keeping mice out of car during winter

[Christopher R.]

Re: keeping mice out of car during winter

Remembered some more.

Fox piss. My local True Value sells it. You put some in little bottles that also come with the kit. Foxes use urine to mark their territory. Mouse comes in your garage, smells fox piss, and thinks a fox may be nearby. (Say, how do they get the fox to .... Eh, never mind. I don't want to know.)

Animals are very reactive to smells. And humans are supposed to be the smelliest of all creatures. I've considered going down to my local barber and gathering up hair that I could put into mesh bags and leave around the garage. Throw them out at the end of the season. Haven't done that yet.

I'm afraid of poison. I'm afraid the little b*stard would crawl off to die somewhere in my car where I couldn't get him. If it gets bad, I'll go with more traps.

There's also the bucket of antifreeze trick. Search the archives for that one.

[Kevin G.]

Re: keeping mice out of car during winter

I prefer to use the Car Jacket. It's like a giant Zip lock bag so tight that an ant can't get in. Just be careful, no smoking when opening, fumes do seem to build up in it. The bag comes with 10 dessecant bags and I place a few boxes of baking powder inside the car. The previous owner used this method and the condition of the car shows how well it works!

Did find a few dead mice in some klunckers (not quite empty beer bottles)? Guess they went out drunk

[Chuck R.]

Re: keeping mice out of car during winter

The wife is the whine Nick.

Maybe she should be sleeping with the car........

I do know that if my wifey ever caught sight of one of the little rascals, the fire horns in town couldn't match her DB for DB

Chuck

[Wayne K.]

Re: keeping mice out of car during winter

Jerry

I've heard that the high pitched whine also keeps wives out of garages!

And I thought you put the wife in the garage to get the high pitched whine.

[Mike G.]

Re: keeping mice out of car during winter

i bought a car capsule. before that i put traps with peanutbutter under the car. killed them before they got in.

[Chuck R.]

Re: You got it Mikey!

They just can't resist fresh peanut butter but keep in mind that lovely aroma just might call in more than your trap can handle. The little mecenaries will eat the PB right out from under their squashed dead kin and then look for something else to teeth on.

I've found that dried blood spread around the car combined with amonia placed under the car and replaced regularly has worked very well.

If you go the cat route, get a pumkin cat. Those felines are devistating hunters!

Chuck

[Dick C.]

Re: keeping mice out of car during winter

De-con will do the trick. Used it for years and no mice in the garage.

[Marc R.]

Re: keeping mice out of car during winter

Pumpkin cat huh? I've got two Maine Coon cats--30 lbs. each--would kill a mouse by stepping on it.