Mice chew on everything!

I had a mouse get up into the wiring of a brand new gas stove I bought for my wife... She was not very happy. Cost me about $100 dollars in new harness parts to fix... And the wife couldnt cook for nearly 2 weeks. I hate mice... But where I live it is a constant problem that even a army of good barn cats cant keep up with.

 

most wiring insulation now is made from soy bean oils. when the wires warm up just a bit from the electrical current, the insulation gives off an aroma, that mice, squirrels, rabbits, and other vermin like to chew on.

They’re Putting Soy In Your Wires, Man

Rodents Are Feasting On Newer Cars' Soy-Based Wiring Insulation

 

Decon helps with that.

 

Hell cant blame the mice... Looks like Licorice

 

Lol twizzlers.

 

I worked for a company that had industrial strength poisons... I got enough to last about 10 year's... It took me a little bit to figure out how to place it though so the cats wouldnt get ahold of it.

 

You need to worry about the cats catching a mouse who was dying of poison.

 

Yep, poison the rodents and poison their predators: hawks, foxes, dogs, cats.

I used to use Decon in a travel trailer until one day I began smelling a dead rat inside. I had to abandon use of the trailer for a year until the smell gradually went away. I finally found the skeleton when I was doing some repairs and had to pull out a panel and some insulation. There he was, skin and bones. Nasty.

Nowadays, I use bated traps which work good and don't allow them to get away full of poison.

 

I thought about that too.... But this particular poison has a very low likelyhood of secondary poisoning (posioning a cat that eats a mouse that ate poison). It converts to a gas once it gets wet, after it gasses off its completely inert within minutes. So when something eats this poison, the saliva and stomach acid cause it to create gas, gas kills whatever ate poison very quickly (mice die within 2 feet after consuming), gas dissipates leaving no poison behind, so very unlikely to cause secondary poisonings. But obviously since this poison causes a gas special care has to be taken that it don't get wet... And I wont use it inside or within 50 feet outside of an occupied structure.