[Canuckvetter]

Originally Posted by special-K

Might work all summer long, but over winter when you aren't looking at your truck so often, mice come inside and have their way. Mice get into people's cabinets in their kitchens. It doesn't take but a fractions of an inch hole for them to get through and houses are full of them.

I have never seen a baited trap not catch a mouse lickity split, when put where you know they go. I use peanut butter. That even gets the expert cheese snatch and runners. I figured the OP was looking for a mouse deterrent. Something to do that you don't have to maintain/check regularly. Not sure what's effective there. But set a trap and keep checking. If they are going where that trap is there will be a dead mouse. I use poison pellets in outbuildings. Gotta keep filling it. Get the small pellets, unless you are worried about rats. Mice take and store that stuff, but they also are eating it. So keep it up until the pellets stop being taken. I leave it out after that and keep checking, though, because a new family is always looking for your paradise.

I don’t put down poison because we have owls and hawks that share our acreage. Old fashion spring trap baited with a green goo from the Home Depot that mice can’t resist. So far 2 mice didn’t know what hit them.