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I've lived in my current home for 3 years. Saw evidence that some had been there while the house was empty, but we never saw anything once we moved in. Until I started hatching chicks. And I thought that was the cause, because I saw some droppings in that room. Caught about 5, then never saw any more. Then my hubby realized that we brought some boxes of stuff home from camp, and we believe we carried them in. :/
 
Latestarter said:
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...
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The top of her engine is covered with debris from mice eating acorns. From the engine compartment they find their way through the firewall.

My back porch was completely rebuilt a few years ago. Tight as a drum. However mice were always getting out there. I found a gap they had chewed in the rubber seal under the door. I just measured the gap and it is an inch wide and 1/4 inch high.
 
For sticky traps I don't smear peanut butter on it - it kept disappearing. Instead I take a toothpick and get a tiny bit of peanut on the tip, then that tiny bit is deposited on the trap.

Can't be taken away and they had to be really close to even try to lick the spot. They are caught for good. It's funny(and sad) how tiny the mice are once caught. When they are terrorizing me and making me scream they are SO much bigger. I had a kennel full of dogs (Cockers) and not one cared that mice ran through their stalls, they just played with their toys & ignored them.
 
I have to confess to a soft spot for small, furry things (gee, I wonder why) but I will kill any wild rat or mouse that is any place I don't want it to be - house, barn, rabbitry, whatever. Sometimes, though, they are just too quick for me. A few years ago, I was clearing out a stall at the barn where I worked. It had been used for storage, but we had a horse coming in and it was needed. There was a fairly heavy barrel with some short pieces of lumber and whatnot in it that had to be moved, so I balanced it on the handcart. There was a board that ran across under the door to the stall, and it was a bit of a job wrestling the handcart and barrel over it. As I cleared the doorway a rat jumped out of the barrel, bounced off my stomach, and ran off up the aisle of the barn. With that heavy cart on my hands, all I could do was watch him go . . . .
 
ChickenCanoe said:
The top of her engine is covered with debris from mice eating acorns. From the engine compartment they find their way through the firewall.

My back porch was completely rebuilt a few years ago. Tight as a drum. However mice were always getting out there. I found a gap they had chewed in the rubber seal under the door. I just measured the gap and it is an inch wide and 1/4 inch high.
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This is supposed to stop them!
 

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