Keeping mice and chipmunks out of the stacks

Had A brittany like that, bushy tails would come and sit on window ledge teasing the h of him. ex left a window open so just the screen - end of bushy tail and screen as well. Course he was very proud that he got that invader- saved it for me when I got home.

 

Another method that some guys use where I work is.
1) 5 gallon bucket half full of water.
2) A steel rod with a small plastic bottle slid on it with a washer on each side of the bottle to keep the bottle in place hut allows it to spin.
3) Attach the rod with the bottle to the top of the bucket.
4) Apply peanut butter to the bottle.

I am more for a clean quick kill. But this does work quite effectively. The guys caught 15 mice in 8 hrs at work one day!

 

I bet that was more fun than the bucket method.

 

It's definitely more of a challenge, I miss more than I hit.

 

I never used to worry too much about a few mice in the garage. I figured the cats would take care of the problem. This summer, I bought a car for both of us to enjoy in the summer months and it will have to stay in the garage all winter. I also keep a stack of firewood that's 19' long by 4'+ high in the garage. So it's been a predicament... Keep the cats out of the garage so they don't climb on my convertible and use the top as a scratching post... Or, risk chewed wires and mouse nests built in the ducts and under the hood of the car..

So, I bought a crap load of these...




I have 14 traps in the garage and 7 in the house. I have several new ones in reserve, and I'm thinking of adding 4 more, one next to each tire of the convertible..

This is my kill count since the weather started to cool down.. In recent weeks, the catch rate has slowed. I think replacing the gasket on the bottom of the overhead garage doors has helped a lot.


39 in traps in the garage, the cats have got 4 from the garage. They don't go out unless one of us goes with them. 2 in the traps in the basement.

Only 2 traps that have snapped and not caught anything. They're all baited with peanut butter.

This is what the garage looks like. It's a little cluttered, but packed in there is, my truck, her car, 2 motorcycles, a tractor, the fun car, a log splitter/mower/tiller/etc. and lots of firewood..





I leave the outdoor wood piles alone and let nature have at it! They only thing I do is try and control the deer tick population by trying to eliminate the early stages of tick growth. I place short pieces of 1½" PVC pipe, stuffed with permethrin coated cotton balls, around the wood piles. The mice use the cotton balls to build nests and the permethrin rubs off on them.... killing one of the stages of ticks and not effecting the mice. The ticks don't mature and find their way to the deer... The results have been pretty dramatic. When we first moved here, I couldn't walk down the gravel driveway to the mailbox without picking up a tick or two. Now, after several years of the home made tick tubes, I almost never find a tick around the yard or back woods.

 

Had lots of chipmunk holes in the yard.. too many. Got a small Havahart trap. Didn't have to bait it. Darn chipmunks would just go in and get trapped. I'd then introduce them to Mr 10-Pump(Crossman pellet gun). Only good vermin, is dead vermin. Got about 55 of them between June and October. Never would have guessed that high of a number. Left the trap in the same spot.

 

That is a bunch of chipmunks. I do a little rabbit shooting around here once a year just thin them out and the most so far is about 12 of them and that thins them out pretty good.

 

I thought I was over run with chipmunks when I shot 7 one summer.

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damm man. I had 32 chipmunks last year and thought I was overrun as well. hahahahaha. I also had 31 squirrels, a racoon, 5 rats, and some mice over the winter. Instead of the pellet gun I gave them all swimming lessons......I guess I was a bad teacher. Then I buried most of them. That sucked.