How to rid mice in garage.

rjohnson8404 wrote:

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In my experience fresh cab doesn’t work much, if at all. Same with dryer sheets. Moth balls help, but they do stink. If it’s somewhere you can tend to regularly, I prefer good old classic victor snap traps with Pb or tomcat mouse attractant. Place a bunch around the perimeter in key spots. I call it “running my trap line.” It’s kinda fun! If you smell a musty odor in the air and find your mice half eaten, you know you have shrews…

Otherwise a bucket trap is the ticket. It’s what I use in the camper up north during the cold months.

So tonight I armed and set some traditional mouse traps after finding one in the wheelbarrow munching on some birdseed. Within 10 minutes I got one!
Sorry but this is the picture of the sand they dug out…

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UPDATE***
Well the count is up to four now. One Wed and two today! I’ve been baiting them with creamy peanut butter and both days two out of four traps have been cleaned off without going off-yes they are set to the sensitive setting. I’ll keep running “the trap line” til they disappear

Sounds like you’re having fun, Kirk! Happy trappin

City mice. They drag the trap underneath the house main beam to eat the PB so when it trips, the bar gets blocked. Unfreakinbelievable. They want war we’ll have it

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Love the city mouse insight. Cracks me up. Give em hell, Beads

Place the traps on a glue board. I’ve gotten some pretty willey mice that way.

Deuces wrote:

City mice. They drag the trap underneath the house main beam to eat the PB so when it trips, the bar gets blocked. Unfreakinbelievable. They want war we’ll have it

Yikes! Those are some intelligent mice!

Seal up your garage
Put anything they will eat in sealed storage containers
Keep your garage clean – the more hiding places the more mice you will have
Put traps in places mice run, not where they feed. 90% of spring traps kill mice as they are running over them, not when they stop to smell the roses. Mice run along walls mostly.
Use the ramp + baited bucket if you have a lot of mice. Then kill them, do not release lol
If you have an indoor/outdoor cat, give it a mouse fresh out of the trap and let the cat play/eat the mouse in the garage. Repeat. Do not use peanut butter baited traps where cats and dogs are present – they will get hit by the traps.
Cats have been killing birds for 1000s of years – birds are still here, no need to cry when a cat kills a bird

If you don’t control the mice you will be seeing more snakes, fox, coyotes, bobcats, hawks, owls, etc. A single female mouse can produce 60 offspring a year. All it takes is one pregnant female to call your garage her home before you quickly have a serious problem.

Backwater— You should do some research before you speak on something you’re uninformed about.

Jon is spot on with the bucket trap. They fall in and drown. Put antifreeze in and it will work all winter long. The antifreeze keeps them from smelling if you don’t check the trap every day because it seems to preserve them…