5 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

The problem you run into is that people won’t believe what you just said!!

Believe me, I had a lot of people accuse me of making their animals sick.  I would always just drop off a copy of the equivalent of a MDS sheet that we were required to carry by law and told them to take it to their vet and if they said it was my product, I would cover the vet bill.  I never had to pay any vet bills.  ?

14 hours ago, TOXIC said:

Believe me, I had a lot of people accuse me of making their animals sick.  I would always just drop off a copy of the equivalent of a MDS sheet that we were required to carry by law and told them to take it to their vet and if they said it was my product, I would cover the vet bill.  I never had to pay any vet bills.  ?

My friends dog gobbled up a dead mouse that had (maybe) been poisoned. They pretty much cried their eyes out and planned the dogs funeral, while the dog had no symptoms and is doing just fine (old tiny dog too). Things that never actually happen scare people the worst! 

I store all my stuff in a non insulated pole barn (metal building). I had mice when I first moved in. I went to lowes and purchased a couple of the electric deterrents units. They provide a low frequency noise that is supposed to deter mice. I change them out every year, and they have worked for me. 

 

Also for the boat specifically. I place dryer sheets in each compartment and on top of the seats etc. That seemed to keep them out of the compartments for me. 

 

Doing all of those things along with a couple sticky traps allowed me to keep the mice out last winter. I only was able to get 1 mouse on the sticky pad right by the back door all winter. No poop, no chewed up wires!

If you can tack the sticky trap down.  I had one little crazy flip the whole thing sticky side down. What a mess.

I put one of those sticky traps up in the suspended ceiling of a place where I used to live and attached it to a piece of wire.  When I got home from work I got up on a stepladder to check it.  There was a flying squirrel stuck from his belly back to his tail on the sticky stuff and his front half off the tray.

 

As I was carefully unhooking the trap and taking it out of the ceiling, the phone rang.  I answered the phone with the trap in one hand with the flying squirrel hanging off the end of it, struggling to get free.  Without thinking (the back story to most screw-ups) I switched hands with the phone and trap.

 

As my hands came together during the exchange, the squirrel reached out and bit my index finger deeply.  I yelled.  My girlfriend, on the phone, asked exactly what in the holy heck was going on.  I told her I was just bitten by a flying squirrel.  You can imagine her response.  "What the... ?!"

 

I never bought another glue trap.

 

 

Glue traps are the worst!!