A mouse in the car - Need advice

Big Lar

So the wife turns on the air heater the other day and a ball of fuff comes out, kinda like tis snowing in the car but its not the end of the world as the heater works so no harm there.

Bag of dog nuts left in the boot for the last two days, there is a fecking hiole after being chewed in it.

Obviously a rodent, need advice before the fecker starts chewing wires

Mouse traps in the boot and on the seats at night, lots of them

R.O.R

Has it been de-catted? If so, there's you problem....

mickdw

Big Lar wrote: »

So the wife turns on the air heater the other day and a ball of fuff comes out, kinda like tis snowing in the car but its not the end of the world as the heater works so no harm there.

Bag of dog nuts left in the boot for the last two days, there is a fecking hiole after being chewed in it.

Obviously a rodent, need advice before the fecker starts chewing wires

Maybe stick one of those high frequency pest repellers in.

Wetbench4

Waiting for the octavia boot jokes:D

darragh o meara

MOusetrap witha dollop of sticky peanut butter in the footwells will get him for ya. Might take him a night or two but he'll get hungry and come down for a bite.. Let just hope though its not a rat... I have seen first hand the damage them fe ckers can cause and its not good..

Oh and dont leave any food in the car anywhere.That means hoovering up any crumbs or anything food related in the car.

Nissan doctor

Does she use the heater on that setting regularly? The fluff may not be related to a mouse at the dog food bag.

I've often been in cars where the fans are always set to blow on the windscreen and if you change them to blow at your face you get lots of dust and stuff blown out.

However if you even think you have a mouse in the car, get as many traps in there as you can as a mouse can near on write off a car by chewing wires.

Big Lar

Ill give it a clean out after lunch, with three kids there is probably enough to keep a mouse going for a year.
Will stick in a few traps later on.

L-M

Kids + crums. That mouse must be in heaven with the amount of food about haha

Big Lar

Deffo a mouse, Look what he done to the youngfella's bottle, as if eating the nipple wasnt bad enough he also s**t in the bottle. What kinda of a sick yolk would do that ???

L-M

LOL

Gary ITR

R.O.R wrote: »

Has it been de-catted? If so, there's you problem....

Just face palmed on the bus. Lol though



Op clear the car of all foodstuffs and give it a good Hoover then set some traps. Don't forget about them though, the missus could be looking for something and end up with a hand in the mousetrap!

znv6i3h7kqf9ys

From the pic of that bottle, looks like more than one or a rat

dgt

How did the mouse get into the car?

Either leave down some traps

Or get a cat

tricky D

Zayden Attractive Wheelchair wrote: »

From the pic of that bottle, looks like more than one or a rat

Could be either. Mice often come in numbers. A tell-tale sign for mice is droppings which look like and are a similar size to black basmati rice. These and the trails of urine are hazardous to your health.

MarkR

Urgh. I've the wife's car booked in for a valet this week. It's manky, and that picture just makes it worse!

(I would hoover it myself, but I got a gift voucher for a valet!)

Bandara

Is it a Panda?

Gary ITR

Hammertime wrote: »

Is it a Panda?

No it's a mouse

Poor Uncle Tom

Some traps in the footwells overnight as suggested.

From the state of the bottle, this guy is already weaned, he also seems to have issues with parent figures, shitting in the bottle is a dead giveaway there.

One thing you don't want to do with an adolescent punk rat.....

Don't leave the keys in the car........:D

Tabnabs

If the traps don't work and he's still around, I've seen people go Bear Grylls on a mouse/rat on small boats and smoke them out with a smoke flare. Find an empty car park and have the camera with you, it looks spectacular (but isn't dangerous, no heat etc)

Noopti

You could also put down some small blocks of poison. You can get the Rentokill ones in Woodies/B&Q etc. They (there is probably more than one) will eat it, leave the car, and die.

There is the small risk they will die in the car, which is not good. Try the traps first, but if they don't work then I would go for the poison.

exador

Is it a Minny ?

Gary ITR

Noopti wrote: »

You could also put down some small blocks of poison. You can get the Rentokill ones in Woodies/B&Q etc. They (there is probably more than one) will eat it, leave the car, and die.

