For the last 6 months I have been having a constant battle with mice in the caravan while it is at home on my driveway.
What brings them in? How do they get in? Do they climb up the tyres and then jump somehow? I cannot see any obvious openings but I do need to get it up on axle stands to get a good look at the underside for possible routes. I leave nothing in it apart from "hard" equipment like cutlery, plates, and saucepans. Obviously I leave no food apart from the peanut butter in the six or seven mousetraps, which catch one, two or three mice every day.
My daughter did leave some food and paracetamol tablets in there 18 months ago. They ate the lot, tablets and all. But by the number of mice I have killed since then, that must be several generations ago. Do mice have some sort of "folk memory"?
I live in a rural area, with adjacent woodland. Yet I get no mice in my garage which is much easier to get in and has tasty stuff like grass seed in plastic containers to eat.
They do not seem to nest in the caravan (I have ransacked it for that) and when using the caravan away last week there was nothing in the traps, peanut butter left uneaten. The site owner said he had heard it was a common problem.
My garden, like most of Monmouthshire, is also infested with moles. That's another story, but the professional catcher I called in (he caught 7 in 2 days) said there is an epidemic of moles, mice and rats because so much pesticide has been banned in recent years.
How do others keep mice out?
What brings them in? How do they get in? Do they climb up the tyres and then jump somehow? I cannot see any obvious openings but I do need to get it up on axle stands to get a good look at the underside for possible routes. I leave nothing in it apart from "hard" equipment like cutlery, plates, and saucepans. Obviously I leave no food apart from the peanut butter in the six or seven mousetraps, which catch one, two or three mice every day.
My daughter did leave some food and paracetamol tablets in there 18 months ago. They ate the lot, tablets and all. But by the number of mice I have killed since then, that must be several generations ago. Do mice have some sort of "folk memory"?
I live in a rural area, with adjacent woodland. Yet I get no mice in my garage which is much easier to get in and has tasty stuff like grass seed in plastic containers to eat.
They do not seem to nest in the caravan (I have ransacked it for that) and when using the caravan away last week there was nothing in the traps, peanut butter left uneaten. The site owner said he had heard it was a common problem.
My garden, like most of Monmouthshire, is also infested with moles. That's another story, but the professional catcher I called in (he caught 7 in 2 days) said there is an epidemic of moles, mice and rats because so much pesticide has been banned in recent years.
How do others keep mice out?
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