The Old Folks Home

[ChickenCanoe]

You catch mice under the seat inside your wife's car?

And she'll still willingly get in and drive it?

Maybe you didn't inform her of their presence?

There's so much dust and debris floating around under the seats (everywhere actually) in my truck, I think it would defeat the sticky overnight. But then I've never had mice/rodents inside my truck...

I've been catching mice inside the house here off and on all winter. I have no idea where they're coming in at... I'm on a solid concrete foundation all the way around... I discovered they were even in here because I was standing at the counter and though a saw a shadow go running across the floor ending under the stove. I smacked that one with a broom handle and threw it outside. Some times I'll go days in a row finding the peanut butter completely licked off the paddle... even though I force it into the folded area. Right now, I've gone over a week with nothing touching the traps... but I don't know if I got them all or not. I'd guess not. I want to try one of the zap traps just too lazy and cheap to go buy one.

Yeah, she freaked out and wanted help. She keeps pistachios in her car so there is food for them.
She saw them running across the floor while she was driving.
I think they're gone - for now.

I have mice get into everything here. I have to start up the generator and tractor constantly to stop their nesting in engine compartments, etc..

I've been planning on building a couple plywood boxes with 3/4" plywood that are mouse proof that I can drive those two things into.
It is always expensive repairs when they get in, not to mention the chewing of wires.

 

[WVduckchick]

Freaked out would be putting it mildly if I saw one run across the floor while driving! I'd probably be dead from the crash I would cause.

I had one invade my deer-hunting stand. I've abandoned that stand. Its now affectionately known as the "mouse house"... they can have it, I ain't going back.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

You can shoot, kill and gut a deer but you're afraid of a mouse?

My coop fairy told me to say that.

 

[getaclue]

While my chickens are not inexpensive, I think if I was raising $80.00 chickens they would be microchipped, and be wearing tracking collars.

 

[WVduckchick]

You can shoot, kill and gut a deer but you're afraid of a mouse?

My coop fairy told me to say that.

I know! Its crazy!

I'm fine with snakes, bees, spiders, etc... just something about mice... Ewwwww

 

[superchemicalgirl]

are you using small sticky traps?

I've found the big ones work best for us, and a little dollop of peanut butter in the middle. Give them a reason to get a little farther on the trap......

Another thing that doesn't work here. The sticky doesn't work well in our climate... either too cold or too humid. I find rat foot prints all across the top of the sticky but no actual sticking.

Our sticky traps only come in one size or I would've gotten an assortment

You can buy the large ones on amazon.

I found that squirrels are pretty smart too. I bought the big rat traps to get some that were in my mom's attic at one point. Baited them with peanut butter and set them. Next day we went and checked. The traps were sprung and peanut butter eaten. One trap was completely missing with no body evident. There was nothing to show how they did it. Buggers are smart. For mice, I like the battery operated traps best. I used them in the barn and zapped many mice. I even had one with two bodies in it one time. You would think they would know if they have to crawl over a dead friend that bad news is coming but nope. Second mouse crawled over dead buddy and stepped on the plate. ZAP! no more mousie.

Another thing that doesn't work here. We have a zapper... never found one body in it.

You catch mice under the seat nside your wife's car?

And she'll still willingly get in and drive it?

I have a lot of great life stories... I'm a bit of a disaster. One of my favorite ones was having to take a mouse nest into the DMV in Maryland to get reissued my car's registration. Mice had gotten into my car, ripped up everything in the glove box and made a nest. There were even nuts in there. I might have flipped out a little bit when I opened the glove box. Surprisingly DMV reissued my registration, no problem. But this was way before 9/11

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I'm fine with everything but was always afraid of spiders - severe case of arachnophobia.

When we moved in this 1903 vintage house the cellar was solid spider webs ceiling to floor, wall to wall. It was a real challenge.
I spent 2 days with brooms and a shop vac sucking up everything, webs, spiders, eggs and all.
I looked like I was on a haz mat team. Coveralls buttoned up around my neck, ankles taped to my shoes, cuffs taped to my gloves and a shop towel over my head taped to the collar.

Those 2 days pretty well cured me. Prior to that I've almost had accidents when a spider dropped in my lap while driving.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

... I find rat foot prints all across the top of the sticky but no actual sticking.

I have a lot of great life stories... I'm a bit of a disaster. One of my favorite ones was having to take a mouse nest into the DMV in Maryland to get reissued my car's registration. Mice had gotten into my car, ripped up everything in the glove box and made a nest. There were even nuts in there. I might have flipped out a little bit when I opened the glove box. Surprisingly DMV reissued my registration, no problem. But this was way before 9/11

Rats walking on water.

I had mice completely chew up an owners manual for a 1972 Porsche in the glove compartment. Not good.

 

[Latestarter]

Even so with the pistachios... I mean how did they actually get inside the car? Did your wife leave the door open over night or something? I mean a car is pretty well sealed up...

I only dealt with mice in a home once before and that was in a new construction, so as the land was cleared in the subdivision, the field mice had nowhere to go, so they moved in during construction. They were primarily in the wall insulation in the basement... I didn't see any mice here the first year I was here, but now they're everywhere. I guess it's a cost to pay for living rural... The thing is, I can't find where they're coming in. I used to leave the sliding glass door open during the summer so the dogs could go in and out, and they tore the screen out of the screen door at the bottom. I have seen field mice right outside that door and I guess they may have come in that way.

I guess once they get in and set up a nest, they are so prolific it's hard to get rid of them from that point forward...

 

[Tumbling K]

https://www.modernpest.com/blog/how-mice-can-squeeze-into-your-home/