We seem to have a problem with mice (i pressume) under our cottage (well i hope its under and not above as our loft is jam packed with the contents of our garage from our old house)

However when i took it up with our housing landlords rep, all she said was and i quote "what do you expect, you live in the countryside?" which was clearly not very helpfull! (but as expected really it seems to be greatly the attitude of a lot of Highland authority figures sadly, i/we have yet to find a truly helpful one, but thats another story

Anyway back on subject, we have brought from our previous home our cat


Suggestions on A - How to track both what amd where it is, going, nesting and moving about in, so as to effectively deal with it and B - How to effectively long term keep both them and other similar critters out of the house..
We have had a look around as much as anyone can and thus far have been unable to find where they are entering the house, we have the number of the local pest controllers but fear it will be like our previous housing association where we would of had to pay out a reasonably large sum to get them to deal with it, when for not a lot we should be able to diy it ourselves, so any help, hints advice or such would make me a very happy man as they really are annoying little blighters if i was able to make our home unattractive to us i would be estatic.
Slanj