Keeping out the mouse

[jimmer2880]

Never had cats until last year. Now, I don't know why it took me soo long. We had horrible mouse problems. 2 days after getting our first cat was the last time we saw a sign of a mouse.

We keep some at work as well. Every now and then, we "accidentally" leave the shed door open enough for the cats to get in. No more mouse problems there either.

 

[TGReaper]

We have had success with the "Bounce" sheets. I place them in the two sports cars,the camper and the cabin. Since I started this each fall we have had no mouse damage.
However things do smell a bit strange for the first few days after we open them up.
Dan

 

[Diamondpilot]

I've always wondered about "other" small animals finding their way in.. Nothing like heading out the barn and finding a skunk or raccoon making it home.

Wedge

Have not had that issue. My cats are pretty feisty. It would be one heck of a fight.

Chris

 

[Diamondpilot]

Yep, female barn cats. Mine chase down the little field mice they find in and around the barn. bat them around for a while, then bite their heads off and leave them laying in the driveway in front of the barn. Sort of proof that they are doing their job and deserve some food. Never have found the heads yet, must be tasty.

Mine eat the mice whole but I find bird heads from time to time. They do just as yours do and leave a big pile of feathers and the head right by the door like a trophy for me to see.

Chris

 

[Diamondpilot]

Never had cats until last year. Now, I don't know why it took me soo long. We had horrible mouse problems. 2 days after getting our first cat was the last time we saw a sign of a mouse.

We keep some at work as well. Every now and then, we "accidentally" leave the shed door open enough for the cats to get in. No more mouse problems there either.

I was the same way. Took me about 37 years to learn. I also keep about 8 ricks of firewood stacked and each and every time I used to go out to bring it in a mouse or a nest of them would jump out at me as I picked the pieces off. I have also been startled by 3 or 4 snakes in there over the years. Guess they were after the mice. It would always startle me.

Well so far this year I am on my 3rd rick and not a single one. I did see one of the cats in a tree perched just above the wood piles the other day just waiting for one to come out. It took them a few years to learn this is a hot spot for mice but now they have it under control.

Chris

 

[whistlepig]

Our cats are pretty wimpy. Our Doberman and our American Staffordshire Terrier are not. Our dogs have got tangled up with so many 'coons and skunks that my wife now puts a shock collar on them for the trip from the house to the horse barn. A can of cat foot and a kitty door for us would probably not be a good idea. As it is now all horse feed cans and kitty feed cans have to have the lids tied down with bungee cords. One of the joys of living in the country.

 

[adjusterr]

I had problems with spiders spinning webs in the LP gas burner on my motorhome hot water heater and refrigerator, was told to place some mothballs near the burner. I made a small container from a plastic bottle, keep in full of mothballs and have never had a bug problem since. I wonder if it would work with mice, I bet it would in a confined area, worth a try for no more than it would cost. Good luck.

 

[tungularafishcamp]

I put half a dozen boxes of moth balls around the cabin when I leave for the winter to keep the bears out. (no problem with mice) For the first 10 yrs or so it also killed all the spiders. Now either they make them less toxic or I have bred super spiders because when I come back in the spring spiders are all now alive and kickin
Rick

 

[OzGrasshopper]

Here we use toilet urinal blocks - pick a scent u like & cabs & machines r mice free & smell good when season starts

 

[fredhargis]

Try moth crystals, rodents hate them.

E/S

Yup, been using moth balls for years...they really work!