Mouse season is well underway!

[Brad_bb]

And I've been whacking them left and right!  Those dirty little buggers chew things up, and poop and pee all over.  Besides being disease carriers, I would get so mad when I'd find mouse pee on one of my classic cars, on the body or the engine compartment.  Mouse nests are discusting.
   My best weapon has been the Victor mouse trap with the 1"x1" yellow plastic tongue.  They are the most sensative.  You just take the smallest amount of Peanut butter and put it in the center hole.  You want in in there so they have to dig at it, thus setting off the trap.  Don't just wipe it on the surface.  I also try to use the smallest amount possible to reduce carried scent.  I want a passing mouse to smell it, but not waft outside and attract them in by the smell. 
   I've been trapping and will continue until I get the shop cleaned and organized enought to locate where the new entry point(s) is and foam it up. 

[TreeWinder]

CAT  but then again may do more damage to the cars then the mice.

[SwampDonkey]

Did I tell ya about the mouse this fall that left home with me under the car hood? Then when I arrived at my work block some 25 miles away he crawled out and up the spiral antenna. It hung on like an acrobat as I went across a field road. Then I finally stopped at my work area, got out of the car, and bent the antenna over and flung the little bugger into the brush, his new home for the winter.

It's a good maple seed year here and those little mice can stash a lot of seed.

[Don_Papenburg]

Use steel wool as a foam backer . mice love to chew through foam . I had a half stack of 1/2" extruded foam that the little b@$$#*^@$mined into pooping and peeing all the way . 

[SwampDonkey]

I get mice climbing up the water pipes in the walls from the hot water heater. I clean the top of that off several times of the year. Poop and sawdust as they chew.  I can't even see their trail. The holes up through the timbers for the pipes seem smaller than a mouse. But they are up there, I here a mouse once in a while and they seem active after 2:00 am for an hour or two.

[Norm]

Patty bought some dryer sheets to keep them out of my track equipment. I've caught a dozen or so in the trap next to them. 

[Magicman]

Their ability to get into places where they can't is truly amazing as well as disgusting.   

[sandhills]

Magicman, I couldn't agree more.  I have a buddy that swears by using ex-lax  never tried that approach but do use the drier sheets in our semi cab, still have mice in there  .

[Chuck White]

This thread reminds me, I've got to get out to the garage and remove the covers and shields from my mill before the critters get into it and set up house-keeping!


EDIT:  Done, it's now 11:05.  No sign of the critters.

I've had a pan of D-Con out there for a few weeks now.  Got rid of a bunch in a hurry.
I won't put the poison in the house though, I use the mouse traps instead.

[chevytaHOE5674]

Have two cats and have little to no mouse problem anymore. One full time indoor cat that takes care of any that make it inside. The other cat is indoor/outdoor and loves to hunt. Don't even have mice in my woodpile anymore.

[Chuck White]

I'd have a cat (mouser) too, except that Sheila is absolutely alergic to anything that has fur.

[zopi]

Have seven cats...four of them are sudden death...
Dolly Wog the Log Dawg is half Russel, and half whippet...and is just about to decimate the mole population in our yard...

[Magicman]

Mice and Sweetgum.  That's two things that I hates.   

[petefrombearswamp]

Park my wife's '50 GMC pickup in my pole building in the winter. Lots of Moth  Balls and keep the hood open. Takes about a week to get the smell out of the cab in the spring.
No probs so far. 2 cats at the house
Don't see many squirrels any more and fewer birds, but no rodents.
At my Adirondack cabin I keep a 5 gallon bucket with a wire strung beer can in the middle smeared with peanut butter in the center which catches lots of mice. about 2" of water in the  bottom with anti freeze.
Stinks some but is effective.

[Brad_bb]

Never liked the poison, they end up dying somewhere out of site and then start stinking to high heaven.  Hate the smell of Moth balls too.  Trap and dispose.

[MattD23]

Can't help but share this, this is our #1 killer out at our hunting shack where the little buggers are rampant Get yourself a 5 gallon bucket, drill 2 holes on the top edge and run a wire. In the middle of the wire, put a soda bottle lathered in peanut butter. Put a little ramp up to the top, just a little board and fill the pale up with about 3 inches of anti-freeze. The little furballs will come running up the ramp, jump onto the pop bottle, and spin off down into the anti-freeze! Give it a shot, it'll work!!

[SwampDonkey]

It always worked at the logging camp, would have 2 or 3 in the bucket by morning. 

[fuzzybear]

  At the wood lot I use a live trap baited with peanut butter. I have found that PB is the best bait, they cannot resist it. I have set the bait gone out to the truck and returned to a mouse already in the trap. Live traps work great when you have multiple mice. I have had 5 in the trap at once. Winter time they freeze to death in the trap, summer, well they get a chance at survival. If they make it out of the dog yard alive. Yes dogs will catch and eat mice also.
FB

[Mooseherder]

Can't help but share this, this is our #1 killer out at our hunting shack where the little buggers are rampant Get yourself a 5 gallon bucket, drill 2 holes on the top edge and run a wire. In the middle of the wire, put a soda bottle lathered in peanut butter. Put a little ramp up to the top, just a little board and fill the pale up with about 3 inches of anti-freeze. The little furballs will come running up the ramp, jump onto the pop bottle, and spin off down into the anti-freeze! Give it a shot, it'll work!!

This method works extremely well.
Just make sure no animals have access to the bucket.
In a related thread.
http://www.forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,50812.0.html

[mrcaptainbob]

I spray a STRONG mixture of hot sauce and water all over the wiring shroud and engine tins. All around the sparkplug holes, every where I can. No problems. The hotter the sauce the better.