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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselve and distro... - 12/4/2008 12:43:20 AM

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The problem with that is we live in the garage and we leave the garage door open 24/7 so the dog may come and go as she likes. So to them it's probably like a huge welcome home come right in sign. I do want to get a screen door for the garage, with a doggie door, and untill then, well we probably should start shutting the door. Will probably keep it a lot warmer in here also.

The craft little buggers are avoiding our mouse traps, the mouse trap can go weeks with out being touched.

they're probably to full from eating all my stuff to care about the traps :(

Ginger helped Daddy corner a mouse once, and after that when I praised her and told her good girl get the mouse, she will do anything she can to get the mouse.

IT's gotten to the point now, if I go to the cabnit where they are, and she see's me she barks and cries at me for not letting her into the cabnit to check for mice.

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You need to find all the places those meeses are getting into your house and plug them! Spray foam works well but be sure you wear gloves!

And I'm a big fan of mouse traps! I bait then with a dab of peanut butter. I love to hear that SNAP in the middle of the night! :D

Be VERY careful when using rat poison if you have kids and/or pets you want to keep. ;)

Best of luck!

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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselve and distro... - 12/4/2008 1:36:32 AM

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I hate field mice also. My dryer isn't working right. We undid the lint hose to discover it was blocked by a mouse's nest. Among the matted lint was a petrified mouse. Ick, Ick, Ick. Took two days to clean the internal ducts on the dryer of all lint and then discovered that something else went wrong as a result of it being blocked. Repairman can't come until Monday. Sigh! Takes twice as long to do half a load with it now.

geez...you are so lucky there was not a fire!!

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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselve and distro... - 12/4/2008 1:40:28 AM

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There is food in here, since it being a gargae it's also a pantry. But the foods all in cans and boxes and packages, and the mice don't bother it. However they do positivly LOVE LOVE LOVE, my clothing my stuffed toys and my craft supplies in the tiny storage cabnit, and as I posted are eating the shit out of that stuff.

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Haha, we have a huge problem with large rats at the haunted house, I blame the antique store. Usually it's solved by insisting that all food be put in airtight plastic containers, and bringing the dog around.

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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselve and distro... - 12/4/2008 1:41:22 AM

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Sticky traps with a dab of peanut butter in the center will catch them. Also, if you can locate the point of entry, try filling it with steel wool (not Brillo pads though)

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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselve and distro... - 12/4/2008 1:42:18 AM

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well honestly before the probably 200 dollars of damage all told they did to my stuff, plus stinking it up, I wouldn't of minded someone letting it go outside. But now they distroyed some very precious stuff, and stuff that could of helped others I am livid with them and will not be looking to spare any of the lil fuckers.

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Hehe - i was married to a big brave cop - who dug me out of my bed one night because a (very) little mouse was in the washing machine - and he was too afraid of mice to reach in and get it out!!

I gently covered it with a towel ( and avert your eyes OP) and released it outside.

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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselve and distro... - 12/4/2008 1:45:02 AM

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They're ignoreing those too

I have some out, and they're prebaited, and in september we had wonderful luck catching a mouse that had evaded my dad for months with in one week, but now? Nope.

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Sticky traps with a dab of peanut butter in the center will catch them. Also, if you can locate the point of entry, try filling it with steel wool (not Brillo pads though)

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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselve and distro... - 12/4/2008 7:00:07 AM

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get the ones that ARENT pre-baited.. then add the peanut butter...

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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselve and distro... - 12/4/2008 7:12:59 AM

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Nice thing about snakes..they follow the food. No mice..time to move on and find more mice.

One thing I found living in NY...if there is the SCENT of a ferret around vermin tend to find safer places. They don't know it is a predator that likes them..can't read a book...but for some reason, leaving seems to be their best option. Friend of mine has an escaped ferret living under her mobile home...so far, even though the place was abandoned for a long period there are no vermin of the rodent variety.

If you want to try another route..Naphthalene MOTHBALLS..No you don't have to grab the magnifying glass and tweezers..you can pick them up at your local hardware store or grocery. Scatter them ALL over the floor of the storage unit, in boxes and wherever you can. Be careful though, the fumes can build up and you will need to air out the storage before doing in prolonged work in there.

Oh...nearly forgot..mice are not dumb. They learn and rather quickly to avoid traps and to recognize them and they do teach their young just like rats do.

