Mice!

[geezer48]

the best stuff i have found is a block called just one bite,i have used it for a long time

 

[dlenkewich]

I use moth balls in my enclosed snowmobile trailer. tried dryer sheets one year and all they did was use it to insulate the condo they built in the air box of one of my sleds.

That's interesting. I've had better results with dryer sheet's. I stick them liberally in whatever is to be protected. Keeps things smelling fresh as well.

I liberally moth balled the camper and although it kept them from making nests, there was plenty of evidence of mice. (Read: ****)

 

[jkeyser14]

I also keep a Rat Zapper in my garage at all times. There are times (usually late fall/early winter) when I will catch as many as one mouse per day or more and other times (typically summer) when I may only get one per month. It keeps the population down considerably.

Another key is to keep food sources like bird feeders away from the house and any stored feed in mouse-proof containers. I like to use small garbage cans.

This is good advice. We had the same problem with mice two winters ago. We moved the bird seed out of the garage but the mice just migrated into the house to find food. Then I got an electric rat trap. Keep a small scoop of fresh peanut butter on it, especially in the winter when the mice are looking for some place warm. I used one in the house until we stopped catching mice, then moved it to the garage where I continued to catch them for a few weeks. I also put a few pieces of mouse poison around our wood piles as an extra precaution.

This past winter we had zero mice come inside, although it was a warmer winter so that could have also affected things.

 

[tribbles]

We adopted a dog a couple of months ago, and last week she greeted us in the backyard, wagging her tail as she showed us the mouse she killed. If they get into this garage like they did the last one, I'll just give her the run of the place for awhile.

 

[BillC6]

I built a bucket trap yesterday. It came, it ate and it left.
What did I do wrong?
Was the peanut butter to close to the edge?
Do Florida mice have good balance?

 

[lynnbilodeau]

Probably didn't spin easily enough.

 

[LSB-335]

+1 on the bucket trap. Filled with antifreeze kills the smell of dead mice. Used in my stored RV.

 

[onewheat]

This is how Honda powers the Insight. Customer brought in it because it was a little down on power.

 

[arthur1920]

I have two, neither work.
Food is stolen, sensor is tripped, no mice in them.

Edit;
I have raticators...first kill was today. Possible suicide.

I have the rat zapper. Secret here is to use Duracells. Cheap batteries may not have enough to do the job.

I also use the square bait chunks from Home depot. put a string through the hole, feed string through holes in back of zapper, tie to stick. Mouse dies. Walk to edge of property, dump mouse out. Pull stick to draw bait back in. Crows remove dead mouse in like, 5 min. Done.

the HD bait itself is not that good alone. I got some more potent ones from the exterminator.


Moth balls, dryer sheets, soap...all worthless.


Do not use peanut butter because it attracts little brown ants.

Get some ortho little white mouse traps. (Home Depot), screw them onto scrap plywood so they can't be dragged away. take a small bit of the bait chunk and press it into the bait tray firmly. I put a few around under the cars.

about 2 years ago I went through about 150 high potency bait chunks and I caught about 65 carcasses. I got tired of the little basstuds living in the air cleaners and defroster fans.

Now it's more manageable. fingers crossed.

 

[arthur1920]

+1 on the bucket trap. Filled with antifreeze kills the smell of dead mice. Used in my stored RV.

the mice in New England are too smart for that. They ate the bait up the plank and didn't fall in the water

 

[arthur1920]

This is how Honda powers the Insight. Customer brought in it because it was a little down on power.

did you check the air cleaner housing?

 

[onewheat]

did you check the air cleaner housing?

Yep, it was good. It was just a noise in the blower (no smell yet).

 

[Crfdell]

I have found bacon grease on a trap to work the best very light amount gets them every time.

 

[38Chevy454]

This is how Honda powers the Insight. Customer brought in it because it was a little down on power.

Cracked me up! Thanks for the laugh.

