The smell of a decomposing mouse somewhere forward of the firewall

I just got rid of a mouse in my house after a 3-month battle. After trying
every trap available at the hardware store, I resorted using D-Con poison as
a last resort--damn the smell. I was very lucky in that the mouse decided to
use my foyer floor as a deathbed. Scared the hell out of my wife but it
allowed me to get rid of it right before it died. The poisons use an
anti-coagulant that makes them bleed internally so death is not instant.

My observations (both first-hand and through research):
- Mice can become trap-shy rendering the traps ineffective. The one in my
house got caught in a glue-trap the first day I set it but got loose. Every
subsequent trap application was ineffective for that particular mouse.
- Sealing a house is difficult and probably not feasible for a T-hangar.
- Females typically nest in preparation for birth. The smell could be
augmented by a bunch of little ones.

My only suggestion after you find the dead mouse is to keep a fresh supply
of poison around the walls of the T-hangar. Any new ones will hopefully find
them and become victim to them first before they find their way into the
airplane. The circle of glue traps around the wheels may help but unless you
have a big rodent population, the traps will probably get dirty before long
rendering them useless. I watched as the mouse ran over my "wall of glue
traps" one day so it would have to be a pretty significant "wall" around
your wheels not to mention another checklist item.

Good luck,

Marco

"Peter R." wrote in message
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JJS jschneider@remove socks cebridge.net wrote:

I'm not very familiar with Bo's, but on my Cherokee we found a mouse
nest
in the heat muff around the muffler once.
Take a look there if you haven't.

Thanks. That is the area we suspect is housing the mouse.

--
Peter



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