These 15 Scents Will Keep Your Montana Home Mice Free This Winter

Mice can spread disease and even potentially burn down your house if they chew through electrical wires, so while they might be cute to look at, they aren't great house guests.

To help keep unwanted mice out of your Montana house without using mouse traps, you can use smells that drive mice away.

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What Smells Do Mice Hate?

While mouse traps are the best way to rid your house of mice that have already made their home inside yours, keeping them out to begin with is pretty simple.

Mice have a very strong sense of smell, so you can overpower their sense of smell with some pretty common household ingredients.

The bonus to this is that not only do you keep mice away, but some of the scents will make your house smell good, so it's a win-win situation.

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Smells Work, But Only Temporarily

The website The Spruce says these smells will make a mouse hesitate to enter your home or garage, but once they figure out the smell can't hurt them, they'll start to ignore it.

Keep that in mind if you already have an infestation of mice, which will require traps or an exterminator depending on the severity.

If you are someone who just can't bring yourself to kill mice and these scents aren't keeping them out of your house, may we suggest a cat? 😉

15 Scents To Keep Your Montana Home Mice Free

According to The Spruce you can use the following 15 scents to keep mice from invading your house.

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