Weitech 0180-B 1000-Sq. Ft. Plug In Pest Repeller Lawn & Patio

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I can't say if this product repels mice or not. I never saw a mouse in my apartment before or after I started using the repellers.

This model constantly cycles between high and low frequency sound waves. Low gets rid of mice and rats -- high gets rid of insects and spiders. You plug it into the wall like a night light or a room deodorizer. It is about the size of a deck of cards. It is white and unobtrusive.

The ultrasonic sound does not go through walls -- so use several in different rooms. Move them around occasionally to really confuse the critters.

I keep a Weitech 180 on the sun porch where the cat and dog food bowls live. Another model (Weitech 800) gets moved from room to room.

I live in the country, so every mouse family that comes by thinks my house looks like a good one to live in. The ultrasonic sound confuses the hapless rodents. This confusion is an incredible hunting aid for my 17 year old cat, Checkers. Just last fall she caught five mice in two hours. (Unassisted, her previous record was three in one night -- and she was much younger.) Poor unfortunate mice. R.I.P. They are really picking the wrong house move into if they choose mine.

These devices do not seem to be effective at keeping opossums from coming in the dog door. One old gentleman opossum was insistent that my house was a good one.... then I got a Jack Russel Terrier and he moved on. (Opossums are marsupials -- not related to squirrels, mice, gerbils or raccoons, etc. at all.)

Last summer a bat flew in the open patio door (a mouse with wings) -- I didn't stay in the house long enough to see if the bat was confused or not. I climbed out the living room window and went to the neighbors, screaming. It had flown back out by the time we returned so, maybe this device worked against it. I do not know.

I saw a snake outside last fall. I do not think these devices work against snakes either.

But for spiders and bugs and other creepy-crawlies, they are much more effective than any spray or trap -- and safer and cleaner -- get several! (And maybe a Jack Russel if you have an insistent opossum.)