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  • Unwanted visitor – help!
  • rascal
    Free Member

    Brief background… I did a long overdue tip-run in the wife’s car on Sat after a garage clearout.

    She ended up getting the bus into work instead of driving this morning…because she thought she saw a tail by the handbrake! When I got home I went out armed with chocolate and head torch and waited…sure enough a tiny mouse scuttled out from somewhere by the driver footwell. Cheeky bugger tried to make a bolt with half a Crunchie and hid again!

    How do I get the little sod before he munches through the car itself??

    Some helpful tips would be appreciated along with the inevitable comedy ones 😉

    Three_Fish
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    Kill it with fire. Or a mousetrap.

    simmy
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    Whatever you do get it out ASAP, they have a good appetite for wiring looms.

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    maccruiskeen
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    Mousetrap baited with a bit of sticky soft-centred chocolate

    RustySpanner
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    Take it to an exhaust place – might need a new cat.

    Sorry.

    Thrustyjust
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    When our cat brings them in, sadly I need to get them out and a bit of chocolate on a trap works a treat. We have the traps from Screwfix and work pretty well.

    deadlydarcy
    Free Member

    If you do get the cat, just get it to eat some cheese and wait by the car door with baited breath.

    Dickyboy
    Full Member

    tempt it out of hiding with sultanas then whistle a happy tune as you lead it to your most hated neighbours house all pied piper like

    uselesshippy
    Free Member

    Shotgun.

    hora
    Free Member

    Expose yourself

    properbikeco
    Free Member

    Leave car running in garage to CO poison it!

    (second thoughts not don’t!!!)

    maccruiskeen
    Full Member

    Expose yourself

    I’ll show you yours if you show me mine.

    bagpuss
    Free Member

    If you want to keep it alive then you can get suitable traps in garden centres etc. Peanut butter, chocolate etc. then release it.

    CaptainFlashheart
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    mark90
    Free Member

    Shotgun

    This, same for anyone who eats half my crunchie

    Neil-F
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    Just tell her you got it, it’ll be funny! 😀

    mcmoonter
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    +1 for catch it quick, today it’s the Crunchie, tonight it’ll be your wiring loom. Bloke at the lodge had his Porche and Range Rover looms eaten by mice, when the finished that they ate his leather seats.

    Mouse trap and peanut butter FTW

    Sandwich
    Full Member

    or

    sobriety
    Free Member

    If you’ve anything standing in the garage check its airbox, they like to nest in them!

    rascal
    Free Member

    Saw him earlier, but saw me…and promptly hid again.
    I think he’s wised up to me as he (it) won’t be tempted out now, even by banana! (no peanut butter).
    Just froze waiting for a reappearance…looks like bus again tomorrow until we get a trap.

    drlex
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    I’ll echo McMoonter’s tale (?tail); had to replace the fuel tank on a Discovery 3 after a rodent nibbled through the elbow on the top.

    dobo
    Free Member

    my gf once sold a car which had the back seats eaten by a mouse, not the covers, they were perfect condition but the insides were eaten through and very squishy… always test your back seats 🙂

    find stray cat, starve cat, put cat in car, cat not starving = mouse gone 😉

    petrieboy
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    assuming the car isnt otherwise full of sweeties, the upshot is it should already be pretty hungry so should fall for a trap in minutes. downside is it might have already munched the wiring loom. good luck!!

    therealhoops
    Free Member

    155mm M777 Howitzer. It’s TITANIUM and everything so only needs a four man crew. Put chocolate in the barrel, wait and then BOOM!

    molgrips
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    Take it to an exhaust place – might need a new cat.

    What a pro!

    I like the snake idea. Then, to get rid of the snake, you can put an eagle in there. Then, to get rid of the eagle, put in a gamekeeper.

    dobo
    Free Member

    what speed camera do you need exactly to capture a shot of a shell from a 155mm M777 Howitzer in Titanium?

    boltonjon
    Full Member

    I once trapped a live mouse in the safe at work to frighten the secretary

    She wasn’t happy

    2 weeks later, we hid a dead one on the sun visor of her Austin Metro

    She was really unhappy when it dropped on her lap at 70mph 🙂

    watsontony
    Free Member

    When our cat brings them in, sadly I need to get them out and ay bit of chocolate on a trap works a treat. We have the traps from Screwfix and work pretty well.

    your cat is a bitch….. my cat used to leave with the entire contents of various small animals at the bottom of the stair for us nearly every night.

    nicko74
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    hora – Member

    Expose yourself
    😯

    jekkyl
    Full Member

    Sell the car before he does any damage

    footflaps
    Full Member

    I can post you one of our cats – real killing machines, just take a look at this one, have you ever seen anything more mean?


    Jeff the killing machine by brf, on Flickr

    iain1775
    Free Member

    How big is the mouse?


    Fraz
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    I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure

    iain1775
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    rascal
    Free Member

    FF, can I borrow Jeff?…he looks a real nasty mutha!

    iain1775
    Free Member

    Sending in a duck to get it out won’t work

    grantway
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    One of these in each foot well

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    garage-dweller
    Full Member

    Bombers? Marzocchi or tactical nuclear.

    Or spill a steaming hot latte in there after two days and scrubbing with febreze the smell will be so unbearable the mouse will offer itself to the cat and even if it has chewed the loom its ok because you won’t you will not want to use the car either. I definitely did not have to smell gone off milk and cofee.through the whole of december.

    footflaps
    Full Member

    FF, can I borrow Jeff?…he looks a real nasty mutha!

    Yep, but you need training and a chain mail suit – I wouldn’t want anything unfortunate to happen to you, especially after he caught and ate our elderly neighbour last week – she was putting the washing out and he just pounced on her and tore her limb from limb before anyone could get the catnip out to distract him.

    CountZero
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    deadlydarcy – Member
    If you do get the cat, just get it to eat some cheese and wait by the car door with baited breath.

    Boom, and, quite possibly, tish! 😆
    I look forward to threads like this, they never disappoint.

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