Mice! Die Mice!

[joehahn]

...don't get me wrong, i'm not jeff dahmer or anything but these little ba$tards have overrun our compound since cat died about 6 months ago (we live on edge of heavily wooded area...not slobs...in my opinion). anyway, found a few nut shells and the like inside the passenger side sliding heat door in the footwell. now how in the heII did they get in there? the door was shut? through the heat exchanger? look at the massacre i found in the garage this morning!!! Awesome!! something satisfying about this in a demented sort of way...



and for those that say you can't build a better mouse trap you are wrong ...these things are unbelievable.

[pwd72s]

Congrats on the successful hunt! Now skin those puppies & make a mouseskin cap! I also hope you're headed for your local humane society, to spring a nice kitty from death row...

[Formerly Steve Wilkinson]

Sure you can make a better mousetrap than those pissant one-at-a-time traps. Adirondackers do it all the time.

Take a five-gallon spackle bucket and stick something like a welding rod through it, near the top, from side to side. In the middle of the rod, put a tin can, also pierced from side to side so the welding rod goes through it. Make the holes at a point on the can--you may have to try a couple of times--so that with a dollop of peanut butter atop the can it is balanced just right so that when a mouse jumps onto it to eat the peanut butter, it inverts.

Fill the bucket to a depth of about four inches with water, and put some kind of ramp leading up to the lip of the bicket--a stick or narrow board.

Come back the next morning and you'll find a bucket filled with drowned mice. Cruel, but not as cruel as having to diassemble the entire heater-blower system of our RAV4 after storing it for the summer...

Stephan

[Axis11]

Yes! Nice score. What kind of traps are those? The Ba$tages in my garage have cleaned the "old reliable" victor traps clean 3 times already.
Chunky peanut butter, at least it's not my seats or wiring...

[JJM]

I'm w/ PWD, go get another cat. Everyone will be happy except the mice.

[joehahn]

they are made by victor as well. they have an ultra sensative cup that holds the peanut butter. the guillotine lever actually cocks into place so you dont have to have surgeon hands to set it either. finally, it's finest attribute is the handle on the death bar so you don't have to touch your victims. i left the traps out as a deterrant to all their friends, let me go snap a pic....

joe 68 L

[joehahn]

YOU EYEBALLING ME????




OK, now i am starting to feel like dahmer. signing off....

joe 68 L

(and yes we are getting another cat but waiting til after spring break...and yes, will come from animal prot league)

[vesnyder]

Had mice in my old 911. Used the poison that kills them. Well the mice had a family living in my shift tunnel. When they died they smelled like high heaven. The smell was unbelievable. I sucked them out with my shop vac and then that had to be deodorized. It took months for that smell to leave. I lerned my lesson with mice. I think they entered the car through one of the holes for one of the cables/linkages from the cockpit to the engine - heater, accelerator, ?.

[bell]

nice

[twin plugged targa]

I have had my father (who is storing my car in a barn) purchase one of these electric (sonic?) mouse deterrants which will be placed in the car. Hopefully that will keep the little buggars away!
Ben

[toolman]

I have the same kind of trap. Sometimes I find mice near the trap that almost escaped the hammer, but with massive head trauma, and peanut butter on their hands.

[aigel]

Looks like that trap works excellent in getting the mouse in the neck and not flat across the behind or other spots where they can run off and die a slow death.

Long term, get a cat. Cats are cool.

George

[steve911]

there was another thread a few months ago on this. advice was to pull UP the heater controls to prevent the critters from entering the heating system AND putting a tennis ball in the exhaust pipe to prevent egress that way as well...

[azasadny]

I put mothballs under the car and have several "glue traps" set up in the garage and I don't have a mouse problem. Be sure the mothballs are all along the perimeter of the car and the mice will stay away. Once you get used to the smell, it's not too bad...

[vash]

wow, maybe this is my new favorite thread. ok, my second fav, my favorite has to be the one that helps me solve my alternator red light issue, but this is a close second. i hate mice. i would get a bunch of cats, but get them fixed, or you will have another issue on your hands. isnt there a cat pee thread going right now?

[Mike Kast]

I read in another thread that mice killers are child molesters.
something like that...

[howie944]

Wow! Those are some big mice if ya have to use a faulty floor jack to nail them. Just my first impression looking at that "better mouse trap" To me it looks just like a floor jack missing the handle.

[joehahn]

fyi.... 3 more last night! i wont post pics as i am starting to worry about myself and my fondness of getting these guys (i'm not kidding, i ran out to look at the traps as if it were christmas morning). that brings a total of 5 in 2 days. so now i am a bit concerned. you know when people say "if you saw one cockroach that means there are 6,000,000 living in the wall that you can't see" or something like that. is it the same for mice? i thought they were territorial but apparently it is "the more the merrier" with these guys. final inquiry...does the cat actually eat all of these guys or does the presence of the cat (however it is felt) deter them from even showing up?

perplexed in cleveland,

joe

[toolman]

Man, That is a $hit load of mice for 2 days. I say do the bucket trick and catch them all !!

[masraum]

Cat's kill mice. They may eat them, but when we had an outside kitty it primarily just killed anything small that moved whether it was hungry or not.