Please Help! Mice in the Z!!!!
01-27-2010, 01:15 PM
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Maybe you can upgrade to a lvl 2 fence with little turrets at each of the vertices and elminate the mouse population that way. You would come out in the morning and find a blood bath of little critters.
01-27-2010, 04:25 PM
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01-28-2010, 05:23 AM
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well here is the problem. Mice will start to nest and eat through hoses, tubes, wires, and what else to make room. sometimes in my customers cars they also live in side the air box. One time a lady has a honda pilot and her kids dropped food all over and there was a fat rat crawling in the car when i was under the dash.
usually if you start your car often in the winter they come due to the heat providing them shelter as well. My suggestion is if your able to take the car out for a spin whenever you get chances. Just dont let the car sit all winter. that should help out.
usually if you start your car often in the winter they come due to the heat providing them shelter as well. My suggestion is if your able to take the car out for a spin whenever you get chances. Just dont let the car sit all winter. that should help out.
01-28-2010, 08:24 AM
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I dont know if any of you saw this new prototype, well actually its old. However i heard that John Deere and BMW were in collaboration to design a new motor. However in the end if failed miserably.
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01-28-2010, 10:47 AM
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01-29-2010, 01:38 PM
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A combination of dryer sheets and mothballs will repel just about any type of rodent (and even rodent hunters such as snakes).
In fact that is the origin of the term “mothballed” the [whatever…], often referring to military equipment where rodents love to live such as a ship (e.g., “the ship was mothballed”).
The downside is that mothballs are highly toxic when ingested, causing serious illness or death; so you need to be certain that kids or pets are safe. In addition to this, using a very large quantity of mothballs in a closed space may cause serious respiratory problems in people occupying the space.
The worst thing you can do is use traps or poison. One dead rodent with rotting flesh can make your car uninhabitable because of the foul odor absorbed by soft surfaces (seats and carpeting) in the car. Using a Warfarin-based poison mitigates this (the rodent literally bleeds-out internally), but these poisons are designed so that they taste good, and that exposes children and pets to a hazard that can lead to an awful death. Don’t use poison.
Another solution is a little gross, but if you have a dog, collect the feces and place this around the car. Even if you have rodents inside the car, they will need to leave to forage for food. They will cross the line to get food when hungry, but predator-avoidance instincts make the critter reluctant to cross back.
--Spike
In fact that is the origin of the term “mothballed” the [whatever…], often referring to military equipment where rodents love to live such as a ship (e.g., “the ship was mothballed”).
The downside is that mothballs are highly toxic when ingested, causing serious illness or death; so you need to be certain that kids or pets are safe. In addition to this, using a very large quantity of mothballs in a closed space may cause serious respiratory problems in people occupying the space.
The worst thing you can do is use traps or poison. One dead rodent with rotting flesh can make your car uninhabitable because of the foul odor absorbed by soft surfaces (seats and carpeting) in the car. Using a Warfarin-based poison mitigates this (the rodent literally bleeds-out internally), but these poisons are designed so that they taste good, and that exposes children and pets to a hazard that can lead to an awful death. Don’t use poison.
Another solution is a little gross, but if you have a dog, collect the feces and place this around the car. Even if you have rodents inside the car, they will need to leave to forage for food. They will cross the line to get food when hungry, but predator-avoidance instincts make the critter reluctant to cross back.
--Spike
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