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regarding Irish Spring as rodent repellant...

ChanW
ChanW Member Posts: 3,165
edited May 2016 in Tips & Tricks
Irish Spring soap, as a rodent repellant?

I think it's an old wives' tale. (Note the thoroughly nibbled bar of soap, right next to the battery box full of seed chaff)

Chan  -  near Buffalo NY
2014 S Maxx
2011 Tacoma 4cyl ... edit: 2022 Tacoma 6cyl - oh yeah! 

 A_Little_T@b'll_Do_Ya
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  • RZRBUG
    RZRBUG Member Posts: 890
    Sorry, Chan, but that's funny.  I use Gain original scent dryer sheets.  So far I haven't found any that have been chewed on.  Maybe they're using them for bedding material.  Actually, I park my T@B under an open shed at the edge of woods.  I use the dryer sheets liberally and change them often.  I also spread moth balls on the ground underneath.  So far (three years) I have not had any problems with rodents.

    Larry & Booger - 2013 T@B, 2012 GMC Sierra

    Happy Trails Y'all

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  • Nomad
    Nomad Member Posts: 7,209
    In a couple of old, historical buildings I've shot, liberal use f dryer sheets. Spend too long inside though it gets a little nauseating.
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  • ChanW
    ChanW Member Posts: 3,165
    I'm used to it by now. The battles are endless, between me and the local fauna, either in our house or barn, the vehicles, or the Tab.

    I'm sure I'm not winning, but it keeps me on my toes!
    Chan  -  near Buffalo NY
    2014 S Maxx
    2011 Tacoma 4cyl ... edit: 2022 Tacoma 6cyl - oh yeah! 

     A_Little_T@b'll_Do_Ya
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  • ericnliz
    ericnliz Member Posts: 4,437
    Have you tried training them to winterize, wash the T@B, or drive? ;)  
    2016 T@B MAX S-aka: WolfT@B
    TV: 2006 Chevy Avalanche LT Z71 aka: WhiteWolf, or 1972 Chevy Custom10 P/U aka: SnarlingWolf
    Spokane, Wa.
    Eric aka: Lone Wolf  


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  • Ratkity
    Ratkity Member Posts: 3,770
    If you look for the LoHo (Long, long honeymoon) blog on YouTube folks, they have the "Mouse Incident" in their Airstream. They are full-timers and do a wonderful blog. They are upbeat, funny and informative and would recommend their YouTube channel just for the entertainment. They aren't tiny trailer folks, but have lots of great information - the best was taking all the "home" remedies for the mouse problem and what their final solution was to get them out of their trailer (spoiler: the mice lived happily ever-after). 
    2017 820R Retro Toy Hauler from 2015 Tabitha T@B from 2009 Reverse LG Teardrop (but a T@Bluver at heart)
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  • Cyclonic
    Cyclonic Member Posts: 1,232
    I have drier sheet in mine as well, but I think our lack of rodent problem has more to do with the feral cat problem in my neighborhood.

    @Ratkity LoHo's mouse video is priceless.  Actually really like their stuff, very informative and entertaining.

    States the T@Bpole has camped, so far ;)
    Nathan & Becky... 2013 Ford F150 FX4 TAB HLR... 2012 LG T@B T@Bpole.
    Sterling, VA
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  • Photomom
    Photomom Member Posts: 2,217
    Ratkity said:
    If you look for the LoHo (Long, long honeymoon) blog on YouTube folks, they have the "Mouse Incident" in their Airstream. They are full-timers and do a wonderful blog. They are upbeat, funny and informative and would recommend their YouTube channel just for the entertainment. They aren't tiny trailer folks, but have lots of great information - the best was taking all the "home" remedies for the mouse problem and what their final solution was to get them out of their trailer (spoiler: the mice lived happily ever-after). 
    I've watched those and some of the episodes have been useful. They can be annoying, but not as annoying as the couple who've gotten bored with traveling in their gigantic motor home and have moved to a gigantic yacht. (Although that couple did travel with cats, which are an excellent mouse deterrent.)
    John and Henrietta, Late 2016 T@B S Max in Western New York
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  • Photomom
    Photomom Member Posts: 2,217

    Cyclonic said:
    I have drier sheet in mine as well, but I think our lack of rodent problem has more to do with the feral cat problem in my neighborhood.
    Feral cats are not the problem. Idiot people are the problem. 
    John and Henrietta, Late 2016 T@B S Max in Western New York
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  • Nomad
    Nomad Member Posts: 7,209
    Photomom - Couldn't watch a video by those two - They played way too perky and cute.
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  • Cyclonic
    Cyclonic Member Posts: 1,232
    @Photomom This is very true.  Fortunately we have good neighbors who have caught all of them and had them fixed, so it is not a continuing problem.

    @PXLated What, you don't do cute and perky :lol:

    States the T@Bpole has camped, so far ;)
    Nathan & Becky... 2013 Ford F150 FX4 TAB HLR... 2012 LG T@B T@Bpole.
    Sterling, VA
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  • Photomom
    Photomom Member Posts: 2,217
    @Cyclonic, your neighbors are wonderful. 
    John and Henrietta, Late 2016 T@B S Max in Western New York
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  • ChanW
    ChanW Member Posts: 3,165
    Maybe I should invite a feral cat to live in our Tab...

    That ought to do it... (from stinky to stinkier!)
    Chan  -  near Buffalo NY
    2014 S Maxx
    2011 Tacoma 4cyl ... edit: 2022 Tacoma 6cyl - oh yeah! 

