nonichris

We have had lots of field mice in our house in California and in our class C RV...they seem to be more abundant in the spring when they are nesting, and they do like to make nests with paper towels..We use live traps if we can be close by, but don't really have any good solutions except not to leave food other than canned food in the TM and to take out the paper goods. We have a couple of galvanized trash cans away from the TM to store things we think the mice may be interested in. They can get through the teeniest cracks and spaces, so it is almost impossible to keep them out. We would never put poison out because of the dogs, but mothballs can be kept in the original opened boxes and left in cupboards, and we have heard but not confirmed that rodents don't like mothballs. Mice are our biggest worry, almost more because they chew on insulation too, and can do some real damage. Last spring there must have been a nest in the wheel well of the Class C, as we were at a fairgrounds, and baby mice began to appear under the vehicle and were running out in all directions, poor things. We don't want to harm them or kill them, just to figure out a way to make our stuff unattractive to them. Chris did his PhD research on desert rodents, so you might think we would have better ideas on how to dissuade them...In Costa Rica we once resorted to putting a 2 meter boa constrictor in our cupboards to deal with rats...I don't think that worked either.