[Lowell W]

I stored my Cobra in my new garage this past winter. It's heated and I never leave the doors open when the heat is on. To the best of my knowledge, there's not a mouse-sized access hole anywhere but, just in case, I put packages of poison mouse bait all along the edges of the building (inside) and in the cars, machinery, etc. A dead mouse will smell for a couple of days and then it's all dried up. Beats the heck out of having your seats chewed up or your pipes full of acorn shells. I bought an old motorcycle (Royal Enfield) for parts several years ago and when I removed the pipes, they were full of mouse bait, so they'll go anywhere they can fit. When I'm not working under the car, I put a bait pack on the top of each tire and a few on the floor under the car. Sort of like leaving a bottle of whiskey on the kitchen table for the burglars when you go on vacation (an old South African custom, according to an Afrikaner friend of mine). I think mice are less of a problem when the weather warms up and there's more activity in your garage, but I still make sure there's plenty of bait for 'em. Some folks advocate using mothballs to repel mice. It may work to a certain extent, but in my old Jeep snowplow, I found a mouse nest in the glove box on top of the mothballs. Also, the Jeep always smelled like mothballs. Now it smells like a dead mouse every now and then. To paraphrase a famous line: "I love the smell of dead mice in the morning. It smells like...victory!"