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PoodlePod
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Posted: 22 Nov 2014 at 3:55pm |
anyone had a mouse issue- droppings and shredded white stuff? how do you keep em out
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ron_whitt
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This is our 3rd winter. So far so good (fingers crossed.) We get peppermint oil and soak cotton balls with it. Then place the cotton balls in bowls covered with saran wrap with small holes poked in the wrap. We place these bowls around the interior of the pod and one at each end of the pass through. Then we are VERY generous with bounce dryer sheets and these are placed EVERYWHERE through out the interior and also in the pass through. Once the trailer is in its storage area, I then throw a box of moth balls on the ground underneath the trailer, as a first line of defense. Might be over kill but better that than mice in the trailer....
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Ron & Shirley W
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blondie
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Yes, peppermint oil and moth balls would kill us....isn't there something that won't kill the rpod owners?
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kymooses
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We've had plenty of luck with just removing all traces of food from ours each year as we shut down.
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ron_whitt
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Moth balls are thrown underneath the pod on the ground. The peppermint soaked cotton balls are not to bad. In the spring when you open up just leave a window open a crack and the vent open a little. You are left with an nice very weak smell, which in a day is gone anyway.
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Ron & Shirley W
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ron_whitt
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Yes Travis we remove all traces of food also, but we have friends who did the same thing and a mouse or two got in and left their marks. The mice didn't stay because there was no food. But they still had to wash all dishes, forks, etc. any where there was mouse droppings. That's why we do the peppermint oil, bounce sheets and moth balls.
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Ron & Shirley W
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