

Originally Posted by nai_in_av

.........and not the computer kind............ following on from the tips about how to keep spiders away in another thread (we have brown recluse and black widows here)

I have recently discovered that we have some friendly mice living somewhere in our house. Great!! So short of calling an exterminator is there anything that I can do that might get rid of them and cost a lot less than an exterminator? Traps, poison etc

We have a 1 year old and so I want to not only get rid of them, but also do anything I can to prevent them coming back. Since we moved into the house in April I have cleared piles of old wood from the back of the house, and also dumped loads of rubbish that was in the basement. Which should hopefully be a start in preventing them, but any tips will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.