I opened my glovebox of my F-150 pickup to find three mice looking up at me. They ran up under the dash. I had the same problem with my last ford pickup last year. I am tired of seeing mice run by my gas pedal while I’m driving ( very distracting) , as well as setting traps every night (caught 3 ). It seems every fall these mice are looking for a warm spot. I had to take heater blower motor to get one out . Does anyone know how to keep the mice out or how they are getting in? If I could find the fresh air opening for the heater I could cover it with screen.
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Have no idea how they got in but at some point they will chew the wiring. Watch out for wiring fires. Sorry I can't offer a solution.
How about a job site cat or ferret!!! Leave 'em in the truck all the time.
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How about a job site cat or ferret!!!
dammit! Ya stole my line!!
here's a little ferret story. Had one in HS as a pet.
the school on the top of the hill did some major construction ... disturbed the wooded hillside ... all the neighbors on the street had mouse and rat problems that fall ...
rats and mice were displaced ... started looking for nice warm places to winter ...
we were the only house in 3 streets that wasn't having any problems.
The vet said the rodents could smell the musk and just stay away.
My Mom started being much more open to my letting the ferret run around the first floor to play.
I'd put him on a leash and go outside on .... Rat Patrol!
JeffBuck Construction, llc Pittsburgh,PA
Artistry in Carpentry
I'm not sure how they are getting in but I know how to get rid of them. Wait for them to scamper across the floorboards and shoot 'em with the 410.
ferrets.
We moved into our big house in Jan. It took me a few months to finish the old one and sell it. Mice moved in. I brought over a couple "mousers" to take care of business. No can do! Then I brought Daisy, the ferret. 2 days. Only problem was the stink the animal left behind. Took care of that, though.
The missus is an animal lover. Right now: 3 dogs. (mine is the rodesian ridgeback hound, her sheltie, kids chihauahhahha (?) ) 3 cats. 1 missing ferret. 6 birds. (she runs a parrot rescue).
The ferret used to run around somewhat free. I guess she found a way outside! So far no littler vermin around, but winter's comin.
One Staci's friends has a ferret rescue (networking). I guess we may have to get another. ADH Carpentry & Woodwork
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my vet would't do "descenting" ... and after learning about it .. neither would I.
just gave "Odie" a bath with baby shampoo once a week ...
never got to the point of smelling bad.
his cage was in my bedroom ... we built a 2 story cage with a carpeted ramp that went thru a cut out on the second floor .... at worst ... that corner of the room smelled slightly musky.
JeffBuck Construction, llc Pittsburgh,PA
Artistry in Carpentry
Please don't ask why I know this, but mice do not like the smell of Bounce dryer sheets.
Throw a couple in the glovebox, under the seats and anywhere else you can get to.
how do you know????
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Well ya see, it all started out on a cabinet install where the home owner wanted me to cut access holes in the cabs so the tile guy could run tile all the way to the walls.
Now you might say, why not drop the tile first? But that's a whole different story.
Some folks just don't get it.
Darren.
Moth balls also work, but with a price. We bought a new John Deere windrower about ten years ago and to keep the mice out during the winter we put in a full box of new moth balls. It worked no mice but what a smell! Every year the smell leaches out of the interior and we have to leave the doors open for a couple of days to air things out. We still use moth balls, but we save them in coffee cans and use them for multiple years mostly in engine compartments.
By the way it is best to buy store bought moth balls. It is to hard to catch enough moths and castrate them to fill a coffee can full of moth balls.
da mice stayed outa my truck once I quit hiding 'diet cheat' candy in there!
Can't say with any certainty about Fords, but on some vehicles the fresh air openings are in the trough just above the firewall. Open hood and have a look.
Or maybe ask your mechanic or body shop friends.
Funny that this comes up now.
Yesterday was bill day for me. I went into town and was there for hours.
I live on a long and badly pot-holed gravel road. As well as tons of washboarding in the road. It is impossible to get down the road here, without the truck being shaken nearly apart.
I built a kludgey, ugly console to go between the seats, to store things in, and to rest my arm on.
On the way out to the highway, the biggest, fattest kangaroo rat type mouse jumped out of there, and then up onto my arm. By the time I got the truck stopped, it had disappeared into the back. (It's an S-15 GMC Jimmy.)
I got a packet of D-Con while I was in town.
On the way home, another mouse made it's way out of the fresh air intake in front of the windshield, where the wipers are. (Outside.) It clung there long enough that I got the truck stopped. Grabbed it by it's tail. And flung it into the river near the bottom of the falls.
Both times, of course, they were panicked because of the constant shaking and rattling of every part of the truck.
I opened the packet of DCon and put it in the console when I got home.
Of course, there is a sort of explanation for my problem. :)
I bought the truck after a rollover. The truck is damaged enough that there are openings everywhere where they can get in. It sat for almost two years with two very large windows busted totally out.
The entire headliner, front to back is crammed full of what I would call birdseed. Packed there by industrious mice while the truck was sitting there, open. Someday I will get industrious myself, and remove the headliner. LOL
I already have some major wiring troubles. I suspect it is from them chewing the wires. But I keep hoping it will stay ok until I have the resources to fix it. And now maybe this will get rid of them. I'll leave it there for any mice that follow.
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
-- Jack London
Stop eating in the truck. No food particles = no mice.
My wife used to eat on her drive to school about three years ago in her Durango. One day we discovered mouse signs. She used to leave the windows partially open in the garage, but closed them to keep the mouse out. That night, the mouse gnawed through two rubber boots and a plastic cover to get in through the 4WD shift bay. Also, the A/C didn't work all of a sudden. I found one vacuum line cut clean as a razor cut and no other damage. I could not get at the line to fix it so I had to take apart the entire inside front of the vehicle all the way down to the A/C assembly to make the repair. That was one angry mouse an I swear to this day he knew just where to cause the greatest headache for me with the least effort on his part. We now have no less than three cats at any time.