How do i get rid of mice from coming inside my house?

-okay, so i just moved to Palmdale, Ca and i have a PROBLEM ! I have mice in my house, and i want to get rid of them ASAP i literally cant sleep at night... I'm constantly cleaning and making sure everything is organized and put in place... please can someone please help me on some tips, on how to get rid of them! i cant afford to pay a terminator.I've seen those electronic things that RICK talks about, they seem to work on all kinds of pests. Including Roaches!

If you have pets you wouldn't want to leave poison laying around for them to get into, Home Depot carries the old spring type mouse traps (Victor), don't waste your money on the spring type that has a plastic bait tray that looks like a piece of cheese, they DON'T work. Use some peanut butter as bait, I caught two mice at the same time this way.

I heard an old hillbilly trick is to catch a live mouse and drop it into a pot of boiling water. His screaming will drive away any other mouse from your house. I haven't tried this, I don't know if it'll work
If you live in a house see if you can figure out where they are coming in. Go outside and caulk all holes in foundations etc. look for mouse droppings (small black pellets) if you find some that is where you need to put your traps or poison. They make a poison block or packets that is safer that the old stuff. Also buy pet urine odor remover. (my exterminator told me about this) once you feel you have gotten the mice then clean along baseboards etc with this. Mice urinate to mark the route so other mice can come in.
Get a Cat. my mums allergic so i cant have them in my house, but my neighbors cats come around our yard all the time and my house is mice free. there was a short time when there were no cats around our property at all and we had a mouse or too so just goes to show a cat or two does the job.
Mouse traps. That way the body is removed and not left to rot and be an odor problem as poison would do. There are the old style a sticky trap style. Go around your exterior any seal off any holes you could stick a finger into.
Visit http://www.catchmaster.com and order mouse glue traps. They have the best mouse traps. It's cheaper than getting an exterminator. They know everything there is to know on how to catch a mouse.
keep the place clean, buy some rat poison... oh and post your questions in the relevant section!



Good luck