[Closed] A mouse just ate my saddle and shoes.

I had a brand new pair of snowboard boots i got in the sales at the end of the season a few years back. Stored them in their box in the shed through the summer. Turns out the inner of one boot provides a cosy home for mice who decided to chew up the foam liner and use the boot a nest. Cat got a kick up the backside for not doing what it should do best! 😉

I lost a pair of snowboard boots and a tent the same way.

Last year I was getting changed at the slope at xscape castleford and there was a bloke shaking a nest of some sort out of his boot. 🙂

Careful Mc!

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there was a bloke shaking a nest of some sort out of his boot.

Organic artisan boot dryers, I'll have you know.

Dirt mag once "reviewed" a set of ruffian grips that had been "customised" by mice, iirc they said the grip was even better for it.

The same fate has befallen one of the bright pink foam grips on my daughter's scooter. I am not sure she will be as enthusiastic about it.

I lost a paddling pool, four garden chairs, a tent and the ball off the end of a swingball. Little ****ers.

Edit: and everything they didn't eat was covered in poo. They will rue the day, oh yes....

A brand new climbing rope was knackered by mice. They died eating peanut butter!

I used to work in a scrapyard in my teens, and it had a problem with rats unsurprisingly.
Had one of those humane cage-type traps, came in one morning and found the biggest effin' rat i've ever seen - completely filled the cage to the point the cage was bouncing around the floor.

With a little experimentation i found out that a large multi-truck battery charger and a couple of welding rods make a very effective execution kit for mr ratty 🙂

Next day we found out they had made a nest inside an old car seat on one of the shelves, didn't want to stick my hand inside to get the sods out so i poured petrol on it and torched the thing in the middle of the yard..

..NOT my greatest idea, there is approx a dozen burning rats racing around the yard squealing like hell and i'm running around trying to kill 'em with a shovel!

muddydwarf, do you have a weekend job in Guantanamo bay?

A friend of mine lost the interior and wiring loom from his 3 year old 911 to mice while it was in his garage over winter.

Bazz - i applied but apparently they're not allowed to use 'cruel and unusual' methods 🙂

3 (unpaired) gloves, a kneepad and an old trainer that I did the garden in

Guess I got off lightly

(put down traps but they took the hint & just left - or maybe moved onto something more expensive that I haven't found yet)

Ha ha Dwarf that is reprehensible but funny 😆
On a farm I worked on we moved the cake store, underneath the bags were a few tunnels so Paul the herdsman started collapsing them with a metal bar all of a sudden about four rats came flying out of the ground at him, I screamed like a girl turned tail and ran 😳 Paul was swatting them off himself and the farm dogs finished them off.

Not a huge fan of rats.

I go back into my shed and a mouse or a rat has eaten my road shoes and all the padding from a Ti railed saddle.

....and the 'bar tape on my road bike.

The trap is set.

LET me no what trap you buy im over run with them in my shed,bought a trap,and was told to put chocolate on ive only caught one little shit,they gone threw my bike shoes gloves ,coat bastard shit

LET me no what trap you buy

I just bought a big B&Q trap and filled it with peanut butter in the absence of any more tasty saddle or shoes.

I'll lend you my cat for a week or so. That will solve your mouse / rat problem. Of course, you will then have a cat problem....

We got a humane trap but they got too fat to fit in it. Got a traditional neck breaker (minus the traditional spike) which caught them but didn't kill them due to their excess of chins, so I finished one off with the bread knife and then switched to the claw hammer for subsequent victims. One of the rodent squatters ate my Camelbak bite valve! I'd be happy to share the house if they paid rent and followed the rules but they don't...

Had a mouse infestation about 5 years ago and caught 7 of them out in the garage.

This year surpassed that though. 2 weeks ago I was sat down having breakfast at 7am and a mouse ran past my feet. The old faithful mousetrap came out and it was caught the next night. I then put it in the garage and managed to catch 11 of the buggers over the last 2 weeks!

My garage is stuffed fall of crap, so I can't see where they have been hanging out for the last wee while 😕

The last rodent we had in the house was a rat. It was extremely dead, and spread across most of the kitchen. Apparently a little rat goes a long way.

*looks for "vomit" emoticon*

mightymule - Member

I'll lend you my cat for a week or so. That will solve your mouse / rat problem. Of course, you will then have a cat problem....

There are very few cats around here and that is one of the problems I am sure.

I've lost the inside of a ski boot, a wetsuit and a waterproof coat to mice in the garage. Everything that I value is now in plastic boxes with clipped down lids. I can recommend sonic repellers, we've had mice in the loft and the garage but (touch wood) none since we switched the sonic thingys on in each spot.

Check your brake hoses too. Mice nibbled at mine to get at the mineral oil. Took me ages to work out why I had no rear brake. Now have Goodridge...

Mice & rats? It's the bloody squirrels you need to watch! Those plastic boxes don't stop em, they chew right through 🙁

Had a problem with rats a few years ago so borrowed my mates ferrets for a weekend. They got rid of the them pretty quick. Now I let the ferrets run round the shed a couple of times a year, and not seen any sign of rats for a while.

The little ****ers chewed a hole in a box of washing powder under the sink. Found out when I picking the box up and the bottom fell out of it.

Death visited them in the form of lots of traps, poison and sticky pads.

Step aside pussy cats.
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We had mice in the loft, they came in from next door... Have killed 5 so far with traps in the last week.

We've got a rats nest in the garden (near the chickens), have put a big trap down there and a professional bait station, once they are all dead I will dig up the nest and destroy it.

It's that time of the year really, good idea to have traps in garages and sheds all year though, check them regularly and but poison down if you catch one.

I recommend not using poison in the house though, you don't want dead mice/rats rotting in the loft insulation or cavity wall...

Watching tv last night a mouse appears from behind door. Cue me sprinting out to see it dash behind bag of washing; followed by comedy sketch of me and the wife trying to catch it with tupperware 😆

I caught it eventually though and got kids down to 'educate' them!

Lost a windsurfing sail to one a few years ago. Did think about getting it repaired but the stink of ammonia was horrific. Little beggars paid the ultimate price for their trespasses.

My down sleeping bag proved oh so tempting for the mice. The airing cupboard resembled a massacre in a Bernard Mathews factory when I unknowingly shook the bag out.

A few weeks ago on a windy night, at about three am, the little barstitches chewed through the alarm cable to the garage and set the anti tamper off, cue sirens and flashing lightsinside and outside the house followed by me dashing outside in trainers and tracky bottoms clutching a golf club full of adrenaline determined to catch me a bike thief, only to find nothing. Followed by a very expensive visit from the alarm engineer to replace the cable. I generally operate a live and let live policy these days, but three
mouse casualties in retaliation so far. Bar stewards.