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CRAMD

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Posted: 10/06/08 08:54am

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Eric & Penny wrote:

Also - don't know if this is true, but I read somewhere that rodents don't like walking on gravel (which is what our 5ver is sitting on). Does anyone here now anything about this?

This is totally false. I have seen mice walking on gravel any number of times. The type of surface they walk on means nothing to them (unless it is water too deep to walk through).

We leave bedding,towels,dry food in plastic containers,etc. in the fiver all winter.No windows/vents are ever left open,as we have never had any moisture problems (winters are quite dry here on the prairie). There would be in the spring however,if any crack was left open for snow to blow in and pile up in drifts.We also never heat the trailer in the winter-far too expensive, and not necessary.

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Posted: 10/06/08 03:13pm

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A trick we learned a long time ago for when you are taking stuff out of the RV is MAKE A LIST! Mostly what you are taking out will be canned goods and food that can't freeze but you'll likely take some glass jars out of the bathroom and maybe some booze. By spring you will have forgotten exactly what you took into the house & it really helps to have that list when you go to put it all back.

And if all it took to keep rats & mice out was a strip of gravel life would be incredibly easy. We have used mothballs scattered on the floor - that appeared to work but maybe we just go lucky. I use to put lots of bait around the wheels when we parked for the winter and we always keep bait in cat proof containers both in the bays and in some of the bottom cupboards. Just take a margarine tub and cut a hole the size of a quarter in the side of it. Write on it with marking pen to identify it and put some solid bait stick inside it. If you are using solid bait in the rig then use grain or soluble bait around it to up your chances of finding something the little buggers like to eat.

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