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Peppermint oil is a common old time deterrent. Remember that mice are prey and depend upon their ears to hear predators coming. A radio, even at low volume, may make them decide to hip hop out of the immediate area. If all else fails, there are these things called mousetraps.
All good ideas, thanks. What I'd love to figure out is why they love the mini-van so much but they don't bother my vehicle (Ford Explorer). I've never had a single one-both are driven basically every day, both are parked in the same place, etc...
All good ideas, thanks. What I'd love to figure out is why they love the mini-van so much but they don't bother my vehicle (Ford Explorer). I've never had a single one-both are driven basically every day, both are parked in the same place, etc...
Maybe the potential nesting materials differ. My husband’s car has been completely “de-firewalled” and his underhood mat is badly chewed. Meanwhile, the mice have begun chomping the underhood mat of his other vehicle, but the firewall is all metal, BWAHHAHAHAHAH, take that you horrible mice.
He doesn’t want to, but if it were me I would put little booby traps such as the ziptied mousetraps that another poster suggested. It would be worth the trouble of rigging, checking, and removing every few days just for the satisfaction of smushing the invaders.
Coincidentally, this morning I found the pinched-shut rear half of a mouse on the ground behind one vehicle. We checked all engine bays but did not see any blood splats or heads or front feet. Maybe an owl got it, hehehe.
I have bought a product at my local home improvement store....it is a large sachet type bag, specifically meant for farm vehicles and cars...Sorry, cannot remember the name but I found it on the isle that sells such mice repellent things.
Also, peppermint oil on cotton balls is very strong smelling....the mice cannot smell food, only the strong caustic smelling peppermint oil and stay away.
Just use mousetraps and check them every day. I DO NOT recommend putting out poison. Reasons listed below:
If you put poison in your vehicle (OR your house, cottage, etc), expect to start smelling a dead mouse once the weather warms up. They try to find a nook/cranny to die in. It happened to us at our cottage and we couldn't find it. I could smell dead mouse for a YEAR! disgusting smell...
Another REALLY bad thing about putting out poison is that birds of prey ingest these dying mice and then they themselves die a slow agonizing death.
Anyone want to recommend a particular scent?
Preferably one that humans like and mice don't
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