Western Traveler
09-19-2015, 11:12 AM
Finding mice wasn't surprising considering where we have been camped this summer but the circumstances are strange.
I had inspected the underbelly etc when new, added dryer sheets and cut up a couple of flea collars as deterrents.
While dry camped in Montana at daybreak a couple of mornings when all was quiet I thought I heard tiny squeaks but thought it was a couple of the many small birds around our trailer.
Soon after I found a dead mouse about 50 feet from the trailer in some fire wood.
a few days later I smelled that sweet smell of dead mice and on opening my woolen drawer found the culprits, three dead and a pile of De-con in their nest of my chewed up wool clothes.
I did not put out De-con and my closest neighbor was 1/4 mile away!
Threw out most of my beloved gloves, hats and shirts and cleaned up with bleach and water. Searched everywhere I could get to but couldn't find any other evidence of bait or mice, just under the sink and the back of the drawers that are open to that area.
Where did the De-con come from? Does Keystone put it in the underbelly when storing them at the factory? Mine came from their West Coast factory and was delivered shortly after building.
Going to use Fresh Cab when I get to a place we can buy some, and no evidence of mice since.
I would rather put up with the smell of dead mice than try to deal with traps if there was another breach so will but out bait myself unless others think that is ill advised.
I had inspected the underbelly etc when new, added dryer sheets and cut up a couple of flea collars as deterrents.
While dry camped in Montana at daybreak a couple of mornings when all was quiet I thought I heard tiny squeaks but thought it was a couple of the many small birds around our trailer.
Soon after I found a dead mouse about 50 feet from the trailer in some fire wood.
a few days later I smelled that sweet smell of dead mice and on opening my woolen drawer found the culprits, three dead and a pile of De-con in their nest of my chewed up wool clothes.
I did not put out De-con and my closest neighbor was 1/4 mile away!
Threw out most of my beloved gloves, hats and shirts and cleaned up with bleach and water. Searched everywhere I could get to but couldn't find any other evidence of bait or mice, just under the sink and the back of the drawers that are open to that area.
Where did the De-con come from? Does Keystone put it in the underbelly when storing them at the factory? Mine came from their West Coast factory and was delivered shortly after building.
Going to use Fresh Cab when I get to a place we can buy some, and no evidence of mice since.
I would rather put up with the smell of dead mice than try to deal with traps if there was another breach so will but out bait myself unless others think that is ill advised.