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KILL ALL Rats and Mice Around Your Home, Safe for Pets (The Old Mexican Way)
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Published Sep 27, 2026, 10:13 AM · 2w ago
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Every rat and every mouse around your house, gone, and not a feather touched on the hens or a hair on the dog. It sounds like one more internet miracle. It is a pantry and a little patience.
My comadre Chayo had tried everything: glue boards, two exterminators, four hundred dollars of spray foam, and eighty mice caught on her kitchen calendar. She has six hens, a dog and a cat, so poison was never an option. So I went to her garage and did it the way my mother did, with what was already in her pantry.
FIRST, THE MOUSE AND THE RAT ARE TWO DIFFERENT ANIMALS
🐭 The mouse is curious, nibbles in twenty places, and stays close to his nest.
🐀 The rat eats a lot in one place, travels far, needs water every day, and is afraid of anything new.
Both of them hug the wall, so everything goes against a wall.
WHAT I DID IN MY COMADRE'S GARAGE (my mother's way, step by step)
🧀 Throw out the glue boards. Cheap, cruel, and they catch the cat too.
🐣 No poison, ever. Hens, a dog and a cat live here, and the owl on the pole pays for every bait block.
📈 Why 80 caught was not winning: a mouse has a new litter about every three weeks.
🟧 The orange box: bicarbonato, baking soda. You have seen the video. Here is what people get wrong.
📦 The box the dog cannot open: an upside-down crate with a brick on top and one small door on the wall side (or the locked station for diggers).
🌽 The base is Maseca, 2 parts bicarbonato to 1 part masa (not half and half). The honest word: the "gas" story is not proven. The mix is the scout, and the trap is the soldier.
🍯 For mice: piloncillo syrup or honey. NO cocoa, because chocolate is poison to a dog.
🥓 For rats: manteca, plus sebo, which lasts longer.
🧱 Everything against the wall. Rats fear new things, so feed from the unset trap for 3 nights and set it on the 4th.
🕳️ Why the $400 foam failed: mice chew foam like bread. Steel wool first, then seal.
🪤 La ratonera, set right: a pea of masa, trigger to the wall, two or three per spot, inside the box.
⚠️ The "gentle" poison block the pest men use, told honestly.
🔌 What they chew: the dryer cord, down to the copper.
✅ Two days later: the mix eaten, three mice, and the rat on the fourth night.
💧 Take away the water and the free dinner. 🧤 The morning after: gloves, bleach 1:10, never sweep dry.
The honest limits: running in the ceiling, droppings in three rooms, or a rat in daylight means a professional, one time, with no shame. Ask for traps and exclusion, not a monthly poison contract. If a pet eats something you are not sure of, call the vet that hour and bring the label.
Who profits: the monthly contract, the bait station with a refill, the poison blocks by the case. Nobody makes a dollar from a woman with a wooden crate, a two-dollar trap and a pea of masa.
Tonight, do one: two wooden traps back to back against the wall behind your water heater, inside a crate or a pipe, trigger end to the wall, with a pea of masa on each. For a rat, put the trap in the box and do not set it for three nights.
Mouse or rat at your house? What did YOUR mother use? Tell me, and your county. I read every one.
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- Sep 27, 2026, 10:13 AM
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