Mice in the garage

[The Frisco Kid]

Found some droppings near the doors today, gonna have to get some traps for the mice. When winter comes, how do you guys run them off? I usually stick to the keep food out of the garage & peanut butter on snap traps.

 

[ihatelaramie]

A good cat will go a long way, but if that's not an option, I've found that poison seems to work better than the traps. I've caught one mouse in a trap in my life. They always manage to take the bait without tripping the trap. The poison on the other hand, they can have all they want.

 

[Gary S]

If mice come into my garage, I don't run them off. I feed them generously with mouse poison. They show up once, and never again.

 

[Kev442]

I found that the little beggars were stowing the poison all over the garage. I now mix boric acid with the pellets, as I have no pets or kids. They tuck the pellets in their mouths, thus being forced to swallow the boric acid. My kill ratio sky rocketed, I found them keeled over right out in the driveway.

 

[bczygan]

Mice need a varied and nutritious diet and regular access to clean fresh water. You can check with your local pet supply store for recommendations. You may want to provide a place for them with fresh bedding so they aren't disturbed during their sleeping hours. Any pet needs regular veterinary care, so it is time to start shopping for a good one. If yours range outside, it is important to buy them a collar and ID tag. Microchipping is also recommended. Of course, you will want to name them. I don't know if you are the type that likes dressing them up in little outfits and pushing them around in a carriage, but that can be a great way to improve the human to mouse bond.

 

[BJ42LX]

 

[Hawk Thor]

I saw one scurry across the floor the other day. Went into a wild killing frenzy and tried my best to flush it out so that my boot or 5' aluminium pick could end its existence. I eventually calmed down and made a bucket trap.

I did not catch it, but the guys in the adjoining shop space said they had caught a mouse in a snap-trap next to their fridge.

I never had a mouse problem till now. Now there will be snap-traps with pieces of Mars or Snickers bars as bait in every corner and under benches and shelves. My bucket rap will remain in its location, well baited with Mars pieces.

I've heard that HF devices work good, Can't say I've ever seen one that has been chewed by a rodent.

 

[mad57]

ill say it again snake shedding from your local pet shop keeps them all out naturally.

 

[jethrob]

I try to keep a fresh supply of poison out.

"stop the infestation before it starts"

Destructive little $%&%&*(#(.

 

[socapots]

the garage and shop had those things you plug into the wall for power and they are supposed to keep them away. So far they seem to have worked. Have not seen any dropping or other signs of them.
Then again i dont know if there are much around. I'd guess yes because we have alot of grassland around us.

 

[bparksntx]

Hey Frisco. This is your cross town neighbor. I think our town has a rodent problem. I have trapped 5 in the last 2 months. I've talked to guys at Lowe's and HD and they can't keep enough traps on the shelves.

This is the one I use.

I also ordered some poison called "Just One Bite". I had to order it because the only place I found that carries it is sold out and they don't know when they are getting another shipment.

Good luck.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Twizzler on a Victor trap.

 

[lilscorpion]

Nah, you need a Little Bunny Foo-Foo. (This one is actually Little Bunny Foo-Foo 2)

The design handles the smart ones and groups of the dumb ones by the handful. Best part is you can hear the thing going off from quite a ways away. The baited trap sets off the other two. There a little difficult to set (hurts fingers sometimes) but the reward is...priceless.

Three of these solved a fairly serious mouse problem in less than a day (after dozens, I stopped counting). You can turn even a mouse problem into a kick a$$ shop project. Have fun with your new problem.

 

[WQ59B]

The pellets didn't work too long for me. I also don't know where they end up going to die.
The bucket traps had worked very well for me tho. I like the snake skin idea- will have to try that if I can. IMO the best bet is (if you can) sealing the building as best as possible.

I've had a limited number in my shop for many years, and there is NEVER food out there.

 

[jomobco]

I've got bunches of meeces with peanut butter in electric traps I got from Amazon like this one:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E1RIUU/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Many "sentences" dished out on one set of batteries. Set and go. Easy to peak in and then just dump out. No blood, guts or mess. Best mousetrap we've had. It keeps up with our barn cat on body count

 

[Joe B.]

