Electric mouse deterrent
 

Anyone have any luck with an electric mouse deterrents for their car? If so, which one? Reading excellence last night, someone in the comment section mentioned the luck they were having with theirs but didn’t mention what they had. I currently use month balls under the hoods and leave some of my cats used kitty litter outside at the wheels. Both seem really isolated in approach.
Suggestions appreciated.
Thanks.

Good luck with any deterrent. I have heard mothballs are totally ineffective as are dryer sheets. I work hard at keeping any sort of food out of the area, and I have traps set in the garage in likely locations.

My best deterrent is our dachshund, and he is my early warning system. When he goes on patrol and shows the signs of a mouse hunt, I go into full combat mode and set more traps.

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Reuben really loves mice as a tasty snack.

Use these around the car. preferably along the walls behind things.
The paper that holds the pellets should not be opened...they will chew a hole. They work well.

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Never worked on my rodent interlopers

As I have said before, the best approach that I have found to eliminate the mice is cat food.
I live in the middle of the woods with lots of critters around.
With outside dogs, and outside dog food, mice were living pretty comfortably.
Now several cat food dispensers are located strategically around the property that the doggies cant get to, but the cats can.
A paper towel or napkin is on the floor board of each car, which provides notification if any rodent is in one of the cars.
Since I started leaving cat food around, I have had zero mice incidents over the past several years.
It is not uncommon to see several cats making rounds around my garage and shed while I am sitting by the fire pit.
In fact, I saw a stray cat with a mouse in its mouth last night.

If you're talking about those things that emit ultrasonic pulses, I tried them a long time ago. They never had any effect as far as I could tell.

If you always keep well baited traps set, that will solve your problems. It is awfully easy to only set them after you see activity (which is often long after they are there). I sometimes catch two a day (maybe ten in a week) and then it stops for a month or so. They leave a trail for their friends to follow. They never are there long enough to do any damage.

I live next to an eagle sanctuary and will not risk killing a bald eagle by poisoning mice...although I think most folks do use poison (rural farming area). The last couple of years, we have had a lot more of the large (nonpoisonous) snakes around the house and that reduced the population drastically. There are almost none in the summer now. When it first gets really cold out, we get a few...but they seem to get caught immediately.

I never use poison, ever. We had a very sick snake die in our back yard. Likely from eating a poisoned mouse in another yard. I burred it in our compost pile. With a biological (dog) early warning system we know when mice show up in the back yard. They usually go to the storage building and Reuben goes into full Defcon Level 10 alert. That is the cue to set more fresh traps.

Snap traps work with peanut butter. Nothing else seems too. (Except poison but when they crawl into the wall and die, the next two weeks does NOT make the wide happy.)

I use peanut butter, but I hear a Slim Jim stuffed into the trigger and under the little tab for the bait is great. They have to tug on it to get it out, and can't just lick it clean. It is a good use for a Slim Jim, it sure ain't human food.

That's what I do 2-10 victims a week during winter.

I try to leave around 10 armed traps all the time so there is always room for error

I recycle them and throw the critter into the woods

I have tried PB and other things, but I have never had much luck with much of anything but cheese (if you call it that). Not the fancy cheese (it doesn't seem to hold up as well), but simple Kraft American singles. It can be on a trap for months and dried hard, and they still come/get caught.

I just toss them in the woods like 2.7RS does.

I had two traps in my wood shed. One went missing. I’m guessing either a big rat or a squirrel caught by the tail.

We have plug in electric deterrents in almost every room in the house. No mice to be found.

Snap traps with p’nut butter. Works every time. Usually catch 2-3 mice and sometimes a mole in the trap. I set up 3 traps near the car, check it daily. Usually renew the snap traps after 3-4 catches. They get kinda bloody after s few uses…..

I rotate my traps to keep from touching them (possible germs or parasites). After I catch mice, I leave them outside in the sun and rain (always same spot) until I catch some more. Then I rotate them back in while the others become "sanitized". I try to keep quite a few. Eventually they start to fall apart from use/the weather.

Electronics, moth balls, dryer sheets... all have been reported to have poor or no results. I have had people say the mice used the dryer sheet for bedding.

I put snap traps (with regularly refreshed cheese) and glue boards in all four corners of the garage. Mickey will find the food. I check them on a regular basis and once I get a hit, I check them daily until there is no activity for a week of so.

I don't use poison since it may end up with a rotting carcass in some unreachable place. The glue boards also have caught spiders, lizards and even had an errant snake.

p.s. The only rodents I ever see are mammals. If you are seeing electronic mice you may be invaded by aliens, being spied upon, or need to stop taking drugs.

Roof rats (or dune rats) are common in our neck of the woods. About the size of a large mouse, they get into the attic and you can hear them rustling around. Snap trap with cheese yielded 3 of them. Then I think one got caught by the tail ( I guess) and was dragging the trap around in the attic. Finally stopped and I couldn’t find it anywhere up there. I was waiting for it to start stinking but couple of weeks and nothing. Think that took care of the problem.

I keep an open 20 liter pail in the shop. Mice fall in. They don't get out.

Best
Les

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I have this electronic mouse. It is a Microsoft mouse and is has patent pending for the date, steel mouse ball makes it long lasting. Trying to find the port to plug it into my computer is challenging! It was included with my copy of Windows 386!