I have mice in my shop. and constantly chase them out of the cars! other than constantly setting traps... has anyone got a really good way to keep them out? both are project cars, and are wide open.
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STUPID MICE!!
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I can't prove that it works but we have old medicine bottles with 3/16" holes drilled in them and shaved off pieces of Irish spring soap zip tied in our coach every storage box, under dash and engine compartment. No mice no damage. Get a cat
peppermint oil. You can also soak rags of pine sol, they hate the smell of both.
Gato is the best way.
that's just trading one problem for another.
All of the farmers that I've ever talked with absolutely stand by the effectiveness and long term fix of multiple cats for issues of rodents and snakes ( of course the lack of mice will help with no snakes hanging around the property ).
They are badass at what all they do on/in the area that they consider their domain.
They ( farmers ) look at them as S.O.P. for any property.
They are badass at what all they do on/in the area that they consider their domain.
They ( farmers ) look at them as S.O.P. for any property.
My pops has 1 of these under each of his cars in driveway/garage and hasnt had any issues since (use to have traps set underneath and would catch them from time to time).
Always had great look baiting traps with peanut butter.
Always wanted to hang fishhooks for them...
Always wanted to hang fishhooks for them...
got 3 my self the last 36hr's in my shop with PB on the trap .
It has been noted that the persecution of cats as the devil agents led to the black death across Europe. I switched out some of the Irish spring for peppermint oil in the coach when I did all the motor work
I’ve got three to five neighborhood cats that I see on my cameras every day roaming my yard and probably the rest of the neighborhood. I’ve never seen a mouse…
Irish spring soap grated on a cheese grater and fill up a tea bag with it. I have a couple hanging in every vehicle I park for winter
I took to setting traps outside. Figure it's better outside than in, and I don't want their best food source inside lol. I have four traps outside the shop and six inside. They seem to like PB more than anything.
I keep cats in the garage. The food is cheaper than repairing harnesses and cleaning nests out of stuff. It's easy to find a door they can use that mice can't.
My other advice is that leaving accessible sources of used antifreeze helps. None of my cats have ever bothered with it, but the mice seem to like it
. There are plans posted online of large-quantity mouse traps out of 5-gallon buckets, spinny things and ethylene glycol.
You do have to figure out how they're getting in. If you leave doors open, that's simple. If not, look at all the seals and stuff. Mice will chew through your weather-strip if they can see or smell anything. You can fold sheet metal or metal screen over the accessible areas.
My other advice is that leaving accessible sources of used antifreeze helps. None of my cats have ever bothered with it, but the mice seem to like it
. There are plans posted online of large-quantity mouse traps out of 5-gallon buckets, spinny things and ethylene glycol.You do have to figure out how they're getting in. If you leave doors open, that's simple. If not, look at all the seals and stuff. Mice will chew through your weather-strip if they can see or smell anything. You can fold sheet metal or metal screen over the accessible areas.
Readup on peanut butter and chocolate for mice and understand why it works so good .
That’s a damn good method - and provides a little smell good aroma at the same time.
I guess a combination of all these methods are good - some detour from hanging around, some attract and potentially trap kill and retain any violators in the area and some methods employ & unleash natural assassins with ninja stalking abilities who are on the job 24/7 and won’t stop maintaining guard night and day.
I say employ all methods until the problem is gone/under control and then maintain with the smell deterrents and four legged ninja’s roaming the property to keep them vermin away.
Rodent Sheriff.. peppermint oil smell.
I use tom cat rodent bars ( in boxes) all around the perimeter of house, garages, shed ,& bar .... Along with a liberal sprinkling of some rodent / squirrel repellant on outside perimeter...
Sprinkle the stuff around parked equipment, tractors....
Liberal scattering of moth balls in vacant areas,. 2nd floor of barn & house attic. Can't substantiate effectiveness.
Camper world swore by using the stinkiest) cheapest dryer fabric sheets. .
I have rat / mice bait in bait boxes around edges of out buildings, boxes on the edge of tree line from my barn.....
And in early fall all mice traps are re set with peanut butter & left on the edges of walls..
Been lucky in general.... Acorns are my nightmare.... Squirrel ️ + mice like to stash them in unwelcomed areas. Bad year with a bumper crop of acorns.
Saw a home made mice traps... It was a 5 gallon pail with a beer can on a steel dowel ..beer can is coated with peanut butter...
Mice walk up stick to get peanut butter... Can spins.... They fall !& Drown. Heard similar of using Sweet smelling Auto ANTIFREEZE... supposedly their attritbacted to the smell...they jump for the fluid +;drown.
Heard good things about electric rodent repellent devices... I never saw them do anything.??? Maybe my shop was too cluttered
Antifreeze is a forever chemical... I'm not wild about misuses ,& improper disposal.
I use tom cat rodent bars ( in boxes) all around the perimeter of house, garages, shed ,& bar .... Along with a liberal sprinkling of some rodent / squirrel repellant on outside perimeter...
Sprinkle the stuff around parked equipment, tractors....
Liberal scattering of moth balls in vacant areas,. 2nd floor of barn & house attic. Can't substantiate effectiveness.
Camper world swore by using the stinkiest) cheapest dryer fabric sheets. .
I have rat / mice bait in bait boxes around edges of out buildings, boxes on the edge of tree line from my barn.....
And in early fall all mice traps are re set with peanut butter & left on the edges of walls..
Been lucky in general.... Acorns are my nightmare.... Squirrel ️ + mice like to stash them in unwelcomed areas. Bad year with a bumper crop of acorns.
Saw a home made mice traps... It was a 5 gallon pail with a beer can on a steel dowel ..beer can is coated with peanut butter...
Mice walk up stick to get peanut butter... Can spins.... They fall !& Drown. Heard similar of using Sweet smelling Auto ANTIFREEZE... supposedly their attritbacted to the smell...they jump for the fluid +;drown.
Heard good things about electric rodent repellent devices... I never saw them do anything.??? Maybe my shop was too cluttered
Antifreeze is a forever chemical... I'm not wild about misuses ,& improper disposal.
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Cats are number 1.
Next is the water bucket of death trap. 5 gallon bucket, two holes drilled in the sides near the top. Take a piece of wire and thread it through an old water bottle (after drilling a hole in the bottom of the water bottle). Tie the wire ends to the holes in the bucket so the water bottle is suspended in the middle of the bucket and can roll on the wire freely. Smother the bottle in peanut butter. Put a piece of wood ramping up tot he top of the bucket. Fille the bucket with about 4" of water.
Then start fishing dead mice out every day.
Next is the water bucket of death trap. 5 gallon bucket, two holes drilled in the sides near the top. Take a piece of wire and thread it through an old water bottle (after drilling a hole in the bottom of the water bottle). Tie the wire ends to the holes in the bucket so the water bottle is suspended in the middle of the bucket and can roll on the wire freely. Smother the bottle in peanut butter. Put a piece of wood ramping up tot he top of the bucket. Fille the bucket with about 4" of water.
Then start fishing dead mice out every day.
We posted at the same time. Water bucket trap is the best. I've got 2 of them in different out buildings.
$45 a month for the exterminator to maintain his black death poison boxes. We have alot of feed in the barn and a week after the poison boxes were put in we stopped getting mice and rats. They are communal so they tell their buddies where the food is. Well invested money for us.
