Posted: 9/3/2009 7:50:23 PM EDT
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Alright, I live in a Manufactured home. You can call it a trailer for all I care, I live cheap. LOL
Technically it's still summer but these buggers are starting early. I smelled something nasty when i got home today. One of those bastards must have died where I can't find it. Moved in back in 1996 and live next to woods. BIG MISTAKE. Every fall these mice come in and a few die for some reason. We've trapped and it's in small numbers. Maybe 5-8 during fall and winter. What really sucks is that the place has skirting. Se the bastards typically crawl in the smallest place and work their way inside. I guess I could crawl underneath it and use that spray foam to seal all the pipes going inside the house. What some really good solutions these days? |
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Well don't feel bad about your war with them. I have fought them and rats for 2 years now at my mother's house and grandmothers house.
total so far mom's place- 29 grandmothers- 60 to 70 We live down town and have a lot of homes being bulit or remodeled so the vermin are being driven about. The foam is good but you will proubly have to add steel to close the holes. Fox urine works as a repellent but must be renewed from time to time. The black snap traps are the best baited with dry dog food held in place with peanut butter. I have tried the old fashion snap traps and my favorite is one made in mexico using metal. It cuts them in half when it trips. |
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I have lived in mobile homes (what we call them in the south) before and have had the same issue. When I was about 19 I was living in a real shit hole right off a train track. Well anyways, I woke up one night cause I heard something in the kitchen and thought it might be my girlfriends son (yeah at the time I was pretty much white trash). So when I came around the corner from the bedroom there was the biggest mother freakin' rat that I have ever seen... Joker was standing on his hind legs giving me the stink eye. Well needless to say I screamed like a 11 year old girl and ran for my little .410 shotgun. Rat and wall did not fair well, kid slept through the whole thing, girlfriend was pissed, I slept like a baby on the couch!
Moral of the story, being that this is a do it yourself forum. Shotguns work, but probably not the best idea. Foam and steal wool are suppose to be great to seal cracks. |
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Our cat brought a mouse in the house. We tried to trap it but it went into the vents. About a week later we woke up with a really bad smell in our house. One dead mouse and 500 dollars later the house does not smell bad anymore. The smell is horrible! Looking at finding out where they are crawling there way in. I'm also going to setup a trap using the 5 gallon bucket & water. |
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http://byteshuffler.com/rospo/blog/uploaded_images/BucketMouseTrap-789229.jpg Bucket Mouse Trap......its cheap and it works everytime. I do something similar except I fill the bucket to about 4 inches shy of the top with water. I then float the entire surface with sunflower seeds. Use a stick as a ramp to the top. The more you catch the more often you need to replace that water! I think what the other posters recommended about the cats might be your best route though (even tough I hate them). I had a lot of alley cats around my neightboorhood and it took me a while but I drove them away. Soon after that I was finding mice in my garage. Told my neighbors if was okay to start feeding the alley cats again. Steel wool and foam will seal the holes, but you need to get EVERY one. The mice WILL remind you if you missed one. |