Little bastard startled the hell out of me this morning on the drive into work.
It's apparently making a nest under the dash, by chewing up the sound
insulation under the rug in the hatch, and I saw it out of the corner of my
eye running along the frame rail. :mad

I'm probably just going to get some traps while I'm out at lunch and do this
the old fashioned way, but if anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears...

 

Or you can borrow the neighbors cat. :jester

 

How, exactly, did he get in there?

I've had moths scare the crap out of me and even a spider spinning down his web an inch in front of my face in heavy traffic at 70mph, but I think a mouse would freak me out plenty.

 

I use peanut butter with that mouse trap, you'll have that little bugger in the morning!!! He or she might also have some friends. I'd keep setting the trap for a while to make sure. Good hunting. :lol:

 

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I would have to say that you are letting your car sit tooooo long between drives. I would be looking for a hole in ht floorpan/body somewhere.

Better be nice to it.,.. it may be the cousin to the one in the movie... Mousetrap! :crazy: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Come over to my house. Catch the 6 foot black snake (non poisonous) which molted in our basement next to the cat food bowls and which is still loose somewhere in our basement / crawl space (the catchers traps haven't caught squat yet) and then let that loose in your car. It'll catch your mouse just fine. :jester

 

I stored my 69 for a year after a typhoon forced me to rebuild the garage. When I went to clean her out and move her in to the new garage, I found out that a few friends had chewed thru the soft top to get at a stick of gum in the glove box. A few hundred dollars later, things were back to normal again.

I hate uninvited guests in my car!!


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Hahahaha in yer dash? LMao well I'll tell u what I'd do ....if you're sadistic enuff to listen..........................ok rdy? Well first...........catch the rodent.........secondly get some teeth floss and tie it's legs together aswell as it's arms(you'll probably have to properly sedate the mouse first)...then tie a piece around his neck and maybe one around his torso. Next tape the floss to the back of your exhaust tube and place the mouse inside your exhaust pipe. Rev the car up and spin the tires..........then do an extreme burn out and watch the melted crispy carcass roll out the back of the pipe at high velocity. That'll wake him up. And if he's still in shock you can always back the car over what's left and hose the tires. Don't worry the floss wont hold so he wont feel the pain 4 too long. :jester If you still have any doubts jus remember what he did to your stereo wires. If you're a little uncomfortable with watching him get charred up. Just sedate him and put him in a wristrocket or something.....shoot him over someone's house and give him an amusement ride or u can just go the old fashioned route and tie him to a bottle rocket. KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!! After that I'd name him "Mighty Mouse" :jester :lol:
Me so evil. :p:


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holy sheeetski master. niiiiiiice work! never get even, get ahead :lol: :lol:

 

Ok, I'll say it...I hate meeces to peeces! :jester

 

I had mice problems in my garage over the winter. They were building nests on the engine of my car. I put out Decon , they would eat it and leave Decon droppings. Finally got them off the engine and they made a nest in my exhaust. The Decon finally killed the mouse, however he died in my exhaust, and to this day when the car gets really hot I can still smell roasted mouse.

 

I have been fighting a mouse problem for almost a year now. The vile little things started with a nest on the engine. Found that got rid of it...set traps. Problem solved.

NOT! then they moved into the car. Left a really nice odor...eeeooowww! Set traps thought they were all gone after not catching any for weeks...and started in on the "smelly" problem.

Carpet cleaner, pet enzyme stuff....thought...hmmm. carpet isn't too bad. Then the warm day came. Damn it....peeooowwy!

My hot/cold switch malfunctioned..so I took the dash apart to fix that. While removing the heater switch panel thing...I found a HUGE...and I mean HUGE! next behind it! The entire space between the heater switch and the firewall...One giant f-ing mouse house. Sucked that out there with the vaccum...finally quit catching mice....problem solved.

Still NOT. Those mothers came back. Yesterday was an entire afternoon of taking my dash apart. Pulling out the carpet pad, splicing wires they chewed through and taping the ones that could be taped.

I'm still setting traps. Now if I could just figure out how they get in!

Good luck to you!

 

Well this is along the lines of Master,

This past year, I had the same problem and put out traps, glue traps and they would get off, I had a golden retriever that I kept his dog food in the garage in those big tupperware storage containers. I left for work early christmas eve morning and the wife calls a couple hrs later and says that there are 5 mice in the container after the dog food. They can get in but they can't jump out( they tried) took container outside and added water :reddevil :reddevil :reddevil watched them swim a little and put lid on, came back and no more problem, now when i see one same container a little dog food and 1 bricko block for easy access and I give swimming lessons again!!!!!!!!

 

And I thought they ran on gerbles. Go figure. :rolleyes:

 

Eviction completed.

I started with enclosed spring-traps, but my girlfriend was *not* OK with that.
So, I got some inexpensive "swinging door" traps and baited them with
peanut butter. The first night, the crafty little bastard turned the trap on its
side, got the PB and escaped. The second night, I duct taped the traps to
pieces of wood, and that did the trick. I reset the traps for another night just
to make sure.

This mouse thing has gotten old. They've been in every car I parked outside
for the winter, but my C4 had been in the garage, and I've been driving it
every few days. Don't even get me started on the time I opened an airbox
to find a dead mouse, complete with maggots. :U

The swing-door traps are at WalMart for $2 each, and can be reused. :D