For the OP, I got some gopher poison and put it is small plastic lid in my motorhome. Had noticed some mouse **** inside, and time to get serious. Poison was gone when I checked a couple months later. It was then that I figured out how my dogs had brought two frozen stiff feral cats home. My theory is the mice at the poison, then the cats ate the mice. the cats were not all torn up like my digs attacked them, or the dogs clawed up form the cats. The cats were frozen stiff. I could not figure out what would cause the frozen cats, it was not that cold out and these were full grown size. Then ahah, it occurred to me the poison was all gone from the motorhome! BTW, have not had any more mouse evidence inside motorhome. No more gopher problems in yard either! The gopher poison is coated seeds I get at the feed store.

 

[sprntpshr]

Emptied and re-baited the mousetraps today in the shop and '86 Regal. PB smeared under the bait tab of Victor traps. It likely helps that I tune up the traps so they have a hair trigger, slightest movement on the bait tab and they fire.

One time when we were growing up in the old farmhouse, there was a wave of mice one fall. Ended up setting 10 traps and caught 44 mice in one night, 32 the next. Didn't get much sleep with all the snapping of the traps but we declared war on the vermin and won!

 

[Grimly]

I second the cat notion. For a couple of years there were no cats here and the mice were getting a bit cocky. One full-time pet cat came in and did a good job clearing them out, and this past year there have been three in total - the other two of them strays or dumped nearby. They decided to stick around where they get food and shelter and mice thrown in.
Not a mouse problem for ages now.

 

[mrobins297aaa]

this .............my little buddy malbert (in the boat),............. always on guard

 

[mikec35]

Went to lock up my chicken coop tonight, saw one of the little buggers staring up at me. Visited the backyard chicken forum and a lot of folks like this trap- surecatch multiple catch mouse trap. Doesn't need any bait.

 

[tomshep]

C A T.

Tom

 

[Clik]

Anyone make their own zapper?

 

[Bunchgrass]

Sure seems like mice find their way into my oil collection tub.

 

[BillC6]

Basterds beat me again. I opened up the holes so the can/bottle spins with no effort and tried it again last night. They or it ate the rest of the peanut butter. This one was so waisted on peanut butter he fell the pool. I wanted him in the bucket not the pool. Tonight I am going to try the diving boards into the bucket.

 

[BillC6]

 

[Clik]

I've used paper towell tubes with a piece of tap for a hinge that allows it to dump them in a bucket. A few drop of dish soap break the surface tension of the water so they drown quicker. I've also used a floating jar lid with bait. They jump on it and it sinks. Lately I've used poison bait which works well but now I smell something dead and can't find it.

I'd like to make a homemade zapper but I'm not quite sure how to set it up. I'll have to think on it.

 

[nelsonpitter]

How does one adopt an owl? I'd love to have one around here.

Owl is not a best solution for rodent’s control.
Before going for solution, one should find out the reasons for rodents and type of rodents.

1: Identify the rodents mice or rats
2: Check gap or hole in roof
3: Check window gap
4: Check wall crack
After find out one of above, you can stop their passing into your home.

I have hired pest inspection davis team to tackle with rodents.

 

[Clik]

You can never seal all the holes in a pole barn. You have to kill the little bastards before they eat your wiring.

I just went through that again! Little bastards made a nest under the hood and chewed through the wiring for the crank sensor on my 97 Cummins diesel. Which brings up my other *****: If it weren't for the socialist greenie bastards there wouldn't be a need for any wiring on a diesel!

 

[killahog]

I tried some decon in the little green balls the mice thought it was funny and collected them and stored it in a little birdhouse I had lying around. They packed it so full you couldn't get another one in it. I am know using Victor mouse traps.

 

[westgateblvd]

Cotton balls with peppermint oil on them. Put a few in the cars, and if you know where they are coming in put some there. They hate the smell of the peppermint.

 

[Ronniexj]

Always used Irish Spring soap in cars that were in storage. We never had mice in them.

