Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 07:07:03 -0400
Reply-To: Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@NBNET.NB.CA>
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From: Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@NBNET.NB.CA>
Subject: Re: three blind mice
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I just use a pen knife … two bars of irish spring sliced-up and distributed along with half-a-dozen smelly fabric softener sheets in the pop-top and seat folds and an ultrasonic rodent repellent. So far it’s always worked to keep out the mice and has had the collateral effect that my son associates the smell of Irish Spring with camping.
> On 21-Nov-2016, at 00:14, Paul Freese <freese.paul@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
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> Take a potato peeler to a couple bars of Irish spring soap. Leave a couple piles around "good mice places" . The mice hate it and as a bonus it's a fresh and clean as a whistle!
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> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Dennis Jowell<dennisjowell@GMAIL.COM> wrote: David,
> I have used dryer sheets for years in my 88' Westy. Sometimes it works and sometimes I noticed that they will even chew on the sheets. As of now I'm using only sonic antimouse plugins. I have 2 of the sonic things in my Westy. Today I noticed mice droppings must be time to add/change the dryer sheets
> Dennis J.
>
> Dennis Jowell
> Scotch Hollow Farm
> Newbury, Vermont
>
>
>> On Nov 20, 2016, at 4:27 PM, David McNeely <davmcneely40@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>
>> Well, probably not. For the first time in nearly a decade of owning a 1991
>> Volkswagen Vanagon GL Campmobile, I seem to have a mouse or two that have
>> found a cozy home in my van. One nest was in the engine air intake, one in
>> the space under the refrigerator. There was no odor, so probably not house
>> mice, those emit a definite sharp odor. I did not find the beasties as the
>> famous Scottish poet called the one he observed. So, they may still be in
>> the van, or maybe not. Besides nesting materials, they brought in
>> sunflower seeds, which they had to have scavenged from my bird feeders,
>> since I store them in a steel trash can with a tight fitting lid.
>>
>> A mechanic here suggested scented dryer cloths, the kind used as
>> "softeners" as a repellent. He said to just scatter them around the van.
>> Has anyone else any experience with this method? Any other suggestions?
>> The van is kept in the garage when not driven, and I haven't found evidence
>> of mice nesting elsewhere in the garage.
>>
>> mcneely
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