We have a mouse problem, but also chipmunks?

Oh dear.

I think we have a mouse problem. And a chipmunk problem.

This is our first year of “country” living. We are on four acres of wooded land that had ticks galore all Spring and Summer, so we know there are mice nesting. Now that it’s cooling off outside, it seems they’ve decided to nest in our house.

Really, they may have been here all along. This house was vacant for a year before we bought it. And although it was kept clean and the property cared for, there is clearly a mole problem. And this mouse issue.

Fact is, I can’t open my garage door without seeing a mouse zip from one spot to another. We thought it was just one mouse. Not sure why. But we caught one today and not an afternoon later I already saw another critter skulking. Plus this guy in my ceiling.

For some reason, Ceiling Mouse (who I think is actually Ceiling Chipmunk) only runs around when I’m sitting alone in this room. No one else has heard him. He’s like the mouse in the bell tower in that Christmas movie. He sometimes jumps to the floor inside the wall around my bathroom and rattles the vent. I’m okay but not okay with it?

My biggest issue is not the mice (although I had a nest in the seat of my van a year ago and it was a horror). Both of our cars are new leases. I don’t want any rodents moving in. And, of course, I don’t want them in my walls and ceiling if for no other reason than they stink up the walls when they die. There’s also the electrical issue, health hazards and so forth.

The problem is, they’re just so cute. And everywhere.

Yikes.

We have some work to do. So much it’s hard to know where to start.

This is an update on an older Steemit original post that went largely unseen and for which I still need recommendations. gifs from giphy.com