I found out about the oil once also. Luckily I had an empty hydraulic oil jug that I used for waste oil and grease etc. A large funnel and a stick managed to get the mice carcasses into the jug, and off to hazardous waste it went.
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Mice are annoying!
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A friend parked his new S5 in the garage. Ravine lot. Retired, and didn't drive it much. It was an expensive lesson.
Another oil thread? If they are saturated can you use them as wicks or fire starters?
Old anti freeze was tasty to animals but with numerous cats dying the new stuff is nasty tasting so I've heard.
My Mouse hunt ended with the one culprit in a trap but all visible entry points have since been sealed and gloss ceramic tile base boards added (Cheap at Restore) to keep any new intruder from climbing walls. Traps and a ultra sonic device have been added. I need to get new traps or clean and rebait the old ones. I've caught too many dust bunnies. No snack wrappers left in the garage garbage.
Mad Mike
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I have a dog and cat. The cat is part of my mouse problem -- he catches them outside and drags the meat to the back door. Sometimes they are dead, a lot of the time he brings them home, darts into the house with them alive and unscathed. He doesn't seem ever hunt them if they get loose inside the house.
The dog - she just likes to eat them, no hunting. The cat catches them then drops them at the dog's feet - she eats them like popcorn.
Mine just kills them. Once they're dead, she leaves it and starts hunting the next victim.
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Rodents go after the wire to wear down their teeth (that continue to grow). Guy at work with a new car had a squirrel chew up part of the harness while parked at work, no start and a $400 repair. Dealer told him 6 inches over and the repair would be $2K plus.
Our recently late cat was a catch and kill, it was his mouse and you had to chase him down to get him to let it go. The remaining cat plays catch and release, catch and release. We had a mouse a few months ago and catch and release was fooling around with it until I killed it. For the next week the other cat continued to go from spot to spot sniffing and looking for that mouse.
In general the smell of a predator does a lot to keep them away. Growing up we always had a cat, neighbours on both sides had infestations, we only ever found the odd (dead) one.
Our recently late cat was a catch and kill, it was his mouse and you had to chase him down to get him to let it go. The remaining cat plays catch and release, catch and release. We had a mouse a few months ago and catch and release was fooling around with it until I killed it. For the next week the other cat continued to go from spot to spot sniffing and looking for that mouse.
In general the smell of a predator does a lot to keep them away. Growing up we always had a cat, neighbours on both sides had infestations, we only ever found the odd (dead) one.
HarleyHare
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Houses in Switzerland (the ones in the country looking like Swiss chalets), old and new, are all built on a concrete or stone wall pad foundation a couple of feet high. That takes care of any mice getting into the house. Your ceramic tile idea is brilliant.
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