     A_Little_T@b'll_Do_Ya
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  • Ratkity
    Ratkity Member Posts: 3,770
    ChanW said:
    Maybe I should invite a feral cat to live in our Tab...

    That ought to do it... (from stinky to stinkier!)
    *Imagines the inside of ChanW's T@B aka "The Scr@tching Post"*
    2017 820R Retro Toy Hauler from 2015 Tabitha T@B from 2009 Reverse LG Teardrop (but a T@Bluver at heart)
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  • ChanW
    ChanW Member Posts: 3,165
    While we're on the subject, anyone have any ideas on how to get the mouse outhouse smell out of the air vents in a Tacoma? They must have set up house in there this spring. 

    Continual battles... B-/
    Chan  -  near Buffalo NY
    2014 S Maxx
    2011 Tacoma 4cyl ... edit: 2022 Tacoma 6cyl - oh yeah! 

     A_Little_T@b'll_Do_Ya
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  • Verna
    Verna Member Posts: 6,876
    Odoban from Sam's Club. It took a terrible closed up, strange odor out of a used camper I had a few years ago. Just follow directions. Be sure to clean the headliner because odors stay in that. 
    Verna, Columbus, IN
    2021 T@B 320S  Boondock “The T@B”
    Towed by a white 2019 Ford F-150 4x4 Supercab, 3.5L V6 Ecoboost “The Truck”
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  • ChanW
    ChanW Member Posts: 3,165
    Thanks Verna. I'll check it out.
    Chan  -  near Buffalo NY
    2014 S Maxx
    2011 Tacoma 4cyl ... edit: 2022 Tacoma 6cyl - oh yeah! 

     A_Little_T@b'll_Do_Ya
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  • Ratkity
    Ratkity Member Posts: 3,770
    Mouse pee is the 2nd hardest tinkle smell to get out (unaltered male cat pee is #1). If you can take off the front of the dash to get into the vents to run a flexible wire (like cabling wire runner) into the vents, that's your first battle. Light use of Dawn dish soap and water and a preliminary wash, then rinse is first step (gets debris out). 2nd - Go to a pet store (even the big box ones) to get an enzyme cleaner in the cat section for your 2nd cleaning pass. Let dry and sit overnight. I've used Odoban and it works on about every other smell (like mildew and other funky smells), but animal tinkle is special. If you want to use it, make it your 2nd pass and then make the pet odor enzyme cleaner the 3rd pass. 

    Re-assemble dash. Make sure no extra parts are left over! :)
    2017 820R Retro Toy Hauler from 2015 Tabitha T@B from 2009 Reverse LG Teardrop (but a T@Bluver at heart)
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  • ChanW
    ChanW Member Posts: 3,165
    Ratkity, "disassembly", that's what I was afraid of. 

    I was hoping the threat of 'inviting a feral cat over to the house' might be enough to convince the mice to move out, cleaning up before they left...

    No, huh?
    Chan  -  near Buffalo NY
    2014 S Maxx
    2011 Tacoma 4cyl ... edit: 2022 Tacoma 6cyl - oh yeah! 

     A_Little_T@b'll_Do_Ya
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  • Ratkity
    Ratkity Member Posts: 3,770
    Welll..... (incoming story!)

    "There Ah wuz.... in grad skewl.... living in a 12'x45' Sovereign mobile home (complete with aluminum wiring) when Ah first turned on the oven. The smell wuz so horrendous! Apparently, some meeces has set up residence near the pilot light for warmth. Mah three katz at the time were all setting in front of the oven, salivating.

    The only ones who et that night were the katz. Took meh forever to get that smell almost gone. Notice I sez "almost". Dem katz always luved it when Ah turned on the oven. Needless ta say, Ah didn't cook much in dere after dat. Ah became da Microwave and Crockpot Queen!"
    2017 820R Retro Toy Hauler from 2015 Tabitha T@B from 2009 Reverse LG Teardrop (but a T@Bluver at heart)
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  • ChanW
    ChanW Member Posts: 3,165
    edited June 2016
    Hah! Smart meeses, maybe aren't so smart, eh!

    Similar story, only we kept our rag box under the stove (Note the past tense, 'kept')

    I smelled fabric burning, after lighting the oven, and found the rag box afire. All I could figure is that a flaming mouse had jumped into the rag box to get away...

    Funny image. Not so funny for the poor mouse.

    Very lucky us.
    Chan  -  near Buffalo NY
    2014 S Maxx
    2011 Tacoma 4cyl ... edit: 2022 Tacoma 6cyl - oh yeah! 

     A_Little_T@b'll_Do_Ya
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  • Ratkity
    Ratkity Member Posts: 3,770
    Isn't Mouse Flambé a delicacy somewhere? :innocent:
    2017 820R Retro Toy Hauler from 2015 Tabitha T@B from 2009 Reverse LG Teardrop (but a T@Bluver at heart)
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  • Photomom
    Photomom Member Posts: 2,217
    Ugh. We have an electrostatic filter on our furnace and once a mouse got fried on it. And worse, because air passes through it through the furnace into the ductwork, the whole house smelled like rotten burning rodent. 
    John and Henrietta, Late 2016 T@B S Max in Western New York
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  • Ratkity
    Ratkity Member Posts: 3,770
    Ew @Photomom! I don't think that's the recipe for Mouse Flambé.
    2017 820R Retro Toy Hauler from 2015 Tabitha T@B from 2009 Reverse LG Teardrop (but a T@Bluver at heart)
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