Gives the rodents light to see where they're going.......Hahaha.

Haven't heard of much success with rope lights as a deterent. Methinks Trailerking is right, it might serve to show the way to the food.

Not looking forward to the "dreaded mouse problem". My brain says find yourself a champion mouser (farm raised cat) and begin a new relationship of subservience to it.  

Our Josie is good at chasing voles, prairie dogs and field mice... not bad for a Beagle. She has kept them out of our yard. Squirrels are too smart and just torment her from the fence.  Don't know how well she'll do hunting them in a RV.

Brian

Another thought, Harry spent several days after we bought our fiver on his back underneath with a can of expandable foam plugging up every hole he could find. And for the winter before we were fulltiming, we left cotton balls with peppermint extract all over as we had heard that was an effective deterrent against mice. We have been lucky (knock on wood) as we have had no mice issues. (We also do have two cats. One is a great hunter and takes care of any black flies that find their way inside.)

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Another thought, Harry spent several days after we bought our fiver on his back underneath with a can of expandable foam plugging up every hole he could find. And for the winter before we were fulltiming, we left cotton balls with peppermint extract all over as we had heard that was an effective deterrent against mice. We have been lucky (knock on wood) as we have had no mice issues. (We also do have two cats. One is a great hunter and takes care of any black flies that find their way inside.)

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 Following up on Jessica's comment, one can also use steel wool.  The one thing with steel wool is that mice won't try to gnaw their way through that like they might do with foam or other substances.  We had some mouse problems last year and I put out traps to get most of them, but also used a small amount of steel wool in the few places of entrance that they might find.  The only one that I knew of was certain to give them access to the interior was a small opening between the compartment for water and holding tank valves and the basement of the coach.

We've not seen any sign of mice for quite some time now.  However, while I was trying to trap them, one of them managed to not get killed by the trap.  I heard it go off because I was lying in bed above it, but when I went to get the mouse thrown away, he and the trap were gone.  I suspect there is a mouse carcass and trap lying together somewhere in our underbelly.

Terry