Dangit. Mice droppings all over the garage

[Jinks]

How are you fitting a bar of soap.in a shredder?
Mine fits maybe 12 sheets at most.

Soak it in a bucket of warm water for a couple of days then pour it through.........

 

[geneg]

Any of you guys had experience with those hypersonic emitters? Do they work?

I bought one at Menards a few years ago. Plugged it in a garage recept. Had unbaited snap traps directly below it with the triggers along the wall. Caught mice in the traps several nights. So, my assumption is that the repellant tones did not work. Put it back in the orig packaging & stashed it somewhere. I should have returned it as defective. Do you want to buy one? I'll post it if I can find it.

 

[frankd]

I've used the bucket trap with pretty good success. The mice in our garage love to build their nests in the airboxes of my ATV's....

 

[ronr80]

I made one of these bucket traps with a can covered in peanut butter ,works like a charm I filled the bottom with antifreeze about 1 inch deep ,usually 9, 10 mice in there. R

 

[Sleeper]

I keep posting this but get little feed back. It's cheap, easy, & worth a try. Take a shredder & shred a couple of bars of Irish Spring soap. Scatter the shredding around the shop in out of the way places. See what happens to your mice... We had critters living under out A/C pads & nothing would get rid of them. Saw this on the web, so we tried it. Solved the problem. A couple of friends up north got rid of mice & chipmunks the same way. If it doesn't work all it cost was a couple of bars of soap.........

Maybe German mice like Irish Spring? I put a couple bars, albeit unshredded, in the garage but it didn't seem to work. The entire garage had a hint of soap smell so I'm not sure why I was still finding droppings and catching them. It's a never ending battle. I've found that peanut butter in snap traps works best for me.

Cleaning out a bathroom in someone’s house that hadn’t been used in a while. Mice got into the cabinets under the sink and the only thing they ate was an entire bar of Irish Spring soap. The whole box was filled with droppings. Not what I would use as a mouse repellent.

 

[Jinks]

They didn't eat it, they were caught swearing & their mother washed out their mouths with it! Probably the reason they avoid it now..............

 

[69charged]

Bringing a thread back from the dead. Didn’t want to start a new one.
I’ve had mice in my garage steady since moving in. The previous owners had a wild cat that probably took care of them, but my dog made short work of the cat!!!
I found a nest in my small toolbox side box, and had 4 or 5 baby mice in it. Eyes still closed. I took them out and threw them as far as I could into the bush. Over the past few days, I’ve found 5 baby mice coming back up the driveway, and in my garage against a wall. What are the chances these things know where to come back to? Can’t be can it????
My buddy at work says brake clean kills them instantly on contact. I have not tried cause that seems pretty extreme for me. Unless they really piss me off!!
Came on here looking for advice about the ultrasonic things, but I’m guessing those don’t work.
I would like to get another wild cat, but not sure my dog will play nice!!

 

[ZRX61]

Get a snake....

 

[69charged]

Get a snake....

Then I’m not so sure the wife would play nice!!!

 

[Skyman]

Exclude them from all possible points of entry to the greatest extent possible. Understand this: An adult mouse can squeeze through an opening as small as the diameter of a pencil. Juveniles can get through even smaller openings. If they can get their skull through, they can wriggle the rest of their body through.

Combining steel wool and caulk works well for sealing most openings. They can chew through caulk. Steel wool shuts down that action. Sheet aluminum secured over openings can help with some problematic areas that don't lend themselves well to steel wool and caulk. Be meticulous with your inspection and remediation of all possible points of ingress. Cracks, holes, utility penetrations, etc. Overlook nothing.

Once you've sealed the envelope of the structure to the greatest extent possible, place sticky traps at the corners of each garage door, as those corners are notoriously difficult to adequately barricade. As noted previously, these also capture all sorts of other pests, primarily insects.

More sticky traps, placed in other areas where you're not going to step on them yourself, can be used to monitor for any remaining problems and eliminate the last of the "residents."

I now believe I have completely solved my problem with mice using the above advice.

 

[Hohn]

Bucket traps work well. I got 10 mice in about 2 weeks. One night it rained hard outside and I got 5.

The original, made in USA:

https://www.amazon.com/RinneTraps-Bucket-Humane-Outdoor-Compatible/dp/B09DJD5NFQ/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[whitesco]

I vote napalm

 

[nadogail]

Mice are fair game for a Hungry Cat, Boa or other medium to large snake.

 

[olytdi]

Haven't been doing a lot of garage projects lately but today was out there and noticing a lot of mice poop. I don't keep any food out there, the little bastards are bringing in their own food (acorns) and chewing them up. Probably got a couple living in there. Any newfangle traps or just get some old school traps? Don't want to poison them.

Just trap incessantly until there are no more. When I moved to my current residence, there were tons of mice in the garage and crawl space. I put out nearly 20 traps and visited them twice a day. Trapped them all out and it only took a couple of weeks. The first mice got trapped before I even finished setting all of the traps. A number of mice daily then slowing after a few weeks. Peanut butter in the old Victor snap traps work great. I've used all of the gadgets out there (wheelie thing over water bucket, electric traps, etc.) and the good 'ole snap traps work fantastically. Just make sure to tie your traps to something if you have owls around -- they stole 8 of my traps with mice in them until I started lashing them to pipes and such.

 

[ALinCarolina]

In my experience, the ultrasonic things don't work. Like scarecrows, once the pest gets used to them and finds they don't hurt they ignore them. Please don't use the sticky traps, especially not out in the open. I have seen birds get stuck to them and there was no getting them loose so ended up dying. Wrens in particular try to get into buildings especially during nesting season. Place the snap traps even in somewhat hidden places as they can kill small birds too.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Your first act, before trapping the vermin, is to seal your building against them. I prefer barriers made of galvanized steel.

 

[Skyman]

I don’t bait sticky traps, so there’s nothing to attract birds. I just place them strategically.

 

[Dagny]

12 Ga.

 

[johninct]

I found a baby mouse nest in my excavator a few weeks ago. I took a stick to knock the babys onto the ground and then stomped them.