Mice issues
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Once the mice nest in an area, such as your motor, they pee on everything and migrate back to the smell.
Effective for me, is to clean the area, and spray bleach on it. Seems to work to keep them from coming back to that specific location.
This bleach trick works as well for keeping racoon from dropping scat on the 'latrine' location, which they seem to like to do.
I use poison to keep the mouse population controlled, and have used Bird's method of baiting spring traps if I get any kind of build-up in population (when I forget to put out the poison).
Effective for me, is to clean the area, and spray bleach on it. Seems to work to keep them from coming back to that specific location.
This bleach trick works as well for keeping racoon from dropping scat on the 'latrine' location, which they seem to like to do.
I use poison to keep the mouse population controlled, and have used Bird's method of baiting spring traps if I get any kind of build-up in population (when I forget to put out the poison).
hennydamule
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Mice, rats, and squirrels reproduce exponentially. If you have enough to notice, you will have tons more soon. In my opinion, you can't afford to be squeamish in eradicating the little buggers - any means at your disposal. Poison works better than traps in my experience.
My wife's two Jack Russel Terriers keep our property entirely vermin-free (vermin = anything living they can catch).
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I too, use a Jack Russell for vermin erradication. However, I no longer use poison since we've had the little fella. They sometimes will decide to play with one of the dead mice, and of course, you can infer what happens next.
Good old spring traps get the job done just fine. However, if you decide to use the poison, be sure to remove all open water sources from the indoors to avoid that dead mouse smell in your walls. The poison causes a terrific thirst in the creatures, which they will go outside for if they can't find it in your house.
My wife's two Jack Russel Terriers keep our property entirely vermin-free (vermin = anything living they can catch).
Pete )</font>
I too, use a Jack Russell for vermin erradication. However, I no longer use poison since we've had the little fella. They sometimes will decide to play with one of the dead mice, and of course, you can infer what happens next.
Good old spring traps get the job done just fine. However, if you decide to use the poison, be sure to remove all open water sources from the indoors to avoid that dead mouse smell in your walls. The poison causes a terrific thirst in the creatures, which they will go outside for if they can't find it in your house.
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Spring traps with peanut butter AND poison. If they've already set up camp and you've got a breeding population - IMO there's no such thing as too many traps. You've got to break the breeding cycle and fast. I never personally found moth balls to do much good to repel anything, flying, crawling, or scampering.
I've used spray-can exanding foam to good effect to seal the odd crack, pipe or duct opening, etc., to eliminate entry points.
I've used spray-can exanding foam to good effect to seal the odd crack, pipe or duct opening, etc., to eliminate entry points.
mahlers
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I was at a local gun store this weekend and I saw some .22 ammo that was fired only by a primer. I asked the guy about it and he said it makes almost no noise and is very effective for varmits up to about 40'. )</font>
Wow, if I had varmints that big at my place, I sure would be using more firepower... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Wow, if I had varmints that big at my place, I sure would be using more firepower... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Varmintmist
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The 22 shells in question are called CB caps. If you have that many mice, thats a lot of shooting /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Poison, and spring traps, not the ones with the fake cheese. If you want to you can nubmer the traps and keep a chart. Had a mouse problem in a house I lived in in college. Everyone got a trap and kept a tally /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Poison, and spring traps, not the ones with the fake cheese. If you want to you can nubmer the traps and keep a chart. Had a mouse problem in a house I lived in in college. Everyone got a trap and kept a tally /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I too, use a Jack Russell for vermin erradication. However, I no longer use poison since we've had the little fella. They sometimes will decide to play with one of the dead mice, and of course, you can infer what happens next.
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Ours never play with the kill, they snap the neck of anything small enough to pick up and shake, then immediately drop it and look for the next one. I did catch the female once trying to drag a Possum half again her size that she had killed to the back porch so she could show it off.
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Ours never play with the kill, they snap the neck of anything small enough to pick up and shake, then immediately drop it and look for the next one. I did catch the female once trying to drag a Possum half again her size that she had killed to the back porch so she could show it off.
BubbaJr
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<font color="blue"> ( I was at a local gun store this weekend and I saw some .22 ammo that was fired only by a primer. I asked the guy about it and he said it makes almost no noise and is very effective for varmits up to about 40'. )
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<font color="red"> Wow, if I had varmints that big at my place, I sure would be using more firepower...
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Maybe that's why he sells so much of it, it takes a lot of hits to bring those big dudes down. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
PS. I meant 40' range. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
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<font color="red"> Wow, if I had varmints that big at my place, I sure would be using more firepower...
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Maybe that's why he sells so much of it, it takes a lot of hits to bring those big dudes down. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
PS. I meant 40' range. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
fractal
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Don't laugh. I did when I first saw it, but heck. It was a gift. I have used your basic spring traps for years and get a half dozen mice a year that way. One day I decided to try the modern version. Got first critter in 20 minutes. Got another overnight. I use peanut butter on a tortia chip as bait.
http://www.ratmousezapper.com/
Works better than I thought it would and the remote indicator beats the heck out of bending down and peering behind stuff to know if it got something. You can buy em cheaper than the site I linked if you shop around.
http://www.ratmousezapper.com/
Works better than I thought it would and the remote indicator beats the heck out of bending down and peering behind stuff to know if it got something. You can buy em cheaper than the site I linked if you shop around.