Mice (27 Viewers)

[Dave Scadding]

Hi, can anyone recommend a sonic mouse deterrent that works and works on batteries??

 

[Nirvanauk]

From experience they don’t work.

 

[Gina M]

Sorry I can't help. If you have mice in your van I feel for you. We had mice a few years back and they made a right mess. I keep a strong air freshener in the van now and so far no more mice, don't know if that's why though.

 

[Puddleduck]

Mice really don't like strong smells.

Essential oils on a tissue in an open glass containers in strategic places worked for us. Must be a glass container as essential oils can eat through plastics and aluminium.

 

[poppycamper]

As Nirvanauk says...
They don't work..
We had one in the shed and Micky n Minnie had a nest in between the outer and inner walls of shed... 1ft from sonic deterent.... maybe they thought it was a sex toy..

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[Gromett]

I have tried pretty much everything over the years. The only thing that has been truly effective sadly is peanut butter in a trap.
You can try the humane traps and release them but that is illegal.

Any deterrent will only work for so long if you have an attractive place for them. If it is warm, dry and sheltered they will learn to tolerate pretty much anything from smells to sounds. Even humans stomping around within feet will not scare them off.

I have trapped 20 in the last 2 weeks. Last 2 days are my first days mouse free. But they breed rapidly so they will be back.

 

[Nirvanauk]

I have tried pretty much everything over the years. The only thing that has been truly effective sadly is peanut butter in a trap.
You can try the humane traps and release them but that is illegal.

Any deterrent will only work for so long if you have an attractive place for them. If it is warm, dry and sheltered they will learn to tolerate pretty much anything from smells to sounds. Even humans stomping around within feet will not scare them off.

I have trapped 20 in the last 2 weeks. Last 2 days are my first days mouse free. But they breed rapidly so they will be back.

The problem I had with peanut butter in a trap was that it worked brilliantly but I think that the smell of the peanut butter was attracting them in.

 

[Vikdikdok]

Peanut butter worked for me - once their neck comes in contact with the spring of the trap they definitely won't come back unless as a ghost

 

[Gromett]

The problem I had with peanut butter in a trap was that it worked brilliantly but I think that the smell of the peanut butter was attracting them in.

I am pretty sure it does. But it does ensure you get the entire local population meaning it is a while before they do come back if at all.

 

[MisterB]

When they start getting very small you know they're on their way out .....

I read that things like lavender also deter them ?

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[meanders]

Tea Tree soap bars cut into sections seems to work well. We live in the countryside so it's a contact problem at home and had the little sods in teh loft. Sonic deterrents did nothing. Poison works to clear a problem infestation, but the soap bars seem to have kept them out for 2-3 years now. Reminds me I need to replace it. We too had them in the old van, in the ceiling living in the insulation! Took ages to workout how they were getting in which was up the shaped fillet where the cab joins the main body. Had to take some of the ceiling down to get rid of them. Put some aluminium mesh across the bottom and the problem was solved.

 

[BouncyBoatFolk]

Would a localised,weatherproof baited trap be a viable alternative, invite them out, rather than in?
Mike.

 

[poppycamper]

Parked along from a motorhome recently on a festival field..
Came back first night when dark and could not help but notice he had lights fitted under his van, apparently to deter rodents as they don't like light!!..

 

[ChrisL]

Get a pet snake, if it doesn't scare them away it'll eat them, win, win

 

[BouncyBoatFolk]

Get a pet snake, if it doesn't scare them away it'll eat them, win, win

'Snakes in the van', is that a possible sequel film?
Mike.

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[Swamp]

I’ve had problems in the past with mice eating the insulation on the wiring on a car kept in the garage and on our previous motorhome kept at a storage site. Both caused huge issues with random engine and electrical problems. For the car in the garage I now keep a LED strip light switched on permanently under the car as, has been previously mentioned, they don’t like light. I’m thinking about how to install a similar deterrent for our new van but that will need to be weatherproof.

 

[pappajohn]

Glue mats placed near every possible entry point.
They only step on them once.
If they are near the edge of the mat just cut around them and put the mat back down ....saves throwing a 'still useful' mat away.

 

[poppycamper]

Glue mats placed near every possible entry point.
They only step on them once.
If they are near the edge of the mat just cut around them and put the mat back down ....saves throwing a 'still useful' mat away.

Are they not now illegal to use unless you are a licenced pest control operative???

 

[trophychap]

Chocolate buttons on a "Little Nipper" worked well for us some years ago when we had a couple come in through a hole in the wall where I had moved a washing machine draining pipe before I got some more cement to put in the hole. Don't bother with humane traps the little pests will beat you back to the van unless you let them out about two miles away.

 

[PP Bear]

Having had the same experience in the past, I now hang these around the van, in a cupboard where they seem to come in, plus I pop them into the vacuum bags when storing bedding and furnishings etc. I get mine from B&M.

Van pongs lovely and they’ve never come back.

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[PP Bear]

Glue mats, I can’t thing or a more inhumane way of making them suffer, just before they die a horrible death.

While I don’t like them in the van, I’d never kill any of them, or anything else come to that, I’d rather keep them out or if I did catch them, it was in a humane trap and released miles away in a field. Nothing gives us the right to just kill them, after the life I’ve had, then every life is special.

I don’t even kill flys, spiders or whatever, I just let them back outside again.

 

[pappajohn]

Are they not now illegal to use unless you are a licenced pest control operative???

Illegal or not they are freely available on Amazon and probably garden centers and hardware shops as well.
If illegal how will it be policed?

 

[tonyidle]

Illegal or not they are freely available on Amazon and probably garden centers and hardware shops as well.
If illegal how will it be policed?

Conscience in my case.

 

[pappajohn]

The mice have no conscience when chewing the wiring.

 

[poppycamper]

Illegal or not they are freely available on Amazon and probably garden centers and hardware shops as well.
If illegal how will it be policed?

Yes I am sure they are.. and it's not "if illegal" but "is illegal"
Sorry pappajohn post was not directed at you but was simply to highlight to others that your proposed solution is in fact illegal..

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[Gromett]

Glue mats placed near every possible entry point.

That is the worst possible solution, it is cruel beyond belief. Even if you check them hourly you still have an animal that will get trapped and thrash around and eventually get it's body stuck.
If you have ever seen a video of this you would not consider using them.

I don't like killing mice myself but it is necessary so I want it to be fast and as painless as possible,.

Since I have been here for almost a year I have caught over 100 mice. One was caught in the trap by the tip of it's paw. I let that one go because it got lucky.
I am not soft. I will quite happily shoot pigeons, rats and rabbits. I am happy to trap the mice.

But it must be for a reason and it must be a fast death.

 

[Puddleduck]

Get a pet snake, if it doesn't scare them away it'll eat them, win, win

Don't suggest this to our grandson. He is desperate for a pet snake.

 

[ShiftZZ]

I have tried pretty much everything over the years. The only thing that has been truly effective sadly is peanut butter in a trap.
You can try the humane traps and release them but that is illegal.

Any deterrent will only work for so long if you have an attractive place for them. If it is warm, dry and sheltered they will learn to tolerate pretty much anything from smells to sounds. Even humans stomping around within feet will not scare them off.

I have trapped 20 in the last 2 weeks. Last 2 days are my first days mouse free. But they breed rapidly so they will be back.

And here is the evidence...