What do you do for mice problems.

[Canuckvetter]

" I hates mieces to pieces"
Last year I put down Bounce fabric softener sheets, & Irish Spring soap.
They pooped on the sheets & ate the soap.
We lost our mouser this summer after 18 years. But frankly for the last 7-8 years he had been sleeping on the job.
What do you use to deter mice?


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[jeffahart]

I use the sticky pads they stick too. I got a pack from pest control operator. You stick bait on the pad and they stick around for dinner! Don't use poison. Your cat might decide to do some work on the wrong day!



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[Coley]

The first thing you have to do is to figure out how they are getting inside your truck.
That would be job 1...

Coley

[Canuckvetter]

Originally Posted by Coley

The first thing you have to do is to figure out how they are getting inside your truck.
That would be job 1...

Coley

Through all the holes in the body. LOL pesky little shape shifters.

[Stocker]

I wish I knew. I don't have any in my truck (thank goodness) but our pear tree is loaded with fruit.... and mice. We managed to trap four, and our dogs killed two more. Starting to run low on pears, and haven't seen any mice lately. Good luck with yours, and I agree with Coley... figure out how they're getting in.

[jeffahart]

I've never heard this before. What happens after a certain number, you call the Pied Piper or something.


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[saxart]

One word.... "Garage"

[my56chevytruck]

wow, you've got aliens instead of mice. Traps are some of the best items you can use, but it doesn't keep them out, but with a little peanut butter, you'll attract to them it. and if you can locate any possible openings as small as a dime, mice can come thru this, so stuff steel wool in and around any and all possible cracks, etc. good luck with that one.

[RustyBucket]

ol' Catillac.... really prefers catching moles. He doesn't kill 'em, just brings them in the house & turns them loose.

[Jrainman]

You need to use a varity of thing to keep mice out , Moth balls and fresh coffee in a open container ,this combo works very well to keep them out ,

Rodent poison the block type works well to if you need to kill them ,but you should use only if no children or pets or present .the trick to using poisen is set up a 5 gal pail of water half full because after they eat the poisen they seek water to drink and wont be able to escape and will drown in the pail ,this way you want have dead mice that will decay and stink up your truck because you did not know they died from the poisen. My uncle had a exterminating company and taught me this ,been using these methods for years.

[Getter-Done]

I am trying this trap now.

[Canuckvetter]

Originally Posted by Getter-Done

I am trying this trap now.

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That I have seen before. I would have to put anti-freeze in the pail. With -40 temps they would walk out. I guess I could put just a little water in the bottom.

[Smitty]

Look at the bottom of the page! From my Senior Garden Class. Haven't had an issue with the little pests. But the teachers remedies are usually spot on.

FAMOUS RECIPES:
Ant: Mix 1 teaspoon boric acid powder and 1/3 cup sugar in 2 cups water. Place a
piece of sponge in a small jar. Fill with liquid bait. Refill once aweek. Store excess . ^
bait in the refrigerator. Change when mold forrns on sponge. Start baiting in April
Deer: Liquid Fence (available at Hydroscape) OR mix 3 eggs in a gallon of warm
water and spray on plants. OR hang bars of fels naptha or lifebuoy soap about every
10 feet around the property line.
Rabbits: Liquid Fence OR soak beef liver in hot hot water for a couple of hours.
Discard liver. Spray diluted liver water around the garden. Redo after rain.
Slugs: Sluggo. Or spray with full strength vinegar or ammonia. Place a juicy
cantaloupe or grapefruit rind in the garden overnight. In the morning when it is full of
slugs, bag and toss it. Never use metaldehyde.
Snails: Decollate snails. Reduce overwatering. Copper strips. Wood ashes or
crushed eggshells sprinkled around the plants.
Roach Bait:4 Tablespoons boric acid,2 Tablespoons flour, 1 Tablespoon Cocoa OR
1 Tablespoon boric acid powder and 1/2 cup sugar. Mix and place in jar lids behind the
range, refrigerator, under sink, where pets can't find them. Also sprinkle boraxo soap
in the bottom of trash barrels.
Mice: 2 Tablespoons cornstarch, 1 Tablespoon powdered sugar, I Tablespoon plaster
of Paris- in iar lids where pets cannot reach it. See www.rodetrol.com for other
products
Connie Beck
holisticgardener@hotmail. com
Connie Beck has been an organic gardening instructor and landscape designer for over 30 years, including ten
years teaching vocational horticulture at the San Diego Caunty Women's Jail. She also has been a docenl for
the Auduban Society and a Natural History Museum Canyoneer. She has been Horticulture Chairman and
Propagation Chairman for California Native Plant Society and Backyard Wildlife Habitat Host for National
Wildlife Federation. She believes that one person at a time can make a difference by giving up toxic chemicals
and providing the basic necessities for wildlife: food, water, cover and a place to raise their young.

