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Inspired by the bar steward Magpie thread, what’s the weirdest thing you have found nibbled by your local mice? The ones in my shed have demolished bottles of muc-off dry lube on two separate occasions...it must be like mouse crack (of course, I haven’t heard a squeak since 😄). I now have to keep the lube in my tool box. What have they taken a liking to in your neck of the woods?
Duplo bricks
Caffeine Energy gels (this was scary, I imagined the mice sort of transcending their earthly bodies and becoming beings of pure furry energy)
of course, I haven’t heard a squeak since 😄)
Kudos
Tassels off the end of a rug in the garage. Maybe not so weird, but it had also made its nest in a sack of bird peanuts and then proceeded to line it with random nails, screws and bits of concrete from under the house.
Muc-off dry lube as well 😂
Mouse or more likely rat ate all of my Savlon and also a bottle of PVA glue. Don’t know how that scores? Probably a moderate rodent.
a race face grip
a foam rubber ten pin bowling set
The bottom of a peanut butter jar, butter untouched. This is the same butter they *do* take from the loaded traps.
Weirdos.
My tent and rucksack. 🙁
Not weird but absolutely gutting - the wiring loom of my mate's Lotus Carlton...
also the waste pipe from the dishwasher although think that was a rat
Not weird, but a good example of the perils of leaving 'useful' stuff behind in bothies.
I found a supernoodles pack with a very neat hole nibbled in the corner. All the noodles had been eaten, and the mouse had created a cosy looking nest by shredding the equally useful toilet roll that someone had left behind and using it to line the super noodles pack. I was impressed, very resourceful!
also the waste pipe from the dishwasher although think that was a rat
likewise - although we caught mice so pretty sure it wasn't a rat.
Side of a duffle bag in the lakes to gain access to the tasty phone charger cable inside
More guttingly at home the foam section of a camera tripod, the zip of a brand new and unused lowepro camera bag and all the little inserts inside to make a nest. Then found a cache of birds nuts stolen from the bag in the kitchen, deposited in my five tens
My Barbour wax jacket and the casing on a motorbike battery charger.
The foam covering on the scarifier handle in the shed.
They also used my wellington boots as a latrine, they absolutely stank to high heaven.
also the waste pipe from the dishwasher although think that was a rat
The mains water supply coming into my house. On New Years eve. as my phone with pinging with messages from eight excited guests form various parts of the country who were travelling between 300 and 600 miles through blizzards to come and stay for New Year. Lost the water supply (and therefore flushing loo) and because the stove had a backboiler that was now empty we couldn't have any heat either.
Had to cut through a corner kitchen cupboard and down through the floor boards to find the leak which was conveniently just within fingertip reach wedged between a joist and the subfloor
Took three days to finally repair it by finding bits of plumbing elsewhere in the house we could separate and pull tighter and fit together to create a spare piece of pipe and some fittings (in between finding imaginative ways to keep my guests happy, warm and sanitary)
Once fixed - that was when we realised the mice had chewed through the pipe under the next joist too.
They also used my wellington boots as a latrine, they absolutely stank to high heaven.
Are you sure you've not upset a forumite? Have you checked your lawn for sausages?
Polystrene in a cardboard box, they nested in it after. I moved it and the movement within in scared the life out of me, tall sided box, so I took them out and released them into the garden. Shed trap caught one in the end, other has not been seen since. Previously they got into a high sided bin in the shed and perished in there, took me weeks of wondering why cats suddenly wanted into my shed to find it!
One nibbled a hole in a corner of the box of mouse poison in my dad's garage.
Sad.
All of the under bonnet sound deadening material and rubber hoses from the cooling system in my grandads skoda fabia.
Straight through the wall of a 3mm thick plastic tool box and then ate the contents of half a box of polyfilla powder. Left everything else untouched. I expected to find some rock solid mice hidden in the garage when we moved house but never did.
