Keeping mouses out of vehicles...

mommucked

mommucked

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I remember posting pics of the mouse nest in the airbox of the mrs. Escape a while back, been checking it and it's been fine since then. I found another one tucked on/under the the evaporator box under the hood on my S-10 earlier this year and another under the airbox on the 22R. I noticed the S-10 was running like shit on my last trash run, on a hunch I checked the air filter. It was crammed full of shit from a nest that was built in the bottom of the spacious box. I plan install some metal mesh to seal the airbox intakes on the ford and chevy. I want to kill the damn field mouses but not attract or poison the the squirrels. Any ideas on getting rid of the mouses? I was going to try mousetraps but worried the squirrels will crawl up in there and chew shit up trying to get to mousetraps. So far the mouses have not chewed on anything I'm aware of. Is there a repellant that would keep them out of the engine bays besides a cat? I hate cats.
 
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Buy a cat. Seriously, we have an outdoor cat named Olaf who keeps them away. We got him when he was 6 weeks old from the Guilford County animal shelter. He is a cool cat, lol.
 
my dad crammed a bunch of moth balls into baby food jars with vent hole punched into them.......I do not recall how effective it was. I do remember plain as day removing the carb and taking a vacuum cleaner to the intake on the Dodge Ramcharger. Damn I miss that truck. Rat nest included.
 
grapehead said:
If cats are out of the question, get some snakes.
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LOL! then the only thing you'll have to get rid of is the shit all over the interior, from your wife, when one of them snakes slithers out from under the dash while she's driving!




:lol: sorry...I just had a funny thought!:lol:
 
Mice

Only way I've found is to drive the vehicle regularly. If any of mine sit for a few weeks, I find spots where they start building nests underhood. And on equipment in my shop. I have plenty of snakes. Imported about 5 blacksnakes this year alone via a friend who is a "snake guy" and people call him to rehome them. Maybe I need to get a cat, but they have to be around enough to catch em.
 
ol'Jeeps said:
LOL! then the only thing you'll have to get rid of is the shit all over the interior, from your wife, when one of them snakes slithers out from under the dash while she's driving!




:lol: sorry...I just had a funny thought!:lol:
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No shit, when I opened the hood and found the mouse house on the firewall I saw a long tail disappearing into the bowels of the engine. I grabbed it thinking it was a snake, but it was the mouse/rats tail and it slipped out of my grasp. it must have hauled ass because I dropped down looking for it in the grass and never saw it again.
jeepinmatt said:
Mice

Only way I've found is to drive the vehicle regularly. If any of mine sit for a few weeks, I find spots where they start building nests underhood. And on equipment in my shop. I have plenty of snakes. Imported about 5 blacksnakes this year alone via a friend who is a "snake guy" and people call him to rehome them. Maybe I need to get a cat, but they have to be around enough to catch em.
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The S10 and toyota sit for weeks. I removed 2 nests in a few months in the mrs. escape. They were made mostly w yellow glass insulation, none of that round here but she works/parks near a 80's 2 story metal warehouse type bldg. I asked and she parks in the same spot 5 days a week. i told her to park elsewhere and walla no more nests in her car so far.

a_kelley said:
The 5 gallon bucket spinner trap would probably work well for this..
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great idea but the squirrels will probly beat the mice to the buckets. I will be culling the squirrels soon to eat them. A neighbor feeds deer/squirrels/raccons corn year round and the largest/fattest ones i've ever seen are all around here. I'm sure several of them weigh 4 lbs. or more!
 
Sounds crazy but peppermint oil in a teabag or cotton balls or paint roller in a bag...
 
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First thught was this oldf funny

P: Mouse in cockpit.
S: Cat installed.
 
I used mouse traps under my truck in the shop. I keep seeing little pieces of firewall insulation and got one of those little bastards yesterday!
 
Here is my mouse trap.

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