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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselve and distro... - 12/4/2008 7:21:31 AM

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I had a rat terrier as a kid in Detroit. Pay attention people. If you own a rat terrier in a large city do not let it out at night to roam. Every morning we would get up to big piles of rats on the back steps. Had a neighbor who had cats. We were sitting on her front pourch talking one night when one of her cats jumped on her lap . She put it to her mouth and kissed it and then screamed and threw it off the pourch. It had a big rat in its mouth that it had not killed yet.

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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselve and distro... - 12/4/2008 8:16:53 AM

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Are you keeping dog food in bags? Put that into a metal garbage can. Put all bagged food into sealed containers, metal or plastic or move spaghetti into empty mayo jars and such. Then pour ammonia over the floor to eliminate the scent of food. If it doesn't smell like food, they shouldn't come by. They weren't eating your clothes, they shredded them to make nests.

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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselve and distro... - 12/4/2008 8:23:37 AM

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ok a story about dog food in garbage cans. I kept a closed garbage can of dog food in the basement. Once one of the kids left off the lid. I went down to get some dog food and the food was moving. I noticed a movement above my head. Hre was a mouse walking along the close line. When it got over the can it dropped in. I took about 20 mice out of that can.

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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselve and distro... - 12/4/2008 8:36:07 AM

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Tessy, Pepper, Lepddy, Blackberry and Berty would like to ask if they might come round to play one of the days? they are all very fond of mice and promise to take very good care of them.

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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselve and distro... - 12/4/2008 8:43:43 AM

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When I was over seas in a few countries I never noticed much of a mouse problem. I did see people roasting cats and dogs over fire pits.

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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselve and distro... - 12/4/2008 8:46:54 AM

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ok a story about dog food in garbage cans. I kept a closed garbage can of dog food in the basement. Once one of the kids left off the lid. I went down to get some dog food and the food was moving. I noticed a movement above my head. Hre was a mouse walking along the close line. When it got over the can it dropped in. I took about 20 mice out of that can.

Ewwww! Runs shrieking away. I would have slammed lid on it, taken the entire can into the woods, kicked it over and left it until the mice had finished. And grounded the kid who left the thing open.

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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselve and distro... - 12/4/2008 9:11:24 AM

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And grounded the kid who left the thing open.

but all that minced kid will attract more vermin?

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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselves and destr... - 12/4/2008 9:20:19 AM

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I got rid of a mouse problem. I used D-Con and put moth balls in closets, under cabinets and in any crawl spaces. I heard mice dont like the smell of moth balls. I store my dog and cat food in sealed 5 gallon buckets to eliminate a mouse feeding source. I stored cabinet food like crackers or any thing sold in cheap packaging in metal canisters.

I use to work on cars, we had a few cars come in the garage that had mice nest built in the engine compartment under the hood, and yes they did chew on wires and hoses.

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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselves and destr... - 12/4/2008 12:56:54 PM

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My late father in law's pride and joy was a Ferrari that he took out once or twice a year if the weather was perfect. The rest of the time it lived in the garage where he would spend time with it; recliner, tv etc.

Until the fatal day he turned it on to keep it working and discovered if you hit the horn the lights flashed on. Hit the lights and the radio turned on, etc. Six months in the shop before they finished rewiring the damned thing! Mice. And they had cats.

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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselves and destr... - 12/4/2008 1:02:17 PM

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OHHHH GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!! All these posts just had my cringing but D when you said the part about the cat w/the LIVE rat in his mouth on the lady's lap..................F**K!!!!!!!!!!
OP, f**k it, just move.

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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselve and distro... - 12/4/2008 1:50:03 PM

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ok a story about dog food in garbage cans. I kept a closed garbage can of dog food in the basement. Once one of the kids left off the lid. I went down to get some dog food and the food was moving. I noticed a movement above my head. Hre was a mouse walking along the close line. When it got over the can it dropped in. I took about 20 mice out of that can.

blech!!!!

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RE: damn wild mice making pests of themselve and distro... - 12/5/2008 5:19:01 PM

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Where I live there area few open fields nearby. Every fall my neighbors and I have "visitors" from said fields. The last fews years we had mice in the house until my neighbor told me about the d-con last year. In early September I put 4 traps down and 4 bait boxes. I also went to home depot and got stuff that supposed to smell like fox urine, and used a spray bottle to apply it to the outside foundation of my house. I have not seen a sign of a mouse yet this year. *knocking on wood and keeping my fingers crossed that it keeps working*

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