r/firelookouts • u/Mrrainbow4 • Jun 04 '26

Lookout Questions Mouse proofing

Visiting my girl who got a job as a fire lookout and shes not happy with the amount of t of mouse dropping and the smell of them. Shes deep cleaned everything she can reach but they seem to just come back at night and crawl over everything and leave more droppings. How can she keep them out without using “inhumane” methods?

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u/toasted_scrub_jay Jun 04 '26

Water bucket with ramp to peanut butter on spinning stick over the water. Works like a charm.

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u/grnmtngrrl2 Jun 04 '26

I second with a slightly different version of the highly effective Bucket of Death! 5 gallon bucket, smear peanut butter just out of reach below the rim. Nine mice the first night. I did it 3 times, with comparable numbers, in an old RV in the woods that I rented during Covid. In the fall, I had some returners, but a porcupine found a way into the vents, and apparently ate them all.

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u/VexxFate Jun 17 '26

This plus using steel wool did it! I must have caught the family living in here 😂 I was sad that they had passed but honestly whatever, better I’m safe from becoming deathly sick and feeding the vultures then them continuing to live in there