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rmk4ever

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How do you keep theese things out of the enclosed trailer?
I've got a 24 ft. haulmark race car trlr, & this yr it was turned into the "shrew motel"
Theese things got in the ceiling & made there home around the overhead lights.
Then they took over one of the covers, chewed holes thru that, & one made a little love nest inside the windsheild bag on my ' 04 800 rmk. GRRRRRR! I've tried the moth balls, traps, poison, dryer sheets, nothing phases theese buggers (shrews)
 
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catdog

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Shrews eat about 90% of their body weight a day so you should eliminate their food source which is mostly insects.
 
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tyeeman

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X2 on the sticky traps! Those things work for everything. The latest thing I found they worked for was crickets. Now's the time of year they start heading inside for the winter, since I've had sticky traps out for mice since last year it's been the quitest in the garage since , , , we moved in. We even put some sticky pads in the basement for the crickets that get in there. Nice and quiet this year in the basement too. :D
But also, like Scott I said, find out where they get in and seal er up. could be a hole as big as a nickle or a quarter, , maybe like where some wiring goes from outside to inside, , something like that.
 
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olddoo

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Don't laugh on this but try Irish Spring soap. Just take the bar out of the box and place it in the trailer. Farm clients told me about this and it works. Had a mouse in our garage, put out the soap and it left. Haven't had a mouse in 2 years.
 
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booondocker

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Just like your home or garage, there is NO substitute for closing up the holes.

Mice will get in there and they can chew sled wiring, holes in covers, build nests in exhaust openings...the list is endless.

Having had this problem myself with my enclosed larger cargo type trailers, you must pull the trailer up on the concrete and climb under with trouble light.

Start at the front of the trailer and move back.

Once you identify the locations usually along the edge where the openings are, get a can of minimally expanding spray foam and and extension to the crappy short tube they give you with the can of dope and start squirting the holes full.

Places to be sure to locate....wire entry locations, vents...(are they big enough to pass a penny thru???) ( box these locations off with box screens screwed to the inside of the trailer.) Also if the doors don't close tight enough they get in there too.

Finally, my trailer has a couple vents which I leave open, and sure enough....don't know how they climb the slippery sides but once up there they scamper around on the roof and squeeze thru the screen vent around the little crank that opens and closes it up....I kept getting dead mice laying next to the vents at the bottom til I figured out about the upper vents allowing them to get in.

Hey, it's a pain to climb under and do this...but peace of mind in the fall is worth it's weight in gold...even at today's prices.

Once you seal it up....you will be mouse free...rodent free...and that is a good thing.

Hey I had such a problem....I was ready to start feeding stray cats to get rid of the mice....but then you end up with other issues.....just do it and get-er done!
 
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booondocker

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olddoo said:
Don't laugh on this but try Irish Spring soap. Just take the bar out of the box and place it in the trailer. Farm clients told me about this and it works. Had a mouse in our garage, put out the soap and it left. Haven't had a mouse in 2 years.
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I can understand why....that stuff really stinks....and I would want to re-locate too!
 
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rmk4ever

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700classic said:
But what if you have Irish mice,won't that attract them?:D
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Well with the Irish mice I just fill a cup of bushmills (wait till they drink it) & sit back & enjoy the fights! I got lucky with some sticky traps this weekend & got a couple. What I need to do is seal it up like boondocker said.
 
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