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Old 10-08-2012, 11:00 PM
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Default Mice Attacks''The Sequel''

Hello Gents

Well It has been over a month since I started having squatters mice in my RV and still hasn't abated..

Yesterday while getting ready for a long cross country I found a nest in the pocket in the back of my seat.There were a bunch of little new borns mices with the mother in there.There was also another one just behind the instrument panel ( where I found two previous ones before ) with a mouse still in it.

After slowly removing the panel and making sure the mouse was still in the nest, I swepped it out of the aircraft with a broom and took care of the renter before she could get away(Photo attached )
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I also had 2 drowns mice in my death pool ( water bucket '' best device so far '') and one in the electrical trap on the cockpit floor.

Since I removed everything that they could chew on, they took a liking to electrical wiring... This is no longer funny.

As you can see, it is getting to be quite a problem and I was wondering if it is possible to hook a battery ( 12 volts ) to the airframe without damaging the components of the aircraft as a way to electrocute them if they touch the aircraft.

I will probably try that http://www.mousebgone.com/ thing as it seem to work unless you guys tried it and it proven not to work..

I'm open to any new suggestions you may have as I'm running out of ideas.

Thanks

Bruno
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Old 10-09-2012, 05:09 AM
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We just called the exterminator last week for a problem rat/mouse under our bathtub.

They have mouse/rat traps that have an entrance and are about the size of a shoe box. They also sell them at hardware stores for around $30.

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Old 10-09-2012, 07:22 AM
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Mice need a food source and water source nearby. Usually VERY nearby. Eliminate that source as best you can. After that, set those 99 cent spring traps all over using peanut butter as bait. It's possible to have hundreds of mice but I suspect you have much less. Keep setting the traps daily...in the area they enter the hangar if you can figure that out. Place the traps along walls as mice use structures to navigate. Before long there will be no more mice. Good luck.
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Old 10-09-2012, 03:30 PM
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The soda can in your bucket-o-death needs to have a good-sized stripe of peanut butter smeared all the way around the middle of the can... a large enough stripe to fill the air with the irresistable smell of peanut butter to attract them.

As to the 12v battery.... 12 volts isn't going to electrocute anything.

These work pretty well (http://www.victorpest.com/store/mous...ectronic-traps). I have one of their large rat traps and it got a rat that had moved into my attic on the very first night. Got another one when I left the unit sitting outside my back porch just for fun. They're pricey, but do kill very quickly and cleanly without the potential fire hazard of your homemade 110v AC zapper.
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Old 10-09-2012, 05:11 PM
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Default No glue traps

Use anything EXCEPT a glue trap. Especially around your airplane.

Years ago we had this little mouse that ran along the wall past the Christmas tree and into the kitchen. Three nights in a row, same thing. Could never find where it came in or exactly where it went.

Did not want my new bride to think I was cruel, so no mouse trap. No sir. Instead got a glue trap. Big enough for a rat. Dropped a piece of cheese right in the middle and put it along the baseboard behind the Christmas tree.

That night, my wife and I sat there and watched and waited. He showed up and stopped under the tree as expected. He checked out the cheese for just a second, then placed his front paw on the glue trap. Right away he knew he?d made a big mistake. He jumped backward up into the tree with the trap still stuck on his paw. In just a couple of seconds of thrashing, he managed to glue several tree branches, and some garland and icicles to the trap. When he stopped, my wife sat there stunned, looking at this pathetic little creature staring at us hanging upside down like some sort of grotesque Christmas ornament.

Regular mouse traps since then. Better to be thought of as cruel than to be known as an idiot.
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Old 10-09-2012, 06:16 PM
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I'll repeat a previous post.

Place a CD player on continuous loop with either Slim Whitman or rap music. Place a razor knife nearby. The mice will cut their own throats.

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Old 10-09-2012, 07:13 PM
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I'll repeat a previous post.

Place a CD player on continuous loop with either Slim Whitman or rap music. Place a razor knife nearby. The mice will cut their own throats.

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Old 10-09-2012, 09:54 PM
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Hi Guys

Thank you for the suggestions.I bought a bunch of spring traps today and will set them inside the aircraft on the floor and in the cargo hold and hope to get the ones still in the airplane.

Neal : I 've got the electric trap already ( see pictures ) and it works really well, I just need a couple more..

I didn't leave my 110 VAC zapper unattended, I just plugged it while cutting the grass with the hangar doors open to see if it works and zapped 3 mices in about 1/2 hrs..As you said, too dangerous and a fire hazard to leave connected with nobody around.

I think that they are coming into the a/c via the flaps linkages...I used to keep the flaps retracted in the hangar all the time and didn't have any mice in the airvraft but I've been leaving them down occasionnally lately and I'm pretty sure that's the road they're taking to get in the aircraft..That's the only opening so it has to be the one entry point..

I will never get completly mouse free in my hangar as it is a tarp cover thing. The owner of the farm I fly out off doesn't let us built hard structure hangars sadly..I am the only one with mice problems so far amount all my flying buddies..

I just ordered some ''Mouse be Gone'' stuff so lets hope it works..

I will report the results..

Thanks again

Bruno
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Old 10-09-2012, 10:59 PM
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Like virtually *all* animals, if you want to get rid of them, you *have* to get rid of whatever is attracting them. Otherwise, you'll be involved in an endless cycle...where there's one, there's a boatload more, and they reproduce quickly, so they'll just keep coming back.

And the good, old-fashioned spring traps are probably the least cruel method out there...essentially, they kill instantly. Just make sure you don't put them somewhere that will inadvertently catch/kill something you don't want to (I set one to catch a rat that was going onto our roof, and instead of the rat, I got a blue jay...felt terrible about that one ).
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Old 10-10-2012, 10:29 AM
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I would check your wiring very carefully.

I had a headset sitting on a shelf in my hangar and the rats decided to chew the insulation off the cords. I had noticed some nicks on it before but I assumed I had closed the tip-up canopy on it and cut the wires. Then I noticed they had gotten worse and worse.
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