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Hi listers
I like to share my experience with others. Two years ago, southern Norway was
invaded by mice. In the early summer, a local strawberry farmer lost tons of
his harvest because mice came in from the woods and bit off the stem of all the
unripe berries. In October same year I went to Long Island with my family,
leaving our two cars unattended in their garage for 10 days. When we came back,
the mice had done their job. Even with 3 cats at home, 2 female and one lazy
male, the mice had worked hard. Apart from hoses, plug cables, wire harness
etc. half the gear knob of my wifes car was gone together with the push button
on the torch laying in the glove box, it appears that mice prefer things you
have had your hands on. We even trapped a few mice inside the cars.
The same week I went to see the ski-doo we use every winter for making
cross-country tracks - it was an ugly sight. Only a couple of years old, it was
completely destroyed, nothing left "ungnawed"; wiring harness, hoses,
insulation, they even made a 10 x 10 x 8 inch hole in the seat cushion. The
cost to repair it was 1500 dollars.
The workshop confirmed that lawn-movers, farm tractors cars etc. suffered this
fall.
The ultimate solution when mice attack so massive is either to hang whatever
you want to protect in wires from the roof (easy to check your Tigers
underbody), or go out in the forest, cut a lot of juniper and place the car on
it (the ski-doo is now placed on a "juniper mat"). Mice hate juniper, at least
in Norway they do, if it is the smell, taste or the needles I can't tell.
Jostein Aalvik
Norway
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