Trouble with mice?

Just passing on some info here. I have a lot of trouble with mice, living near the woods in the boonies, the field mice are out of control all the time, mostly in the Miata, but if you have trouble with them getting in your bike or areas you don't want, found a good easy solution. First thing I did was I had an old small animal fence charger, I mounted it to a board and used some furnace tape as shown, hooked it up and Zappo. Got that one in the floor of the Miata, never even got any peanut butter.



So today I was thinking, (which is unusual) what if I took that aluminum tape and put 2 tracks around the car on the garage floor about 3/4" apart and attached the fence charger. I'm going to do it. Hopefully now the only way mice can get in the car is to drop off the ceiling, not sure they do that. Might have trouble with drop bears in OZ though.

Anyhow, I think it's a good way to keep mice out of areas, especially workshops or motorcycle areas. If you have dogs, they will learn quick enough too.

I have a schematic for a direct 120AC or 240EU circuit if someone wants it, but it's not UL approved. It's lots cheaper than the fence charger, but probably a little more dangerous and requires some electronic knowledge. I haven't tried it yet, but it should work. PM or email me if you want it. The fence chargers are around $50 at your local farm store, they won't kill small animals like dogs or cats.

Also discourages burglars!

hee hee

Just don't venture into "deadly man-trap" territory...

That victim looks like a Deer mouse , very large with white bellies , rural only. Chew up everything in sight then leave tiny turds. I would never use poisons and this looks more ethical so let's see the big project.

I've had so much trouble with mice! They got into the dashboard on my BMW Z3 and chewed through the wires for the windows and the door locks. I find nests under the seats of the bikes and ATV's. They went in the air cleaners on the CBR's through the ram air ports. Chewed up the air filters and got into the intake manifolds. Just terrible.

I've tried everything. Been using moth balls and fabric softener sheets. Traps and poisons. I have some of those electrical pulse repellors that seem to work. I have an extension cord around the Firebird and the bikes that are in my barn with these pulse boxes at the ends. They seem to be working.

This is a good idea to use the fence chargers but have some concern with moisture on my floors and possibly getting shocked myself.

I really would like to get rid of these Ba$t@rd$!

Yeah, I've been through the bait buckets, poison, traps, moth balls, dryer sheets, sonic devices and none of it did any good. The poison and traps are the best but a real pain in the butt. Have to move it around when using cars or things and I poisoned one of the dogs once. Cost me about $400 to get her stomach pumped, we were lucky we saw her eating the poison. I had it in the engine compartment and she jumped up there and ate it. She came out fine.

I'm thinking this will work, if you don't have dogs or children, etc, use a furnace igniter. That puts out about 50KV and will make them pee their pants. They draw about a 3" spark. Woo Hoo. Love them meeces to pieces, nibble on thy tiny feet, bite they little heads off.

Yeah, we're very rural, so it's probably a Deer mouse, I'm no expert on them, I just thought they were all field mice. We had the Norway rats in the barn once, there were so many they had to wait in line to come down the posts off the rafters and I could pick them off with bird shot, but they get smart real quick. I finally poisoned them out.

Mice piss all over even in their nests I think and once they do every mouse in creation homes in on it.
My method is traps. Yes a bother but basically I trap them all out. And if poison weirds you out it
is like a woodchuck in your garden: once you loose and entire row of beans in a night out comes
the weaponry and F them. Once your heat ducts in your truck get stunk up, you will run up the
black flag.

Trick with traps is LOTS of them and bait with bacon and if not handy peanut butter.

Kill them all.

You could use the transformer from an old microwave, the output is many thousands of volts so the tape traces may have to be at least one inch away from each other. The transformer is of course UL approved, but where you use it when it is out of the appliance voids any approval. Do a test outside with peanut butter in the center and see if it works

Jean

What if they build up resistance to it?

Okay I'll get my coat.

My car mechanic is a very inventive guy. One day, hanging around his shop, I heard a shot in the back room. He looked at me and grinned. "Got another little bastard!" I followed him into the rear of the building where he showed me his .22 caliber mouse trap that fires a 16p nail into a board. He slid the board out of the box and there was a mouse nailed to it. Overkill? Maybe, but lots of fun. I've only seen one real solution to mouse problems; a starving cat!

You beat me to it Danno. I'm currently turning wrenches on predator uav's in kuwait and when I first got here I noticed that the guys were keeping a couple of cats in the h.a.s. (hardened air shelter). Now I had been deployed to Iraq when I was active duty and then did some contracting in Afghanistan, both times we got the brief about leaving the local wild life alone due to rabies. ( I was amazed how many folks would feed and pet the strays there anyway. ....people.....go figure) So when I saw these cats being feed and living right in the h.a.s. I said guys WTF. I was quickly told to look at the cats ears.......if one was clipped then it had been fixed and had its shots. The air force is using them for mice control out here. I must say, they do their job quite well (even with all the scraps the guys bting them from the chow hall).

