Mice in Camp

quote:

---

what are some other solutions?

---

Poison. I use those little yellow bricks that they eat and then die. Make sure there is no standing water inside your camp because they will go die there, you want them to leave before they die.

It works well but there will almost certainly be dead mice in your camp if its filthy with them, so be prepared for that. Some will die where you cannot get to them, dogs will find them, etc.

I had the sticky and snap traps up in loft and on some shelves where I had seen droppings etc. Hopefully with a couple on the floor (maybe by my boots!) I'll have better luck.

Just one bite poison. Knocked out getting mice and rats in my shed trying to nest in all my power equipment.

If you're not there to monitor traps then...

All good stuff---thank you. I'm thinking I may close it up for a few days with traps/poison/scent etc etc and just let them have at it. Come back a few days later and clean up the hopeful carnage.

The only way I'd set out rat poison is if I was on my way out the door and didn't plan on being back for a few weeks.


Some rodents WILL die somewhere in your little 200 sq. ft. camp and you're not getting away from that smell in an area that small, and nothing will mask that odor for long.

It will take a rat a couple weeks to rot away enough to not leave much odor once you air the place out. I recently had one die in a wall in my man cave that a snap trap apparently hit hard enough to kill it but not actually catch it clean.

That smell lasted a solid 2 weeks before it tapered off and finally disappeared.

adopt an outdoor cat, good one will bring you something new every morning

You definitely want to do this BEFORE hunting season if possible

When I was a boy I used to tear them up with plain snap traps and cheap Dubble Bubble gum. I'd chew a piece and when it was at peak juiciness and sweetness I'd bait a trap with it.

Our camp was an old dairy barn, so we always had mice problems. Many times I'd hear traps snapping while I was setting another one across the room.

We tried peanut butter and all the rest, but the Dubble Bubble was irresistible to those fellas.

barn cat

5 gallon bucket with coke bottle covered in peanut butter trick (look it up...they work)

fill up a generator with gas, put generator in camp, crank it up, get out of camp and close the doors, come back after it has run out of gas and air out camp


they will be dead