Mice sure are some clever bastards.

[zanemoseley]

So I was gonna change the oil on my 2014 cx-5 today, I popped the hood and sounded like an avalanche of rocks in my hood. Turns out the mice got into the bag of dog food 5 feet away and carried it over to my car, up the engine compartment and shoved it in those holes in the hood. Now I have a good handful of dog food floating around my hood, it's gonna be a bitch to remove since once you open the hood it all rolls to a section that appears to be hard to access. Maybe I can rent a miniature dog to put in the hole and eat it all.

 

[Brian Stirling]

May I recommend a cat!


Brian

 

[desy]

Every fall they start coming into the garage and get in and out of my cars.
Ate a hole in a bag of bread 'through another bagin the 15 minutes it took to get home from the grocery store and disappeared!
So I setup traps start of Oct but haven't caught any this year, I have caught up to 8 in yrs past

 

[Midwayman]

May I recommend a cat!


Brian

Nah, what you do it dig a pit and put some mouse food at the bottom. They'll all be attracted by the food and fall in the pit and be trapped. Now you don't just get rid of those mice. No you leave them in the pit in in a week or two they will have gotten hungry and eaten all the rest of the mice, leaving only a few. No let those mice go. They have a taste for mice now and will solve your mouse problem.

 

[Brian Stirling]

Well I was joking a bit...

My mom had 2-4 cats at any given time and she still got mice. I discovered where they entered the kitchen from the basement and investigated that location in the basement. I found an area above the circuit breaker/fuse panel and put a good old fashioned mouse trap on top of the breaker panel as it was right near what appeared to be a path the mice might take and baited it with some cheese.

I'd barely made it up the stairs when I heard "SNAP." Went back down and there was a mouse still wiggling a bit and I waited till it stopped moving before removing the dead mouse, rearming the trap, and placed back in the same location. Went up to watch TV and about 15 minutes came back down to check trap -- another dead mouse. So, repeated and went back to watch TV.

Came back down about 30 minutes later and found a 3rd dead mouse so emptied and reset. I checked the trap a couple more times that nigh but nothing. Came back the next day and found a 4th dead mouse but over the next week or two there were no more.

So, find the spot they like to move through and set a trap -- repeat until they're gone!


Brian

 

[SearchMaster]

Heh - reminds me of once I was driving to work (40+ miles). I had gotten well over 30 miles into the drive and was stopped at a light, when a mouse climbs out from the hood onto the bottom of the windshield, stared at me, then went back under the hood. When I got to work I scared the little bastard away then drove the car to the other end of the lot so he wouldn't find it. He had built a little nest by the battery with some grass, plastic, and insulation.

Can you not shove a shop-vac close to the crevices and get most of it?

 

[Zivic]

I just make sure my bait boxes are full. very minimal mice issues... zero issues on my farm in the areas that I 'protect'. You are never going to get rid of them, but can keep them out of areas.

I strongly recommend getting some bait boxes/stations and make sure they are filled by the end of sept as the nightly temps drop.

 

[Z15CAM]

I've had a string of mice abandoned my 70Z Camaro after a winter storage dive bombing off the hood on start up after a winter storage - Them little bastards will nest in your seats and bare your wires it your not careful.

Don't forget to look for them Hornets Nests on the rear axle and in the Exhaust pipes.

 

[boomerang]

My dad used to keep a bag of dog food in the garage. The mice packed the air cleaner housing of his car full of dog food. It was a car he didn't drive that often and one day when he wanted to take it for a spin it wouldn't start.

If they get inside your car and are there long enough, you will never get the smell out.

 

[bigi]

So I was gonna change the oil on my 2014 cx-5 today, I popped the hood and sounded like an avalanche of rocks in my hood. Turns out the mice got into the bag of dog food 5 feet away and carried it over to my car, up the engine compartment and shoved it in those holes in the hood. Now I have a good handful of dog food floating around my hood, it's gonna be a bitch to remove since once you open the hood it all rolls to a section that appears to be hard to access. Maybe I can rent a miniature dog to put in the hole and eat it all.

We have 2 Mazda CX-5. Last year, both had mice nest underneath the plastic engine cover and some ignition cables chewed through.

I had to fix both. Will check again now, but some have removed this cover from engine.