 Pesky meesis!
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For the first time in 7 years ownership my 08 EFI TBA refused to start on Friday morning. Lights but no turning over meaning the battery was probably too low. Put it on charge and sure enough fired up o.k. in evening so bought new Motobatt. The old Yuasa was the original one so no complaints on that score. Nine years service is more than acceptable in my book (think keeping it on tender every other week definitely helps). Fitted new battery this morning and took the opportunity to look around the bike and discovered detritus sitting in the bottom of the DNA air filter I'd fitted, together with the breathe cover from TTP. Vacuumed it out and found it was about a handful of large chewed plant seeds that a mouse had obviously been storing there and feasting on. Luckily Mickey hadn't taken up residence, just using it for a lunch stop, and also luckily decide not to chew anything else nearby. Anyone know best way to prevent similar occurrence?
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Monkey Butt
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Get a little terrier, they hate rodents. 
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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Paradichlorobenzene, AKA mothballs. I keep them around anything that doesn't move very often as a general pest deterrent. The most effective rodenticides are anti-coagulants and are not kind to people or pets. That would be a last resort for me, but depending on your situation would definitely be the most effective.
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Monkey Butt
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Paradichlorobenzene, AKA mothballs. I keep them around anything that doesn't move very often as a general pest deterrent. The most effective rodenticides are anti-coagulants and are not kind to people or pets. That would be a last resort for me, but depending on your situation would definitely be the most effective.
They certainly work but, as you said, they are just as deadly to dogs and cats. We lost the sweetest Border Collie that way when she got into some of it in a barn. Now I put down some sticky stuff that will hold mice. It holds the mice until they die but just makes the dogs and cats go nuts until you take it off them.
I once lived in an old farm house with a huge mouse problem every autumn. I poisoned the varmints and they died in the walls. The place stunk of rotting mice for weeks. I adopted a 15 lb terrier the following year. He caught them at a rate of two or three every day as the weather got colder. The only bad part is that he would leave their little chewed up bodies on my favorite chair to demonstrate what a good dog he was. More than forty years later I still check my chair before I sit.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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Check Pants
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Ferrets make amazing mousers, and they can go places cats and Terriers can't. They're bloody killing machines and they really (gross noises of extreme pleasure and mayhem) enjoy it. They only like one thing better and that's making little Ferrets.
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Fe Butt
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Fe Butt
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I use bounce dryer sheets, they smell better and rodents don't like them.I can't remember what is in them but there is something poisonous to them in them and they stay away. I used to have a problem with mice on my bikes in the winter, since the dryer sheets I have not had an issue.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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Fe Butt
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I decided to seach the net on dryer sheets and I found arguments for and against the use. All I can say is they worked for me. The net says they will get used to the smell and they will cease to work. Might be why they work for me since I only use them for the winter months.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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Hey Dog33!!I put Irish spring barsoap- And WATER dry- in my hotrods........... Water dry for dampness,and Green (Irish Spring)barsoap for mice.No mice yet. btw hows things going for you? Haven't talked to you in a lonnnng time?
bob s
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Worn Saddle
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Worn Saddle
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I've been using mothballs for years in my old cars. Seems to do pretty well.
Fidelis et Fortis
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Fe Butt
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They do but they smell like mothballs.I might use them too but how do you hold the moths down to cut the little things off?
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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Check Pants
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They do but they smell like mothballs.I might use them too but how do you hold the moths down to cut the little things off?
Precision Microsurgery along with minute amounts of anesthesia and numbing compound drugs, would be my guess.
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Worn Saddle
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They do but they smell like mothballs.I might use them too but how do you hold the moths down to cut the little things off?
Like anything else Ian, practice, practice, practice!
Fidelis et Fortis
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Adjunct
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And if it is a female moth you done just wasted a lot of time
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