Just looked under my car cover and saw mice crap and acorns galore. My car is stored in a garage next door. I opened the door and started the car and saw a little b@stard scurry away under the back seat. What is a surefire way to keep these rodents out of my car outside of getting a cat to kill them? What methods have you used? I tried the Bounce sheets but I guess that's not working. I have two traps oustide the car with peanut butter for bait but haven't caught one in a while. I tried the green poison bait but they actually stored it under my floormats! HELP!

Used Moth Balls they stink but will work.

I tried the "humane" traps and also some of the sticky paper, but neither worked at all.

What DID work was the good old fashioned spring loaded trap, and they were only 50/50 effective -- the mouse got the peanut butter clean off of one trap, but wasn't as lucky with the other trap.

So unless you've got small children or pets that could be snapped by the trap, I'd put lots of these around.

you can try using a few mouse traps.

buy irish spring soap place several in different spots, I put one in the engine bay on top of the air cleaner one on the P floor and one in the seat. driver side the same thing, also the back and dont't forget the trunk. just open one end of the box and leave the soap in it. don't forget to plug your exhaust

I've never had any luck with moth balls.

I think about the best thing you can do is to set up a few mouse traps and keep checking them as often as possible.
I use cheese when I set the trap I smush the cheese onto the trap so that the mouse will have to work to get it off.
I've never had one take the cheese without getting caught, although they have moved the trap a ways away trying to get out.

Or get a cat.

Here Kitty Kitty! Use the Irish Spring it works. Dont use the Moth Balls. Would hate to have a car smell that way. Have been to shows where an old bonneville boat had been stored for years and reaked of that smell.

a cat is a good idea but you may not like the smell of the cat poop and pee and the cat may use your interior as a scratching post

I have always used the trusty old 22 rifle with with shotshells. You can shoot the little bastereds in the house and the shot won't mess up the walls, just a little gun powder smell is all you get.

Get a bunch of those 6"x12" glue plates from Home depot and put some nuts in the middle. Also peanut butter works. I have caught 3-foot long snakes, mice, rats, big spiders, etc with them. Once they touch the plate they are screwed, no matter how big they are. The snakes can drag it around but its just a matter of you finding them with the plate stuck to their face. Out in the country, ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

i like the idea about the .22.only i would use my trusty old browning with the red dot scope.i could use some target practice now and then..

Is your car up on blocks?.If not get a bunch of glue plates and incase them around your tires.NO way in hell will they get in your car then.!good luck. mike.

Dont put out rat poison!....I did , and a few weeks later saw some fuzzy stuff on my passenger seat...thinking it looked like small bird feathers, I walked around the car to check....Also I should mention ,I had forgotten I put out the poison (left behind a cab`t where my dog couldnt get to it..), and it didnt even dawn on me when two days before the fuzzy stuff appeared ,I had a strange smell/odor in the garage..(I thought my wife had placed some garbage out there again, she does that when the container outside is full....)
well, checking my passengers seat I found more on the floor ,and it was moving!
getting closer I see maggotts!
auouwww....
had to move the car outside to clean up, then try to find out where its coming from....got a step ladder , got up w my head over the exposed open clg joists , and THERE about 4" in front of my nose is a 5" long dead rat....
(moving w/maggots), laying on top of the joist, dripping down into my car.....
never again rat poison in the garage!

ewwwww,now you have to find a way to kill all the maggots.i dont know what is worse,the mice or the maggots.i think i would rather deal with mice.

You might have difficulty keeping your lunch if you walk up on a successful glue trap as well. They are inhumane, imo, since the mice end up starving to death if they're there long enough. Poison is potentially going to be eaten by other neighborhood animals. Good, old-fashioned spring traps are all I use now.

Hey Bjorn got an idea. Meet me tommorrow at 5am were going ice fishing. You bring the bait. :p Bill

I've had the best success with spring loaded traps using peanuts. You take a peanut half and push it in length wise into the side of the bait holder. Most of the peanut crumbles away, but you get enough wedged tightly into the bait trap to get the job done. Mice love peanuts.....and they can't just lick it off the trap like they do cheese and peanut butter.

Otherwise a Benjamin pellet gun works great.....you have to be a pretty good shot to keep from putting holes in the walls though.

HEY DREW,YOU WANT A PEANUT?LOL

That why it's not good to put "cheese" on our cars I better hurry and get mine off the car!

David

See what it is is they don't think you like 'em
What you gotta do is
Make pets outta of 'em
Name them,make little leash's for 'em take em for walks,feed them, build a home for them, pillows,blankets etc,,,
Talk to 'em
They just need love & affection
Show them that you care
And if you can do all that,
I'll bet they'll leave your car alone

after you do all that doug,introduce the rat to his new friend,the family cat.hehehe

There's a nice big old milk snake that spends time in the garage. I don't have a rodent problem, but it couldn't catch the bird that flew in during the summer and got confused by the skylights. I had to use a landing net for that.

Hey, John, my snake could use some company..wanna send some of yours up?

and for all that, rodents are still stinky pets and will bite you if they get scarededed.

I guess cats will too, but at least they purr and catch rodents.... and leave them on your pillow... nevermind.

How do they get in the car if it is closed?

There is no such thing as a closed anything with mice around. They can get into incredibly tiny holes, and if they don't find one they can make one. You can't keep them out, so you have to catch them, kill them, or annoy them.

mice can get in anywhere.

i bet if you put a wild cat in your car it would be gone the next day.

http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/98/Jun/chrysler.html

My Dad had a bad time with rats in his attic and garage. He got a sonic device from Home Depot. It makes a high pitched sound people, cats and dogs can't hear. It took about a week, but all the rats were gone. You just plug it in and forget about it.

LOL, they just moved next door.

hmmm, my neighbor probably have one of those devices.....got to put up a stronger one, = bounce them back!

Hide your ear plugs...the mice are pretty smart!