Mice In The Piano.

[Jim Dally]

We used DCon in our house;  one day we found a nice pile of it in a
sofa......brought in by the mice for future eating.  That was the last of
the DCon use for us.


----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: Mice In The Piano.


> >Not to smart about this, but a cat will keep mice away. As far as I know
if
> >there are mice in the house, there is really no other way to keep mice
out of
> >a piano.
> >
> >Willem
>
> Used to have an excellent mouser - a pacifist. He's catch 'em outside
> (dozens of 'em), bring them in the house where it was warm and turn them
> loose. Fortunately we also had other cats - opportunists, who followed him
> around and batted clean up. I suppose all this would fall into the "mixed
> blessings" 'cat'egory, but I think the lesson is that the only way to keep
> mice out of the piano is to vacuum pack it, bury it, submerge it, or keep
> it burning. Any of these options seem to have a certain potential for
> peripheral entertainment, if not effective mouse proofing.
>
> Seriously though (ugh), D-Con behind the knee board is the way to go for
> rodentia discouragement. They *WILL* get in, even if they have to
teleport,
> they'll eat the D-Con first, and will tend to lose enthusiasm for bridle
> straps and key buttons as they become distracted by the process of dying
> horribly by poisoning.
>
> It's a pretty tough point to argue.
>
>
> Ron N