Mice-help!!!!
Le Mans Master
Joined: Jun 2009
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From: South Dakota
My house is on a few acres in the middle of a corn field. There are lots of mice.
I have a lot of traps and poison in the garage. I just check and reset the traps every day (usually when I get home from work). At certain times of the year I get about 1 mouse per day, but I have never had damage to the cars in 5 years I have lived here. I use the cheap traditional style traps with the yellow pad for the bait. These don't need bait like the all metal ones do, and they trip much easier. I put them against a wall so they can't move away from the trap as it pops. I put them where I think there might be a travel path.
My garage was new 5 years ago, and it looks like it is pretty tight, but they still get in. I don't know how.
good luck
I have a lot of traps and poison in the garage. I just check and reset the traps every day (usually when I get home from work). At certain times of the year I get about 1 mouse per day, but I have never had damage to the cars in 5 years I have lived here. I use the cheap traditional style traps with the yellow pad for the bait. These don't need bait like the all metal ones do, and they trip much easier. I put them against a wall so they can't move away from the trap as it pops. I put them where I think there might be a travel path.
My garage was new 5 years ago, and it looks like it is pretty tight, but they still get in. I don't know how.
good luck
Le Mans Master
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 6,314
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From: South-central Missouri
I lived thru a serious mouse infestation, the first year out here on "the ranch". I uses lots of Decon, until I started finding turquoise-colored mouse turds all over the place...the Decon was like candy, apparently.
So, on the advice of a feed store owner, I bought this stuff called "One Bite". They ate the first 1# brick of it in about 3 days. So, I put a second brick of it out. They ate about 1/2 of that and then they were gone!
I put the One Bite around the periphery of the garage where the dogs can't get to it, but mice like to scoot. And, I put a piece under the seats of the cars, along with plenty of dryer sheets in the cabin and in the engine crevices (a favorite place is under the plenum of the LT5s!) It seems to have ended my mouse problems for the past 9 years using this regime.
As an alternative to the dryer sheets, I once used peppermint oil on cotton *****. It seemed to work just as well, and smelled quite nice. Dryer sheets smell good too - or at least they don't stink like mothballs!
I like the hood open and LED lights suggestion. Might have to give that a try too, just in case.
P.
So, on the advice of a feed store owner, I bought this stuff called "One Bite". They ate the first 1# brick of it in about 3 days. So, I put a second brick of it out. They ate about 1/2 of that and then they were gone!
I put the One Bite around the periphery of the garage where the dogs can't get to it, but mice like to scoot. And, I put a piece under the seats of the cars, along with plenty of dryer sheets in the cabin and in the engine crevices (a favorite place is under the plenum of the LT5s!) It seems to have ended my mouse problems for the past 9 years using this regime.
As an alternative to the dryer sheets, I once used peppermint oil on cotton *****. It seemed to work just as well, and smelled quite nice. Dryer sheets smell good too - or at least they don't stink like mothballs!
I like the hood open and LED lights suggestion. Might have to give that a try too, just in case.
P.
