severe infestation of mice in car HELP

[Matt Story]

In my Dad's pole barn is a bucket with a few inches of water.. the bait (peanut butter) is on a spool that's on a rod.. they walk out on the rod but when they step on the spool it's like a log roller, they all end up in the drink.. some weekends when I go there I have to fish out a half dozen drowned mice. I should make a video..

make a walkway up to the edge of the bucket and they find the bait lickety split.

These work as high production traps.  There is a huge variety of working designs to try.  Search "bucket trap, mice".  There's a bunch on youtube or google images.  For me, bacon bits (not the imitation bottled type) mixed up with peanut butter is irresistible to the mice.

[Sasquatch Jim]

  Page one of this thread has a couple of photos of a cuddly little mongoose at his friendliest.
 At least that's what they look like around here.  How they must look to a mouse may be different
 since they are bigger, faster, and well armed with claws and teeth like razors.
 Also they have a racial hatred of other rodents.  They will murder them even if they don't want to eat them.

[Triple Jim]

If the glass hadn't been between the one in the photo and my hand, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't still have all ten digits.

[Sasquatch Jim]

 But you could brag that you lost them to a mongoose.  For his size he is one of the meanest little things on the planet.

[rodekyll]

I got my leg raked by an otter -- twice.  I still have scars from the second one.

[boatdetective]

You know, if you rolled the car down the boat ramp and dunked it up to the roof- it would take care of the whole lot of them right quick.

[kirby1923]

But then you would be trading rat smell for fishy wet dog smell!

[redrider90]

You could try gassing them to kill what's in the car

Buy a bunch of dry ice and put it into buckets or pans of water inside the car and lock it up tight. Pretty soon they'll all suffocate. It's not a permanent solution because it won't have residual effect, but you'll likely kill everything that's in the car. If you're lucky they'll all try to run away and die out in the open.

It goes without saying you don't try and get in the car without airing it out for at least ten minutes lest you suffer the same fate as the meese.

CO2 is odorless and the mice would die in place...... in their little holes smell up the car. I figured on rubbing alcohol sans battery connected  as the flash point is 172 degrees.

[RinkRat II]

 AAHHHHH The Memories...

   Paul

[SteveAZ]

I don't understand the level of disneyfication that has folks listing the viruses and plague carried by vermin and then a description of how they safely transport the germ generators to someone else's house and gently let them go.  It's a very sweet gesture, having your li'l hearts bleed like that and all, but it's not solving anything.  You're just moving the problem into someone else's car.  If you're going to go through the motions, do it for real.

THEY'RE VERMIN!!!!  KILL THEM ALL!!!!

That's funny. I grew up killing deer, elk and all manner of small critters for food.

We can't all be hardcore Alaskans I guess.

I'll step on the next mouse I see so you'll think I'm a real man.

[rodekyll]

Then give the good folks here your address and you can be the official plague sanctuary.

[yogidozer]

look at the upside, you can use the high occupancy lane on the highway

[oldbike54]

look at the upside, you can use the high occupancy lane on the highway

 

  Dusty

[Triple Jim]

CO2 is odorless and the mice would die in place..

It's odorless, but in high concentration, when it contacts wet mucous membranes, it makes enough carbonic acid to burn like crazy.  I've accidentally started to take a breath of CO₂, and there's no way I could finish that breath, since a coughing fit ensued.  But still, there's no guarantee that a bunch of coughing mice could quickly find their way out of the car.

[redrider90]

It's odorless, but in high concentration, when it contacts wet mucous membranes, it makes enough carbonic acid to burn like crazy.  I've accidentally started to take a breath of CO₂, and there's no way I could finish that breath, since a coughing fit ensued.  But still, there's no guarantee that a bunch of coughing mice could quickly find their way out of the car.

Interesting Jim as I had to pack special blood samples in CO2 for a 24 hour air shipment.  I had the package in my lap  while I sat there breaking up the CO2 and packing the frozen tubes.  It was right in my face and i had no reaction to it.?

[Triple Jim]

Being heavier than air, any free CO₂ was probably flowing down and around things like water would.  Next time you have the chance, and have a cooler full of the stuff, stick your head in and try to take a breath.  It's pretty exciting.   

[normzone]

Being heavier than air, any free CO₂ was probably flowing down and around things like water would.  Next time you have the chance, and have a cooler full of the stuff, stick your head in and try to take a breath.  It's pretty exciting.   

Oh, I have a FAR more constructive suggestion - just make a large batch of homemade wine or beer in a 35 gallon container, then stick your head in and try to breath.

Granted, it's not PURE CO2, but you'll get the general idea.

AND, when you're done, you'll have homebrew.

[rodekyll]

My plants really like it when I loose the kraken on them. At ~1500ppm co2 they grow at a rate you can see from hour to hour.

[Triple Jim]

You're absolutely right, Norm.  I have that stuff around all the time here.  In fact, the last time I sucked in CO₂ was when I was sniffing a 15 gallon batch that was fermenting in a 32 gallon Rubbermaid trash can.  You got anything good fermenting?

RK, that's something I need to try, escpecially with all the free CO₂ I have around here.