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06-03-2011, 07:45 PM
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Mice in the RV Thread - Tips - Tricks - Share em!
Well, I must say that we've had issues with mice in the RV. Our storage place must be just plumb full of them out there.
We store the trailer with zero food in it, even between trips in the summer. Dishes are washed, everything is put away clean.
I've gone to town with steel wool, and used spray foam to seal up my water fill pipe, water tank hose connection, anywhere I can find where piping penetrates the floor or walls behind cupboards. I've sealed from under the trailer and inside by pulling out all the drawers etc.The rotten things STILL get in!
I always catch them in mousetraps, and the seem to come in, check the place out, but they don't stay because we keep the food out of it. They seem to just stay in the 'sink' area. Never see droppings in the bathroom, beds, table, or couch. Just the 'kitchen' area. We go so far as to bleach everything out every time we use the trailer.
I'v tried the bounce sheets, mouse poisen, pretty much everything I could think of.
Any suggestions or past experiances?
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06-03-2011, 07:48 PM
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Got a strong stomach? How are ya with litter boxes? 
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06-03-2011, 07:52 PM
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06-03-2011, 07:52 PM
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Dont let the little Btds drive it.
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06-03-2011, 07:53 PM
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Lol He means get a cat. 
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06-03-2011, 07:55 PM
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hear kitty !!! 
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06-03-2011, 08:01 PM
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I have been told to leave bars of Irish spring soap around, I have and no mice yet.
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06-03-2011, 08:02 PM
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I have been told to leave bars of Irish spring soap around, I have and no mice yet.
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Done that too...
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06-03-2011, 08:06 PM
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Hmmmmm.......you got mice problems, but chase the cat away....perhaps he can smell your RV from his yard....too enticing.......but a cat locked away in an RV for a while does great work for both problems
Accidentally locked our cat in the shop for a few days....found the bundles of mice fur pellets in the corner under the work bench the other day.
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06-03-2011, 08:06 PM
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Mice, rats and cat all hate peppermint. By putting peppermint oil on a cotton ball and then putting it in cabinets and/or any way you want to. The peppermint oil kept them out
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06-03-2011, 08:07 PM
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Gotcha. Missed that one. 
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06-03-2011, 08:07 PM
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We store our trailer over by Canada Olympic Park with about 500 other RV's, so I figure the mice have a heyday.
I'd keep it at the house, but stupid city bylaws prevent that, so I get to pay $600.00 a year for storage!
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06-03-2011, 08:08 PM
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If you are only seeing droppings in the ''sink'' area, tells me they are getting in either from underneath somewhere still, or have taken up residence in the walls. The bloody things procreate worse than rabbits so they could have still been in there after you sealed the place up. If that is the case, you will keep catching them till they are gone because they have no where to go. In the event they are still getting in underneath, try putting a few of those pet proof poison bait stations along the frame rail on either side of where you suspect they may be getting in. The stations are cheap, about 5 bucks each. The poision is $18.00 a tub. After I sealed up the house. I had mice in the house here. After I sealed every nook and cranny imaginable, I put many stations under the deck and between the hot tub and the house. So far, haven't had a problem. One word of advice, dispose of any droppings that have the poison in it. The droppings should be green in color depending on the poison you buy.
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06-03-2011, 08:13 PM
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same problem
I got blamed 2 years ago since I didn't want it in yard so took it out to the tree row a half mile from the house. Mice shreded a few tee towels ate the poison and died. Vacuum and disinfect everything. This year put mouse poison and bounce sheets everywhere. Same damage to tee towels and a floor rag under sink.
Talked to my sister a few weeks ago who maintained a fishing trailer in northern Ontario for 4 years by a salmon river and the owner of the campground helped her winterize each year. he put a whole block of mouse poison (parafin and warfarin I think) under each trailer in October and never had a single mouse get in her trailer in over 4 years.
I am trying that this coming winter if it doesn't sell.
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06-03-2011, 08:13 PM
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I'm confident they are not 'living' in the trailer, but they do come in, check things out, crap all over the insides of the drawers under the sink and then they seem to leave.
I like the idea of the stations on the frame rail. Thanks for that idea!
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06-03-2011, 08:14 PM
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Oh and don't forget to remove the station before you pull away ( Advice for me lol). Could be rather exciting for whoever follows you down the road when it decides to fall off haha.
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06-03-2011, 08:21 PM
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I would be crawling underneath and sealing every small nook and cranny with expanding foam.
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06-03-2011, 08:21 PM
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One thing I have learned about mice over the years. Is that they follow a pattern. Unless there is something obvious that grabs there attention, they will follow the same path as others before them. Which may help explain why you see sign in the same spot all the time. When I had them in the house. All the ones I caught were caught in the same trap over and over again. A long way from point of entry into the house. The only signs of droppings is where they first entered the house. It made no sense especially being that mice have no colon ( or bladder) to my knowledge, everything they eat goes right through them. Every time I check the bait stations outside, you never see droppings along the house going to or from the stations, but you sure see them inside if they decided to stay and nibble on the bait for a while.
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06-03-2011, 08:22 PM
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I can give you more info on the bait and stations if needed.
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06-03-2011, 08:23 PM
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I've tried everything as well over the years, a guy last year suggested that anywhere it looks like they might get in...sprinkle cinammon....don't know if it was a fluke or not...but not one trap with a mouse in it...and no mouse crap anywhere this spring....dunno.....
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06-03-2011, 08:38 PM
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I would be crawling underneath and sealing every small nook and cranny with expanding foam.
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Yep cause mice have not teeth and never gnaw through things .....foam wont stop them just make it more comfortable for them.....they love the styrofoam FM on the sides of houses.
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06-03-2011, 08:40 PM
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yep, then you know where they are getting in.
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06-03-2011, 08:40 PM
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Originally Posted by mini-moose
I would be crawling underneath and sealing every small nook and cranny with expanding foam.
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Did that. Embeded the foam with steel wool.
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06-03-2011, 08:42 PM
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mother natures cure
down on the farm we used to stuff Clover ( the tall stuff that grows in the ditches etc) and filled nooks and crannies of the combines, grain trucks etc. I have stuffed it up in the tire wells, beneath the doors, hot water tanks, almost anywhere you can think they are gettingin. Clover is a natural blood thinner and if they ingest it , they die. It smells great too.
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06-03-2011, 08:55 PM
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Any chance you think they may have set up house in the enclosed underbelly.
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06-03-2011, 09:04 PM
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Any chance you think they may have set up house in the enclosed underbelly.
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I don't think they have.... for a few reasons. I've pulled down some of the covers and don't see droppings or nests, and when we're camping we don't ever have mice problems, except for once while parked in a grassy field hunting in the fall.
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06-03-2011, 09:22 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Albertadiver
We store our trailer over by Canada Olympic Park with about 500 other RV's, so I figure the mice have a heyday.
I'd keep it at the house, but stupid city bylaws prevent that, so I get to pay $600.00 a year for storage!
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You can leave it at my house for $300
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06-03-2011, 09:23 PM
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You can leave it at my house for $300 |
It'd cost me the other $300 per trip just to get to your place!
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06-03-2011, 10:06 PM
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My farm is much closer and maybe they will just go to your RV and leave mine alone?? rotflmao
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