Look before you leap .... or sit.

[Diggin It]

Seems that someone has had Hasenfeffer for dinner over the least few days. I wouldn't normally mind, but they left a mess on the dinner table ... which just happened to be the seat of the riding mower. Then I looked at the seat of the tractor. Both inside a shed. No, no pictures.

 

[Dftodd]

I had a mouse decide to build a nest in the back of my tractor seat. I didn't realize till I sat down and felt squirming on my back

I launched back off that seat

 

[Jstpssng]

Years ago I was working in a maple syrup camp out in the woods. I left for home before daylight one morning after throwing my clothes on the seat of my pickup. All of a sudden I felt something on my leg... reaching down I grabbed a mouse!

I don't know what happened to him, but I let go and he disappeared, never to be seen again. When I got home I discovered that he had made a nest in my bag of clothes, chewing a big hole in my good sweater.

 

[Thomas]

Couple years ago or so warm spring day went to get tractor from the seat and there was raccoon curl up and sleeping,no seat time that day.

 

[Jstpssng]

Couple years ago or so warm spring day went to get tractor from the seat and there was raccoon curl up and sleeping,no seat time that day.

You've got a bigger heart than me, I would have told her to find someplace else to take a nap.

 

[Alien]

I put my work shoes on one morning and one felt a bit tight so I took it off and a squashed mouse fell out. Yuk!

 

[bunyip]

Found a dead mouse in my earmuffs, it was at the breaking down pulp stage, and it wasn't before I put them on

 

[Dftodd]

I put my work shoes on one morning and one felt a bit tight so I took it off and a squashed mouse fell out. Yuk!

I have to check my work boots for the dogs ball.

She decides every now and then that they make a good spot for toy storage.

 

[oosik]

About eight years ago I had the invasion of the wood rats. Opened the hood of the Jeep - a nest big enough for me to sleep on. Over the next ten day I killed seven. Four by traps - three I shot with my 22 pistol. Kind of sad though. They were so very stupid. With pistol in hand - I could walk right up to them - get within six feet - dispatch.

Forty two years out here - those ten days were the ONLY time I've ever encountered rats.

Now - don't get me started on field mice and chipmunks. A curse on this earth. I know how YOU can become a millionaire. Invent a foolproof mouse/chipmunk repellent. I've tried most everything and it works for a while. Then it quits working.

 

[ponytug]

I'm sure that they get acclimated to pretty much anything that didn't eat them. I remember folks who lived next to Lake Erie when it had daily fish kills in the seventies. The stench could be smelled from miles away, but the cottage owners had gotten used to it. "What smell?".

I know folks who swore by broken cigarettes as a mice repellent. (And they weren't smokers.) I would prefer to have peppermint oil around, if it was me. I think that if something worked all the time, we all would be using it...

All the best,

Peter

 

[jjeff]

How about a snake? Checking the oil on my old one ton dump snake dropped from the hoods cross bracing 6" inches from my head. In the entire animal kingdom I never liked them never will. Sold the truck a month or two later. All accessories and hitchhikers included.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

How about a snake? Checking the oil on my old one ton dump snake dropped from the hoods cross bracing 6" inches from my head. In the entire animal kingdom I never liked them never will. Sold the truck a month or two later. All accessories and hitchhikers included.

At least the snake would take care of the mice. I have had a bunch of garter snakes nesting in bales of hay. One day I restacked to feed out the older hay. Between the barn cats and the garter snakes, not a single mouse or mouse nest in 5 tons of hay bales. I just sat down next to a king snake last week. I kill rattlers, but non-venomous snakes are welcome to set up shop here. Just not in the attic. Snakes in groups are pretty smelly, but the barn is full of smells. If they want to live there, they are welcome.

 

[jjeff]

At least the snake would take care of the mice. I have had a bunch of garter snakes nesting in bales of hay. One day I restacked to feed out the older hay. Between the barn cats and the garter snakes, not a single mouse or mouse nest in 5 tons of hay bales. I just sat down next to a king snake last week. I kill rattlers, but non-venomous snakes are welcome to set up shop here. Just not in the attic. Snakes in groups are pretty smelly, but the barn is full of smells. If they want to live there, they are welcome.

Yep, mice have done more physical damage by far to anything I've owned, but don't bother me nearly as much.