Cautionary rat tail .... er, tale

I had mice get into my 355 the same way..... and dug themselves through the firewall and into the interior. Ate all the carpet and rubber seals.

 

Thats all nasty, scoundrels

 

You really want to protect the wires from rodents. That's where it can get expen$ive.

Do you have cats? Some persons believe that even the smell of a cat in a garage will dissuade mice from taking up residence.

 

be aware mice only need a 1/4 hole or slightly smaller to ingress. they also pee everywhere leaving a telltale trail for other mice to follow.

 

Ah! I get a couple sets of these every quarter and place them around the corners of my garage and by the entrances. I can't smell them (even though they are lemon & minty and not appalling), and I've been using them for years with great success. It seems they don't like the smell or they can't find food because the scent is too strong so they stay away. I still have regular traps set in the garage as a fail-safe, but I have never caught a mouse in one since I've started using these things.

What I like about them is that you don't have to manage them like a trap. That is, if you are gone you don't have to worry about dead mouse smell in your garage, or say all of your traps being potentially full and allowing more mice to roam. By the way, I don't always use the same brand, I just grab whatever from the local hardware store and call it a day. They all seem to be about the same.

 

A neighbor of mine did a tear down on his house to put up a new one last year. At some point I saw a mouse get into my garage. I am guessing that it got chased out of the other house when it got torn down and looked to settle in my garage which is a lot behind that house. While I almost got him I didn't want to necessarily push him/it/her out of the garage and then to only find its way into my house. So I let it be and haven't had a problem fortunately. While I don't know if it moved over to the house, I think its been gone for awhile in the garage.

 

Woow, lucky that you came away with only that been eaten !

 

I think the average life-span of a mouse is pretty short- on the order of 9 months to 1.5 years, so the one you saw is probably deceased. BUT, he may have left his (a.k.a. yours) garage estate to his descendants!

 

Yeah for sure. Where there is one, there are more. I am diligent to check things over to see if anything presents itself but I see no evidence of anything still being in there. Set some traps as well. The ol cat and mouse game I don't want to be a part of.

 

My 458 is getting repaired right now because a mouse chewed through a fuel pressure sensor wire. I have traps around the house and the peppermint deterrents all over my garage now[emoji43]‍[emoji94]

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Dang! What kind of storage space is it in? Garage doors seal fairly well or no?


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Terrifying thread. Absolutely terrifying.

 

Private garage. Looks like 3” of weatherstripping was missing from door seal. They nested behind a cabinet. They have been taken care of now. Thankfully it was only a wire that needed to be spliced back together.


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