There is the small risk they will die in the car, which is not good. Try the traps first, but if they don't work then I would go for the poison.

That Rentokil stuff is awesome and they usually go outside to die but I wouldn't use it if there are ever pets or children in the car. I know the chances of a child swallowing a piece is remote but it's still possible

Noopti

Gary ITR wrote: »

That Rentokil stuff is awesome and they usually go outside to die but I wouldn't use it if there are ever pets or children in the car. I know the chances of a child swallowing a piece is remote but it's still possible

Oh yeah, very good point. Put the poison in place that are hard to reach and/or only place it in the car overnight when not being used and remove it again in the morning perhaps.

Also if the mice are eating it there will be crumbs of the stuff around it, be sure to hover all that up!

adales

I had this problem previously, car was in storage under cover and mouse destroyed the driver seat, obviously some scent of food about. Tried traps and didnt work, as damage continued so used poison in the end, a brand called Storm. I believe it makes them dehydrated and seak out water, therefore hopefully leaving your car

Big Lar

OK the car is cleaned out and the traps are set, for the bait I went with rasher smeared with paté and I have placed a trap in each footwell, Also I have placed a lighted candle beside each trap in an effort to fool the mouse into thinking that its a romantic engagement, this I hope will lul him into a false sense of security.

Will post up results in the morning

gbee

Big Lar wrote: »

What kinda of a sick yolk would do that ???

There is a scientific name for this, basically many rodents are p**ing and s***ing constantly and totally incontinent.

gbee

Park by a lonely beach, used 3 ounces of Semtex and a 15 minute fuse, light, withdraw to a safe distance, claim the car got stuck in the sand the tide came in an swept it away.

dr.fuzzenstein

Noopti wrote: »

You could also put down some small blocks of poison. You can get the Rentokill ones in Woodies/B&Q etc. They (there is probably more than one) will eat it, leave the car, and die.

There is the small risk they will die in the car, which is not good. Try the traps first, but if they don't work then I would go for the poison.

I would advise against it, the mouse could crawl somewhere impossible to reach to die (heater system springs to mind) and the stink would be unmerciful, plus you might have to dismantle half the car to get at it.
We once poisoned a rat in our kitchen ,the fecker died behind the build in kitchen unit to die, no way to get at him without a chainsaw, so we had to put up with unbelievable stench for a few weeks.

Bandara

Gary ITR wrote: »

Hammertime wrote: »

Is it a Panda?

No it's a mouse

Whooooosh

gbee

For those who know the run of the rodent used several traps placed randomly without bait.

The trick is the mouse is only so intelligent and he'll jump over the first trap on his run, with luck he'll fall blindly on another random trap set nearby. You don't bait these traps as this will reveal their position to the rodent.

This should be immediately successful and you should have a dead rodent daily until they are all gone. However, do note that if the mouse discovers the other traps he will skilfully avoid them, thus the surprise element is lost on this family for ever.

So I'd place one trap, baited or not for a few nights and then place another six or seven in random formation ~ you see it in TV ads and cartoons a lot, but in real life the joke is on the mouse.

MugMugs

Please don't leave a lit candle in your car alone. All sorts of madness can happen. The mouse will sniff out the bait.

Poor Uncle Tom

MugMugs wrote: »

Please don't leave a lit candle in your car alone. All sorts of madness can happen.

Very good advice......

/you don't want them summoning demons......

Big Lar

MugMugs wrote: »

Please don't leave a lit candle in your car alone. All sorts of madness can happen. The mouse will sniff out the bait.

The mouse will indeed sniff out the bait, the purpose of the candle is to make the mouse more relaxed so that he will eat without thinking ;-)

Gotta be one step ahead of these little feckers, so you see the candle has to stay.

L-M

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Very good advice......

/you don't want them summoning demons......

Or toasting the crums + cheese therefore making a delicious sambo :P

JokerD

Big Lar wrote: »

The mouse will indeed sniff out the bait, the purpose of the candle is to make the mouse more relaxed so that he will eat without thinking ;-)

Gotta be one step ahead of these little feckers, so you see the candle has to stay.

The mouse will probably torch the car now as revenge for you trying to end it's life.

mfceiling

Peppermint aero is another great one for getting them.
The mint smell attacts them and they love chocolate.
Uncles filling station used to get one the odd time and the feckers always bypassed every other bar to get to the aero bars.

