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I've got a small rodent in residence in my Transit. Wasn't sure at first but there is now food being eaten by something with much smaller teeth than me.
Going to buy a humane trap tonight and then set the mouse loose in the woods when I get it.
Slightly concerned about damage to electrical cables and suchlike, what should I do? I know very little about vehicle electronics, should I be concerned at all?
Cheers.
Drive the van into the sea, should kill the little bugger pretty quick.
This may have other consequences.
Intstall a cat.
Cat is far too well fed to bother with mice. If I stopped feeding him now by the time he was peckish enough to go after one the mouse could have eaten the whole truck!
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I'm 50 miles from the coast and at work just now.
Are you sure it's a mouse? These things can escalate pretty quickly 😆
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/mousetrackworld-banana-attack
Guess I've missed the whole nuking from orbit thing? (mouse has no shoes to wee in either, although I do have a set of Bombers....)
Not really keen on the nuking idea to be honest, I've put a lot of time and effort in to that van! Catching the mouse shouldn't be hard, really just asking how and where to check for damage, or is it as simple as see what stops working?
Peanut butter is very good for baiting traps.
Mice seem to like the fat balls bird feeder thingies
Oh and any selfrespecting mouse will defeat the humane traps
Remember though, the early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the [s]cheese[/s] peanut butter.
One set up home in our work van last winter while it was SORN. It died behind the dash, a most unpleasant experience until it had dried out.
Are you sure that there wasn't a mouse in there which attracted a cat and you now need a dog? Maybe the cat attracted a dog and now you need a tiger. Maybe the tiger is already there and you need a bear?
It's difficult to help without understanding where in the process you are.
Are you suggesting that the mouse was only there to get rid of the fly which was wriggling and jiggling and tickling inside the van, despite the spider which had been used to extricate it? A cat to chase the mouse would indeed work, and I have access to two, but then I'd need a dog to chase the cat and I've have to borrow one of those...
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Set the trap Wednesday night with some peanut butter, checked Thursday morning and the butter had been eaten but no mouse caught. Set it again and caught one Thursday night, set it again and got another Friday. It's been set Saturday and Sunday nights but no more have been caught and no bait eaten so hoping I've got them all.
Everything electrical appears to still be working so hopefully no harm done, any way to make sure without going over the whole loom with a fine tooth comb?
I removed a heater blower motor from a fiat panda, only to have the dead mouse drop onto my head
It was then time for a silly workshop moment, trying to revive poor rodent with a powerprobe.
Keep feeding it til it becomes your friend (and stays out of your wiring) then when it's too fat and friendly slam a box over it's head. That's what we did.
Did anyone see Little Dieter Needs To Fly? Chained up in Nam and he befriended a snake that caught rats that they would eat.
Just about the best thing I have ever seen on the telly.