YMMV

 

[toplessHO]

juicy fruit gum
leave a few sticks around outside still wrapped in the foil
They love the smell and will chew it up foil and all.
It stops them up so they cant poop. What a way to go!
good think is it wont be passed on to the cat dog hawk owl like D con would
and to the bucket trappers
put the peanut butter or cheese whiz on both sides but not on top of the roller
then they will put it off balance when bending over and plop into the antifreeze bath

 

[lynnbilodeau]

Always used Irish Spring soap in cars that were in storage. We never had mice in them.

YMMV

You were just lucky. There is a post on page one of this thread indicating that neither Irish spring nor bounce sheets work. They don't.
I put bounce sheets in my old Studebaker and found them the next week..... as part of the bedding in the new nest!!!!

Poison (not the green ones, the ones in paper) and traps. Cats if you are able.

 

[TractorJeff]

Tom Kat rat poison is the easy way to go! Spread it around every couple of months.

 

[Ronniexj]

You were just lucky.

More than possible! Good to know, thanks.

 

[Platonic Solid]

If you really want to know how bad your problem is staple 2 of the large plastic rat glue traps and 2 of the smaller plastic mouse glue traps to a piece of scrap wood to form a closed perimeter that completely surrounds a stapled package of green rat poison pellets (they love the stuff). The end result is not pretty, but very effective. Unfortunately this only treats the symptom, not the cause, but it’s a good start toward getting a nasty situation under control.

 

[G McKay]

A simple Victor mouse trap has always worked fine for me. I take a pair of pliers and squeeze the hook that holds the rod so that it goes off with the slightest movement. And regular American cheese is what I use for bait. I put them along the wall so that they close toward the wall. That way the mouse will get caught from either side. They have always worked very well for me.

 

[wasfuzz]

Find a Product online or if your in a rural area at the Farm supply. product is called Cab Fresh, made to be put into tractors and other equipment put in storage. Keeps the mice, odor repels them but it does not smell bad to humans. Stuff works all the time. it is just a large scented bag you lay inside the cab and under the hood, in trunk etc.

 

[Kaizen]

A simple Victor mouse trap has always worked fine for me. I take a pair of pliers and squeeze the hook that holds the rod so that it goes off with the slightest movement. And regular American cheese is what I use for bait. I put them along the wall so that they close toward the wall. That way the mouse will get caught from either side. They have always worked very well for me.

yup mice will keep coming back to the same place for food that they ate so I keep setting and emptying and resetting till they are gone. esp this time of year they are starving so peanut butter is a sure fire hit.

 

[CNGsaves]

If you really want to know how bad your problem is staple 2 of the large plastic rat glue traps and 2 of the smaller plastic mouse glue traps to a piece of scrap wood to form a closed perimeter that completely surrounds a stapled package of green rat poison pellets (they love the stuff). The end result is not pretty, but very effective. Unfortunately this only treats the symptom, not the cause, but it’s a good start toward getting a nasty situation under control.

^^ ^ GREAT solution !!! I'm going to try that !! I'll put your contraption right next to 5 gallon bucket of anti-freeze with spinner rod of death (coated in peanut butter) and see which trap snags the most little bastages !!!

 

[sk farmer]

Find a Product online or if your in a rural area at the Farm supply. product is called Cab Fresh, made to be put into tractors and other equipment put in storage. Keeps the mice, odor repels them but it does not smell bad to humans. Stuff works all the time. it is just a large scented bag you lay inside the cab and under the hood, in trunk etc.

i confirm. this stuff works. i leave it in cabs year round. if i use it in the fall by spring it is bearable otherwise just put it in a zip lock bag while using the equipment. it seems to work for about 2 years before needing a new pack.

 

[crewchief437]

ive heard differing stories on them liking spray foam. do they burrow into spray foam or no? it will be accessible so i need to run prevent if they do like it.