How do you keep mice out?
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The dog I have now is not allowed to roam around the shop. A question I never found an answer to is if a cat ate a mouse that had eaten bait. 
Every action has an opposite reaction. Keep pets in mind when you set bait.
Every action has an opposite reaction. Keep pets in mind when you set bait.
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I am getting ready to park a motorhome next to the house, out in the desert. I had a professional exterminator come out to give me his spiel. He said use all the old wife tale remedies you can, mothballs, cinnamon, you name it, and then add on the following:
Try to locate and destroy all the nests you can within a 50' radius of the house (sort of easy to do in the desert, not sure about the woods). Carry off the nest material and burn. Set baited traps at every corner of the house, closed type, as he says the open mesh type don't entice them precisely because they are open, no matter what bait is in them. Check and change monthly. Finally, if you can safely drop poison in critical places, like around vehicle tires, do it.
Call me crazy, but I would rather pay $100 a month for an indoor storage facility I found. Or build another shop just for the RV!!!!!
Try to locate and destroy all the nests you can within a 50' radius of the house (sort of easy to do in the desert, not sure about the woods). Carry off the nest material and burn. Set baited traps at every corner of the house, closed type, as he says the open mesh type don't entice them precisely because they are open, no matter what bait is in them. Check and change monthly. Finally, if you can safely drop poison in critical places, like around vehicle tires, do it.
Call me crazy, but I would rather pay $100 a month for an indoor storage facility I found. Or build another shop just for the RV!!!!!
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An additional simple solution that I saw my neighbor use was to pop the hood open 4-6". It seems that the little buggers like a warm, dark place and when you pop your hood open, you take that away from them. He leaves it open like that until he has to drive it again.
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From: Calgary, AB, Canada
Same here, don't know why it works but it does.
Mountain Pass
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You know on the farm we used to have rat and mouse poison out all the time and the pets never got sick.
Keep the poison away from the items you are protecting. we set up bait stations, put two boards on the ground and lay an old tire on them. Make sure that you leave space for the mice/ rats to get under the tire. Place your poison inside the tire. Put a piece of plywood over the top and a rock or other weight on top to keep the plywood there. The rodents like to crawl under and feel safe there then they eat the poison and presto.
You can put poison under anything the is heavy enough to keep other animals and children away and has a crawl space for the rodents. You want to keep the bait dry. We use to set them up outside all over the place and it worked pretty well.
Mice will crawl into anything, we had a mouse crawl up the exhaust pipe of a snowmobile and make a nest in the engine. After that we used steel bug screen and covered plugged the intake and exhaust of all the machines that sat for long periods of time.
Any opening larger than the size of the end of pencil and a mouse will squeeze through it. Close them up and you should have less mouse problems.
Keep the poison away from the items you are protecting. we set up bait stations, put two boards on the ground and lay an old tire on them. Make sure that you leave space for the mice/ rats to get under the tire. Place your poison inside the tire. Put a piece of plywood over the top and a rock or other weight on top to keep the plywood there. The rodents like to crawl under and feel safe there then they eat the poison and presto.
You can put poison under anything the is heavy enough to keep other animals and children away and has a crawl space for the rodents. You want to keep the bait dry. We use to set them up outside all over the place and it worked pretty well.
Mice will crawl into anything, we had a mouse crawl up the exhaust pipe of a snowmobile and make a nest in the engine. After that we used steel bug screen and covered plugged the intake and exhaust of all the machines that sat for long periods of time.
Any opening larger than the size of the end of pencil and a mouse will squeeze through it. Close them up and you should have less mouse problems.
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From: Carlisle Pa
On one of the R.V. forms they were using essence of pepermint on on cotton *****.If it dosent work it will cover smell. Good luck
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Bounce fab. sheets? For real? I'll def. have to try that, bonus smells good too! I heard peppermint oil, have some around here somewhere. Gonna try 1 thing at a time to see what actually IS working. Sprinkled chili pepper since I didn't have habanero, thought I'd give that a try. You guys are the best, thanks!
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I tried the Bounce dryer sheets,,it may work for awhile,,but the chewed them up and made a nest out them behind the Dash of my 450 E JD dozer,,I had the Bounce sheets under my ATV seats,,pull the seat and the dryer sheets are all chewed up,,,So I see the little basturds started in my boat already,,I took Aluminum pie plates,,put a Bounce sheet in them and added some PVC primer(purple and it stinks) to the Bounce sheets,,,see what happens. I declared war on the Mice,,got 8 of them in the last 4 days,,6 with traps, 2 with rat shot in a 22 Colt Woodsman.
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Is essence of peppermint the same as peppermint oil? I do have a little bottle of that somewhere and I even fitted it with a spray-top from an old doe-in-rut bottle. I'll have to look for that this AM when the troops are awake.
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