Deter mice? Car in barn.

[Solamar]

We had a terrible problem with large rats repeatedly getting in two of our cars and ripping wire apart. My son actually caught one on video in his Miatas engine bay. My wifes M235 required pulling the engine...

After installing this sonic/strobe device in both cars the rats have not returned (has been 6 months).

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07LCKBGY8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[Mike Andrew]

I like the 5 gallon bucket with antiifreeze and a spinning can approach but have not used it in my ongoing war with the vermin in my trailer fishing retreat in NW WI. Neighbor uses it in his pole barn with AMAZING results and it keeps his toy AMC's safe. But he empties the carcasses every other day even tho the AF keeps them well preserved. Urine around the car may help.
I have tried virtually everything. D Con (they leave blood trails), dryer sheets(they crap on them), moth balls(build nests next to them), peppermint on cotton balls(they use them for nesting material. Have plugged every hole that I can find. Snap traps and glue traps work well when I am there and can pitch the corpses before they rot and stink.
I hate the littlt rodents.

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[Seahawk]

I am going to order three for the tractors...winter storage is problematic and all three are on battery tenders.

No issues the other 8 months out of the year.

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Solamar

We had a terrible problem with large rats repeatedly getting in two of our cars and ripping wire apart. My son actually caught one on video in his Miatas engine bay. My wifes M235 required pulling the engine...

After installing this sonic/strobe device in both cars the rats have not returned (has been 6 months).

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07LCKBGY8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[id10t]

Put the car up on tall jack stands and hook up an electric fence control box.

[s_morrison57]

I've heard that spraying Ammonia around the cars perimeter works, they won't walk over it as I'm told.

[fintstone]

Snakes work very well. We live in the country and used to have so many mice that I could trap two or three every day and never run out. The typical predators like bobcats, foxes, and hawks/eagles seemed pretty prevalent but just did not seem to do the job. Eventually a couple snakes (non poisonous...look like rat snakes) showed up around the house. I catch maybe one mouse a year now. We also used to have a bad problem with bats getting in my basement somehow. The snakes fixed that as well.

[Kraftwerk]

Not so sure about mice, but rats HATE peppermint. Take a spray bottle add 50% water & 50% Dr. Bronner's Peppermint soap then spray the engine bay and surrounding area. Seems to be working in our RAT infested lot. T/G the Porsche is tucked a way in a garage 4 miles away, safe.

[BK911]

I use cat food.
2 strays swing by almost every night.
I keep napkins on the floor of my cars to see if mice are making nests in my cars.
No more mice!

[Arizona_928]

Rat poison packets. Leave it under the hood and the field mice eat and die. I don't have barn cats yet so i would change my method if that was the case.


I've done the walk the plank bucket trap, but had more success just using straight water and the little sobs jump in bc water is scarce where I'm at. 5 in one night has been record for me.

[john walker's workshop]

Lavender.

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by Roswell

Moth Balls and Dryer sheets are ineffective...........

You say this based on personal experience?

I've used Moth Balls and Dryer sheets, so far so good.

We also sprinkled wintergreen solution (similar to peppermint) all around the car stored in the barn last year.

Irish Spring soap is the one I've read does not work, the mice like to eat it.

EDIT:

https://www.everydayhealth.com/diet/what-are-possible-benefits-lavender-must-know-facts-about-therapeutic-plant/

Lavender is a flowering plant in the mint family..............

[Mike Andrew]

Not a big fan of mothballs or dryer sheets. Tossed dryer sheets under sink with a pair of glue traps. Two mice in an hour walked over the sheets to get to the traps. Whole box of mothballs in oven and a large nest in oven right next to mothballs. These methods did not work for me, perhaps eerily savvy rodents?

Never hurts to go all out with any and all available weapons to deter or eradicate the little busturds.

[Roswell]

Originally Posted by kach22i

You say this based on personal experience?

I've used Moth Balls and Dryer sheets, so far so good.

Yep...

[GH85Carrera]

Mankind has battled the vermin for thousands of years. The vermin are still near impossible to eliminate. I was recently up in my attic. There is no source of water or food up there, and it gets insane hot in the summer. Yet I found many mouse turds on top of one interior wall stud.

Good luck with you campaign to keep them at bay. Just be glad you are not trying to store a food item like grain or corn.

[DWBOX2000]

I placed used cat litter around the car last winter. Maybe coincidence but worked.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by DWBOX2000

I placed used cat litter around the car last winter. Maybe coincidence but worked.

Cat crap and pee would keep me away as well.

That would be an interesting test, to see if mice are smart enough to smell "cat waste" and think it means a predator is near by that might want to kill them.

Our garage is insulated and part of the house. We on occasion let the dog go out there to sniff around if I am out there doing some short and easy errand. Our male dachshund would be trailing and nose to the ground looking for the mouse trail if his super nose noticed anything. He is my early alert system for mice under our storage shed in the back yard. He starts circling the building and has gotten a few mice for biological all natural disposal. I put out traps and with technology, thumbs, and peanut butter, I can catch the rest.



Reuben the mouser.

[fintstone]

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