Mice? Ants?

[Raven]

the guy who sprayed around my house left me those little traps where the ants eat the bait and then take the food back to the nest which wipes them all out.

for the mice set traps.... leave a dish of bird seed in a corner with white flour sprinkled on the floor so you can see the evidence of tracks. there are also those electric shrill sounding (to a mouse) noise makers that drives them out without the worry of a cat ingesting a poisoned wobbly mouse and getting ill.

the rule of thumb with critters...is: if they can get their head thru a whole than they can get their body thru it also.
(size of a nickel.) Find the hole's and plug them....
sometimes copper mesh is used as it stuffs in a hole real easily and they can't chew it.

become the godfather and make them an offer they can't refuse.

[gone fishin]

Larry - Don't think I am crazy when I tell you the following! For the ant problem, the following is a formular that works. Especially if the ants are carpenter ants. The active ingrediant in exterminaters kit is boric acid. I was told about the following formular by a professional exterminater and it works!!
Buy 5 pounds of boraxo soap powder. -Boraxo is boric acid and pumice!- Buy 5 pounds of sugar. mix them together thoroughly and spread it around the areas that the ants frequent. The ants are drawn by the sugar and the boraxo ( which is the boric acid and pumice) It will will kill them. I have my shop in a shed as you do. The damn ants just about destroyed my shed and I did exactly what I suggest and I havn't seen an ant since.
The only problem you have that I didn't have is two cats. I have no idea if the cats will go after the sugar and boraxo mixture.
As for the mice -- Glue traps are pisser, just place them where the cats cannot get to them.