Best Ways to Keep Mice Out of Your RV

[ADCD52]

Hi I am back for advise. So we do not store any food including condiments in our MH. On Saturday I found dead dried up mice in the front right outside compartment.
Have not seen any other live or dead ones upon thorough search.
Is their proactive actions we should take to avoid finding a live one...that would be end of camping as far as my wife is concerned.
I have not shared the find of dead squatter with her phew.
Thanks

 

[RayIN]

Plug all entry sources to prevent entry. A mouse has no shoulders, which makes it possible for them to enter wherever they can get their head through; think dime size opening.
If you want to trap them, peanut butter on the trigger and even a cotton ball works. Mice are always searching for nest material and cotton is very inviting to them, and they seem to love peanut butter.
Personally I drop Tom Cat mouse bait down into every plumbing opening to the underbelly of the
RV. It causes them to bleed internally until they die and quickly dry-up/mummify-if-you-will. I've never noticed any odor from them either.
Dropping the Tom Cat blocks down into the underbelly means pets nor babies can get access.

 

[Adventurous Traveler]

Is your rig in storage? Or, did you happen to find the dead one out on the road? If your rig is stationary, I would set snap traps with cheese or a glue strip in that compartment.

 

[gwinger]

Plug all entry sources to prevent entry. A mouse has no shoulders, which makes it possible for them to enter wherever they can get their head through; think dime size opening.
If you want to trap them, peanut butter on the trigger and even a cotton ball works. Mice are always searching for nest material and cotton is very inviting to them, and they seem to love peanut butter.
Personally I drop Tom Cat mouse bait down into every plumbing opening to the underbelly of the
RV. It causes them to bleed internally until they die and quickly dry-up/mummify-if-you-will. I've never noticed any odor from them either.
Dropping the Tom Cat blocks down into the underbelly means pets nor babies can get access.

One guy at work lived in the country and mice were a real problem.
He told me to use a piece of hard chocolate (think Hershey bar) tied to the trigger with thread or thin wire.
The critter will pull and pull to get that treat. Plus his teeth will get caught in the thread.
I did that in my garage after P-butter and other soft baits failed.
All three traps were full the next day.

 

[Adventurous Traveler]

Great suggestion Gwinger!

 

[dcairns]

I have never felt inclined to protect the mice...

 

[Boat Bum]

I hate mieces to pieces.

 

[Ohiosnowbird]

Adopt a vicious killer.

We travel with 5, never a mouse problem.

 

[Heli_av8tor]

That would repel most humans too.

 

[LarsMac]

We are going on four mouse-free years since we started using this stuff.
BugMD Vamoose!
I keep a pouch in the Utility cabinet and one in the rear storage compartment , one under the bathroom sink, and one under Kitchen/water cabinet.
We also have them in the house near cabinets that Mice used to get into all the time. refresh them about every four months.
10 bucks a month is worth every penny.

 

[JudyJB]

That sounds gruesome! And I really do think mice are cute, but I don't want them in my home. Once, I was sitting in RV at 11 pm watching TV with all the lights on, and a cute little guy came out from under the couch, looked at me with surprise, and turned around and left. I am guessing he entered and exited through a crack in the corner of the slide. Ran out next day to get mousetraps and caught 3 that night and 2 next night and left next morning because camp hosts said the place was infested with them.

So, if you want to continue camping with your wife, avoid Elk Creek Campground in Curecanti Recreation area, near Gunnison Colorado.

 

[RayIN]

I have never felt inclined to protect the mice...

Quite the contrary; my plan it to exterminate every one.

 

[Heli_av8tor]

We are going on four mouse-free years since we started using this stuff.
BugMD Vamoose!

I'd love to think that this and other products like it work. I haven't found one independent test confirming that it does. I believe LarsMac, but have no way to know what his results would have been without using anything. We owned our 2004 Pace Arrow for eight years without any mice and used no deterrents.

We bought a 2019 Tiffin Allegro Red last May. I believe it was mouse free when we bought it. It's been in our storage lot all but 3 weeks of that time. We did move to a different lot, 50 yds from where the Pace Arrow was stored. The old lot had a buffer of 100 feet of mowed grass behind it. The new one is against a fence with a trailer court on the other side. This could be a factor. So far I've trapped 3 mice in the Tiffin.

There doesn't seem to be any easy answers.

 

[Adventurous Traveler]

There doesn't seem to be any easy answers.

Unfortunately, that might be the answer.

 

[Adventurous Traveler]

We are going on four mouse-free years since we started using this stuff.
BugMD Vamoose!

Similar to Fresh Cab and other products in pouches. I've had good luck with Fresh Cab.

 

[Boat Bum]

One mouse walked right over my Victor repellent pouch only to get trapped in my $1.97 mouse trap. After that I trapped every mouse within close proximity and after many successful mechanical and poison traps I have eradicated all mice in my area, empty loaded traps bear this out.

 

[RayIN]

I dropped TomCat blocks down into the floor holes for plumbing. This way the mouse bait is inaccessible to pets and children.
Mice are going to get in if they find a hole the size of a dime, since they have no shoulder bones, if they can get their head through the rest of the body is easy.
There is a mouse-proof foam spray to fill holes.