My dad used to have a big old wooden boat back in the 70’s & we think a Mink got aboard.Say think cos we never actually saw it or caught it,but could hear it running about in the night,the boat had 80 gallon diesel tanks that ran down each side of the hull,we could hear it running up & down them all night.It also used to eat through the wiring loom all the time,we’d all be sitting there at night & suddenly all the lights would go out,so were constantly having to do repairs.
We first thought it was a mouse,as it had ate some food that was left out,so put several mouse traps down for it,heard them all go off the first night,had a look in the morning & it had just ate what was them.So we bought a few rat traps & poison,all the traps went off & the poison was eaten the first night,didn’t kill the bugger though & rat traps are truly vicious looking things…It also ate a load of stern gland packing & anything else that resembled food !
Then the old man put the boat into dry dock for the winter,left the boat open with a plank across to get ashore & we never heard from it again….
Years later the old man was regailing the story in the pub,going into all the dramatics of how he chased this thing all over the boat unable to catch it & then said the thing that suprised him the most was what the hell it must have been living on as we never left any food on board.My sister then piped up,oh that was me I used to leave it cheese,meat,biscuits & stuff as I didn’t want it to starve to death,the old fella’s face was a picture…. 🙂
Anyway,Had a couple(mice) in the garage(it’s an internal one & I didn’t want them getting in the house)a few years back,mouse trap with some bread & jam worked a treat.Well,for us it did,not so sure Pixie & Dixie enjoyed it quite as much….