hernanca

My experience is with large Florida Fruit Rats, but I suspect much applies to mice as well.

Recommend snap traps (small for mice, large for rats), peanut butter bait, and plugging the holes they are coming in through, so that you don't end up in a continuous battle. When there is one, there are likely many, or soon will be. With rats, at least, they breed very fast.

With snap traps, you see what you got and how many when they keep working. Place the traps along the walls (for rats at least) - they like to run along walls. Don't be surprised if they lick the peanut butter clean without setting off the trap. Make sure other animals and little kids can't get to the traps.

Poison (for rats..) makes them thirsty before killing them, so they hopefully die outside looking for water, and not inside one of your walls to create an unbearable stench until they rot or you tear up your walls to find their carcass (look near heat or water vapor sources if tearing up your walls).

Moth ***** apparently also keeps them away, but is not healthy for humans to breath over time.

I am allergic to cats, so not cats for me, but I used to encourage the neighborhood cats to hang around by buying cat food on occassion. (Which also became a problem when they started inviting their other stray friends, but was the lesser of two evils for me).

I tried the humane thing. I had squirrels and rats living in the attic. Both the one squirrel and one rat that I caught in the "humane" cage (with peanut butter bait) apparently freaked out and panicked to death. The humane society then had me check the squirrel for **** and squeeze them to see if they had milk - if they did, it meant I had to look for the babies. Luckily, no milk!

Florida orange trees mean something different to me...

Tom. M

Time for some mouse traps... I've got a lot more chewy delicious wires on my track car...and I don't want to re-wire it LOL ...

77tony

Google: "Mouse Cube Trap". Put some peanut butter on a cracker & put in the trap. After catching, take the mouse for a ride in your 928 & make sure the trap door is in the down position as illustrated in the picture below. Cheap, effective and humane. T

rbrtmchl

You also have to remove anything in the vicinity of your car that mice can eat. A couple of posters already mentioned dog food being carried into their cars by mice. The less that you have to attract the mice in the first place, the better.

Marine Blue

Mouse trap with peanut butter. I had a mouse in the garage which was luckily no where near the 928. Trap took a couple of weeks but eventually I caught it.

F451

Snap traps in the engine compartment. Pick em up at the super market the next time you are in there getting milk. Effective and humane - ish.

Get him before the rest of his clan shows up and makes a mess everywhere.

Yearly late fall ritual in my garage every year to keep our place rodent free.

JoeTaylor

They have those "sticky" strips at the hardware store. Just put a couple of those under the hood where the mouse roams and check it the next day.

I had a mouse in my house (cat brought him in) and laid a few of those out on top of the kitchen cabinets... the mouse was stuck in a few days.. gone forever.

Joe

928drvr86.5

fabric softener sheets: Wive's tale, doesn't work and they'll use it as nesting material.

Moth *****: Bull****, doesn't work and whatever comes in contact with the mothballs will stink for about 6 months.

Traditional snap type traps: Unless you've set them to go off by a small change in barometric pressure, mice will lick them clean and wait for you to apply more peanut butter.

Glue Traps work, and work well. Make sure you have about 25 of them spread in a perimeter around the car. As a secondary measure, I built a wall around my car using 10" galvanized steel flashing screwed to the edge of 2X4's and there hasn't been a mouse in my 928 since.

Shane

I used to have that problem till I got some cats, now it is usually removal of trophy parts they leave behind.

jorj7

Adam,

I'd set a few traps, either that or find one of the other cars in the garage
that's in worst shape then yours and put some peanut butter under/around
that one. Then let the new pet owner worry about the mice....

hernanca

Traditional Snap Traps: Trying to remember why they worked for me, because they did in my case, very effectively, though messy. It may have been that I switched from peanut butter to small wedges of an orange (they were Fruit Rats, after all). I remember snagging the orange peel part onto the trap, so if they tugged at it... I don't know if mice like fruits, but maybe wedge something else they like and have to tug at.

Put newspaper, a paper plate, or something under the trap, so cleaning up the mess afterwards (rat/mouse and sometimes blood) is easier.

Regarding preventive measures: I put "chicken wire" type mesh over the snorkel openings above the radiator of the 928. I did that after hearing the stories of nests in the stock filter area.

polecat702

We've got 4 cats, they love to hunt mice and rats. They hunt them down and kill the little bastards, after they've played them to death. They don't eat them, but they bring the dead ones to the wife, something she really loves. LOL. We live in horse country, and we get overrun with them everytime the neighbors order a truck load of hay. The rodents nest in the bales, and the neighborhood cats have a ball catching them.

Fogey1

Snap traps work. We had mice in the farm house for a while. We'd hear the SNAP often, but only rarely a little skittering afterward. They are humane-ish, like a guillotine.

I found that stringy bacon was the best bait. I emptied a lot of traps for a week or two. Can't be licked or tugged off without springing the trap.

Hilton

Get a pet python

123

Where's the hammer choice for this poll?

I've seen people do similar things. While that might help keep them out of the airbox, it won't keep them from nesting in the valley of the engine, or possibly the inside of the car, and it won't stop them from eating up wiring or upholstery.

I'd say the best solution is to seal up any openings that the mice can come in through, and keep them out of the garage in the first place. That's what I did, along with a couple of snap traps placed around the garage, just in case any did find a way in somehow. There haven't ever been any signs of mice in the garage anymore since doing that.