Damn Mice!!!
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From: Northern WV
I fought mice in one of my garages for years. I tried ultrasonic speakers, some traps, but the damn things still were there. They chewed through Rubbermaid boxes where I stored manuals for my tractor and 4-wheelers then shredded them up and pissed on what was left. When servicing my 4-wheelers I was always finding mice nests in the airboxes. I was finding mice nests and droppings under everything, and worst of all the garage smelled of them.
Three years ago I started seeing a black snake around the garage and the wood pile beside it, I decided I'd not run it off in fact encourage it to hang around. In fact one day I took a box with an old ATV battery in it out of the garage and set it in the trunk of my car then left for town to buy a new battery. When I got to the battery store and opened the trunk I noticed my snake had somehow gotten in in the box, in the car. I took the old battery out, leaving "Blacky" there exchanged it for a new one and drove back home and tossed Blacky in the garage where it slithered away under a shelving unit.
Long story short there's been no sign of mice in my garage for the last two years now. Fingers crossed I hope Blackie hangs around.
Three years ago I started seeing a black snake around the garage and the wood pile beside it, I decided I'd not run it off in fact encourage it to hang around. In fact one day I took a box with an old ATV battery in it out of the garage and set it in the trunk of my car then left for town to buy a new battery. When I got to the battery store and opened the trunk I noticed my snake had somehow gotten in in the box, in the car. I took the old battery out, leaving "Blacky" there exchanged it for a new one and drove back home and tossed Blacky in the garage where it slithered away under a shelving unit.
Long story short there's been no sign of mice in my garage for the last two years now. Fingers crossed I hope Blackie hangs around.
Last edited by Ridewva; Mar 12, 2015 at 08:00 PM.
that's crazy! LolI use bounce for the ride and peppermint oil for my house
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They are natural born killers, but only if the ads native to your area.
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yea
I am always looking for mouse sign around the bike...the Pick up parked in same garage for the winter had a mouse nest in air box last year found by the oil change place.. So just yesterday I pulled the pick up out of winter storage and when I lifted the hood bird seed and corn kernels came raining out from under the hood. So I checked the Air box for heck of it and yep a nicely woven mouse nest and corn all up in there. They had a busy winter and I'm going with mothballs next winter for all vehicles.
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From: Northern WV
LOL the damn mice had me about ready to burn the garage!
Blacky is no problem at all, I see him searching in the garage occasionally, under the heat pump outside the house, and of course the wood pile which gives me hope there's not a copperhead in there.
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