Not quite as bad as the Carlton loom, butI had an engine management light come on in my Audi A4, I couldn't find the problem so took it to the dealership, £95 later was told that it was a vacuum pipe from a sensor that had been nibbled by a mouse, and should be thankful that it wasn't any worse...
the little furry barstewards ate my juggling balls
As per nedrapier above, not so much the weirdest thing, but maybe the most unfortunate thing to break into;
Wax crayons, and they left behind an assortment of brightly coloured mouse turds
Not quite as bad as the Carlton loom, butI had an engine management light come on in my Audi A4, I couldn’t find the problem so took it to the dealership, £95 later was told that it was a vacuum pipe from a sensor that had been nibbled by a mouse, and should be thankful that it wasn’t any worse…
A common issue with Renault Masters / Vauxhall Movanos is foxes like the taste of the wiring underneath.
the wiring loom of my mate’s Lotus Carlton…
A friend scrapped a very rare early Triumph Herald, one of the first off the production line, because it had a mouse infestation.
A pretty new four man tent. We bought it in a sale during winter. Came to use it in the spring and the furry little buggers had eaten a large portion of it. The bag it was in appeared fine which was weird.
All of the under bonnet sound deadening material and rubber hoses from the cooling system in my grandads skoda fabia.
One of the manufacturers moved to use starch based sound deadening material in their cars as its more environmentally friendly. Turned out it also attracted rats and they ended up expoting rats all over the world under their bonnets (mainly dead by the time the car arrived at a showroom). One of the weirder jobs my wife had was to go to dealers and surreptitiously check for dead rats as the manuf was really worried about a PR disaster. Don't think she found any.....
Some mice living in my garage ate my gardening gloves. That doesn't seem too weird till I add that they were nesting in a bag of seeds and nuts - you'd have thought they would try the other way around.
When I was living in Thailand some mice ate quite a bit of one of my diving fins.
They also used my wellington boots as a latrine, they absolutely stank to high heaven.
Probably why they used them.
A friend used veg oil for his chainsaw, which the mouse gained access to by chewing through the oil reservoir.
The inner boots of my winter climbing boots used as nesting elsewhere Still usable up till the uppers split right over the front was very sad I’d had them for ages😢
The luff tube on my windsurfing sails😞
My wife used to work for Mars and we had a garage full of samples of Chocolate. Quite often we would find that the mouse had bitten into a large outer box and into inner box of Maltesers or other products. However, it’s greatest feat was scoffing a whole 2kg catering pack (for Cinema/Bowling 20p vending machine) of Skittles. I was crapping myself trying to trap it as thought it might have grown to the size of Bigfoot.
Just the tongue of my left climbing shoe when it was in storage.
Everything else was intact.
I can't beat anything above unless "flour" is particularly exciting but,
I haven’t heard a squeak since
👏👏👏 That deserved more love than the one reply it got. Well played.
I've had mice eat through a box of poison too. Also jump leads, bar tape, grips, innertubes, pliers, sponge, double-sided tape....
When I was living in Thailand some mice ate quite a bit of one of my diving fins.
I hadn't realised they were such strong swimmers!
Not my mice but they’re decimating the Tristan albatross chicks on Gough Island
https://www.livescience.com/photos-mice-attack-albatross-gough-island.html
My mice ate the inner soles from some brand new Cat boots.
Christmas decorations. The cardboard box containing them was kept under the stairs so one December we got it out all excited to decorate the tree. Top of the box was some *really* straggly tinsel, we're like "hmm, wasn't this bad when we packed it away last year..."
Digging down through the box, we found increasing amounts of mouse shit and then the shiniest, most glittery mouse nest you ever saw. The Pearly King and Queen of mouse nests.
We took the entire box into the back garden and burnt it.
Not weird as such, but when I was a student I went to get some cereal one day to find mice had eaten a tunnel through all the boxes we had on the shelf. Neat entry/exit holes in each box, like the Very Hungry Caterpillar.
The fuel pipes off the petrol lawn mower....
The wiring loom and various pipes on the old car - only noticed when brake servo assistance was lost while approaching a T junction....£600 fix.
An entire bar of snowboard rub on wax.
To be fair it does smell really nice so i can't blame them.
Was annoying though