Getting Rid of Mice in my shop ?

[wade simpson]

I tried the bucket, It froze and they ate all the peanut butter. I also tried the tractor exhaust thing. Will never know until the place starts to stink of dead mice. Mice won't chew on closed cell foam, So I finally went around my camp and foamed every crack I thought a mouse could crawl through. Then I set my traps as a backup. Been a year without mice.

I found they froze to death on the ice or half in half. Kinda a grisley death but evolution favored my relatives this time.
I have used that spray foam everywhere and the little buggers still get in.
I like the one where the guy had a big snake. We don't have big snakes up here or I would move one in.

A few years ago I woke with a mouse sitting on my chest..no more mr back to nature environmentalist. They started it(smile)

 

[Egon]

Note: some mouse droppings can give a hantavirus which can be deadly.

Use a gasoline engine if you go the exhaust route. The diesel will not work. :thumbsup:

The bucket thing works well.:thumbsup:

No idea about the ultra sonic emitters.

http://http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv/diseases-maladies/hantavirus-eng.php

The first case in Alberta happened just a few miles from where we lived.

 

[E/S]

"I have used that spray foam everywhere and the little buggers still get in."

I had the same problem with pack rats, my dad told me to put a layer of steel wool in the foam. They chewed through to the steel wool and stopped. This has worked for 14+ years.

E/S

 

[petegoud]

Whatever you do, don't poison them, unless you enjoy smelling rotting mice in walls, etc. Stick to traps, that way you can dispose of what you catch, and you'll know what you're trapping.

 

[yomax4]

I reluctantly bought a couple of those plug in units that Mice Supposedly hate. We they do.. I have never had a mouse since plugging them in. Pisses the Cat Off because he used to like a little mouse meat in his diet.

 

[Deere Dude]

Wire up about 20 or 25 pounds of C-4 military grade plastic explosive around your building, add another 5 or 10 if you have snow in your driveway. This will get rid of all problem critters off your property, and, clean the snow off your driveway at the same time.....

That sounds good, but where can I get some homeowners grade plastic explosive. I don't need the really good stuff.:laughing::laughing:

 

[Deere Dude]

Does anyone know if the Ratzapper will kill more than one at a time. If it kills one and another walks through an hour later, will it get that one to, or does it shut off after a kill.
Thanks

 

[buck12]

I reluctantly bought a couple of those plug in units that Mice Supposedly hate. We they do.. I have never had a mouse since plugging them in. Pisses the Cat Off because he used to like a little mouse meat in his diet.

My wife bought a couple and I laughed. They actually worked. She reminds me every so often that I was wrong

 

[Deere Dude]

The Ratzapper costs about $40 and one is all you need per building. It takes 4 D cell batteries, they last months and months. You put 6 pieces of dog kibble at the BACK of the zapper, put it on the floor or wherever you get mice and rats, and turn it on. The light flashes red if you've caught one. They don't even get to eat the bait, so all you have to do is dispose of the corpse and turn it back on. I've caught maybe a dozen mice and one rat in my shop so far. My neighbor has one in his well house and it works great.

the only place I haven't had luck with it was in my chicken coop--the rats were eating the eggs and not going for the kibble in the trap. So we got a sealed poison trap and that did it. It has a sealed lid, you put poison on some posts inside, and the holes to get in and out are too small for a chicken, kid, dog, cat, or whatever. We know it got rid of them because the egg production went way up. Now we don't know what the heck to do with all the fresh eggs!

Will the Ratzapper kill more mice if left unattended for a week or so. Or will it kill one and then quit until reset

 

[Mounted Madness]

If you don't like cats, get a terrier. Our Irish Terrier hates mice, and kills 'em any opportunity she has.

She and her brother Sam kept the mice from ruining our brand new lawn at our old place the first winter. My wife and I figured the 2 dogs were 'playing' when they'd dive into the snow and plow lengthy furrows with their muzzle, or stand stock still, listening, then going head first into a snow drift.

Come spring, I was looking at the front lawn and the FENCED back lawn and noted the tunnels that crisscrossed the front lawn. Voles, mice, whatever...they'd been chased out of the back yard...not one tunnel in the back, but along the outside perimeter of the fence, wherever the dogs couldn't reach them, the tunnels were there.

A mouse got into the house once, and the 2 of them were fit to be tied...in fact they had to be tied so that I could catch the little critter. It was cornered behind the stove. Her brother's gone now, but Gertie still keeps the yard clear of mice. We know she's been successful, usually comes into the house smacking and licking her lips...then an hour or so later she goes outside and pukes. Better then any cat that I've ever met.