DogT said:

Just passing on some info here. I have a lot of trouble with mice, living near the woods in the boonies, the field mice are out of control all the time, mostly in the Miata, but if you have trouble with them getting in your bike or areas you don't want, found a good easy solution. First thing I did was I had an old small animal fence charger, I mounted it to a board and used some furnace tape as shown, hooked it up and Zappo. Got that one in the floor of the Miata, never even got any peanut butter.

So today I was thinking, (which is unusual) what if I took that aluminum tape and put 2 tracks around the car on the garage floor about 3/4" apart and attached the fence charger. I'm going to do it. Hopefully now the only way mice can get in the car is to drop off the ceiling, not sure they do that. Might have trouble with drop bears in OZ though.

Anyhow, I think it's a good way to keep mice out of areas, especially workshops or motorcycle areas. If you have dogs, they will learn quick enough too.

I have a schematic for a direct 120AC or 240EU circuit if someone wants it, but it's not UL approved. It's lots cheaper than the fence charger, but probably a little more dangerous and requires some electronic knowledge. I haven't tried it yet, but it should work. PM or email me if you want it. The fence chargers are around $50 at your local farm store, they won't kill small animals like dogs or cats.

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Nice work!! Two tools I use 1) dryer sheets (fabric softener) repel them without the shitful mothball odor. The name brand ones last better thn house brand crap. 2) Every I.C.E. I own gets retrofitted with 3/16" galvy wire screen glued into the intake with weatherstrip cement if it isn't so equipped from the factory, to keep them out of the airbox.

Jean, the microwave would probably kill a dog or cat. Maybe even me. But it would probably work someplace that could be closed off for sure. I did like the youtube of the guy in OZ that made a cage with an insulated bolt and attached his furnace igniter to it. That would probably kill a ground hog.

Wife has had cats and they never did anything. One of them I saw look at a mouse and turn away. Our terriers have more prey instinct than cats and would eat the cats anyhow. They're awfully quick, one of them will grab a ball out of the air if you throw it to him from about 25'. Not a frisbee, a ball.

I've gotta go clean the garage floor now.

<I've gotta go clean the garage floor now.>

Those damn terriers leaving mouse bodies all over the place again are they?

Make sure the tape sticks.

cant remember where I read it so I did a google search, and got this, turns out I heard it on the radio...

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2 ... illery-cat

DogT said:

Wife has had cats and they never did anything. One of them I saw look at a mouse and turn away.

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A cat that won't kill mice is only good for one thing: Target practice!

cjandme said:

You beat me to it Danno. I'm currently turning wrenches on predator uav's in kuwait and when I first got here I noticed that the guys were keeping a couple of cats in the h.a.s. (hardened air shelter). Now I had been deployed to Iraq when I was active duty and then did some contracting in Afghanistan, both times we got the brief about leaving the local wild life alone due to rabies. ( I was amazed how many folks would feed and pet the strays there anyway. ....people.....go figure) So when I saw these cats being feed and living right in the h.a.s. I said guys WTF. I was quickly told to look at the cats ears.......if one was clipped then it had been fixed and had its shots. The air force is using them for mice control out here. I must say, they do their job quite well (even with all the scraps the guys bting them from the chow hall).

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Sumbitch we got will kill anything that moves. If I weren't bigger than her, she'd kill me too! Mice, chipmunks, baby squirrells, snakes, birds, whatever. Got rid of the moles tearing up the yard. Leaves half-eaten trophies in front of the door.

In his younger days my lab was a good mouser and squirrel killer. He would toss them high in the air and give them a quick crunch when he caught them then go for another. Now I poison them in the barn and the house. They seem to stay out of the shop.

I've got squirrels in the barn but they won't touch the poison. I've got a couple with rat traps and shot a couple but there's some clever ones that steal my paper towels and make nests.

Ex feral cats make the best mousers, they had to make do with nothing but their own wits and even when homed and well fed keep the hunting up with a full belly or not. We had one that just used to lay on the lawn for hours paw dangling down into a mole run waiting for one to run along, need it back badly now.

I lived and went to school on Prince Edward Island ..... small Province not too far away from my home.... got myself invited over to a rooming house where a bunch was having some ale .... I noticed this old stuffed chair in front of TV with several darts stuck in both arms .... the gents used the darts to score mice as they ran back and forth in front of TV .... I didn't see anyone actually hit a mouse but they claimed it was good entertainment when the TV show sucked ...
Craig