On Sep 16, 10:05*am, "Eisboch" wrote:
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How does the rodents get inside the boat? *If the boat is kept high
above ground on a trailer, rodents should have a hard time getting
inside, right? *Even I have a problem climbing on board of my boat
from the step of the trailer. *I am not saying that this won't happen;
I am asking this because I have a boat on a trailer and I don't want
any rodents to live inside and damage my boat.

Any idea?

Jay Chan

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We have a pest control guy service an old, 208 year old farmhouse we own
once a year to keep it from becoming home for little field mice that come in
from in the surrounding land/horse paddocks.

He told me that field mice can climb virtually anything and can also squeeze
themselves through an opening as small as the diameter of a pencil.

Eisboch

The boat surface is flat and smooth. I cannot see how they can climb
up such a smooth surface. Having said that, if they can climb up a
rope, they may be able to get on board because there are ropes tying
down the boat cover and the boat cover is not a tight-fit. And I am
sure that cat can jump very high and can jump up onto the boat through
the transom (the lowest spot). You are right. If small animals want
to get on board, they will get in. Oh well... On the other hand, I
doubt that a boat is a comfortable place for small animals. Boat is
very hot under the boat cover in the summer, and boat is very cold in
the winter. There are probably more comfortable place for small
animals in my yard than my boat, such as my compost piles that are
warm even in a cold winter.

Jay Chan