Mice! Just bought a 2018 SR. Anyone living off grid dealing with mice?

Off grid mice are way smarter than those internet savvy on-grid mice. Sorry I had to.
This has always been in my mind to use.
https://www.google.com/search?q=5+gallon+bucket+mouse+trap&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari

 

I’ve used cayenne pepper sprinkled over a wet engine before but it will be really hard to protect all the wires as there are so many. Besides trapping (good luck with that!) probably the best and only thing you can do is make a mouse resistant paddock to park your truck in each night- a short wooden fence with aluminum flashing around the outside or as a lip sticking outwards from the top? This is what people do to keep porcupines from chewing their tires and other rubber parts…

 

If you make any kind of fence, be sure to dig deeper for install. People making chicken-mesh garden fences may dig a narrow trench 1 ft or 2 ft deep and embed mesh in the dirt to keep out burrowing/digging critters.

 

a 4” deep parking pool. Perhaps a small fence around each tire.

I’ve been thinking about this one a lot lately. I know someone bat just had their wires chewed through, I left my truck for 2 days and found mice tracks on the engine cover.

 

Yeah that’s true. Else he can do it on a concrete pad.

 

I just edited my other post with photos of porcupine chicken wire, you could put something like that.

 

I did grow up in a town with 2 prisons. So razor wire comes to mind.

 

I have plenty of traps indoors: electronic, snap, 5 gallon pails but I really don't want to put them in or near my vehicles unless I know there are mice there. Like the headliner of my RAV4... I took the overhead light out and secured a trap up there. That's the car I had to get rid of because of the dead animal smell.

Nothing in the traps for several weeks, now.

There is a spray from Tomcat for around a house foundation. I'm thinking that works ( I used it) so maybe a little paddock and spray that stuff

Snakes ??? No way !!!! And they don't work in winter, anyway.

 

I've been using these trap with great success. Super easy to bate.

Mouse Trap, Mice Traps That Work Humane Small Mouse snap Trap Power Rodent Killer Mouse Catcher - 8 Pack

https://www.amazon.ca/Indoor-Outdoor-Humane-Reusable-Catcher/dp/B09DCV79XW?crid=1MZ81H6H481UB&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.lYyCZ0UQvfQOIXaUCCM-NYoE9cHyh0oP7d2vzCB5T7ew6aHRvnUCO4zAGos6oGhzXuzN2m44kummE_j8Fms7d_qR7Yeyo1ICeGS0tSK35LCP0Oyvnws1mdo9ug87uMG-rJs_excQlYENNdnLQM44xi2sY0SOSI0o68j4pyyw9027oE4dtVnNF0p8YhzY8uQvu7VO1VEUm8iuLuyL1747SIjDSjEAGvX5P90cmnSRa-xO-XMMIEgBrcenobzNmADxezfzr3pe1VGu0xxlJYgYQ0aTJTXqqCK_gzSd_jcwwgk.HuPZllSgLHnEd1yTvx53NSqKeDqygqrGvCXhIir8894&dib_tag=se&keywords=mouse+trap&qid=1733338940&sprefix=mouse+trap%2Caps%2C95&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&th=1
I sprayed this around my shed and have not seen any sign of mice since.

$14 Pete Rickard LH526 Red Fox Urine

https://www.amazon.ca/Pete-Rickard-LH526-Red-Urine/dp/B0095I5GUC?crid=W288T10JC0PS&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.4mPtFb5MXSBNT5Nqhw6X1aZXbShf-hYSeRlDQBFs6cNwh3lHfbhgMWJorI0PWQKuibCsLQxU0bqtHPVvPtaCgnsG82BThf9uzaHSXrMypNyTBwdQVzWz3JCEl7kXAf2BZggm_Z-3A6N9OjrcSKbNxdON3MWC5GBZnNiGjO0viRlkL1RYc1KVN0aB-Ck94W0KxtqOIQPpC0XRjTTYONEjVEX8mm3x8YVSY3qbWWxd1sYS4mvebQGc3cN6EatMqcDxzRp20QnCzd8Ekjeos8AC0ZVTHC90kMN8Pa6iPR_Sxrk.c8rIt4kRt4LoZ_XjHy-j28EnesLi6UK3PHMh0GZGe0c&dib_tag=se&keywords=fox+urine&qid=1733339091&sprefix=fox+urine%2Caps%2C116&sr=8-1
I also sprayed it under the hood of the wives CR-V and have not had a mouse this season.

 

Dude. Wtf. Where is this? Canada?
Trolls like tires too.