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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 08:31 PM
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Anybody got any good recommendations?? All I have now is some traps set under the car with peanut butter. But I don't think that is too effective since that is what I’m using in my apartment and after a couple weeks, they don't go for the old peanut butter(which I found out last night). So now I’m worried my car is vulnerable to mice. For now, I asked my dad to at least change the peanut butter. Last year I used moth ***** but it stunk up the garage and some of my parent’s house so they weren't too happy about that. I’m really regretting I didn’t use the moth ***** this year now that I’m 6 hours away from the car. So if anybody knows any good remedies to keeping mice away, please let me know.

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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 08:37 PM
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They should sell a stick of this stuff that draws them in to eat it and they die. Its like a clear yellow stick you can find it at home depot or a lowes.
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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 08:53 PM
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I'm hessitant to use poison, don't want it to eat the crap then crawl up into the car and die. Could only imagine that stench.
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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 09:36 PM
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I put my car on jack stands once and used a ton of those sticky traps around the stands..... just a thought..
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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 10:48 PM
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lmao you thik of mice and rats and try and lure them in with peanut butter lol try Cheese!! and als othose stickey pad work the best we had an orchard around the house and mice would always get in the gurage.. i was nice for me becasue i did have to buy rats for my boa
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Old Oct 8, 2007 | 03:38 PM
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I've heard that dryer sheets (scented, anti-static, softeners, like Bounce) deter and repel the varmints.
Anyone confirm this??
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Old Oct 8, 2007 | 06:56 PM
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Werd to the dryer sheets. The last winter I stored my 89 IROC at the farm, I FILLED the car with dryer sheets. I also had mouse poison around and inside the car, and I didn't have a problem. No mouse stench or dead mice inside the car whatsoever
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Old Oct 28, 2007 | 02:52 PM
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I have a cat you can have
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Old Oct 28, 2007 | 02:53 PM
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Hungry cats work best!
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Old Oct 28, 2007 | 04:38 PM
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rat poison is fine they eat it and it make them look for water and usually leave the area read the box for proper use !!!
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Old Oct 29, 2007 | 02:36 PM
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Moth ***** in a pair of panty hose under the hood. It will smell like all hell but no rats. I've lived in the sticks my whole life and other than my faithful tomcat nothing seems to slow them down.
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Old Oct 29, 2007 | 03:23 PM
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+1 For moth *****.

Stinky, but they work.
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Old Oct 29, 2007 | 04:02 PM
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My cat is too fat and lazy. Perhaps if the mice came up and walked into his mouth...
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Old Oct 29, 2007 | 06:05 PM
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My cat is too fat and lazy. Perhaps if the mice came up and walked into his mouth...
OMG thats funny as hell!
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Old Oct 29, 2007 | 10:22 PM
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I got a chuckle at this thread as I have had some mouse experience. My car sat in the back corner of the garage for several months last winter while I was working on other projects, fast foward several months, I am backing out of the garage, car dies, no fuel pump prime. Cut the trap door out planning to change pumps, and the top of my tank is covered, and I mean covered with dog food. After vacumming it all off, the little bastards had chewed up my fuel pump wire, and I guess it just finally broke all the way. Easy enough fix but glad I wasn't far away from home. One of my freind's 02 silverado sat for six months or so and it was dead when he went back to start it. They had built a nest under the plastic pcm shroud, and butchered all kinds of wires right at the pcm. I will def be doing something, to gid rid of them this winter.
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