Mice in the Garage....

Went to check the oil on Vivid and found a vast collection of turds on the valve cover..... ::Rant::

Vivid has been assigned Autocross duty so it sits in the garage waiting for the next autocross. So ample time for the vermin to move in I guess. I keep the top closed and windows up when it is in the garage so no one seems to be living in the interior.

Going to get a few Tomcat mouse traps so they can eat the bait and go die somewhere. Anyone else had this problem? What was your solution. And no Jimmie I don't want one of your many Feral :cat:s....

If you use the old school snappy traps, use peanut butter as bait.

^+1 for snap traps and peanut butter, but wrap/mix paper towel pieces in it so they have to chew & pull rather than just licking it off. That plus dog food gave me surprisingly good results above everything else I tried. Instant results with snap traps.

Slim Jim is supposed to be the best bait, but the picky little bastards in Euless preferred my dog food. They also ate the SHIT out of the walmart poison trays I put out there, lol. I got lucky and didn't smell anything afterwards but I did find a big one doing his death walk in the pantry and finished him off with a BB gun. That guy would have smelled for weeks.

For a few weeks last year I had a tree rat (squirrel) crawling up into my engine bay to picnic on acorns. I would find acorn shells and turds on top of my air filter cover. That was evidently the only picnic spot under my hood that the little rascal favored, as I never found debris anywhere else in the engine compartment. I folded up a large towel and placed it on top of the air filter, held in place by the hood. I left it there for a few weeks, and after I removed it, the squirrel never came back. I guess he found another picnic spot.

I've had good luck with cheap dryer sheets. I placed several in the engine compartment, cabin and trunk. Of course, I remove them before I hook my jump box to the dead battery.

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Originally Posted by POS Racing

And no Jimmie I don't want one of your many Feral :cat:s....

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I can make you a deal! Already fixed and very lovable.

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Originally Posted by cone-cerned

I've had good luck with cheap dryer sheets. I placed several in the engine compartment, cabin and trunk. Of course, I remove them before I hook my jump box to the dead battery.

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Another thing that works really well is Irish Spring bar soap. Take some paper plates, a cheese grater, and Original Scent Irish Spring bar soap. Shave it up onto a number of plates and place them throughout the garage. In the corners and at the edges of the door where mice like to come in is best. They can't stand the smell of it. I made reusable pans from aluminum foil instead of paper plates. Works well.