Mice in my truck

[1775usmarine]

I heard Tannerite works.

 

[ultra...good]

Five gallon bucket with water and seeds will catch a metric **** load of mice and chipmunks.

There are a bunch of homemade traps on youtube that use water, vegetable oil, or just seeds and a trap they cannot get out of. Take your pick, they all work, are easy to make, and harmless for your pets. Here is one type:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SIlYiiCGLI

 

[Skullglide]

I bet your missing some of the battery insulation on that Cummins too. Ask me how I know.

 

[jsn_mooney]

I have used mothballs tied in a knee-hi stocking under the hood in various places with good results. Had a mouse getting into the inside of my work car once, went and bought a revolving door type trap from Menards and after a day or two I had a couple in the trap. You may be able to put one of those traps under the hood someplace pretty easy. They are pretty neat, and they work!

 

[Snapdragon]

The sooner you attract the mice away from the truck the better off you are...they like to eat wires and hoses for some reason.

Yep. One winter we had mouse nests in the heater blower fans of both vehicles, with repairs to the tune of about $400 each. At that time, we didn't have pets so we put poison in the garage. I have also heard about the Irish Spring that d. kaufman suggested above, and that's what I would try now. Put a piece in your glove box also. They like to chew on the paper in there. In one of the cars they had shredded my maps and half of my car manual.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

I had a piney squirrel stuff the engine of my 10 mustang twice with black walnuts before I caught it outside. The first time I cleared it out had little effect, but the second time it decided not to exert the time and energy storing them there, and I was able to catch it. The regular squirrels are food, but I just give those farkin piney squirrels swimming lessons. It's not worth driving 50km to release them, and that's about how far you have to go if you don't want them back.

When you have critter infestation, the first thing to do is understand the critter well enough. It wants something, and if it finds it, it'll stay around. If it just wants shelter, you need to make the shelter it finds unsuitable. This may involve destruction of the shelter, a way to make the shelter fatal, whatever.

 

[Ingomike]

Five gallon bucket with water and seeds will catch a metric **** load of mice and chipmunks.

I once caught 9 in a single bucket in one afternoon...

 

[Dead Duck]

[video=youtube;VcSBO8YAnTQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcSBO8YAnTQ[/video]

 

[4sarge]

Fresh Cab Works - Fresh Cab is the only botanical rodent repellent effective enough to be registered by the Federal EPA and trusted by licensed pest control experts for both effectiveness and safety. Fresh Cab keeps mice out of homes, cabins, basements, attics, garages, sheds, and storage. Use this in our trucks parked in the barn. It Works but needs to be replaced yearly or so.

Live in the country and its a Never Ending Battle, field mice, ground squirrels. Hungry Cats, Black Snake, Fresh Cab or Poison. One year, I bought multi catch live mouse traps. Would catch as many as 10 till population was down.


Victor-Humane-Live-Mouse-Trap
(https://www.amazon.com/Victor-Humane-Live-Mouse-M310S/dp/B01LN44X8G/ref=asc_df_B01LN44X8G/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=241960413056&hvpos=1o3&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16112513136608984787&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9057676&hvtargid=pla-587254480505&psc=1}

 

[bwframe]

[video=youtube;7FvCsDd-IiM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FvCsDd-IiM[/video]

 

[Alpo]

Yeah! With little tiny mirrored balls!

I did that one Halloween when I used to drink.

Kinda painful on All Saints Day.

 

[patience0830]

I once caught 9 in a single bucket in one afternoon...

6 or 8 inch deep glass bowl with peanut oil will catch a bunch. They get greasy and can't climb out.

 

[therewolf]

Cloves. Fabnric softener dryer sheets, save your used ones. The active ingredient in "Critter Ridder" is Cayenne Pepper. Any combo of two or all of these should do the trick.

 

[bwframe]

Inspired by this thread, I watched some YouTube vids on the bucket traps. Gave this a try;

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078GC624P/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

You could save a buck or two making your own "rolling log," but ten bucks is a pretty decent price for something not requiring trial and error.

Picked up a couple of swimmers withing a few hours of putting it together, less than two feet away from a vehicle that lives in the old barn...

 

[DoggyDaddy]

My mouse (and vole and occasional chipmunk) solution.

 

[Another Bad Habit]

Peppermint essential oil mixed with water in a spray bottle. Spray down your engine bay or other items they like to get into like tool boxes in barns. Just have to reapply it every so often

 

[patience0830]

Inspired by this thread, I watched some YouTube vids on the bucket traps. Gave this a try;

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078GC624P/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

You could save a buck or two making your own "rolling log," but ten bucks is a pretty decent price for something not requiring trial and error.

Picked up a couple of swimmers withing a few hours of putting it together, less than two feet away from a vehicle that lives in the old barn...

I keep a home made one in my mud room. Some anti freeze in the bucket or salt in the water keeps it from freezing. Caught three in the last two week stretch. Arrow shaft thru a small peanut butter jar.

 

[bwframe]

I keep a home made one in my mud room. Some anti freeze in the bucket or salt in the water keeps it from freezing. Caught three in the last two week stretch. Arrow shaft thru a small peanut butter jar.

Thanks for the antifreeze idea. I hate to risk poisoning any other critters. Wonder if that's an issue with auto antifreeze? How much salt do you use?

I'm gonna put another one under my house.

 

[Keith_Indy]

Welcome to rural living. Popped the hood on my truck couple years ago to change the headlamp bulbs. Had to move the air filter box in order to do so on the passenger side. When I moved the box about 60 acorns come falling out everywhere

Try having the cab of the truck you parked "out back" of the garage filled to 5 inches with walnuts... dang squirrels.

 

[patience0830]

Thanks for the antifreeze idea. I hate to risk poisoning any other critters. Wonder if that's an issue with auto antifreeze? How much salt do you use?

I'm gonna put another one under my house.

Non toxic stuff still drowns mice. Saltier you can make the solution, the colder it has to get to freeze.