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Kirun said:
My most memorable mouse kill was when I was in college. I stepped out of the shower and there was a mouse in the corner of the bathroom. I whipped off my towel and beat it to death with my hard dick.
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That must have been one tiny mouse.

Borzak said:
Sounds like you people need a cat. I have a cat that lives in the shop out back and he takes care of that stuff, also takes care of voles and stuff digging underground.
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Best option if you can do it. When I was a kid all of the barn cats died of some sort of disease and the place was overrun with mice which is what led to me and my brother and our dog getting the mouse eradication job for a while.
 
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Borzak said:
Sounds like you people need a cat. I have a cat that lives in the shop out back and he takes care of that stuff, also takes care of voles and stuff digging underground.
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Outdoor cats should be shot on sight. Native birds need a break to recover from the slaughter. Plus the mouse traps work well enough and the birds can then go on to eat large quantities of annoying insects.
 
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The biggest impact on birds in this country is not cats. The US is about to lose woodcock forever due to changing land uses and not cats. I pulled that out of my ass from my MS in wildlife management/biology and my former professor that is the leading authority on the subject.

The bald eagle that frequents my yard/property keeps him in check. If my one cat makes a dent in the song bird population in the national forest that my property is landlocked it I'll worry about it then.

As mentioned mostly mice and rats in the 100' long shop I have, and he sits in the yard looking straight down for hours. Listening for voles/moles and he kills those and brings them up.

Speaking of cats and cars. My dad drove his F-250 diesel out to eat and apparently a cat crawled under the hood. A few days later it was hollering and my parents dug it out. Covered in all kinds of crap. Just living wild in small town I guess. They paid to have have all the gunk and shit cleaned off it. They still have it. I keep waiting for it to get stuck in there again.

I'm sure it's a problem in suburban areas with lots of cats and people who feet the birds right next to the cats, we call that a buffet around here. Here a problem? No. I'm on my neighbors property (the national forest) nearly every day and have never seen a cat including the time I worked for the US Forest Service on the national forest.
 
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"we define un-owned cats to include farm/barn cats, strays that are fed by humans but not granted access to habitations, cats in subsidized colonies and cats that are completely feral"

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The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States - Nature Communications

Free-ranging domestic cats cause wildlife extinctions on islands, but their impact on wildlife in mainland areas is unclear. This study presents an estimate of mortality caused by cats in the United States, suggesting that 1.4–3.7 billion birds and 6.9–20.7 billion mammals are killed annually.
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Deathwing said:
Anyone deal with mice getting into their car in the winter months? Fuckers built a nest inside the cabin air blower. Bucket and skewered can works well, but obviously they won't drown in frozen water.
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You could try zip tying a bar of Irish Spring soap somewhere near your manifold. Mice/rats hate the smell/taste of it and usually won't go near it.
 
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Kirun said:
You could try zip tying a bar of Irish Spring soap somewhere near your manifold. Mice/rats hate the smell/taste of it and usually won't go near it.
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Heard mixed results with that, can also do cotton balls soaked in peppermint oil just don't such them somewhere too hot
 
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Deathwing said:
Anyone deal with mice getting into their car in the winter months? Fuckers built a nest inside the cabin air blower. Bucket and skewered can works well, but obviously they won't drown in frozen water.
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I've used this stuff in the past - was during summer and mostly to repel a red squirrel though. Wife's car was parked in the driveway and I was watching the little fucker climb up the wheel well and systematically removing the sound deadening fabric under the hood. It did work. Some guys swear by hot pepper spray, but it's not the best when the time comes that you or a mechanic need to work on things.

 
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I tried Cayenne Pepper and the Tomcat mint/cinnamon spray; even combined them and clogged up a spray bottle with pepper. None of it worked, there was still mice sign around the car(s) and garage.

Tomcat directions even say it wont cause a rodent to move out or leave. So maybe it works if they haven't made their home in your stuff, but otherwise, forget-about-it. When I did research on trapping (after already trying the "easy" spray/pepper), the general consensus I found on old.reddit and Youtube was that the spray is mediocre/spotty at best.

This is the Tomcat stuff, at Home Depot:
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wouldn't killing the mice be the best approach? glue traps are 50c, put a dab of pb in the middle and put 4 underneath your car
 
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Snap traps, use peanut butter to stick a whole peanut to it, it'll make it a hair trigger with the weight. These are the best kind.

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Sludig said:
Need to try them, havnt seen that style locally. We have these tiny fucking field mice, learned to avoid baited glue traps, dont trigger the wooden snappers.
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With the old school wooden traps, id use raw peanut in the shell, break the shell in half, stick half on the bait portion with peanut butter, the weight really helps and they'll jiggle the peanut hull chewing or grabbing it.
 
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Obviously you need to combine the best mouse trap I linked on the previous page (walk the plank trap) and then put as many snap traps that will fit in the bottom of the bucket to make the ultimate mouse trap!

Glue traps suck, the mice can't move an inch while they are still alive for days to weeks, while they starve to death. I may be somewhat indifferent, but that seems much crueler than drowning them, bashing their head in, or snapping their neck (most humane after gas).

The new style glue traps, that are semi-enclosed, aren't nearly as bad but I remember not seeing the plain board type as a kid and stepping on them a couple times, which was incredibly annoying too...
 
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From my old job, was hard to get them to traps in a feed mill with grain everywhere. Bucket traps were useless with all the food available. This was daily.

The little cup on the traps was perfect size to smash a peanut into it that they couldn't just grab it and take off, they'd step on the trigger to try and lift it with their mouth.

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I hate the wooden snap traps. They are so sensitive it's hard to get them set without setting them off and it gives me too much anxiety that they are going to get my fingers. The plastic ones are much easier and less dangerous to use.
 
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is the car in a garage? could close it up and leave an ozone machine running for the weekend? (or just the car, although that's probably not great for a few reasons)
 
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