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Those pesky rodents!!!!!

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Well today I took my 57 Poncho for the last ride of the season before putting it away for winter. I backed out of the garage and saw 2 mice running back into the garage. They had been setting up shop in the car I guess. So I drove to town and bought some BOUNCE fabric softener. Someone told me it works. What do you fellas do to keep the rodents outta your cars when stored?
 
Hi RN, based upon some conversation with people in the Netherlands where mice and squirrels are a menance they say putting moth balls around a nd in the car is a deterent to the little beasties. I personally keep rat proof salted in out of the way places in the garage just in case they decide to visit with me.---Fwiw---Keoke
 
I tried Bounce in my garage and the gardening shed, and we still catch them in traps all the time. So, I'm not sold on the bounce method...plus I can't stand the smell of Bounce. Don't know about moth balls, may be worth a try...at least they smell a little better. I think one of those "car-coon" giant zip-lock bags would be rodent-proof.
 
Mothballs strategically placed in and around the car has always worked for me. My main culprits in this neck of the woods are squirrels and chipmunks.
Jeff
 
I have a detached garage where I keep my car, and I've had problems with mice. I've learned to keep nesting materials (paper, cardboard) off the floor, and I keep a few spring traps baited with peanut butter. I did invest in one of those plug-in ultrasonic repellers, and I certainly seem to catch fewer of them since I put that in.
 
'what do you do to keep the mice out?'- take the keys out and hide them!!! couldnt help myself.. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazyeyes.gif [ QUOTE ]


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If you have an AG store near you ask them for bar bait. Place it in corners and along walls. I would even place some in the engine bay and trunk areas. Mice love this stuff. They will be competing with each other just to see which ones die 1st.. I'm serious.
 
Then there's the traditional "fix":... a cat. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif
 
while I am sure the poison is effective, I wonder about bait because it lures mice in. Plus where do the dead mice go? Do they rot away in some unseen corner or your garage, or worse, your car?
 
The bait does work and yes the mice die everywhere. I looked after the house of the man I got the Healey from for the last 25 years. He would leave for S.C. in the fall, and leave the green bait inside the house. I could smell the dead mice and had to go around with a shovel to collect them . The cleaning lady also found them !!!!
 
Mothballs do work.

Bruce
 
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