I had mice issues. I tried a lot of things but I found that a combination of the victor traps and poison worked well. I put the victor traps in my garage with peanut butter. If a mouse made it into the house, it was dead the first night. I did not want dead mice in my house or garage so I put the poison in my outdoor shed that was easily accessible to mice nearing my house. The poison seems to have been enough to collapse the local population as I have not seen any mice for a few month.

Those imported Tomcat traps are easier to set than the Victor traps but I found that mice were able to eat the bait and get away about 50% of the time with those traps. The victor traps had a much higher kill rate.

 

[ZRX61]

Half a box of mothballs scattered about, vermin leave as soon as they smell em.

 

[ken w.]

I always put the bait underneath the pan so the just don't lick it off and leave you with an empty trap. I have found that mice will take the Decon back to their nest area and not eat it. I have an old blender that I mix peanut butter & Decon together. The sticky peanut butter makes them swallow it. Aren't you glad you don't have them huge rats coming up from South America ? Their as big as some med. size cats.

 

[The Frisco Kid]

Hey Frisco. This is your cross town neighbor. I think our town has a rodent problem. I have trapped 5 in the last 2 months. I've talked to guys at Lowe's and HD and they can't keep enough traps on the shelves.

This is the one I use.

I also ordered some poison called "Just One Bite". I had to order it because the only place I found that carries it is sold out and they don't know when they are getting another shipment.

Good luck.

Thanks man! I'll give that one a go. I got a rec for that same "just one bite" stuff, so I'll order some as well. Never had a mouse problem until they started construction in the fields behind us and ran off our bobcats

 

[Lippyp]

Aren't you glad you don't have them huge rats coming up from South America ? Their as big as some med. size cats.

I used to rent a barn with a friend to use as a workshop. It was right next to a big grain store and the rats there were the size of cats. They did used to have the rat-catcher come around with a gun and two jack russels and he kept the numbers down but at one point we had a problem with them in the shop, they were coming up through some holes around the edge of the slab. In order to get rid of them we decided to gas them, plugged as many holes as we could fine with rags and bits of wood and then wedged a hose up the tailpipe of a car, shoved the other end down a hole and left it running for a couple of hours. Seemed to do the trick, there was certainly fumes coming out of the floor all over!

Now I have a problem under the tin barn I rebuilt half of last year and legally I can't do anything about it. It seems we have a Badgers sett under it, there were some holes there when we moved in but they clearly weren't in use, anyway, a month or so ago suddenly they came back and have dug right under the slab, theres two big piles of dirt a good two foot tall and two large tunnels. Trouble is they are protected by law. I like badgers but don't really want them undermining my shed, its also going to be a problem as we want to rebuild it from scratch in a couple of years time as we only managed to save half of it after one end collapsed. The burrows are in the middle half open bit and go under the slab on the left.

 

[wrench409]

I'm surprised no body brought up this:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q...C73059A1BA89E8BE47AAEDA71CF36ECE9&FORM=IQFRBA

 

[bazzateer]

I used to rent a barn with a friend to use as a workshop. It was right next to a big grain store and the rats there were the size of cats. They did used to have the rat-catcher come around with a gun and two jack russels and he kept the numbers down but at one point we had a problem with them in the shop, they were coming up through some holes around the edge of the slab. In order to get rid of them we decided to gas them, plugged as many holes as we could fine with rags and bits of wood and then wedged a hose up the tailpipe of a car, shoved the other end down a hole and left it running for a couple of hours. Seemed to do the trick, there was certainly fumes coming out of the floor all over!

Now I have a problem under the tin barn I rebuilt half of last year and legally I can't do anything about it. It seems we have a Badgers sett under it, there were some holes there when we moved in but they clearly weren't in use, anyway, a month or so ago suddenly they came back and have dug right under the slab, theres two big piles of dirt a good two foot tall and two large tunnels. Trouble is they are protected by law. I like badgers but don't really want them undermining my shed, its also going to be a problem as we want to rebuild it from scratch in a couple of years time as we only managed to save half of it after one end collapsed. The burrows are in the middle half open bit and go under the slab on the left.

No easy solution to that one. Until relatively recently the laws protecting badgers were harsher than those protecting children!

I suppose if you can confirm when they've gone pumping concrete into the tunnels could work? Seals up the holes and underpins the slab at the same time.

