Mice!
Team Owner
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From: Palmdale, Ca----- 2009 Cyber Gray 4LT A6 F55 452 RWHP 422 RWTQ- RIP 1998 C5 734 RWHP & 585 RWTQ-----
Steel wool I've heard works too
I don't have a problem in the Vette but sometimes around the house when there is construction in the area they scatter and I always get'em with GLUE TRAP AND PEANUT BUTTER 
Little A-Holes can't resist
Thanks,Matt
Drifting
Joined: Nov 2001
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From: Rochester Minnesota
The place for the poison is not in the car!!!!
Put it on the floor near each tire. I live in a rural area with field mice that like to come into both my garage (DD and '03) and shed (motorhome, boat, and the '67). Never any problems since I started doing that.
Put it on the floor near each tire. I live in a rural area with field mice that like to come into both my garage (DD and '03) and shed (motorhome, boat, and the '67). Never any problems since I started doing that.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Nov 2002
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From: Abingdon MD
I remember reading on CF last fall (Nov?) where someone was discussing prepping his car for winter storage. He recommended tossing a couple of bars of Irish Spring Soap into the cabin, with a couple more in the engine compartment.
I laughed, but got me a 12 pack of Irish Spring to do battle with the little critters. We moved into a new home last year, next to a farm, that sat unsold for two years. Once the cold weather set in, those Disney type rodents thought they would spend the winter in my new basement and garage.
Long story short: with steel mousetraps baited w peanut butter, some steel wool for stuffing into cracks & tight spaces I was still catching 1-2 per week. I am convinced the Irish Spring tipped the balance. It appears mice don't like it and don't want to be around it!
I bought some of the poison bars but did not deploy them out of concern for our dogs. I was also concerned the mice would die in my walls and stink up the place. I would NOT use poison bars in my Vettes either, since the dogs ride w me once in a while. Try the Irish Spring!
Rickman
I laughed, but got me a 12 pack of Irish Spring to do battle with the little critters. We moved into a new home last year, next to a farm, that sat unsold for two years. Once the cold weather set in, those Disney type rodents thought they would spend the winter in my new basement and garage.
Long story short: with steel mousetraps baited w peanut butter, some steel wool for stuffing into cracks & tight spaces I was still catching 1-2 per week. I am convinced the Irish Spring tipped the balance. It appears mice don't like it and don't want to be around it!
I bought some of the poison bars but did not deploy them out of concern for our dogs. I was also concerned the mice would die in my walls and stink up the place. I would NOT use poison bars in my Vettes either, since the dogs ride w me once in a while. Try the Irish Spring!
Rickman
Burning Brakes
Joined: Nov 2002
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From: Abingdon MD
2 more things:
1. I don't like the sticky traps because stronger mice will find ways to free themselves, plus you will sooner or later come upon a live mouse stuck to one and have to deal with it.
2. The steel traps work great and usually cause a quick kill. However, you may also have to deal w a live mouse caught by a toe or even a whisker. Ask me how I know.........
Rickman
1. I don't like the sticky traps because stronger mice will find ways to free themselves, plus you will sooner or later come upon a live mouse stuck to one and have to deal with it.
2. The steel traps work great and usually cause a quick kill. However, you may also have to deal w a live mouse caught by a toe or even a whisker. Ask me how I know.........
Rickman
Melting Slicks
Joined: Jun 2007
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From: Sartell Minnesota
i just have these little plastic traps that i put a bunch of peanut butter on. They really can't resist it. I don't care if the damn things die slow or quickly as long as they are dead and not in my car. Mouse bait is also laid out too. We get the damn things in the house every once in a while when it gets REALLY cold out(-20 or colder) and it gets them along with more peanut butter traps. I've NEVER been able to find out how the little bastards get in.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Jan 2005
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From: Wa
I just put them under the hood in different places,mainly around the intake and on the valve covers,I used a dozen or so and just spread them around.Where-ever you don't want them to go.No it doesn't kill them,I wish it did,but I leave my car for months at a time and haven't seen a sign of them since I started doing it,i used to get home and find dog food by my intake,not anymore though.
