Flybait and pepsi. Instant death!

I would advise against poison. You don't want him to crawl into some place and die, which they often do when you poison them. If he does that and you can't find him..... As tempting as it is to use poison, use traps to get him. In the long run it's safer.

At the cabin we use poison outside to try to kill them but over the dozen years we've had a couple get in. We had one this summer that died in a corner but I was lucky enough to find him before the smell even started. We've had customer's vehicles where they used poison and it died in the heater box. The smell is unreal to try to remove...................

yup red squirrels are the worst! Mice are a close second

I know Warfarin claims that but my experience has not convinced me that's totally true.

Ok, no poison then.

No idea. The guy at Ford says there are a couple of paths that they could enter. One through a pressure exhaust vent in the body somewhere in the rear, and another up in the cowl area. Opening the hood shows zero evidence of any mice activity up in there.

Interestingly, the guy suggested I actually back my car in for now, the thinking being that if they are coming and going, they will loose the memory path to the opening. Crazy eh?

Another possibility: my wife and I had done multiple boxed and bagged deliveries for a local chocolate and confection company about 4 weeks ago, over a period of two weeks. We used my Explorer. Perhaps they were brought in with the bags or boxes. I doubt it, but you never know.

As the old saying goes; they'll fit through a hole the size of a dime.

Friend of mine had a rat get in his house, an old late 1800 house with no insulation in the walls. It was in ceiling on the main level and made a helluva racket all night. He was able to get rat traps in there but couldnt get the rat for weeks. He put some of those sticky ones in there, tacked to the floor, as well as the old fashioned kill ones. It got so bad he was thinking of using his 22 and shooting through the ceiling.

One night while he was out, his 16 year old son and a friend were in the living room when this loud thumping started up in the ceiling, eventually it went across the ceiling to an outside wall, then it went down the wal to the bottom. It seems the rat got maybe his back legs stuck on one those sticky traps, it came free, and when he fell down the wall, the trap prevented him from getting back up. Or he may have been caught partially in a kill trap.

Hes still inside the wall, the house has plaster walls, it only smelled a bit for a few weeks. The ironic part is, my buddy has a fairly large picture on that wall, a smiling John Lennon. I am a John Lennon fan, but I think of that rat behind him in the wall every time I see his smiling face.

In the 62 Chev I parted out, I found a mouse skeleton in the head liner. In one of the 62 bubbletops, the 283 was full of grain and dog biscuits, intake, heads, exhaust manifolds, exhaust pipe, muffler, and out into the tailpipe. Saw a junked in the woods 58 Pontiac, the porcupine had filled it with about 2 ft of shiit, bumper to bumper, have a pic of that car somewhere.

Bought a '57 E-Bird that had been in a garage, with the roof gradually collapsing, for 30-ish years. When we disassembled it, we found a complete raccoon skeleton behind the front seat. That was hardly my worst memory of that car...

Try fresh ground coffee, say maxwell house or no name, after everything is clean and dry. Good to keep musty doors out of a car in storage. Id spread it on the area for a mouse odor, but inside a car for storage, just leave it in an open container.

I know many of you have heard my stories before, so I hope you dont mind when I repeat myself for newbies. Sometimes I even forget if I told the story before.

-- Edited by DonSSDD on Friday 22nd of January 2021 12:49:36 PM

cdnpont wrote:

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Interestingly, the guy suggested I actually back my car in for now, the thinking being that if they are coming and going, they will loose the memory path to the opening. Crazy eh?

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 True, they follow their scent (Pheromone) trails. Carpenter Ants do the same. Break the stink link (great slogan)

-- Edited by Pontiacanada on Tuesday 26th of January 2021 06:22:22 PM

I've set traps every night, and no signs of any movement. My hope is they or it abandoned ship at the Ford dealership when the car was left in the warm shop, doors open.