Mouse problems.....

[Captain Ledd]

I usually leave some bowls of antifreeze out for them. I stick a old milk crate with a cinder block on top of it to keep the lazy ass cats out. My mouse problem has significantly lessened. Still a few running around.

I realized the idea when we tried draining the coolant from my friends J-10 and completely missed the bucket underneath and threw a bunch of cat litter on it to soak it all up. Over the next 3 days a good dozen mice were lying dead across the floor of the garage. Even saw a near dead one munching on the floor dry and ended up dying right on the pile not 2 hours later.

 

[88_Eddie]

why dont you try getting some cats to hang around outside. dont feed them, they'll be like watch cats for mice and other rodents

 

[doorgunner]

There's your answer(s) from the guys: make the mouses more interested in staying outside the house....mix up some peanut butter & cat litter & new coolant...then do the milk-crate/cinder-block trick somewhere outside (maybe in several spots to see what area the mice are most prevalent) to re-direct the meece away from your home!!!!!

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd......



take lots of pics..Waaahahahahahhaaaa

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I usually leave some bowls of antifreeze out for them. I stick a old milk crate with a cinder block on top of it to keep the lazy ass cats out. My mouse problem has significantly lessened. Still a few running around.

I realized the idea when we tried draining the coolant from my friends J-10 and completely missed the bucket underneath and threw a bunch of cat litter on it to soak it all up. Over the next 3 days a good dozen mice were lying dead across the floor of the garage. Even saw a near dead one munching on the floor dry and ended up dying right on the pile not 2 hours later.

Some coolant has a bittering agent in it so watch out for that.

If you have any animals around you like, make sure they can't get to it.

 

[Snoranger]

Some coolant has a bittering agent in it so watch out for that.

If you have any animals around you like, make sure they can't get to it.

Yeah, taste it first.

 

[Captain Ledd]

Some coolant has a bittering agent in it so watch out for that.

If you have any animals around you like, make sure they can't get to it.

They say they have bittering agent in it, it doesn't work. I've been splashed in the mouth a few times. Thankfully it's only a very small amount.

And I keep crates over the bowls.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

They say they have bittering agent in it, it doesn't work. I've been splashed in the mouth a few times. Thankfully it's only a very small amount.

I have never tasted it but I have seen the bottles marked that they had it.

For maximun effect I would still avoid it.

 

[RatDog8o8]

(I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this idea......and it's a smart-a$$ed one, so don't take it seriously.....)

Order up some good night-vision goggles, and get a good pellet-gun. (I wouldn't use a .22, for fear of going through ceilings.) Bait a spot out in a clear area, for good field of fire.

Have fun.

(Again, just a joke.......)

 

[Snoranger]

I always liked this one, never tried it:

1 one gallon bucket
1 coat hanger
1 empty beer can
1 3" wide, 2' long piece of wood
2 tablespoons of peanut butter.
Wire cutters
Punch

Straighten coat hanger and cutto a length that will span from side to side of the bucket.

Pierce the can lengthwise so it spins freely on coat hanger wire.

Attach can on the wire across the top of the bucket(check that it spins freely)

Coat the can with peanut butter.

Quarter fill the bucket with water.

Set bucket in an mouse infested location with the wood plank positioned as a ramp.

Mice (and rats) love peanut butter and will climb the ramp, leap onto the can, spin off into the water and drown.

 

[88ranger89camaro]

yeah the anti-freeze may work, you know you dont want the mice to "freeze-up" this winter

 

[kunar]

I always liked this one, never tried it:

1 one gallon bucket
1 coat hanger
1 empty beer can
1 3" wide, 2' long piece of wood
2 tablespoons of peanut butter.
Wire cutters
Punch

Straighten coat hanger and cutto a length that will span from side to side of the bucket.

Pierce the can lengthwise so it spins freely on coat hanger wire.

Attach can on the wire across the top of the bucket(check that it spins freely)

Coat the can with peanut butter.

Quarter fill the bucket with water.

Set bucket in an mouse infested location with the wood plank positioned as a ramp.

Mice (and rats) love peanut butter and will climb the ramp, leap onto the can, spin off into the water and drown.

Saw this design on "Ask This Old House" and its being mass produced. DIY would work just as well for cheaper i'm sure.

http://mainemouse-ah.com/cart/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=49

 

[det107]

Peanut Butter mixed w/ Anise oil & set on mousetraps should work too-

 

[justinhill]

moth balls work great mice hate them, always throw a few in are boat before we put it in storage in a barn and we never had mice chew on the wires and seats.

 

[AllanD]

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it's not just you.

(I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this idea......and it's a smart-a$$ed one, so don't take it seriously.....)

Order up some good night-vision goggles, and get a good pellet-gun. (I wouldn't use a .22, for fear of going through ceilings.) Bait a spot out in a clear area, for good field of fire.

Have fun.

(Again, just a joke.......)

I use a single shot air pistol on mice.

I'm a good enough shot that every friend I have has seen me (repeatedly) take out carpenter bees and hornets from BETWEEN florescent tubes.

I've yet to break a tube by shooting it. Yes, I'm really that good)

Not too long ago a friend was suprised to see me grab up my air pistol and shoot something across the room.... Dead mouse, drilled it through the head too.

there are some that just don't fall for the decon.

I've gotten several crafty mice that were good enough to steal
my bait by adding various fun chemicals to the peanut butter
used for bait simple cyanides have worked in the past but I
long ago exhausted my small supply

I've also used short lengths of glass tubing filled with other fun chemical compounds, compounds heavy with nitrogen if anyone gets my drift,
that are unstable, percussion sensitive and shall we say lacking anything resembling a gentle thermodynamic slope back to the elemental
nitrogen they want to return to... (generally very HOT nitrogen which really wants to expand)

Even seen a mouse virtually shredded with glass shrapnel?

I can tell you they don't steal any more peanut butter...

there's also this charming compound known to the Romans who liked to drink it themselves... The Romans called it "defrutum", I call it Lead (II) Acetate.
Alchemists called it "Sugar of Lead" mixed into peanut butter and you don't even need traps.

Old fashioned "moth balls" ones that actually contain Napthalene are available at your local walmart are poisonous toxic and can really mess up people with certain types of anemia but they make a good "area denial" fumigant.

I use a slingshot to distribute them to the four corners of my attic.

AD

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

did anyone else come to this thread prepared to help blue fix his computer mouse? or was that just me?

I was thinking of that when I did the title....

My computer mice are just fine, but I'm starting to get the itch to build another computer (in which case I'll need another mouse). Those mice are ok with me.

It's the ones that tear stuff up and sh!t all over the place that I have a problem with.