Two Non Related Questions on Oil and Rodents

[GSykes]

This is what I found a few months ago, had a bad battery so when I opened the hood it looked like party central. Luckily they didn't chew up anything but the battery blanket. Needless to say I didn't put either blanket back on. No issues since. I too attached a sticky board for about a month, nothing.

 

[SnoKing]

Mothballs?

 

[KBrennan]

Mothballs?

Doesn't that hurt the moths? I know it would me.

 

[Tuesdak]

Its like a mouse factory sometimes here. I failed emissions once because of a nest clogging the air filter...

These work well enough.
https://www.victorpest.com/rat-zapper-ultra-rat-trap-bbrzu001

But when I get tired of emptying them every day... one that wacks a few more squeakers every night is appealing. CO2 cartage powered - yeah this gets entertaining quick.

https://www.automatictrap.com/pages/videos

 

[KBrennan]

Its like a mouse factory sometimes here. I failed emissions once because of a nest clogging the air filter...

These work well enough.
https://www.victorpest.com/rat-zapper-ultra-rat-trap-bbrzu001

But when I get tired of emptying them every day... one that wacks a few more squeakers every night is appealing. CO2 cartage powered - yeah this gets entertaining quick.

https://www.automatictrap.com/pages/videos

I like the CO2 trab but $240 for a mouse trap is steep but who knows.

 

[BigPapa]

My father had mice in his garage, bad. They packed acorns away anywhere they would sit under the hood of Mama's PT Cruiser. He cleaned out the acorns and bought some rat poison and put it out in several places. A few days later he checked the PTC and no acorns, but they had taken all the poison pellets and put them up there....

 

[brucejohnson]

My father had mice in his garage, bad. They packed acorns away anywhere they would sit under the hood of Mama's PT Cruiser. He cleaned out the acorns and bought some rat poison and put it out in several places. A few days later he checked the PTC and no acorns, but they had taken all the poison pellets and put them up there....

Did he hear snickering, giggling mice in the dark corners of the garage when he would enter it? Silly, smart-alecky meeces...with their tiny tummy aches.

 

[DHayden]

We leave instrumentation vans out in the desert for long stretches, it doesnt take mice long to try to make them a home. We put bars of Irish Spring soap in them, keeps them from coming in pretty good.

 

[mwilson]

I use the following sometimes all at once...

(1) Irish Spring cut in hunks.
(2) Downy Dryer Sheets
(3) Moth Balls and Moth Flakes
(4) dCon Packets
(5) Sticky Traps
(6) Mouse Magic https://www.bonide.com/products/garden-naturals/view/865/mouse-magic

 

[HPSimpson]

Wow, That is some collection of stuff there Mike really should work great for the guys.

 

[Ozymandias]

Wow, That is some collection of stuff there Mike really should work great for the guys.

He just misses the shocker...
The rest is there.

 

[KBrennan]

I got one.... Puled him off and left the sticky trap.

 

[DavidC]

Good hunting, I'm sure there are more, we will see.

 

[R.Taylor]

I remember when one of my Boxers got her nose and half her head stuck in a glue trap I had in the garage, I put some kibble on the trap to attract the rats, Got her instead. She came in house looking like she was in trouble with this trap on her face.... I still crack up when I think about it. Olive oil gets it out of hair if you ever need to free a pet fyi.

 

[DHayden]

Olive oil gets it out of hair if you ever need to free a pet fyi.

Popeye and a can of spinach on the other side?

 

[Tuesdak]

I got one.... Puled him off and left the sticky trap.

I suggest you need more traps around the place to knock out the infestation. One glue trap isn't going to save your wires or wire harness. Mice/rats/critters here have eaten the paper box glue traps to eat what's stuck in em! Nothing like seeing 1/3 of a glue trap gone.

 

[DavidC]

They also say to use a spray bottle of bleach and water and spray where the varmit may have been to kill the scent as others will follow that scent. You have to be careful to not hurt paint etc.

 

[HPSimpson]

You sure are chasing the little guys try using some Bounce sheets in all area the sense as something that mouses don't like, good luck hunting.

 

[Mark31]

I saw in a farm mag where a farmer used tin roll flashing around his combine to keep out critters.