They're all gone now -- eight dead in three days, and no sign of live ones since (for weeks). We were thinking we'd 'just' need to put foil cones around each of the dock-lines (so the mice can't walk up them) but then somebody pointed out the obvious:
At mid-tide, when the deck is level with the finger pier, and with any Northerly component in the wind pushing the boat against the dock ... they can just walk aboard direct from shore.
Looks like the Big Secret Trick is to leave NOTHING aromatically interesting aboard. And we're going to try the 'whole cloves all over the boat' that a boating friend recommended. Also we'll be leaving De-Con in some of the under-floor compartments where they nested before.
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Date: Friday, January 12th, 2007 03:50 pm (UTC)At mid-tide, when the deck is level with the finger pier, and with any Northerly component in the wind pushing the boat against the dock ... they can just walk aboard direct from shore.
Looks like the Big Secret Trick is to leave NOTHING aromatically interesting aboard. And we're going to try the 'whole cloves all over the boat' that a boating friend recommended. Also we'll be leaving De-Con in some of the under-floor compartments where they nested before.
(sigh)