MICE &^%$$^

[Raider Ronnie]

Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

Get a cat.....

I had 2 lawnmowers destroyed because of friggin mice. They dragged insulation and paper up into the motor housing to make a nest...after they pissed in it everything corroded and trashed the mowers.....

Last winter they got on my riding tractor, (made a nest in the muffler)
I replaced the mufflet, but still, every time I cut the grass, all i could smell if burning mice!!!
If I leave a car or truck out too long without moving it, they nest in the car or truck, and usually in the heat, so no matter how much you cleaned it up, you could smell it when you turned on the heat !

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie

If I leave a car or truck out too long without moving it, they nest in the car or truck,

yeah i fired up the blazer one day to go fishin.... loaded everything
and it's running smooth as silk...so i thought why check it....
i take off and within a few blocks it starts choking and sputtering like a clogged fuel filter or somethin... b#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g and wheezing then it quits...

i yell W.T.F . jump out in the middle of traffic and pop the hood.
after taking off the air filter cover, i find a huge nest just ripe for getting sucked down a carburateur....and it wasnt there
a few days ago because i had drove it a long way...

those bastages... i hatem... all my clothes have mouse chew marks... the price you pay living in the country.

[Van]

I've had them on the second floor too. Took a few weeks and lots of peanut butter.

Rule of thumb is you see 1 for every 10 you actually have.

I went through the basement and sealed avery tiny hole I could find.
and make sure there nothing for them to eat like cat or dog food left on floor. I have parrots and the food on the floor was feeding the little bastages.

I never forget when my daughter was like 4 and came screaming into my bedroom, its beady little eyes were glowing red, scared the SHIET out of her, she still remembers to this day..

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Van

I've had them on the second floor too. Took a few weeks and lots of peanut butter.
and make sure there nothing for them to eat like cat or dog food left on floor. I have parrots and the food on the floor was feeding the little bastages.

with 2 dogs, yeah i have four.... well, two parakeets a cockateil and a Goffin Cockatoo who likes to stick his head in the dish and wing seed everywhere... all seed goes outside and never in the trash..<--- (or everything ->just eats through the bag)

chipmonks are different....i've had them hopping around or over my feet while i was typing on my pc ....very gentle and polite.

i used to marvel at chipmonks just sitting in the parrot cage having a grand ole time....eating the best bird seed in the world.
chipmonks i like....because they talk to humans real easy.

squirrels have the screw you Attitude... so "F" them pricks...
after the dog chases the sucker into the lone tree..i'm out there throwing my walkin tall stick up there until it has to leap 35 feet to the ground witha big thud...and my dogs right on it's heals.

i now use garbage bags as bird cage tray liners... then i dumpem outside for the wild birds and leave em out in the next rain storm to get washed.

i have been known to literally dive across a room to smash a mouse.... screw the damage... and now i have the perfect mouse catchin "squirrel chasin dingo" ... so fun to say: get him! ... lol

when i was living in the mountains where you could shoot guns
anytime you wanted... i would just blast em...
and even for gophers, i found if i skipped the bullet right in front of his hole i'd catch him in the head... otherwise they'd duck

[Bass Babe]

Great Stuff -- the spray-in foam insulation -- fills holes well and also poisons the rodents if they chew it, I've heard.

The plastic easy set traps rule, except when they don't make a killing snap and you hear the mouse screams (who knew they could do that?) and when the noise subsides and you check the trap, it and the mouse are gone.

D-Con works okay for me. No "smelly mouse, smelly mouse, where in the wall are you?" for me yet. But I did have one stumble out from behind the wood box one nite and keel over right in front of me while I was watching TV. I put a box on top of it, added a pair of boots for good measure, and waited for RRC to come home and work his coroner magic.

Found one all rigor mortis in the bag of recycling once. Woke up one morning to peanut butter cookies that I had left out strewn across the floor. But the sketchiest situation was waking up in the morning with one all warm and furry nuzzled against my face and having it run down my leg and out the bed to hide. I don't think my feet touched the bedroom floor.

They love piles of clothes, sheets, towels, etc. Stuffed animals, too. Rarely-used furniture. Newspaper and insulation are good for chewing to build nests.

My advice is to cover all the holes you can, inside and out, and use any method possible to get rid of the little beasts. Shake out, pick up, and if possible, put in a container, any loose, comfy, nesty-type items. Even when you think they're gone, keep a trap or two set. We just got one Friday morning over by the...go figure...bag of birdseed.