craig7h
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I am a large fan of the moth ball method. Like most stuff I do over kill the use of them. I take plastic drink cups, cut them down to about 2in, put a few holes in the side of the cup for air movement. Then add the moth balls.
I put those everywere in the camper. Yes there is a moth ball oder come spring but no mice. It does take some time to get the oder out but I feel its worth the no mice.
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car2900
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Duke-44 wrote:The moth balls do work. I put them around the tires and at the base of the front and back jacks and have had no problem since.
I would be very hesitant to put them inside the unit. My experience is that the smell will repel you, too. It will take weeks not days for the smell to disipate.
I also use moth balls and they have seemed to work. I put a small can with about 10 mothballs in my basement of my 5th., wheel next to the openings where the front leg jacks come through. I also put some moth balls in small aluminum cans and put one can on top of each propane tank and it has kept wasp out, so far.
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Texas Two Steppers
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It's a lot easier to catch them and nearly impossible to keep them out. I have a live trap I bought at the hardware store maybe 10"Lx6"Wx3"D with a door at each end. Put it in a bay with some peanut butter and you'll catch those suckers.
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I put out moth balls, and moth crystals inside and outside of our new TT. No food or anything else in the TT to eat and I still had mice.
Sticky traps and lots of caulking on the bottom worked for me. I was catching 3 and 4 at a time with the large sticky traps. So far I have had no mice for about 3 weeks.
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Texas Two Steppers wrote:It's a lot easier to catch them and nearly impossible to keep them out. I have a live trap I bought at the hardware store maybe 10"Lx6"Wx3"D with a door at each end. Put it in a bay with some peanut butter and you'll catch those suckers.
But by having the peanut butter out might you be attracting some mice you may not otherwise have?
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Texas Two Steppers
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garysol wrote:Texas Two Steppers wrote:It's a lot easier to catch them and nearly impossible to keep them out. I have a live trap I bought at the hardware store maybe 10"Lx6"Wx3"D with a door at each end. Put it in a bay with some peanut butter and you'll catch those suckers.
But by having the peanut butter out might you be attracting some mice you may not otherwise have?
Put the peanut butter under your neighbors rig.
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spadoctor
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The ONLY thing that works is sealing the unit so well they can not get in. My neighbor at our seasional site does mint oils...moth balls...dryer sheets...poison...etc and gets them every year. They even took the poison and moved the pellets into the dinette for storage as food and built a nest in an unopened box of Downey dryer sheets. This year they did enough damage to warrant an insurance claim. I sealed mine well with sparay foam and never got another mouse. You need to seal under the sinks...shower or tub...where the converter is located...everywhere. I used 4 cans to be sure it is well sealed. Another area that is forgotten if you have a heated basement. The heat enters the basement from a 2 or 3 inch hole drilled through the ductork into the basement....this allows east access from the unsealed basement into the ducts and into the unit....like a mouse highway. I chose to seal the hole rather then have the mice in the ductwork resulting in a lot of cleaning each year to remove the feces and urine left behind. If you dont want to do that you can cover the vents with scap wood and weight down so they cant squeeze through.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq9OiIZUuEM
Darn it I screwed up the link. Can someone redo it please?
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ACZL wrote:www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq9OiIZUuEM
Darn it I screwed up the link. Can someone redo it please?
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Voyager Mike
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I feed the mice.
Poison blocks work great for me. Pull the drawers and put them under where the drawers go and replace the drawers. Behind the couch. That was years ago and never had another problem.
A good mouse poison causes them to go back outside to die. I have no reason to think I have never had a mouse get back in. Just never found one that stayed.
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