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 Party Girl
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | Let me start off with saying I have not liked this car since like the 5th day after I bought it in January. It would not hurt my feelings to drive it off a cliff or something but I don't think the insurance would really like that.
I HATE mice with a passion. In the last month or so we have caught around 8 or so mice in this car. I have been keeping the hood up so they don't have a nice toasty place to get up into. Have set mouse traps galore, kept food out, put peppermint oil all over.
Friday night I forgot to put the hood up and I also left a roll of paper towels on the floor on the passanger side. Saturday morning the stupid mice had shredded the top few layers. I drove to town later that day to meet my SO for lunch and once I was parked I could hear them running in my seat. If you wanted to see me move fast all I need to hear is a mouse.
Last night I deciced to look in my trunk for something and found their lovely little nest of paper towels and stuff from inside my seats. I got it all vaccumed out and then set sticky traps all over in my car. Found 2 dead on one trap this morning and it took me about 15 minutes to talk myself into getting them out and to not drive the truck to work.
My question is... What can I do to stop them from getting in my car other than torching the thing and burning it to the ground, because that is what I really want to do. All suggestions must me dog safe as we have 8 dogs running around the ranch that like to get into anything and everything.
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 Elite Veteran
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Location: West Texas | I feel your pain! We had a truck like that. None of the other vehicles had any problem. Seems like once they get in, you can get them out, but more keep coming. You need a whole herd of cats. They work better than anything. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Mothballs. (But it's a tricky job castrating a moth) |
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  Warmblood with Wings
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Location: Florida.. | Moth balls and fumigate it. LOL I cant even imagine!! never heard of that..
maybe some snakes !!
Edited by Bibliafarm 2015-09-29 9:14 AM
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 Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | Real peppermint oil dabbed on some cotton balls. I do this in our motorhome and if you are diligent about putting new ones out every couple of months, or so, they do go away. I also got some barn cats that LOVE to mouse.
I would think the mothballs work, too but ewww that smell! I prefer the smell of peppermint.  |
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| Or those little poison packets. However, when they crawl back and die they might get trapped in your seat. Not a good idea. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Idahome | We have tried everything and cant seem to get rid of them either. Keep your air vent under the hood cleaned out. We found that was where they built their nest the most. They aren't too bad in the summer, but once harvest starts and all of their holes out in the field are destroyed they come running. We set snap traps and have had that be the most successfull. I don't like sticky traps because all they need is one foot in it and they can still run taking the trap with them somewhere in the car. The thing I hate is when they get into my Cashew Clusters and ruin the whole bag. |
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 Undercover Amish Mafia Member
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Location: Kansas | lots of barn cats. Every morning I wake up....I see one of my kitties chewing on a new victim. I was surprised at how many mice/rats there were |
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 Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Yuuuuuck. I feel for you. We had a bad mouse problem a few years back, hence my name under my piccy. Lol. Mousing cats are excellent! Our two catch mice ALL the time. Aside from that, sounds like the sticky traps have been successful for you. I'd keep going with those. Poison will just make them crawl to their homes and hide. And they smell pretty ripe when they decay. We tried poison before and I watched an inflated looking mouse crawl slowly across the living room and die. Made me cringe. Ewww. In the end, snap traps and cats were the best. But not sure you want snap traps in your car incase you forget one. Lol. Good luck. |
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 Experienced Mouse Trapper
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Location: North Dakota | Haha! My name applies here too. If you set snap traps, put newspaper down-it's amazing how many guts those little buggers have! you need to see if there is somewhere underneath they're getting in. Our pickup that had the problem had a part that needed to be replaced (heater core I think) and when the shop was done with it, there was a gap between the hose and the body wall (if that makes sense) we taped that shut with duct tape and that helped a lot. So did the cats AND the traps, but instead of using mothballs you can use dryer sheets under your seats or now they have a product called fresh cab that helps deter the creepy things I too use the peppermint oil on cotton balls for our boat and taht works pretty good. I would bet you have a gaping hole somewhere they're helping themselves to. |
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 Namesless in BHW
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | komet. - 2015-09-29 9:09 AM Mothballs. (But it's a tricky job castrating a moth)
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Location: the end of the rainbow | A 5 gallon can if gasoline & a road flare. Would totally creep me out but I have no good suggestions. Sorry. |
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Party Girl
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | willrodeo4food - 2015-09-29 2:25 PM A 5 gallon can if gasoline & a road flare. Would totally creep me out but I have no good suggestions. Sorry.
This is what I have been wanting to do to this car for months... Now I want to do it even more because of the mice. |
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 No Tune in a Bucket
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Location: Texas | How about letting the car run in an enclosed garage until the car runs out of gas and carbon monoxide those little boogers? |
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I'm a Cry Baby
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Location: n.c. | Food grade diatomaceous earth. DE. It'll get those buggers and won't hurt the dogs.
Works great. |
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Party Girl
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | runningk - 2015-09-29 4:45 PM Food grade diatomaceous earth. DE. It'll get those buggers and won't hurt the dogs.
Works great.
Do I put it outside around the car or in the car?
I put some dryer sheets in last night and didn't have a single mouse in the traps... they may have figured me out and just walked around them though. I am not really scared of anything but mice so of course this would happen to me when my SO is out of town. |
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Miracle in the Making
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| no way in hell would i drive it u know that video of the gal jumping out car with a spider yep that would be me |
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 Toastest with the Mostest
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Location: That part of Texas | I feel your pain. Mice love my little sportscar and I still haven't found a way other than to put it in the garage with a mousing cat to keep them out of it. I can tell you that a product called "It's Awesome!" works wonders on getting the mouse smell out of your car. Don't use it on leather though -- it's great on the carpet areas. You can find it at the Dollar Store for about $3.00 for a half pint (I think). It's over in the cleaning isle products and is in a clear bottle -- stuff is yellow. It's amazing. |
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I'm a Cry Baby
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Location: n.c. | UTAHCANCHASER - 2015-09-30 8:45 AM runningk - 2015-09-29 4:45 PM Food grade diatomaceous earth. DE. It'll get those buggers and won't hurt the dogs.
Works great. Do I put it outside around the car or in the car?
I put some dryer sheets in last night and didn't have a single mouse in the traps... they may have figured me out and just walked around them though. I am not really scared of anything but mice so of course this would happen to me when my SO is out of town.
Sprinkle it around the car, in the car. And let it sit. |
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