Where on Earth would he get the idea that mint keeps rats away? I've had a couple of pet rats (they make great pets), and I can't imagine that they would have been in the least impressed by mint. This guy agrees with us that it's a stupid idea (yep, I had to Google rats and mint out of curiosity) - it's the researcher in me): http://www.attic-rat.com/repellent.html
My dogs are fond of killing mice. They'll dig under stones or try to rip holes in rotten logs to get at them. As they're a couple of big Heinz-57s (best described as Lab mixes) who weigh around 100 pounds each, this can result in quite the excavation. Maggie loses interest in them once she has crunched them. Gus, however, doesn't like to give up his prizes so easily, and will smuggle them into the house if not stopped. We can tell when he does it because he won't quite shut his mouth, and he'll hold the mouse off to one side, so he looks like he has a wad of chewing tobacco in his cheek. I do have to say I'll take the mice over the half of a roadkilled raccoon that he once scarfed up while out with DH, and that he horked up a short time later on our living room carpet. There's a smell that lingers.
My dogs are fond of killing mice. They'll dig under stones or try to rip holes in rotten logs to get at them. As they're a couple of big Heinz-57s (best described as Lab mixes) who weigh around 100 pounds each, this can result in quite the excavation. Maggie loses interest in them once she has crunched them. Gus, however, doesn't like to give up his prizes so easily, and will smuggle them into the house if not stopped. We can tell when he does it because he won't quite shut his mouth, and he'll hold the mouse off to one side, so he looks like he has a wad of chewing tobacco in his cheek. I do have to say I'll take the mice over the half of a roadkilled raccoon that he once scarfed up while out with DH, and that he horked up a short time later on our living room carpet. There's a smell that lingers.
