I live in a lowdown, old, and dirty apartment building which is frequently visited by mice. I really don't like the little f*ckers and so I set out various fatal traps when they invade our little room.
Back a few years ago we lived in another nasty little building with mice, and I was bitching about it to a neighbor and he half joking asked me if I wanted to borrow his cat for the weekend. I gratefully declined the offer (because his cat, Saffron, was the second-dumbest housecat I ever met, and I was unwilling to be responsible for him lest he walk out the window or something). So I never found out if it was true that the mere whiff of cat aroma scares away rodents.
Returning to now, we got mice. We also got three pet birds, so having our own cat is out of the question. But I've started to wonder: would a cat visiting our apartment for a day or three lay down a scent that would linger to unnerve and frighten any more mice from trying to move in on me for a while, without making the room reek of litterbox?
Like I said up there in the last paragraph, we have pet birds so no way are we getting a kitty kat for keeps, but if having a nice friendly polite cat visit us for two or three days (and maybe catch a few mice for his troubles) makes the place too scary smelling for mice, we might make arrangements.
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