Minks in my C Dory!

REBEMUP · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 5:47 pm Post subject:

Rat Traps?

tpbrady · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 5:53 pm Post subject:

They work for squirrels when they are baited with peanut butter, but be sure the moose can't reach them.

Matt Gurnsey · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 7:22 pm Post subject:

tpbrady · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 7:32 pm Post subject:

There's nothing worse than a crazed cow moose running around with a rat trap on her tongue.

Yellowstone · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 1:08 am Post subject:

Perhaps boing on the net and contacting a minx farmer would yield some useful info. After all, they are usually able to keep their minx confned.
John

localboy · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 9:32 am Post subject:

16Pounder · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 10:49 am Post subject:

I had a problem with stray cats getting into my boat and spraying it. My solution may work for you as well. In sportings goods stores that sell hunting supplies, they sell coyote urine in small amounts. I put a tin can in the back of my boat with some shredded paper towel in it and a few drops of the coyote urine in it. It seems to keep them out. You can't smell it unless you hold the can very close but I'm sure cats can smell it easily as would a mink.

So if you can't put a coyote in your boat you can make the minks think a coyote lives there!

Al

rogerbum · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:29 am Post subject:

richnkay · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:22 pm Post subject:

I've used the steel wool wad stuffed into holes around the house to good affect in the past but if you use it on the boat, I wouldn't recommend steel wool, it will rust and break up into fine pieces that will fall, scatter and rust where the pieces land. Instead find the courser stainless steel cleaning pads and use them. My 2 cents worth.
Rich

colbysmith · Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 8:29 pm Post subject:

Bringing this thread back to life. I ended up with a pretty good mouse nest in the starboard port lazerette (battery compartment) over the past month. We live next to a corn field, and Midnight Flyer is parked right beside it. Corn was taken down late, but I know I've had mice get aboard in the past. They can no longer get in the cabin, but I have been unable to keep them out of the cockpit. The boat has a full cover and is outside. I had been putting Bounce fabric sheets all over in the boat, but think the aroma has pretty much worn off. Just wondering if folks are still finding the moth balls to be effective? Unfortunately, while in the past the worse damage has been the little monsters nesting in a pail, (I don't store it in the cockpit over winter anymore) this time I did find some of my wiring chewed in to. Was able to temporarily tape it all until next summer when I can do permanent repairs, so more concerned about that kind of damage than anything else. I did see one little bugger and hopefully scared him off the boat, but if not I placed one trap in the bilge. Tomorrow plan to remove the trap and just place a bunch of moth balls in the bilge, lazerettes and side compartments. Any other suggestions? I've also heard Irish Spring soap. Colby

hardee · Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 8:45 pm Post subject:

Colby, if you are ok with poison you can use, not the green granules, but the same stuff comes in a 3 inch or so green bar. The mice like the flavor and the bar, if you wire it down so it can't be carried away, (the little buggers like to take the stuff off site and hide it to eat later), they will chew the bar, and get the required lethal dose, get thirsty and go looking for water, drink and keel over somewhere besides in the deep dark corners of Midnight Flyer.

Harvey
SleepyC Moon

thataway · Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 10:12 pm Post subject:

I put the "standard answer" of Bounce Dryer sheets (found that mice will use them to make nests after the smell is gone), moth balls (to be toxic to the mouse must also be toxic to human--but have worked for us in the past). I read a few articles by exterminators and in the RV forums.

There is one product which seems fairly good--a botanical called" Fresh Cab Rodent repellant". Another which seems to work is the peppermint oil or the large tablets put in commercial urinals. Also some swear by Irish Spring soap.

We have used poisons in our RV's since it has been an issue. Not on our C Dorys, in FL, but when I kept one in Las Vegas, it was. That seemed to be "solved" by the moth balls.

Keeping the critters out of the cabin can be an issue--and if they get inside---watch out! We have used stainless steel scrub pads, in the anchor rode pipe, in the places where wires come into the cabin under the gunnels--(some boats may have voids on each side, even though there may not be any wire.).

tsturm · Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 10:59 pm Post subject: Re: Minks in my C Dory!

pcg · Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:14 pm Post subject:

Ummm... how do you delete a post? I can edit this post, but there is no option to delete it.

pcg · Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:15 pm Post subject: