Hi Marc, Someone on another listserv recently posted this great personal review of the Pest A Cator product. I have no personal info to share about this product (I have a good mouser cat…) so I am just the messenger. If you would like the contact info for this person, I can ask her permission to make that connection. Another person on the same listserv also said it worked great. Best, Deb She says: I am writing to follow up on the "pest-a-cator" device, which I plugged into my apartment over a year ago, when I became catless and was overrun by mice. There were A LOT of mice! I don't even mean one a day or two a day. I mean a constant stream of mice in every room chewing everything and pooping everywhere. It was really overwhelming. Anyway, someone told me she had tried many different approaches, and the mice either outwitted and evaded the traps she set, or seemed completely immune to whatever other methods she employed. But this "Pest-a-cator" product worked. What it is, is a device you plug into a wall outlet. It does NOT use ultrasonic technology, which would have driven me out of my mind. It causes a pulse or vibration in the wiring, or something like that, which I personally do not hear, feel, or otherwise sense, at all. Result: there have been NO mice whatsoever in my apartment since plugging in the pest-a-cator. Not even in the winter. Not even any that I could hear inside the walls. I see no mouse poop anywhere, hear no scratching, see absolutely no evidence of them being anywhere, even in the walls. Even when I had a cat who hunted, the mice would live inside the walls! But not with the pest-a-cator. You have to buy the correct size unit for your square footage, and you need to buy one for every floor of your house (my apartment has an upstairs and a downstairs, so I have two). It does have a blinking red light that is meant to indicate to you whether the unit is working. I find the blinking light bothersome if I look at it, but you can easily cover it up if you want to. If you don't mind it, it does show you whether the unit has malfunctioned. I had one that got spiked during a storm, but it was replaced for free by the manufacturer, so the blinking light stopping blinking was useful to me. It's not so bright that it fills the room or anything, but if you are very sensitive to blinking, you could cover it with a piece of electrical tape. It's about the same brightness as the indicator light on my apartment's carbon monoxide detector. The person who recommended it to me says she tried other brands of things that plugged into the wall, and none of them worked. Anyway, I just wanted to let folks know this really worked for me. I think of it as filling my walls with music. It's non-toxic and non-violent, and since one unit apparently lasts for a long time (years), it's not really all that expensive, either. It does use some electricity, but not much. The product manual says it repels all rodents, not just mice, so you should not use it if you have pets in the rodent family (like gerbils). They say some people claim that it also repels spiders, but the company admits the spider effect is not proven. In my experience, spiders do not seem to mind it. But I don't mind spiders, either, so that's fine with me. They offer a money back guarantee, so if you still have mice after proper use, they will refund the purchase price. (They warn that you may get an initial increase in mouse sightings at first, as they leave the walls, but that new mice will not move in. In my case, the previously residentmice apparently exited to the exterior, not the interior of the house, and I saw absolutely ZERO mice starting the moment I plugged the units in.) My Tri-field Meter does register increased EMF in the immediate area around where the unit is plugged in, but it drops off to nothing within about 2 feet of the outlet. The manufacturer's website, for more information about how it works and what size unit is right for your living space, is: http://www.global-instruments.com/ On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Marc Solomon <attspin at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > Patty and I are unwitting participants to rodent floorboard marathons over past week. > > Does someone have a recommendation for a careful, sensible, cost-effective mice-be-gone solution? > > Many thanks, > > Marc > North Hadley > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members