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Old 10-17-2021, 09:39 PM   #1
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Default Mouse retardant - dryer sheets

Hello folks: Time to start preparing the cars for the long winter nap. And it is long in Michigan! Is there a certain brand of dryer sheet to place in the cars to discourage mice from entering ? My friend used a no name or dollar store brand and the mice made a nest out of them. Thanks for your help. Wayne
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Old 10-17-2021, 10:01 PM   #2
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I swiped a couple of Bounce dryer sheets from the laundry and have not had any mice. However, I don't know if it is the dryer sheets or just dumb luck that I don't have any mice in the car.
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my car smells like Irish Spring. i think the previous owner hid a case of it in the car.
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I didn't have great luck with the dryer sheets. So-far-so-good with the Rodent Repellent pouches though.
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Old 10-18-2021, 08:18 AM   #5
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I didn't have great luck with the dryer sheets. So-far-so-good with the Rodent Repellent pouches though.
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I use moth balls and they seem to work, may be. I also set about 6 mouse traps around the garage walls which I usually get 15 - 20 mice a year. May be the traps get them before they can get to the As.
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I use moth balls and they seem to work, may be. I also set about 6 mouse traps around the garage walls which I usually get 15 - 20 mice a year. May be the traps get them before they can get to the As.
my dad used moth balls and never had a mouse in the car but i really didn't care for the smell. i believe they work good.
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Old 10-18-2021, 11:12 AM   #8
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I keep bait boxes with mouse blocks on the outside of my shop. I want the mice to die before they have a chance to get inside. I also keep mouse blocks and sticky traps along the interior walls.
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Mothballs work well for me. We had a rat snake hanging around for many years until my wife ran over it with the lawn tractor. I started using mothballs and then she complained about the mothball smell so now I use just a few of them. That seems to work and she doesn't complain as much.
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Hello folks: Time to start preparing the cars for the long winter nap. And it is long in Michigan! Is there a certain brand of dryer sheet to place in the cars to discourage mice from entering ? My friend used a no name or dollar store brand and the mice made a nest out of them. Thanks for your help. Wayne
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Maybe some ideas to be gleaned from this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2J3JKOD5Ig&t=83s


Or maybe what not to do :-)
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Old 10-18-2021, 03:32 PM   #12
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Needed that today, thank you !
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Old 10-18-2021, 05:32 PM   #13
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for 30 years I have used Irish Spring shaved into strips in tinfoil bowls, placed on the inside of my Model A. change once a year.
Also a barn cat...never had a mouse in all that time.
Snakes don't like the scent of a cat nearby either.
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Snakes don't like the scent of a cat nearby either.
Yeah, but neither do I!
Where I park the A for the winter has a gravel floor, I have a piece of plastic sheeting laid down, and pour a ring of laundry detergent around each tire contact area. They can jump over it I'm sure, but it discourages them from climbing up the tire on an exploration trip. Also use a whole box of bounce dryer sheets inside. I can't stand the smell of mothballs, although I have hung bags of mothballs on my fruit trees in my orchard, deer don't like the smell of them either!
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Old 10-18-2021, 05:52 PM   #15
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I know it's the wrong time of year to be worried about mice but during autumn when they start to move inside, I put out packets of mouse and rat poison. It contains an anticoagulant which causes the critter to bleed to death internally. If another animal also gets ill after eating the dead mouse, it will be a fox. They are an even greater danger to the environment introduced from overseas many years ago. I give them no quarter.
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I have a 96 Dodge dump truck that doesn't get a lot of use.Always chasing mice out of it.A couple of years ago I put a bar of Irish Spring soap in it.A couple of months later I got in it and found thousands of little green soap shards.It looks like they ate them and passed them right out the other end.I've tried all brands of dryer sheets,they made nests with them.The mint bags from tractor supply seem to be doing OK right now.I used mothballs years ago like the old timers did,they did seem to help.While I like to poison mice,I don't do it here anymore.My neighbor raises/rescues/trains/shows birds of prey.I see them dive bombing the swale behind my sheds quite a lot.It's like a buffet for them.I understand it won't bother some birds,but it does kill the owls.
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I've been putting a bar of Irish Spring right by the hole in the floor where the clutch pedal goes through and never had a single mouse. I might put one under the passenger seat also.
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Years ago a friend's dad used .22 skeet shot on mice in the back shed.
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I have a Cat. Problem solved.
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Years ago a friend's dad used .22 skeet shot on mice in the back shed.
That's probably what we call "Rat Shot". The name says it all.
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