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I usually keep my Dart in a storage unit, and I think I have decided to let the storage unit go, due to price and inconvenience. The storage unit is 20 miles away. I have an old 2 car garage the I plan on cleaning up and sealing any cracks and crevices, in an attempt to minimize rodent infestations (I live on an old farm place, so mice are a nuisance year round). Besides sealing any crack and crevices I can find and new seals on the bottom of the doors, I am also planning on digging up the ground about 18 around 3 sides of the garage and laying down landscaping cloth, then covering that with redrock (my theory is that removing cover, weeds and grass away from the garage may slow the rodents down from entering). Does that sound plausible? Any other ideas, suggestions?
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Aaron
 
Get a good cat or two. They earn their keep.
 
A cat, don't feed it just let it use its instincts. Mouse problem solved.
 
You would be astounded where a mouse can get into and out of. "Back when" I worked in the two-way / 911 telco field, we did work at remote hilltop sites. You could have a building completely made of metal, the only gap was 1/2" under the door with a rubber sweep, and the "delta" roofing gaps in the sheeting, and "somebody" would find their way in there

Motorola used to make a REALLY stupid base station series which had a "mouse trap" at the bottom service door. This was an upside down "U" where the antenna / power cable went into the radio, with a little slider you were supposed to adjust tight against the cable. Often we inherited a customer from "someone else."

I once found one of those that was so full of (literally) mouse crap that I refused to work on it, and the radio ended up being thrown away. I've got a photo of it somewhere.
 
snap traps with a dab of.peanut butter, just dont use much pb or you could draw them in. they will find any opening and chew there way through.
 
"Down in the basement" when I was a kid was a trap my Gramma had bought.........out of Popular Science or Mechanics Illustrated. It would never get UL approval today. It was a "little stall" which you baited, and assuming you didn't seriously kill yourself in the process, set the thing down, and the dainty little thing would waltz in there and get..............fried, LOL

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I leave poison out, they come in, die soon and you throw them away. They don't reproduce. They die close to the food, not in the car.Eight years with a group of cars, and no damage. they don't make it out, and they don't poison the wildlife, as the poison goes dormant after the mouse dies.
 
Local old timer told me to find some 5" or so deep pans, the wider the better. Fill the pans with waste oil. Put jack stands in the pans, car on top of the stands. This will be the second winter with the car this way, so far so good. I did find some little foot prints in oil in the garage a few weeks ago...
 
I toss mothballs and Bounce dryer sheets in my cars. Mice don't like the smell. I always throw down a sticky trap with a dab of peanut butter but they are always empty come spring.
 
A friend's kid had a male white rat that you can get at the pet store. One day he had it out in the barn playing with it. It got away from him and lived in the barn. For some odd reason white rats keep away all the other rats and mice.
It is better to have one or two white rats running around you barn than hundreds of the wild kind
 
Pawned said:
A friend's kid had a male white rat that you can get at the pet store. One day he had it out in the barn playing with it. It got away from him and lived in the barn. For some odd reason white rats keep away all the other rats and mice.
It is better to have one or two white rats running around you barn than hundreds of the wild kind
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That's because white rats are hung like ....rats. Little field mice want no part of that ****.


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There was another thread on this, some one said "put a radio in the garage on low" The mice think people are in there and won't come in?
 
Forget Cats... I have two Rat Terriers as part of my family and I love them as they are always at work wherever they are. Most rats killed in a single infested barn.. Rat Terriers were a common farm dog in 1900's, bred for catching barn rats in haystacks. A Rat Terrier holds the record for the most rats killed in a single infested barn- 2,501 rats in 7 hours.

And BTW, any hole no matter how small, rats will get into. If you insulate your garage, put the aluminum facing toward the outside wall as rats and mice will not enter for some strange reason. I redid my pump house with R-Max hard foam insulation and haven't a rodent since
 
Getting rid of grass/brush next to building & putting down rock helps...use big enough rock not just pebble size. I then put out d con packs...out of the way if you have dogs.
 
Weve got a rat snake in the garage back home... had the same snake hiding out in there for three years now, no rats or squirrels. plus makes kind of a cool conversation starter when friends come over and see a four foot snake laying in the rafters warming himself up.
 
pyrojim said:
There was another thread on this, some one said "put a radio in the garage on low" The mice think people are in there and won't come in?
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I can flat guarantee you this doesn't work. Hell some mice aren't afraid of people, either.
 
Best mouse trap. Peanut butter on plastic pop bottle label and
a couple of inches of RV antifreeze in the bucket.

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My father in law told me to put moth balls, on each fender apron, on top of the air cleaner, and on top of all 4 tires. I have been doing this for 10 years. I find mice poop around the garage sometimes, but never ANY sign of mice IN the car.
 
pyrojim said:
There was another thread on this, some one said "put a radio in the garage on low" The mice think people are in there and won't come in?
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Music in our garage 24/7....still mice...Stop & think about it....people/pets live in a house and they don't stay away....
 
My dachshund keeps the mice at bay in my shop. He hunts as long as I am in the shop.

Michael
 
You cant stop them from getting in but their easy to kill. i set out those green cubes in the house and garage. they work grate
 
We had a shed one year we kept the Christmas tree and junk in, when I brought in the Christmas stuff that year I also brought in some mice. What a pia. Ended up bringing in a Rubbermaid trash can and ran a yard stick from the counter to the trash can with the majority of the yard stick over the trash can, then put some peanut butter on the end of the yard stick. You guessed it, mice would walk the plank, balance shifted when they got to the end and each morning for probably 5 days was a mouse waiting in the bottom of the can.

The wife didn't want to kill the adorable little fckers so had to do it that way. Just be sure when you transport them away you take them a good ways down the road as they will find a way back home.

We got a cat after that, it had kittens of course but never had a mice problem after that.
 
RustyRatRod said:
Get a good cat or two. They earn their keep.
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Nothing beats a good pussy (cat)....


When we were young, my dad kept putting out mouse traps and the darn mouse kept setting them off and stealing the bait. Then one day he wandered down stairs to the basement. Our cat stayed in the basement at night. My dad went to let the cat up one morning and he was laying at the bottom of the steps with a proud look on his face and a dead mouse between his front legs. After that, the traps were not set off with the bait stolen....

The kitty was rewarded with a can of tuna!

The mouse was able to outsmart the traps, but not the cat...
 
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