Well, I got a nice gift from my wife last Christmas. It wasn't cheap, either. It was a $250.00 Mouseblocker. We're in Florida in the Winter, so I was eager to try it out when I got back to Michigan. Alas, when Spring arrives in Michigan, the lousy varmints are leaving garages all over the country. But I plugged it in anyway. Didnt see any mice all Summer, but I usually dont see any in the warmer months. As Fall set in, last week I was loading the car to head South. Sure enough, I saw a mouse scurrying under my C5!! DOHHH!!!! Then I thought maybe he just came inside the warmer area, and couldnt get back out. The next 2 days, I saw this damn thing scurrying around. So I went to the hardware store and got some of those round, green poison *****, about the size of Trix cereal. I put at least 40 of the poison ***** all over the garage floor, thinking that'll take care of any mice all Winter. WRONG!!!! The last evening we were home, I went out into the garage, and every poison ball was gone!!!! Every one. Where, IDK. So the mouse was apparently comfortable enough to gather up every poison ball, even with the mouseblocker running. How terribly disappointing this was. Has anyone else had any success using Mouseblocker?? If not, I have a good reason to call them and either ask for a different unit, or a refund. So, as for right now, Im calling Mouseblocker a failure. An EXPENSIVE failure. This sucks. I was really depending on this thing working as advertised....

 

The only reliable mouse eradicator I found was the standard mouse traps that does the kill job. I Load many with creamy peanut butter and do the clean up when necessary.

 

I am in Ohio and same as you getting ready to head south. I tried one of things fro Menards a couple years ago with no luck, I put out the bait bars from Tractor supply and traps even though I have not seen any you can see something been chewing on it. We live between fields so like you there everywhere along with chipmunks that have chewed through wires on car and truck. Good luck

 

Poison bait bars and peanut butter mousetraps are the only lethal solutions I've ever found for mice and I've tried plenty, including the nonsense ultrasonic devices.

Inside the car - Bounce dryer sheets over the winter.

 

Concentrated peppermint oil soaked cotton ***** in small vented plastic containers worked good in Michigan for critters and seems to work in Florida as well.

 

The five gallon bucket traps have caught a bunch of mice in my back yard. Highly recommended

 

This is my mouseblocker. As you can tell, he is very FIERCE. (not really, I just caught him mid-yawn.)

 

The best mouseblocker there is.

 

You can get the sticky box traps for less than $1 each
they work great

 

I would love to have a cat. Yes mousetraps work well. But what do you do when you're gone for 6 months? Cat would starve. Mousetraps are great......one time. Nobody around to feed the cat, which woud jump up on the benches and knock things off them, even if someone would be around to feed it. Nobody around to empty and reset the traps, either. Also inhumane to keep an animal in the bitter cold, all by itself, for 5 or 6 months. I'm pretty frustrated right now.

 

Hey grinder, I struggled with this as well at one time. I didn't want another cat (havent had one in 25 years). And don't want anymore pets (3 dogs). Poisons are NFG as the mice can eat the poison then die in a wall or a place you can't dispose of the carcass. So I wanted to go the humane route with trapping garage mice and releasing them into the wild many miles from home. Bought a few of those trapdoor traps for the garage. Problem is you need to check them every day or two. Trapped one mouse and released it. Then went away to South Africa for 10 days and came home to two humane trapdoor traps with starved to death mice in them. After that switched to normal snap traps and took out 3 more. Which at the very least offers a quick death.

When you go away for winter set the snap traps, but just swing back prior to the first warm day to do a quick sweep to clear the traps before the thaw.

I'll manage a little garage stank for a few hours over the steanch of a dead mouse in the walls or behind a bench for weeks...and definitely prefer the stink for a few hours over costly damage to wires on my vehicles.

All those subsonic gizmos and creative ideas with soap, dryer sheets, mint oil, moth ***** etc do NOT work. Bait traps are the only truly effective remedies..

 

trapdoor bucket traps with water in the bottom ensures a quick end to those pestilence carriers

 

I use a sonic device in my garage and have never had a mouse problem. I also place Bounce dryer sheets in the passenger compartment as well as in the engine bay. As long as I do not see a mouse, I’ll continue to use what has worked for me.

 

Thanks for the suggestions, guys. It's starting to look like my wife torched $250.00!! I'll say this; if I was the guy who invented Mouseblocker, the Corvette forum would have me as a lifelong vendor. Since they're not here, I question why not? We have to be one of the largest markets there is for an effective rodent deterrent device. Probably because their customer service would be filled with complaints from educated customers!! This is the perfect "silence is deafening" situation.

 

Reach out to them and all the deer whistle manufacturers too. All money is good money, right? Maybe Ms. Cleo, some astrologers, and a few mediums can sign up too. Car people are not immune to BS marketing claims, look how well oil and fuel additives sell even though mostly they do nothing beneficial but put money in the bank.

 

Call me now for your free tarot card readin!

 

Hell that smell would keep ME out of your garage

 

Just in time for Halloween!!