How do you De-mouse a car?

[rude-boy]

Got to work yesterday morning and was called by Mrs Rude-boy screaming about mouse droppings on the seat of her oloP and a few nibbled bits of trim.

Got a couple of traps but no luck last night only more droppings. I'd even tried to scare them out by taking it for a drive! (we have 'slightly' different approaches to this but that's for another topic)

Any ideas that don't involve the eldest's air gun?

Cheers,

John

Edited as I can't spell

>>> Edited by rude-boy on Friday 7th January 17:57

[docevi1]

are you sure they are in the car, and not in the garage?

[Psychobert]

Install a cat.

Odd that, we normally advise decatting..

Seriously, unless you are a crack shot or you are prepared to inspect the traps prior to SO using the car, a cat to kill/scare the bugger off is the only way.

Oddly enough, in my student days I used to refer to the car as an olop too..

[FourWheelDrift]

Have you ever seen "Mousehunt"?

Catzilla and the brilliantly mad Mousehunter played by Christopher Walken?

www.vfxhq.com/1997/mousehunt.html

This is no ordinary mouse.

You'll need guns......lots of guns..........

[shirley temple]

FourWheelDrift said:

Have you ever seen "Mousehunt"? Catzilla and the brilliantly mad Mousehunter played by Christopher Walken? www.vfxhq.com/1997/mousehunt.html This is no ordinary mouse. You'll need guns......lots of guns..........

or a well aimed orange!!

[Balmoral Green]

Reminds me of going to fetch a new Corolla from a storage compound several years ago, it was winter and freezing. Jumped in the car and put the blower on full, got a facefull of chewed up foam and mouse droppings from the vents.

I had this picture of some little mouse running like hell inside the blower fan, like a turbo hamster wheel

[crankedup]

Call in your local council pest control, I am sure this service is F.O.C. but do check with them first.

He will bait the area with an effective poison to rid you of the vermin problem. Get it sorted quick cos mice and rats breed quicker than rabbits. I'm not kidding.

[yertis]

Audi manufacture a device to prevent critters from nesting in their cars - it's in their parts fiches. Probably costs loads though.

[Balmoral Green]

Vorsprung Durch Mousetrap

[MilnerR]

crankedup said:

Call in your local council pest control, I am sure this service is F.O.C. but do check with them first. He will bait the area with an effective poison to rid you of the vermin problem. Get it sorted quick cos mice and rats breed quicker than rabbits. I'm not kidding.

The council will laugh at you if you ask them to come out to kill a few mice (at least my local council will). Tell them you suspect rats. A bloke will come out tell you he can't see any sign of them and put some "soap" bars of poison down just in case.
Thats what my dad did years ago when my sister's gerbils escaped and started breeding in the crawl spaces and the loft she wasn't very happy

[mybrainhurts]

Foolproof cure.................



































Torch the car........

[wedg1e]

Balmoral Green said:

Vorsprung Durch Mousetrap

That helmet wouldn't have saved the mouse that I trapped under my bed a couple of decades ago. The trap came down across the bridge of its nose, knocking an extra breathing-hole. It was too stunned to run so I grabbed it, dropped it in the pot and had a satisfactory whizz on it as last rites.

[MilnerR]

You're a bad man ian

[towman]

wedg1e said:

had a satisfactory whizz on it as last rites.

Piston Head? or all over?

Steve

[love machine]

wedg1e said:

Balmoral Green said: Vorsprung Durch Mousetrap That helmet wouldn't have saved the mouse that I trapped under my bed a couple of decades ago. The trap came down across the bridge of its nose, knocking an extra breathing-hole. It was too stunned to run so I grabbed it, dropped it in the pot and had a satisfactory whizz on it as last rites.

If that is true, even I find you disturbing which is the benchmark really, go and turn yourself in.

[wedg1e]

love machine said:

If that is true, even I find you disturbing which is the benchmark really, go and turn yourself in.

It is true. Turn myself in, are you having me on? I set a mousetrap, not raped a bloody kid. Sadly the trap was not as clean as I'd have liked; I didn't fancy decapitating it and didn't have an airgun to hand so drowning was the next best option. If I hadn't woken up at the sound of the trap it would have bled to death from the large hole in its forehead anyway.

[towman]

love machine said:

I find you disturbing which is the benchmark really,

[crankedup]

Council have a statuary duty to control vermin,if they can't be bothered to do the work they get paid for I think I would be very annoyed. Dont bother buying the baits from shops the mice and rats are immune to it. In fact they proberly enjoy it. Mice and rats will breed quicker than you can catch them or shoot them.

Spose you could do a Dom Joly, put a giant mouse trap outside your council offices. get thier attention.

[tallbloke]

mybrainhurts said:

Foolproof cure................. Torch the car........

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[rude-boy]

Update -

For some reason none of my neighbours want to lend me their cat to lock in the car overnight...

Will see what else I can do.

Thanks for all the replies, be they helpful amusing or down right disturbing, you know who you are wedg1e...

>> Edited by rude-boy on Sunday 9th January 10:44