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g42guy
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Here's one from a classic car guy. Instead of moth balls (which can stink up your garage or car) use Oil of Peppermint on a cotton ball. NOT peppermint extract, "peppermint oil" or "oil of peppermint". You can find it in SOME grocery stores or a candy making supply store. Use just like moth balls. I have used it for two winters now in my '63 Falcon Convert, a few on the floor, trunk and under the hood. Repeat every month or so, so they stay good and strong. Plus your garage smells minty fresh!
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coke works pretty good. Have to put fresh out every day tho.
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Ya know..that`s one thing that really has me buffaloed...I place d con,ya know the lil green packs,and i`ll find the stuff in my boots...hidden in lil nooks and crannys.even found a nice little nest...d con and toilet papper under the dash of the 3000...grrrr was that ever a nasty mess...thought if the lil critters picked the stuff up they would croak...guess not.the idea with the moth balls does work..threw a few handsfull where the case and ford are parked...so far so good ...happy mouse hunting..lol...Sid
I have 2 barn/garage cats as well. The problem I have is not with the mice anymore but the racoons that are attracted to the cat food. I can't seem to win. I kill off the small ones and then their big brothers move in.
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We used to have raccoons come in fo rhte cat food, but now that we let the dogs out in the pasture, no more raccoon invaders.
Well I had a mouse live long enough in the barn to make a nest in the engine compartment of my NH 1920 before the cat got it.
I noticed my cheapo disposable orange flagman vest ( I wear it when roading the tractor.... figure the extra visibility can't hurt...) Anyway, the vest was drug from behind the seat, and under the hood and chewed up good, and rolled into a nest with some leaves under the air cleaner canister. Luckilly nothing else seems to be chewed on. The nest was vacant.. so I assume the cat got it.. as the cat likes to sleep on the tractor seat often... ( cat gets more 'seat time' than I do.. )
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Well I had a mouse live long enough in the barn to make a nest in the engine compartment of my NH 1920 before the cat got it.
I noticed my cheapo disposable orange flagman vest ( I wear it when roading the tractor.... figure the extra visibility can't hurt...) Anyway, the vest was drug from behind the seat, and under the hood and chewed up good, and rolled into a nest with some leaves under the air cleaner canister. Luckilly nothing else seems to be chewed on. The nest was vacant.. so I assume the cat got it.. as the cat likes to sleep on the tractor seat often... ( cat gets more 'seat time' than I do.. )
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I just bought a six pack of the electronic pest repellers at Sam's Club for $24.00 with a 2 year guaranteed to work money back offer that was hard to resist
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What I have found with mouse poison pellets, is to let them have at it for a few days or a week. Then remove the remaining poison. Seems they pack it away like there is no tomorrow. When it is gone, they eat what they have stored. Seems to do the trick for about 25 years now.
Also found the poison works best if used regularly. I try not to wait until the mice are already settled inside to put out the poison, or they will die inside. Smells bad. Feed them when they come inside to look around the first time, and they will die outside (works for me). I use traps as well to keep them out in the woods and not in the garage or the shed.
Also found the poison works best if used regularly. I try not to wait until the mice are already settled inside to put out the poison, or they will die inside. Smells bad. Feed them when they come inside to look around the first time, and they will die outside (works for me). I use traps as well to keep them out in the woods and not in the garage or the shed.
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Around here I get kangaroo rats and common field mice. I have been successful with the bar style rat poison suspended in the engine compartment ( have to remember to remove before start up) and moth balls tied into one leg of a panty hose hanging between the diesel tank and instrument panel.
Rarely I still see a rat or nesting material in the engine compartment. So I'm alway beating a path to the next great rat killing idea. I've seen two new one that I was wondering if anyone else had tried.
A: The rat zapper. Looks like Flordia style capital punishment for the dirty rats.
B: Liquid rat poisons. Seems like it might work here very well since my place is very dry many months of the year.
Rarely I still see a rat or nesting material in the engine compartment. So I'm alway beating a path to the next great rat killing idea. I've seen two new one that I was wondering if anyone else had tried.
A: The rat zapper. Looks like Flordia style capital punishment for the dirty rats.
B: Liquid rat poisons. Seems like it might work here very well since my place is very dry many months of the year.
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I don't know about the rat zapper, but I don't think the liquid poison would work for kangaroo rats. They have adapted to dry habitats so well that some species do not drink water. They get all the water they need from metabolizing their food.
I never thought I would need that bit of trivia I learned in my mammalogy class.
Robert
I never thought I would need that bit of trivia I learned in my mammalogy class.
Robert