Mice in my equipment! Aaarrrrgh!

[Scooter77]

circle your stuff in baited traps lol. Or you could just do what i did and poison the hell out of them..just put a few bowls of rat poson around.

[_brad_]

I also have had good luck with cheap old mouse traps tipped with peanut butter... The key is to mound on the peanut butter. That way they try and take it all at once then SNAP!

I got a mouse one day with a gopher trap (basically a big azz mouse trap) and the trap slaped the mouse so hard it decapidated his head off!

It was great.

[atctim]

I bait my mouse traps with a small piece of fresh bread. I mold it around the bait spot - top and bottom - that way when they are working to get it off - "S N A P " - dead mouse. I usually keep about 4 traps baited out in the garage - this year seems particularly bad for mice around here.

[Frankencelery]

An update- I didn't want to use snap traps or poison, for fear I would end up hurting the cats or my dogs, so I used a half dozen sticky traps. Know what I caught? Crickets. Bajillions of crickets. So that was useful. I can probably use snap traps, but only in a couple locations, so the bigger animals can't get to them. I can just see my lovable golden retriever tearing across the yard with a moustrap on her face!

[Mosh]

Pure peppermint oil is a natural deterrent for mice.I dont know if it works,But it is safe to try and wont hurt the other animals.It has to be pure pepperment oil though,no imitations or extracts.Set some cotton balls soaked with the stuff in your airboxes and they wont go near it.It burns thier noses badly.That is what they say to do in garden books and natural remedy books.

[brapp]

try bread soaked with borax.and confectionary sugar. they eat it and then take t to thier young and it kills them and ants and anyother insecs that woudl eat it.

[Rawlins350x]

I feel for you man. I've had problems with red squirrels living in my attic for the last 6 months. They're chewing my wires, pulling out my insulation, and only go knows what else. I finally found out where they're getting in and fixed the problem (hopefully ) Definatly watch the poison you choose if you have other animals around that will gobble mice up. I think snap traps would be your best bet (i'm sure your dog will learn its lesson after the first encounter ) As moshman355 said. Pure peppermint oil might do the trick. I know my neighbors use it to keep the deer out of their garden in the summer.

Good luck! And lets just hope you never have to deal with the evil reds

[jenndnn3]

Fire the current cats they suck at their job, especially if they are threathening to leave due to being unfed. If you have that big of a mouse problem that within a week they are movin in, you are feeding your cats way too much.

Pick up a nice set of wild toms....

[Rawlins350x]

Maybe you should hire sykolincoln to come sit in your garage. Here's a thread with a picture of his credentials... http://www.3wheelerworldforums.com/s...ad.php?t=72887

[80'427]

My grandma ties a string to the flipper of the trap then uses peanut butter when they try to eat the pb they pull on the string. Get you some good old wild stray cats like they have on farms with too many toms around. Ones you can touch or catch except in a live trap. They will clean up the place and come back for more. But then you have to get another dog to eat the cats.