chunme
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We have been FT in a Fiver for 18 months and just got our first mouse. I searched the subject, but the answers were all from folks laying up their rigs. I have tried Bounce, that just makes it easy to see the droppings. The ultrasonic thing may not be working anymore (if it ever did). I don't want to poison them. The cat is 17 and can't be bothered. The mouse will not listen to reason. What do full timers use to repel the little critters.
Incidently, as I write this there is a mother deer and two young ones, cropping the bushes next to my trailer. I love this life.
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wayne_tw
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Go to the hardware store and get a mouse trap. Put some peanut butter on it and put the trap where you have seen droppings. The lucky mouse will get a nice taste of the peanut butter just before the BAM! One dead mouse!
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I use moth balls underneath the TT when parked at home. Not sure if that keeps 'em away but we have not had any as of yet...knock on 
If i thought I had any I would place glue traps around the RV. These traps catch snakes too...sticky little things they are !!
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The only way I got them was to set an enclosed trap. Bought it at Ace Hardware and have seen them in grocery stores. They go in...and they don't come out! They worked for me an no more mice. I also used the "disco pads" which do work too. Has the sticky stuff on them with bait. They don't leave the pad, period. You pick up the pad and all and toss it.
Do not poison them! They will go off deep into the inaccessible parts of your RV and die and you'll get one heck of a smell you won't be able to find for some time to come!
Mice be gone.
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DianneOK
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We use regular Victor spring mousetraps baited with peanutbutter and a raisin or dried cranberry. We also set the glue boards. We put them everywhere! Set about 6 traps and 3-4 glueboards.
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nifty250
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We aren't fulltimers (yet) but we live in a rural area and I do battle with the mice regularly. The most efficient way is a regular mousetrap and peanut butter is hands-down the best bait.
Do not be soft-hearted! As icky as it may be to dispose of mouse corpses, it's nothing compared to the damage those little varmints can do.
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We have a 2 year old cat. He doesn't know how to eat raw meat and I'm sure he doesn't know how to kill a mouse but he has played with 2 of the little varmints until they played no more. We also keep about 6 margarine tubs scattered through the bays with solid mouse bait inside each of them and a small hole cut in the side of them.
We had a mouse leap out of the rear cupboard in our 5W one time at a rest stop. It leaped out and ran down Marilyn's arm as she opened the cupboard. That was pretty exciting for all concerned. We used peanut butter on a standard spring trap that time and Mr. Mouse didn't make it through the night.
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Burro
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I would suggest anchoring the trap with wire. Otherwise, you might repeat our thrilling experience of unloading the entire basement to find the little guy we trapped, but who did not expire right away.
Find and seal as many entry points as you can. We have done that, but the critters still find a way to get in.
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Admiral
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Once you get that one it's time to start thinking about the next. That access hole is still there.
Get under the rig with a can of minimal expanding door and window insulating foam and fill every gap you can find. Check around wheel wells, where pipes and wires penetrate the outer skin and around the perimeter where the outer wall meets the floor. It will be time well spent.
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We haven't had mice in awhile, but we got them, and a vole -- quite a bit bigger than a mouse!! -- when we were down in southern NM. The cats had fun; they're still young and played with them 'til they quit moving. The cats also helped us find the hole; I was prepared with that insulating foam stuff. However, the hole was around the coach's gas peddle; didn't think the foam that gets very hard was a really good idea.
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