Does the clean smell keep them out?I use dryer sheets to keep them out of equipment I store under cover outside. I stuff them in all sorts of places in my snowmobile and other stuff.
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Does the clean smell keep them out?I use dryer sheets to keep them out of equipment I store under cover outside. I stuff them in all sorts of places in my snowmobile and other stuff.
I don’t know but it works.Does the clean smell keep them out?
I'm with you!I found out where the mice were coming into my garage - and put down glue traps. Yes - it's obvious that they suffer. That is part of the allure if you ask me. Most animals will shy away from areas where others of their kind run into danger - mice are no exception.
"Don't go there - you can hear the screams of the dead !!".
The first year I put out glue traps - I probably got 45 mice over the course of the winter. Now - I pull maybe 5 or 6 over the course of the winter. The glue traps are probably cruel - but don't want to leave poison out either because there are other animals (like the neighbor's cat) - that comes thru on occasion.
I used to be "nice" about this. But after a chewed up Suburban , a peed-in Acura, a motorcycle with a chewed thru hydraulic system , mouse crap in my toolbox - with wrecked tools - I have a adopted a scorched earth policy. Mice have cost me thousands and thousands of dollars - and who knows how much time. Now I just kill them as quickly and as efficiently as I can.
I read a story many years ago - about how deer in one of the large Army bases down south - will gravitate towards the artillery range during hunting season. They did the calculation apparently that the artillery range was safer than the surrounding woods as far as their odds of dying goes. Stuff like is why I say: animals aren't completely stupid - at least when it comes to their chances of dying an ugly death.
If the tortured screams of dying mice tell the other ones to stay the hell out of my garage - well then make it so. All the other animals in my yard seem to understand not to screw my stuff. The rabbits, the chipmunks, the gophers..... etc. So I leave them alone. If the mice would figure this out - they would get left alone too..
if you put food they will come. you can use Pizza mice love pizza easy pickings for the lazy miceThat is an awesome easy trap, but they don't seem to be looking for food. They ignore bait
I read somewhere that in our type of ecosystem that there are cycles of increased rodent population like this and that it is natural when the conditions are just right- plenty of food, good climate etc.
We'd have to cut down all of our trees on our 5 acres in order to get rid of the food source (acorns).
I love pizza too. Mmmm.if you put food they will come. you can use Pizza mice love pizza easy pickings for the lazy mice
That sucks! Mice are certainly opportunistic with the pandemic, that's for sure! Unfortunately even with daily driving they still stayed in the vehicle! There was 3 or 4 times that I drove over an hour and I'd stop and a mouse would come running out of my engine and jump down to the parking lot.