mouse/squirrel damage

[jajiu]

I got some 'walk the plank' mouse traps, they also sell the same in rat traps and put a mix of peanut butter with sunflower seeds on the end of the plank and it hooks on the side of a bucket half filled with water, it trips and they fall in for a swim. Look it up on google search or Amazon.

 

[atsah]

I put a pile of nuts in a safe place and shoot them. Don't know if you can do that or not but they can't resist.. I have many of those and they will destroy my outbuildings and house soffits in short order..

 

[oosik]

For the 38+ years out here its been - - me vs the mice. I've tried just about everything. Traps, moth balls, "walk the plank" mouse traps, etc.

For me - barn cats work the very best. I've got three now.

My problem has always been the nest they build and the dog food they pack away in the engine compartments of my cars & trucks.

Finally I found a way that, for the last nine months, has TOTALLY kept them out of the engine compartments.

I open the hood and leave it open. I guess the open engine compartment just isn't that inviting. For whatever reason - they no longer enter the engine compartments. I've never had them in the passenger compartments.

I don't have squirrels. The open hood technique keeps the chipmunks out also.

Now I can concentrate on those miserable pocket gophers. Hopefully the barn cats might find them tasty also.

 

[tradosaurus]

For the 38+ years out here its been - - me vs the mice. I've tried just about everything. Traps, moth balls, "walk the plank" mouse traps, etc.

For me - barn cats work the very best. I've got three now.

My problem has always been the nest they build and the dog food they pack away in the engine compartments of my cars & trucks.

Finally I found a way that, for the last nine months, has TOTALLY kept them out of the engine compartments.

I open the hood and leave it open. I guess the open engine compartment just isn't that inviting. For whatever reason - they no longer enter the engine compartments. I've never had them in the passenger compartments.

I don't have squirrels. The open hood technique keeps the chipmunks out also.

Now I can concentrate on those miserable pocket gophers. Hopefully the barn cats might find them tasty also.

https://www.amazon.com/Cinch-Gopher-Trap-Traps-Medium-instructions/dp/B002J89XYA/ref=pd_bxgy_86_2/144-9172546-5606152?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B002J89XYA&pd_rd_r=1fa92eaf-540d-11e9-a577-3bbfcd35dc51&pd_rd_w=y9fMN&pd_rd_wg=e12NC&pf_rd_p=a2006322-0bc0-4db9-a08e-d168c18ce6f0&pf_rd_r=RZQ8T8VXYY9HVK7FKHVQ&psc=1&refRID=RZQ8T8VXYY9HVK7FKHVQ

I use the cinch trap and got rid of all my gophers. Hooked another guy onto it and he rid himself of a multitude of gophers that plague him for years.

 

[Firemanbuck]

Do they look like this?

 

[Firemanbuck]

Oh, MOUSE and squirrel.... I need to clean my readers.

 

[MHarryE]

The electrical system on my mini-excavator is the best squirrel attractor I found. My wife and I had to splice 11 pieces where they chewed wire out. Now both arm rests and the fuse area are packed with mothballs - 5 years no damage except to my internal organs which my give out any time.

 

[oosik]

True story. I bought a brand new Chrysler Concord back in '91. The mice immediately chewed out the wiring under the hood. It cost me $875 to replace. I was told at that time - the covering on all the wires was from some plant based material. It was not the "normal" petroleum based covering. The mice really liked that stuff. The new wiring harness was from petroleum based material and I never had any more problems.

At least, I had no more "wiring chewing" incidents. They still would pack dog & cat food into the nooks & crannies.

 

[fruitcakesa]

killing native animals because they are attracted to food that you put out is as moronic as it gets...geeze...!

These are hanging feeders that are 6 feet off the ground and 4 feet from the building. The squirrels will clean those out in no time and we like watching the birds. To me, the squirrels are destructive pests and have no problem eliminating a few, "moronic" or not.

 

[Texasmark]

Didn't have a big problem with both but they were here. Luckily a couple of stray cats roamed the neighborhood, saw them numerous times around the place.......place is squirrel and rat-mouse free. Had Tom Kat (or Cat forget which) green square bait out for months and no takers. Hoorah!