Uh oh....MOUSE!

[toddjb122]

So, when I parked my car in the garage last night I left a foil wrapped granola bar on the dashboard tray above the glove box. When I went out this morning I found the end of the package chewed up and the granola bar slightly eaten.

The weather has been in the 20s for the past few days here and I already found one other mouse dead in a basement garbage can (climbed in but couldn't get out). So, they're coming inside to escape the cold I guess.

This one in the car I'm more concerned about though. He starts to chewing some wires and I'm screwed!!!

Any suggestions for getting him out of the car?
I suppose I'll buy a trap or something I can leave on the floor to hopefully catch him.

 

[Rubber Cow]

Get a Have-A-Heart trap and bait it with peanut butter and a bit of the granola bar. Once it's tripped , carry the mouse to whatever fate awaits it....I release them on our neighbors property.

 

[Bluebird]

Mouse nest-I found between the bonnet and the heat blanket. Acorns all over. Mouse had chewed a hole in the blanket over the motor cover. Filled the hole with steel wool and bought some rat poison blocks at Lowes. I put the blocks in the engine compartment and where the nest was.
I think I GOT EM!

 

[Rubber Cow]

Mouse nest-I found between the bonnet and the heat blanket. Acorns all over. Mouse had chewed a hole in the blanket over the motor cover. Filled the hole with steel wool and bought some rat poison blocks at Lowes. I put the blocks in the engine compartment and where the nest was.
I think I GOT EM!

The problems with poisons:
-the mouse can die in the car...or in a place that takes time to desicate or bake off.
-the dyng or dead poisoned mouse can be eaten by other animals- poisoning them.

Just my $.02....worth everything you've paid for it.

 

[Disco Mike]

Whatever you do, do it today, as a service manager I have seen many of vehicle and thousands of $$$$$ in serious wire harness repairs because of mice.
Bait your truck in a couple of spots, including under the hood and inside the passengers compartment. Also bait the entire perimiter of your garage to stop them from coming in.

 

[Rubber Cow]

More input....Get a feral-rescue cat.
They eat mice like crazy.
We o longer have a mouse problem- including no more dog food being stored by them in the intake manifold of my BMW motorcycles..what a treat!
I went out to my LR3 several nights ago and found our garage/outdoor cat munching on a half-eaten mouse under the truck!
More trivia- I heard that Audi had a big problem with rodents and the like, eating wring insulation in Europe several years ago...to the degree that they came out with a rodent-zapping device to keep them out of the engine compartment.

 

[Bluebird]

Well file this under unintended consequences:
Some wire manufacturers switched to a more eco-friendly insulation and its SOY based not petroleum based.
I hear the little critters LOVE it.

 

[toddjb122]

Appreciate the tips. I went out and bought a traps (one for the car) and some glue paper. I would like to put bait out but have a young dog that'll eat just about anything...and I'm afraid she'd eat a dead mouse with poison in it if she found one.

We'll see how this works....

 

[schafari]

Hum. . . I'll admit I don't know much at all about rodent behavior. . .but does it make sense to put things that strongly attract rodents in your LR3? I understand that you may have one already inside, but I was just thinking putting them right near the truck instead of in it may attrack it out of the truck. Is it a concern that you may be actually drawing more rodents into the truck by putting things that attract mice in the LR3?

 

[LRB]

Would Comprehensive Insurance Cover Mouse Damage Lol ???