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Gypsy Jan
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Thanks For All the Helpful Info
We tried the "Beer-in-the-Bote" solution.
The dogs drank the beer,
But, things are quiet around the house for the last few days and a friend commented yesterday, "Your cat is getting fat."
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
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\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
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\"Alea iacta est.\"
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woody with a view
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The Modelo model (sorry, i stutter sometimes!) works exceptionally well along the coast that shall not be named.....
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Jan, another point of consideration is, are you policing your dog food? I'm sure you're on top of it, just that mice love the stuff; a good sealing
large garbage can for the bags, and don't leave 'snacks' in the bowls.
When I used to 'palapa-camp' on the beach i'd look in between the palm fronds inside the palapas, and you could find about 10 lbs of dog food stashed
in each palapa from people putting out their doggie bowls, filling them and just leaving them for the pooches to feed at their leisure. Then i'd
have mouse problems in my trailer with them coming up the plumbing openings on the undercarriage; d-con was the trick. Good luck.
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
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Gypsy Jan
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Thank you, BB
Please excuse, I am laughing while trying to type.
No mice to be found right now.
Thanks, again.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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volcano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by huesos
I hate to say this but if you have mice inside your house, you need to find the point of entry and stop it from the out side. This is not complicated
and mice are dangerous. They carry an array of virus some of which are not clearly known spread by droppings becoming air born in the form of fine
dust. If you can not find the point of entry, find some one who can. Trapping the ones inside is only a part of the final cleanup, not a solution.
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Mice come in to my house through the palapa roof. Have thought about screening the underside. Any ideas or anyone seen a good plan to mouse proof a
palapa ceiling?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by volcano
Mice come in to my house through the palapa roof. Have thought about screening the underside. Any ideas or anyone seen a good plan to mouse proof a
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Maybe a twelve gauge?? 
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I put in the plug-in Sonic Traps that you can get on the mainland at Lowe's or Home Depot. They put out some kind of a sound that we cannot hear, but
the mice and rats do not like it. So far, they have worked. I have only been using them for about 5 years, but been very lucky so far. Lets hope my
luck hold up.
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volcano
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great idea...will look into those
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I've found that mice and rats can get the bait out of the traps with the tin triggers. The traps with the yellow plastic triggers seem to be
slippery-er, and work much better. Sometimes, they go off just setting them down. 
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buy a bottle of alkaseltzer crush up the pills mix in peanut butter and feed the lil critters their lil tummies will explode. works for unwanted
pidgeons too.
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Bajaandy, My buddy uses that trap, It works great! He then takes his catch
and feeds them to his large Bass fish, in his pond!!
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we are trying the sonic ones too but in our motorhome, the mice moved into it this past Spring and so we are trying this method, and so far, dare I
say it?, they have cleared out.
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I first saw that bucket, wire beer can trick years ago at a Canadian hunting & fishing lodge on Trembler Lake. Out of Fort St. James. B.C. Was
called Willo-Win Lodge. A frames. Fishing was incredible. Was run by a couple named Jim & Myrtle Farleigh from Bend Oregon area during the
summer. They had endless mice problems there, and the b/w/bc worked 24/7. Only required baiting & removing once a day. I was there once for two
weeks. They never figured out a way to make a meal with the 'catch'. Too many fish I guess. Their bed was even hung from the ceiling with chains to
keep the mice away. Aahhhhhh great memories of "days gone by"/
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The Ultimate mouse protection: (Tnx DK)
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Gypsy Jan
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Again, I Have Completely Ruined My Street Cred
I bent down to into the the dog food bag with a serving bowl and brought up a dead, dessicated mouse, sticking up out of the bowl like a swizzle
stick.
I screamed and ran away.
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
I bent d9wb and reached into the the dog food bag to fill bowls and came up with a dead, dessicated mouse sticking up out of the servining bowl like a
swizzle stick.
I screamed and ran away. |
BINGO! Dawg Fud. Learnt my lesson winter of '71: sealable big garbage can. (I figgered out the 'd9wb' btw) 
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
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Yep, always keep dry dog/cat food in sealed containers, this way "critters" can't get into it.
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Gypsy Jan
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Our Dog Food Bags Are Always Stored in a Sealed Plastic Garbage Can
That we bought clean for that very purpose.
I saved and inspected the bag the mouse came out of and it had no holes in it.
If anyone has a recommendation as to how to get rid of my nightmares...I am listening. 
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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Very simple. Use the same tried-and-true method for getting rid of Morning Glories....
MOVE. 
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
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Gypsy Jan
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Moving is Not an Option
The dogs say, "STAY".
What can you do?
[Edited on 7-21-2014 by Gypsy Jan]
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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