| Author | Message | ||
| david handa (Davehanda)
Member Username: Davehanda Post Number: 741 Registered: 5-2001 |
Yup, Decon is the stuff, sold at the neighborhood Ace Hardware store.... I hate those meeces to peices! :-) | ||
| Keith Mahan (Gyrokeith)
New member Username: Gyrokeith Post Number: 7 Registered: 4-2003 |
I just wanted to tell you all that mouse urine isn't very good at keeping the ignition box connectors clean. I have been looking around for an ignition problem, and this morning when I went to check the ignition box connections a found evidence of our favorite furry rodents. At least they chose to winter-over in a vehicle with class. Like a 4 star hotel... | ||
| John_Miles (John_miles)
Junior Member Username: John_miles Post Number: 71 Registered: 7-2001 |
Rat terrier. | ||
| arthur chambers (Art355)
Intermediate Member Username: Art355 Post Number: 1663 Registered: 6-2001 |
I do like Mark's solution over Ernies. I have the same problem with the plane. The mice get into the plane, die, and stink it up. I've taken to taping up the holes, so they can't get in, and putting reverse cones on the landing gear to keep them out. Seems to be working. Art | ||
| john beaucher (Spider348)
Junior Member Username: Spider348 Post Number: 58 Registered: 11-2002 |
After suffering $2k damage to a Porsche 930 4 years ago, $4k damage to my wife's Lexus 2 years ago and numerous minor skirmishes with Mice, I can state with certainty, the age old mouse trap is most effective. The Porshce had moth balls inside the cabin and engine compartment. Not effective. The Lexus was, I thought, safe in the garage. My fault. Used electronic rodent repellents this past winter. Appear to have been effective. Or I was just lucky. No damage to my wife's Lexus or my 348 in the garage. No damage to my tractor in my U-Coverit. Have used Bobcat urine, moth balls etc. No luck. | ||
| Peter Cyr (Pete04222)
Junior Member Username: Pete04222 Post Number: 54 Registered: 6-2002 |
Quote from Randall: "Decon is the best I know of. It "makes them thirsty".... Supposed to make them expel the liquid out of their body, so even if they do die near your home, they won't usually smell much." I beg to differ. They smell very much. That Decon does work but I don't think I will use it again after my last experience. I let the cat go out into the garage now. Mouse problem solved. New problem - kitty prints. | ||
| J. Grande (Jay)
Intermediate Member Username: Jay Post Number: 1292 Registered: 10-2001 |
Mice tend to like running along walls and corners, not out in the middle of the floor. I use the glue boxes and poison up along the walls. The nest in my car was old, no signs of new mice or droppings. | ||
| Hans E. Hansen (4re_gt4)
Intermediate Member Username: 4re_gt4 Post Number: 1310 Registered: 4-2002 |
I get just an occasional problem. I use both poison and traps. The traps do a fair job, and I consider them diagnostic as to whether all the critters are gone - i.e. weeks with empty traps, you're probably OK. Just be careful of walking around the garage barefoot. (Ask me how I know.) Hans. (the 3 toe wonder) | ||
| Mark Eberhardt (Me_k)
Member Username: Me_k Post Number: 506 Registered: 5-2002 |
Oh, I just pulled mommy and 4 babies out of my trunk this evening. I'll leave it open a couple days and hope they move on.....and buy traps, thats probably the solution. | ||
| Dave328GTB (Hardtop)
Member Username: Hardtop Post Number: 553 Registered: 1-2002 |
Mice can be a very serious problem They like sports cars becuase it is easy for them to jump from the floor to the undercarriage. They oftn destroy wiring and can cause thousands of dollars worth of damage. Cats are only slightly effective. I suggested bull snakes, but my wife vetoed it. Go to the hardware store and buy about $10 worth of traps. Put them all around the car, along the walls of the garage and in the trunks of the car itself. You will kill lots of them. Poisoned mice often die in places where they stink afte a while. Dave | ||
| Randall (Randall)
Member Username: Randall Post Number: 471 Registered: 1-2003 |
Decon is the best I know of. It "makes them thirsty".... Supposed to make them expel the liquid out of their body, so even if they do die near your home, they won't usually smell much. | ||
| Craig (Beachbum)
