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Concours 14 Discussion (C14 / ZG1400 / 1400GTR) => Concours 14 / ZG1400 General Chat and Tech => Topic started by: klrider on July 20, 2009, 04:55:00 pm
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This tip from Foster Mooney, Chisago City, MN, in the August 2009 issue of "Fur-Fish-Game": "To keep mice out of gear during the off season, pack it away with a sheet of the fabric softener that goes in a clother dryer. I put a sheet under the hood when I park my snowmobile each spring. It even keeps my barn's feed room rodent-free. They can't stand the smell." FWIW. I'm gonna try it. ;) Pat COG 1887 IBA 5830 NRA LIFE VSSA LIFE Assorted bikes own me.
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Interesting!
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Another item that repels mice is mothballs. I prefer a three pronged approach myself, I use traps baited with peanut butter, rat/mice poison in concealed locations, and moth balls or dryer sheets in the bike in a couple spots.
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Yeah Fred but who has time to trap all those male moths? ;) Aging is scary when you start making the same noises as your coffee maker!
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We have three cats to catch mice. Since we live in the country, even with three cats, we need to set traps in the Spring.
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I have a Coleman tent trailer that gets put up or the winter. I used the fabric softener and rat poison when I closed it up for winter. When I opened it up, there was all kinds of evidence of rodents getting inside the trailer, not the least which was holes chewed into the tenting, and toilet paper shredded for nesting.
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We have three cats to catch mice. Since we live in the country, even with three cats, we need to set traps in the Spring.
I have 17 now. 10 inside, 7 outside. I still have mice in the house. I think the outside ones play with them until they're tired, then chase them inside, and the inside ones play with them until they get bored, and send them back outside. I can't tell you the number of tunnels in the insulation I've found over the years. Looks like I'm running a mouse rescue mission. http://millerized.com/pegs I'll be in the garage (http://www.yotatech.com/images/smilies/welder.gif) COG 6425, CDA 111 a through g (http://militarysignatures.com/signatures/member8960.png)
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you must have them thar W-By-God-Va kittys there Jim... I have had a bunch of feral cats living in the SkUnKwErKz for the last couple years (along with Feral chickens... and have no problems with rodenta...and when one does make it inside "MY Cat"(and Dona makes no bones about reminding me it's MY cat) just chews the legs offa them, and plays hockey with them till I toss the crawler out for the other Zombie's to consume...now if I could just get the cats to chase them damned possums offa my porch I wouldn't have to waste shells on them.... oh, at least you don't have a ROOSTER that eats chicken flavored cat food on your porch every morning "greeting you"....argggggggggg now back to the critter thang, never had any luck with the dryer sheets, all flavors...nope. Moth balls (when you get them..tweezers and microscope?)(joke) don't do it either...and if they sit on the plastic anywheres in the bike, will melt the plastic (wireing harness included....) so if you try this put them in tin foil... best bet is multiple poisen rodent traps strategically located around the garage, out of reach of pets. But remember, any poisened animal will seek water outdoors, and may become consumed by any other animal (pets included) with sad result...