Mice in Garage
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Mice in Garage
Their must be mice in my garage. I store celotex (foambard) in the rafters above the Vette and everytime I go out there, there is all these granuales of the foambord all over the hood. They must be eating the stuff. Should I go up there with my shotgun? :smash:
Melting Slicks
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Re: Mice in Garage (Rich80)
Shotgun? That's pretty light-weight. I was thinking claymore mines. Mr. Mouse, he VC. Show no mercy.
When I got my '69 home, it had been sitting in a garage for six years, only driven about once a month around the block. There were mouse turds everywhere in the engine bay, on the manifolds, inside the ignition sheild, a row of 'em along the top of one of the valve covers like the little bastard was storing 'em for winter.
Kill 'em all, let god sort 'em out.
JB
When I got my '69 home, it had been sitting in a garage for six years, only driven about once a month around the block. There were mouse turds everywhere in the engine bay, on the manifolds, inside the ignition sheild, a row of 'em along the top of one of the valve covers like the little bastard was storing 'em for winter.
Kill 'em all, let god sort 'em out.
JB
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Re: Mice in Garage (Rich80)
Hey some of these rodents can take your head off. I had some rats in my garage that ate the leather grips off a whole set of golf clubs! :eek:
I would hate to see what they could do to fiberglass :eek:
I would hate to see what they could do to fiberglass :eek:
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Re: Mice in Garage (Rich80)
try snap traps along the walls...that's where they prefer to run. Put the trigger mechanism facing the wall so they step on it as they run by. You don't really need to bait them if you find where they're coming in and out and set the traps up there. Then once they're gone, plug any holes you think they may be getting in and out through with steel wool..they'll chew through foam and insulation.
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Re: Mice in Garage (Rich80)
Rich80,
It's a good thing you only have a small block, otherwise you'd have RATS!
:smash:
Don't even consider those electronic pest repellant devices, an abloslute wast of money. Get D'Con and put it where they frequent and out of harms way of anything you don't want to poison. I go through this every time the weather starts to get cold no matter where I have lived.
Chuck
It's a good thing you only have a small block, otherwise you'd have RATS!
:smash:
Don't even consider those electronic pest repellant devices, an abloslute wast of money. Get D'Con and put it where they frequent and out of harms way of anything you don't want to poison. I go through this every time the weather starts to get cold no matter where I have lived.
Chuck
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Re: Mice in Garage (oger)
Put mothballs around your tires. Mice hate the smell of mothballs, and they won't climb your tires to get in your car.
Of course, the mouse might fall from the ceiling onto your hood. Then he won't want to leave your car, because of the mothballs.
Of course, the mouse might fall from the ceiling onto your hood. Then he won't want to leave your car, because of the mothballs.
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Re: Mice in Garage (Rich80)
I catch em all the time. Easy , use glue traps and you can get 3 or 4 in one trap. Put it in a place where knowone will step in it . Just leave the trap out until it's full :eek: :D
Chris
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Re: Mice in Garage (Clink69)
adult mice will wriggle out of the glue traps...all you will have left is their hair...their is a new kind of poison out there that when they eat it, it kills them and decomposes their body from the inside out, leaving no nasty smell if they crawl somewhere on you. :yesnod: this way when you do find the remains it is only a skeleton ... :eek:
check with your local varmint control...stuff works great...a varmint chewed one of my new seats before i got them in...(a two day sitting time at my parents) little punk....I got him though.... :lol: ....I found him two months later curled under something and there was absolutely no smell....
my parents have used this stuff alot and it works well for them...
check with your local varmint control...stuff works great...a varmint chewed one of my new seats before i got them in...(a two day sitting time at my parents) little punk....I got him though.... :lol: ....I found him two months later curled under something and there was absolutely no smell....
my parents have used this stuff alot and it works well for them...
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Re: Mice in Garage (Chuck Harmon)
Rich80,
It's a good thing you only have a small block, otherwise you'd have RATS!
:smash:
It's a good thing you only have a small block, otherwise you'd have RATS!
:smash:
JB
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Re: Mice in Garage (Rich80)
Careful there Rich80. Celotex is VERY much like fiberglass. I know a guy who went away for the weekend and when he got back all that was left of his 67 bigblock was the frame!!! :lol:
Drifting
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From: Sacramento California
Re: Mice in Garage (Rich80)
I Agree with OGER, I have cats and nothing that moves in the garage lasts more than a minute. I would rather deal with some hair on the car cover than replace a wiring harness (speaking from experience) :mad
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Re: Mice in Garage (Rich80)
Poison the little fur ***** :smash: :smash: :smash:
My Suburban is in the shop right now getting the wiring harness replaced because of those little b*st*rds. Luckily insurance is paying for it.
Kill them all, If there is enough of them maybe you could make a fur coat :jester
My Suburban is in the shop right now getting the wiring harness replaced because of those little b*st*rds. Luckily insurance is paying for it.
Kill them all, If there is enough of them maybe you could make a fur coat :jester
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Re: Mice in Garage (JB)
When I got my '69 home, it had been sitting in a garage for six years, only driven about once a month around the block. There were mouse turds everywhere in the engine bay, on the manifolds, inside the ignition sheild, a row of 'em along the top of one of the valve covers like the little bastard was storing 'em for winter JB
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From: Elkhorn WI
Re: Mice in Garage (Silvr77)
a row of 'em along the top of one of the valve covers like the little bastard was storing 'em for winter
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Re: Mice in Garage (Rich80)
Snap traps with peanut butter. Trust me...it got the Norway Rats out of my attic! (Now what am I gonna do about the bats in my belfry???) :crazy:
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Re: Mice in Garage (page62)
I had one get inside the Vette once, chewed through the power wire to the radio and the heater vacuum lines. Tried to catch it alive so I could torture it, no luck. Finally poisoned the little @#$&^&$.
Melting Slicks
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Re: Mice in Garage
Geeze, what do you guys do when you have a big problem? Simple mouse traps baited with peanut butter will get them every time. Once you get one, keep resetting the trap until no more go by there - they are like lemmings, will follow the same trail every day. Joe