repelling mice during boat storage

[beezee28]

Re: repelling mice during boat storage

I say the green cube would be better because the mice/rat would go and look for water and die somewhere else and not in your boat. If they die in your boat, it would be messy and the smell would make you not go boating in that boat...

 

[newhewes]

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Just had a pack rat in the boat. Chewed up the wiring harness from the controls to the motor and the transducer wiring. Chewed them in half. Started on the steering wheel. Lovely little critters but enough is enough. Have tried both moth balls and dryer sheets and neither seem to work. Now I am using a live trap, very humane. The only problem is that when I release the vermin the dogs like to chew them up. Oh well.

 

[Kiwi Phil]

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I think the green cube is the same as our Ratsack pellets (green), and they go looking for water, so normally never die where they live.<br />Works a treat for me. Leave it permanently in the big shed and in the propogation tunnels.<br />Wouldn't use anything else, although am wndering about anti-freeze (if it's available here).<br />Cheers<br />Phillip

 

[swist]

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Try www.shake-away.com. It's fox urine in powdered form. For the first time in several years I had no trouble wih rodents (my boat is stored in the woods! couldn't be a worse situation, nut it's my only alternative to paying a boatyard $500!). You just put some on paper plates inside the boat, and spread it on the grounf around the boat. Causes rodents to think a fox is around and they stay away.

 

[rnsi]

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swist-<br /><br />How does you boat smell in the spring?

 

[tomatolord]

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no one mentioned the dead rat!<br /><br />if you kill one and leave it there the other rats will avoid the area...this what airports do, they shoot a deer and or goose and leave it at the end of the runway, the deer/geese avoid the area<br /><br />This works until the carcass is rotted away<br /><br />or <br /><br />minature electric fence so the rats can crawl under it?

 

[rnsi]

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I was on the lake last weekend, and my boat has only been sitting in my yard for a week. Went out yesterday to wash and wax, and the squirrels already started making a home. They started a nest behind the gas tank, and chewed through two more life vests.<br /><br />I wanted to repel them, but now I've had it. I'm gonna start killing. Part of the problem is my neighbor likes to feed them.<br /><br />Does the green rat poision work for squirrels?

 

[MFG197]

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I use mothballs. Has anyone tried those electronic boxes that emit the ultrasonic frequencies? Oh I think they cost like $19.95

 

[lakelivin]

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For those going the poison route, please be careful to choose and place the poison so as to avoid potental access by pets!

 

[swist]

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By the spring the fox **** smell is gone. I had no problems at all.

 

[jtexas]

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Speaking of pets drinking anti-freeze, I remember hanging out at my Uncle Pete's service station (remember "service stations?") as a kid, one day a stray cat wandering by jumped up on a workbench and started lapping up gasoline from a small container. After a couple minutes it started running full tilt around the station; must have gone around 4 times when it suddenly just stopped and collapsed. I asked Uncle Pete if it was dead. <br /><br />"Nope, just out of gas."

 

[NYMINUTE]

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Tried the Anti Freeze in a bowl in my shed. Got 2 moles the first night. Boat sits 400' away from shed, Plan to kill em before they discover it. Thanks for the idea.

 

[markvan]

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Anti freeze works the best - tried dryer sheets, moth balls, zest soap, if any animal rights activists want to pay for the damage these rodents do to my boat I will be glad to switch to something more humane, until then............prestone all the way. Beside it gets very cold here in northern alberta, I figure if it doesn't kill them it at least keeps them form freezing!!!!!!!!!

 

[BoatBuoy]

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I have never had a rodent in the house since I got a cat. It seems they know a cat's around and move on. I wonder if emptying a soiled litter box into an open container and leaving in a boat would work - much as the fox urine. Surely you have a friend/neighbor who would loan you some used litter.

 

[fixin]

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I've heard plastic snakes work,but you have to move them around.

 

[rnsi]

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You sit in the boat all winter moving a plastic snake? Just hand me my gun.

 

[CalicoKid]

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I've read that the gas evaporating from mothballs (ethylene???) can cause corrosion to some paints and metals. I wouldn't use them. I use D-Con packs. Yellow paper pouches of poisoned food pellets. I tuck them in corners and under seats etc. and even stick one under the outboard cover. Some have suggested stuffing a pack or two in the trailer frame too. Keep pets and kids out of a baited boat!

 

[jtexas]

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Originally posted by rnsi:<br /> You sit in the boat all winter moving a plastic snake? Just hand me my gun.

Do you plug each hole as you go, or wait until spring, mix up a biiiiiig batch of MarineTex, and do 'em all at once?

 

[drbobp]

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I had an unusual mouse bait. In my car I would leave Luden's cough drops (wrapped in cellophane) in my console. Each morning I would find one empty wrapper on the floor....no other mess that I could see. Put out a mouse trap baited with an opened cough drop (wild cherry) and got the perpetrator. Don't know if the ones in boats would go for the same bait...but maybe.

 

[NYMINUTE]

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i hate mices to pieces