I have my truck parked in the garage for the winter and it’s an older garage. I have sticky traps, cab fresh, and bait stations. Where should I place them for ideal protection? Is there a better product people prefer? Thanks

 

My old man would take the rat bite bars, slather them in peanut butter, put it in a sealed ziplock, and tie wrap it to the frame rail of his rigs. Seemed to work well enough.

Ive stuck to driving fords, with the oil and gas smell being enough to keep creatures away.
Sacrilege, I know.

 

they crawl up the tires to get into the truck. Place those sticky traps around the tires and pray for the best.

 

I've used peppermint spray (Rodent Sheriff) and peppermint packs with good success but that keeps them away. If they get inside your truck then trapping them is pretty much the only option. I use peanut butter in the traps. Works great. My other line of defense is Tom Kat bait blocks. Those are green and smell kinda sweet. The chemistry with those is it dehydrates the rodents. Says it's safe for pets and kids. Daughters 50lb husky dog did get a hold of one but didn't actually eat it. They called the 800 number on the package for instructions on how to treat but were told that IF the dog ate one he'd have to eat a whole block plus half of another. Now that I have my house, shop, and RV protected with the aforementioned products I only see 1 or 2 critters a year. Not letting them get a foot hold on your stuff is probably the most important thing. Hope this helps.

A little backstory.... Daughters Scion Tc was parked out here while she was in college. It sat for 3-4 months...I'd start it once in awhile but noticed it stank....BAD then realized there was a little invader living in the HVAC box. I removed the HVAC box...tore it down and cleaned it out. It was nasty. Put it all back together and back in the dash....no more smell. Then sprayed peppermint in the inlet as and ducts and a peppermint pack in the glove box. The car was parked for another year and I never saw another mouse in it. Those peppermint products work!

 

X2 peppermint is a great way to keep them away. I also use the Yellow block bar (Just One Bite), under the hood to give them some thing else to chew on other than the wiring harness. If you can check the traps often, using peanut butter and old school spring traps is the best. Just have to check the traps more often.

Some say this is good also. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Mighty-Mi...0aAofEEALw_wcB

Grandpaws https://www.walmart.com/ip/Grandpa-G...waAsXsEALw_wcB

 

Try this....I've got mine attached to the passenger side valve cover, but you can put one pretty much anywhere.

 

Did you teach her to hold the screwdrived and tune the carb yet?

 

lol that's awesome... also fits with my rule...if you're in the shop you have to help!!!

 

What's a mouse??

 

We have a shop cat that guards against mice but not in the garage. We have a few that are pretty good mousers

 

Anyone have success with ethelyne glycol (anti-freeze)? It is a danger to pets as well so YMMV. When I was in the military eons ago I worked on jeeps, trucks and tanks. I recall that wiring was often armored against wear, tear and human sabotures but never saw a rodent issue either. Perhaps there is a kind of wire loom that rodents find noxious – pepermint?

 

I agree there. Once up they can get into the cowl vent bowls from below up through the drains. On my '77 the driver kick panel vent (left over from when it had just heat and defrost, non AC truck) can be closed, and it has a grille .... but I don't think is a screen or grille on the passenger side where the AC takes in cowl air through what was the passenger kick panel vent. The AC evaporator keeps rodents out of the heater core room. When I pulled my old bed liner out Winter 2021, my bed had a few holes which were in the front when I bought the truck in the '80s, was another not huge hole next to the left rear wheel tub. Was a huge nest occupying the open area between bed liner and metal wheel tub.

I once found a fresh hole in a car head liner, was a '67 before headliners were glued to molded styrofoam shells, I set traps on plastic in the floors .... baited with peanut butter, caught a couple.

 

I have a couple Tom cats always on the hunt

 

I'm not a fan of any type of poison. Poison them, the rodent will go to the most inaccessible area in your house, garage or truck to die. You'll never find it, or can't get to it. Then you have to put up with a rotting flesh stink for days until the corpse decomposes. Next comes the invasion of hundreds of flies that reproduced on the corpse.

I use traps, screwed to a board so a rodent can't drag the trap off so it can die somewhere inaccessible. I'll put 3 on a board. I also use a bunch of different brands of traps. A mouse won't trip one brand, but one of the others will get them. Trap outside the garage, as well as inside. Get them before they even go inside if you can. Trap year round too.

I also have havahart box traps outside to get the red squirrels & chipmunks. The red squirrels move inside & cause all sorts of destruction.

One of the prices you have to pay for living surrounded by many acres of maturing trees.

 

I think was a squirrel or such that once ate the harness between the tail light of my '77, and ate a hole in the fuel line of my '07 just a nip, but ate a good foot of the return line. Also ate into and damaged the wires at the FPDM under the bed of the '07. New neighbors soon after, they have cats, no issues since. A couple cats are often seen under the trucks in that carport.