Hellrazer

Ill lend you a python to leave in the car overnight--that`ll stop the fecker and my snake will get a free meal

zefer

How was the mouses' romantic meal then??

Big Lar

Traps empty............... I'm feckin disgusted.

Rasher & paté, shur I'd go for that myself and the the calming candle down on top of it..... I just cannot believe that he diddnt go for it

Big Lar

Big Lar wrote: »

Traps empty............... I'm feckin disgusted.

Rasher & paté, shur I'd go for that myself and the the calming candle down on top of it..... I just cannot believe that he diddnt go for it

Unless..........unless............... he is wan of them fecking vegeterian's

Joe 90

R.O.R wrote: »

Has it been de-catted? If so, there's you problem....

I had that thought too.:)

Gary ITR

I'd say you'll need a few of those traps tbh

Joe 90

As someone said above, those ultrasound thingies do seem to work.

R.O.R

Big Lar wrote: »

Unless..........unless............... he is wan of them fecking vegeterian's

Off to get some Quorn for you then.

Maybe a bigger candle too, them tea lights don't last long ya know.

Tabnabs

You need the trap to be ultra sensitive, I found that I had to snip off any excess on the wire bar that holds the trigger in place. I had a ninja mouse take the bait out of traps for several nights running until I amended the trap and put a small elastic band around the bait (a nut) to secure it.

gbee

Tabnabs wrote: »

and put a small elastic band around the bait (a nut) to secure it.

Yes, good tip there too. In fact for a new infestation I will place loose bait on the trap for a few nights, then bring in the elastic band ~ result.

Big Lar

O.M.G. I just cannot believe this, I checked the traps this morning and nuthing, checked them there again about a half hour ago and the bait was moved on one and eaten on another one.

Its the straight spike on the trap, for gods sake do they put any thought inot making these things.



I have bent the spike on the trap and as Tabnabs has suggested above I have tied the food to the spike with thread with thread and greased up the trigger mechanism with a bit of butter.





Todays Menu:

Sausage
Paté
Butter (Left over from the greasing)

Knowing my fooking luck he will probably floss with the thread after eating the bait

unkel

Tabnabs wrote: »

You need the trap to be ultra sensitive

+1

On very sensitive traps I use a bit of peanut butter (the best). On not so sensitive traps I use a bit of a bacon bit stuck on with superglue :eek:

dharn

this is the funniest thread i have seen in ages, pate, romantic candles, are you sure you are not having an affair with the mouse

BrensBenz

OP, I fear you may be rushing into things here. Given the technological superiority of mankind over other mammals and the inevitability of the eventual demise of this mouse when this technological advantage is utilised, have you given any thought to the stressful and often neglected area of funeral arrangements? A yoghurt pot coffin? Lite or Full Fat? Family members and a few close friends? A private plot at the end of the garden? A tasteful epitaph on a Post-It? Or, (shudder) an unmarked and ignominious disposal into the brown bin?
Have you considered any more conciliatory alternatives, one of which, to be honest, my wife rejected when faced with a similarly prolonged visitation some years ago, but still appeals to me. Would you not consider an open and frank discussion with the mouse, with particular attention to the lavatorial arrangements within your vehicle? Because the volume of such….matter is so small, this summit meeting isn’t even urgent!
Advantages of this approach include but are not limited to: the mouse will not interfere with your driving; will not contribute a negative impact on your fuel economy; appears to be quite happy in your car and may, in good time, settle down and raise it’s own family. The mouse (tenant) gets a warm, dry abode, unlimited travel opportunities, access to dead human skin; free entertainment from your sound system, etc. Who knows? If your car was ever stolen, the mouse could assist the guards in their enquiries!
Perhaps a “room-mate” agreement similar to Sheldon’s and Leonard’s. “No chewing of cables; ablutions only in the boot; no camping under the driver’s pedals; no exploring up skirts or trouser legs, etc.
As stated above, my wife opted for the popular but more primitive solution. Oh, how many hours I’ve tossed and turned in bed considering what might have been! Are you ready for this endless “what if” or will you give this Buddhist angle a chance?