Mice

[MoparGirl]

Anyone else ever have issues with mice getting in their cars? Both our vehicles are in the garage and we have lazy cats apparently. Frequently we see where the little nasty things have been inside the car and they have started to tear insulation pieces (looks like maybe seat foam) in the cuda. Someone told me to put mothballs in the interior under the seats and under the hood, however this has apparently not deterred the critters. When I drove the dart yesterday a rather large mouse ran across my foot not once but twice before running up under the dash. I have used sticky traps on occasion but a large, determined mouse will get that goo all over the carpet.

Any suggestions?

 

[MtNemoMopar]

You have some nasty mice down your way. You could mouse bait around the garage to kill them off. Thats a very tough looking Dart. Good job Girl!

My buddies Chevelle had a rat in it( my 340 turned that into goo)

 

[69signetv8]

Don't let them little suckers get into your heater box.....Had a friend that found out the hard way. Flash his heater up and though he had a problem and left it.....The suckers made a nest and the babies got toasted by the fan.

"They" didn't make a very good air freshenier. It was bad enough to make a billy goat "power" :vom:

 

[Cerwin]

i hope you or your huby dont have weak stomachs becuase the only way to get those little furballs out is to just use a basic mouse trap, anything else like poisoning or goo traps are messy and the results arent going to be in your favour.. goo on your carpet or even he gets away and then you have goo on the seat and in teh dash and on the dash.. poison could cause worse things like a dead mouse in your car in a HIDING spot you cant find.. behind a kickpanel or in the heater box like jim stated, i get a new cat and a nice shiny wooden set of vertibray snapping, eyeball popping out, brain crushing, air channel blocking, fur fraying mouse traps.

Cerwin

Wish you all the luck.. but if that doesnt work.. i do have a kitten, a few bb guns, some free time, and a passion for destruction and mayhem. Mind you, Id probably just make a mess.. and thats not what you need! lol

 

[demon seed]

Traps are the only way and the best bait is peanut butter. I heard some rumbling years ago that mice won't cross a line of powdered sulphur and if you lived up here you could get it easy. Just don't get a match near it cause it sticks like crap when it smolders.

 

[Cerwin]

Traps are the only way and the best bait is peanut butter. I heard some rumbling years ago that mice won't cross a line of powdered sulphur and if you lived up here you could get it easy. Just don't get a match near it cause it sticks like crap when it smolders.

Kinda like how witches wont cross clay powder? or lead powder?
Demon seed? are you a witch? are ya? are ya?

lol :toothy7:

 

[Eric_S68]

If ya have any sort of "wierd" electrical problems. I'll give ya one guess... Happy 4th anyway !

 

[Longgone]

Wrigleys Juicyfruit Gum, or is that just for moles/voles?

 

[PostalBGraham]

My car had been sitting for years before I bought it. The first time I had to turn on the heater on a cold morning, all kinds of chewed up insulation and fibers flew out of the vents! That looks real nice on a black interior! I still get a few bits of crap coming out. A couple weeks ago I opened the hood and a mouse ran down along the fender well and stopped right next to the hood latch. I crushed him with a near by piece of plumbing. Another one ran out and then ducked in behind the firewall. Later that morning I was washing the car and sprayed real good back there. He took off running for the garage. I chased him down and crushed him with my foot. Decon is pretty good stuff for killing mice. It dries the carcass so any odor doesn't last long. I do prefer the old fashioned wooden traps, though. I'm afraid what might happen if your cat tried to eat a mouse that had eaten decon.

 

[demon seed]

Kinda like how witches wont cross clay powder? or lead powder?
Demon seed? are you a witch? are ya? are ya?

lol :toothy7:

Where do you think brimstone comes from. :evil2:

 

[onehellofadart]

Mothballs have always worked for me. My garage floor is covered with them now.

 

[dgc333]

Put a 5 gallon pail 1/2 full of water then float some bird seed on the water. Put the pail in a convient location out of the way and get a piece of strapping to make a ramp from the floor up to the rim of the pail.

The mice are attracted to the seed and will jump in but can't climb out and drown.

Works Good! My brother in law used it in his barn and would typically get several mice per week. Also, my wife used to have a habit of leaving dirty dish water in the sink until she found some dead mice when she drained the sink in the morning!! ;)

 

[OldVart]

Self-propelled, ball bearing drive, mouse trap. (Tomcat).

 

[388dart]

As a deterant place Downy fabric softner sheets in the cars - apparently they don't like the smell - and I do believe Downy smells better than "moth balls".
Good Hunting

 

[Thrashard340]

Put a 5 gallon pail 1/2 full of water then float some bird seed on the water. Put the pail in a convient location out of the way and get a piece of strapping to make a ramp from the floor up to the rim of the pail.

The mice are attracted to the seed and will jump in but can't climb out and drown.

Works Good! My brother in law used it in his barn and would typically get several mice per week. Also, my wife used to have a habit of leaving dirty dish water in the sink until she found some dead mice when she drained the sink in the morning!! ;)

Sounds like a good idea...I'll have to try this.

Lucky for my Duster, mice have taken more of a liking to my house instead of the garage. I have caught 16 mice in a 4 month span (5 in one week) with assorted measures (sticky traps, mechanical traps). Once I caught the parents, the number of mice went down.

 

[moper]

That water trick works very well. The barn has 3 water buckets for the horses, and we routinely find "victims". I've used mothballs and drier sheets too. Oh, and a cat..but the cats like to climb on cars...DAMHIK.