 

[henrysgarage]

I put a couple of dishes of rat bait and put stick traps around the dishes, double the chances of getting the bastards.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Now I have a problem under the tin barn I rebuilt half of last year and legally I can't do anything about it. It seems we have a Badgers sett under it, there were some holes there when we moved in but they clearly weren't in use, anyway, a month or so ago suddenly they came back and have dug right under the slab, theres two big piles of dirt a good two foot tall and two large tunnels. Trouble is they are protected by law. I like badgers but don't really want them undermining my shed, its also going to be a problem as we want to rebuild it from scratch in a couple of years time as we only managed to save half of it after one end collapsed. The burrows are in the middle half open bit and go under the slab on the left.

I won't tell anybody.

 

[dawgee]

A couple of pounds of C4 will take care of the mice and badgers

 

[checkthisout]

Try to find where they coming in.

When you find them go to HD or whatever and get like 20 traps and set them all over the place. Just don't forget where you have set them.

Peanut butter is easiest.

 

[Toomanytools?]

Twizzler on a Victor trap.

Oh you even named him "Twizzler" ! )
The new bait "Just one bite" works to dry up the mice so they don't stink as bad when dying. I use a combination : Sticky trap, snap, multiple containment, poison bait. Sticky traps work good on younger ones , snaps seem hit or miss, bait in the barn so hopefully they don't make it to the house.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Oh you even named him "Twizzler" ! )

LOL No.

 

[Weekend_warrior]

Find a stray cat or animal rescue and give him a home in the garage. show it where the food is. Clean the litter box everynow and then. Don't over feed it and you will have no problems. The will disappear soon enough. Don't forget to leave cats food bowl out in the open so the mice will have to run out and steal the food. That way the cat will know they are there and make them a little easier to catch.

I've had a few cats that were good mousers. I don't have any issues.

 

[bochnak]

Peanut butter on snap traps has worked great for me. I attach the trap to a larger/heavier object just in case they snag a tail or something and take off with the trap. This worked well for me when I had to catch a few in the attic and did not want them dying out of reach.

 

[bigredcornhead]

I'm surprised no body brought up this:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q...C73059A1BA89E8BE47AAEDA71CF36ECE9&FORM=IQFRBA

This works sooooo well my buddies garage is back up to a forest and he caught at least seven in a 3 day weekend

 

[ozyborn]

Cats...... good mouser is worth their weight in gold... Other than that, peanut butter on mouse traps and poison.

 

[regancc]

Cats...... good mouser is worth their weight in gold... Other than that, peanut butter on mouse traps and poison.

You mean like this?

And a great cat, to boot!!

 

[The Frisco Kid]

Day one - six mice down. Two of those *******s were BIG! bunch of little'uns too. Tossed them and set a bunch more traps. Game on ****ers!

 

[Lippyp]

Baz, not much point in doing much tbh as in a couple of years time thats getting torn down and rebuilt as a pole barn back to its full size. When we first came to view the house 18 months ago it was the full three bays and then thanks to a big storm and high winds it kind of fell down before we bought the house. Last summer we managed to save half of it, the end bay is the only one with concrete and it had standing walls and half a roof so we threw some new timber at it and got it solid and watertight using tin salvaged from the rest. The annoying thing is I was about to shove my two trailers under the open fronted bit which is where the badgers have dug so now I can't.

I think C4 would also take care of the demolition of the shed! My biggest problem is how to stop the buggers digging under it when we rebuild it. It seems this is winter quarters, probably because its nice and dry under the slab. They buggered off all summer so the holes will get filled in again then.

 

[santagary]

Sticky traps work wonders, then swimming lessons immediately following in a bucket. Ghost, my shop cat gets the rest and has only gotten in a sticky trap once...lesson learned quickly.

 

[1949 caddyman]

Sticky trap & bucket of water, they dont swim for long!

 

[Steevo]

I hates meeces to pieces.

Badgers, on the other hand, I like:

 

[IONH]

Rat Zapper solved my problems.

 

[78Bird]

Think you could run the badgers off with mothballs? Most critters hate them, but they don't hurt anything. They just leave cause of the smell.

Toss a couple handfuls down there and see.