[Getter-Done]

Originally Posted by Canuckvetter

That I have seen before. I would have to put anti-freeze in the pail. With -40 temps they would walk out. I guess I could put just a little water in the bottom.

Canuckvetter

Today that trap I made worked.
I practiced catch and release.
Glad it's gone.
Getter-Done

[Willys47]

Originally Posted by Getter-Done

I am trying this trap now.

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I have used this method with peanut butter on the bottle for bait.It worked good and got them all

[71threequarterton]

Originally Posted by Getter-Done

I am trying this trap now.

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I tried that when we had a rodent problem a while back - the only thing that happened is we'd come back outside the next day to find all the peanut butter gone

[saxart]

Originally Posted by 71threequarterton

I tried that when we had a rodent problem a while back - the only thing that happened is we'd come back outside the next day to find all the peanut butter gone

Yes, mice will lick peanut butter off of a trap. I've had good luck taking a small (1/2" X 1/2") square of fabric and rolling it around in the peanut butter and placing that on the trap. The mice will feel the fabric and pull...........SNAP!

[Canuckvetter]

Originally Posted by saxart

One word.... "Garage"

I have a 3 car shop that stores the vehicles lol. Or the Mouse Ritz as I call it.
Last year I got so mad that I started the trucks and let them run for 3 hrs.

Bad idea! Mice all crawled behind the gas tanks to died. Was a terrible stench come spring.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by saxart

One word.... "Garage"

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.

[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.

[Redneck Rydes]

If you are storing in a garage,use steel wool in any crack or gap,they will not eat thru that, soap does not work, little burgers will eat it when they really get hungry

[Jason Banks]

Wow, I wish I knew that truck about using the half full of water 5 gallon bucket when I was trying to get rats out of a warehouse space I was renting. I poisoned the crap out of that place and those fat little rats were totally stinking up the place.

Just this week I finally got a bunch of pecans out of the bracing on the underside of my hood. They also got some in my tailgate, but I haven't tried to get them out yet. It was my mistake putting a box of pecans in the same warehouse my truck was in.

[HIGHWAY BY THE SEA]

I installed THIS behind my gauges to protect the wiring from them!

[dbguettl]

Mine had a mice problem since it sat in a barn for many years before I could get around to restoring it. Once it was restored, after driving it around a bit, I noticed some leaves and debris poking out of the holes on the front under side of the hood. They had built a nest up inside the hood. With an air compressor and some patients, I ended up clearing out a bunch of leaves, small branches and pieces of plastic bags etc. Haven't had a problem since restoration other than cleaning out what they had done in the past.

[Dirt's72]

Originally Posted by Canuckvetter

" I hates mieces to pieces"
Last year I put down Bounce fabric softener sheets, & Irish Spring soap.
They pooped on the sheets & ate the soap.
We lost our mouser this summer after 18 years. But frankly for the last 7-8 years he had been sleeping on the job.
What do you use to deter mice?


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Those traps you have with the yellow plastic work well. The trick is:
Get you some cotton and dental floss. Tie the cotton to the yellow plastic then coat with some peanut butter. We have some peanut butter that is about four years old and has liquid built up in the bottom. I soak up that cotton with the greasy liquid peanut butter. They will try to pull that cotton off as opposed to just licking it. I've caught over a dozen mice on one trap that I've only baited once. I just drop off the dead mouse in the trash and immediately reset it as is. Set it outside within 50' perimeter of your truck not inside it.