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08-10-10, 21:28
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My poor putty cats....
.....cats are effective to some extent but have limitations.....
They tend to mark their territory like CMPs...... not noticeable at -40 degrees but come Spring and warm sunshine....phew. We had a really bad smell coming from my 3 level big red tool box on wheels a few months ago..... narrowed it down to the bottom drawer where I store delicate things like air oilers/dryer, pressure gauges, paint gun filters and my 3M paint mask. Well I found a nest of small mice..... who had obviously been abandonned after mother became a meal to the cats..... they had turned to jelly and maggots...... and they had nested in the inside cup of my mask...... yeck!! So I bought a new one......geez!!! Boob
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08-10-10, 23:25
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Mice-b-gone.....
Jon:
At the risk of hijacking this thread back to your question, try cayenne pepper. Sprinkle copious quantities around. The little bastards will stay away. Works for deer, squirrels, kids..... Cheers Don
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08-10-10, 23:50
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Ai caramba!
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09-10-10, 00:14
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Double dose of spider bombs work well on just about anything in area it is misting .
Spiders ,cockroaches ,mice and snakes . Do that every month , in conjunction with a few baits and that should minimise damage
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09-10-10, 17:09
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Mice, squirrels, chipmunks and other critters
Yup it is that time of year to seal things up and protect them, remember my experiences last year with something crawling all the way in to the valve ports through the manifold http://orbit.dnsrouter.com/~mlu/foru...ad.php?t=14498. What really bother me about that was along with the acorns the critter hauled in it carried in enough rat poison pellets to take out a lot of mice, rates and anything else but it still got into the engine and did damage.
So remember to seal up exhaust pipes, soda cans seem to work well. If you want to do a quality check of your cats work on keeping the critters down, a friend of mine Dr. Duce has a critter early detection system he uses. Steve saves toilet paper tubes with the last one or two squares of TP still attached he carefully tears the end sheet so that he has a clean square edge he then leaves these around his shop and vehicles. If he sees a ragged edge he knows the critters are in the area. Personally I have two methods I'm using one plain hold mouse and rat traps peanut butter seems to be the best bate. The other is one that I have used for years on my HUP. For some reason mice like to build nest in the rear seat tool box tried various the things the best one is antifreeze I leave an open gallon jug with a couple of table spoons of fresh antifreeze still in the jug. Lay the jug on it side without the cap. No more mice nests in the seat box. But thanks for bringing this issue up again. Did several things one went and covered all the exhaust pipes, refreshed the moth ball pans in all the hardware cabinets. Baited the traps. And made a note to put a tech tip reminder club newsletter. Cheers Phil
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13-10-10, 00:17
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another method
in addition to the above mentioned methods of rodent control, here is one that works pretty decent. get a plastic bucket..say 3 gallon, dump in about 2 gallons of used engine oil. take a piece of wood strapping and set it up so that the mice can crawl up to the top of the bucket and dive in. there is something about oil that attracts the mice, and once they get in the drink, they can't get out, and end up drowning.
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18-10-10, 04:24
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vermin
Rot-tawa is feeling the effects of a resurgent rat population. Mild winter, wet and humid summer, new city-sponsored curbside compost pickup, low price street drugs, the return of Parliament, etc. Added together, we have more critters than even last year. I have gray and black squirrels in my immediate area, a skunk fell in a window well, and ... a family of raccoons that prowl the garbage cans. The mono-coloured beggars get killed in traffic and avoid the Jeep shelter. But the stripey ones have free run of the yard, to the point one crapped on the back porch right beside the back door.
Before I have to argue with a raccoon for drivers' seat privileges, any suggestions on how to 'deal' with them? A fresh pan of anti-freeze and a half-dozen apples? A few bricks of mouse or rat poison?
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08-10-10, 23:27
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Yuuuuuuck!!!!
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John, a lot of the mouse & rat baits on the market contain Warfarin which thins the blood to an extent that the animal goes into Cardiac arrest and suffers from death (dreadful way to die, death). The down side is their body temp drops and they seek out warm places to die, then of course, decompose. So when you nail em you'll end up finding them behind the beer fridge near that nice warm motor for example. So the simple answer is to, as Rich suggested, aquire one of our brown snakes and watch him go!! (from a safe distance....)
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