Junior Member Username: Beachbum Post Number: 125 Registered: 9-2002 |
hey Doc, my friends had this problem in northern cal, the mice get in the heating/cooling ducts build nest and have babies, then when you run the air or heat the baby mice die and the bodies start to decay, if your getting the smell when you run the air there probably in the ducts, the only solution ive found is to start removing ducts until you track down there little dead bodies, it took me about a day to remove and replace all the ducts but i found the nest deep inside the system i think the best solution is to prevent this problem befor it happens | ||
| Ernie (Ernie)
Member Username: Ernie Post Number: 691 Registered: 11-2001 |
I had a serious problem with mice in my garage. They were doing construction near were I live, and all the open fields were being torn up. So guess were the mice went, to my freeking house. I started with the old fasion mouse trap and only killed one. Then I opened the garage and blocked off the opening so no mice could get out. Then emptied it out. As I did the lil shits started to emerge. AMAZING how many lil bastards were in there. I killed 10, yes 10 mice with a shovel. The lil shits got into the box that our artificial Christmas tree was in and had a nest. 4 of the 10 were babies. MUUUHAAAAA yeah I killed them there baby meeces. Cause a baby mouse grows up to be a big mouse and make more mice. Any way. The lil bastards were still coming in. So I got some Decon poison. It is in a yellow triangle shaped box that looks kinda like a piece of cheeze. The stuff works great. They gobbled it up, and about a month later I found 6 more dead. I say that the poison works best. | ||
| Verell Boaen (Verell)
Member Username: Verell Post Number: 737 Registered: 5-2001 |
TRY COYOTE URINE: Oh,yes, when I bought my COVER-IT, the salesman recommended sprinkling coyote urine around inside & outside the perimeter. Seems rodents don't want to be anywhere near a serious preditor. Available in hunting supply stores. Haven't got my COVER-IT up yet, but I'll find out next winter. COLEMAN ULTRASONIC REPELLER: BTW, Coleman makes some kind of an ultrasonic rodent repeller. Haven't heard how well it works. Good old fashioned baited traps along with a couple of cats are hard to beat. Problem w/cats is they like to climb on top of the cars... Search the archives, lots of discussions. | ||
| david handa (Davehanda)
Member Username: Davehanda Post Number: 739 Registered: 5-2001 |
I had a problem with mice getting into my cars years ago, and ever since, I now keep rat/mouse poison in my garage. About every 3 or 4 months I have to refresh it because it is eaten up. Supposedly they will not usually end up dying in your garage because the poison makes them very thirsty....or so it says on the box. I have cats, but they cannot get into the garage, but the mice can... BTW, I live in the city, not out in the country. | ||
| Robert C Hemsen (Bobh)
New member Username: Bobh Post Number: 4 Registered: 3-2002 |
I believe people who store their cars often use moth balls to make rodents avoid the vehicle. Put a few in a cup and leave them inside the car. However, you will smell them when you first open it up after the winter. The odor does evaporate quickly when you get the car open and on the road | ||
| J. Grande (Jay)
Intermediate Member Username: Jay Post Number: 1283 Registered: 10-2001 |
I found an old mouse nest inside the front hood of my GT4, right underneath the duct for the cool air on the drivers side. I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't dropped a nut down there! | ||
| djmonk (Davem)
Member Username: Davem Post Number: 258 Registered: 1-2002 |
Im not a cat lover, but we have two an its helped a lot. | ||
| Dr. I. M. Ibrahim (Coachi)
Member Username: Coachi Post Number: 269 Registered: 5-2002 |
from time to time, i find evidence of mice coming into my garage and finding a nesting area in one of my ferraris. Yesterday, when I took my boxer out for a drive, I started smelling an odor that reminded me of a dead mouse. I smelled it worst when I turned the ac on. Any ideas where to start looking? I am sure I am not the only one with a problem like that. What do you guys do to keep these critters from invading? Sorry to bring such an unpleasant subject up...  |