Mouse & cabrio ??!!

[IceBoy]

Hi All,

This morning I noticed that a carrier bag full of cleaning cloths had been chewed through and the bag was shreded on the floor of the garage.

We live near open fields and can only assume we have a little mouse in the garage!!

Will our cabrio be OK, parked in the garage while the rentokil capsules do their job?

I don't want my hood chewed up!

IceBoy

[LooneyTunes]

Hood will be fine. Mice much prefer wiring looms.

[joe58]

I thought it would be a thread about Stuart Little as he once had a cabrio in one of the films.

[The Nur]

Put a cat in the cabrio. Job jobbed.

[Hasbeen]

Don’t put a cat anywhere near a car with a duck, or mohair hood. It’s almost impossible to get the hair out of the fabric when they lie on it, which is their favourite bed.

Plenty of rat bait.

[carreauchompeur]

Hasbeen said:

Don’t put a cat anywhere near a car with a duck, or mohair hood. It’s almost impossible to get the hair out of the fabric when they lie on it, which is their favourite bed.

Plenty of rat bait.

Wak?

[IceBoy]

So car outside on the drive then?

Come on, I really need some serious advice, I really don't want hood/wiring loom chewed through?!?!?

My mk2 GTI is in the same garage, which is currently sorn, so will that have to come out too!!

Aarrrggghhh !!!
Help
IceBoy

[soad]

Ultrasonic Mouse Control thing? Plug it in the garage?

[fatboy b]

soad said:

Ultrasonic Mouse Control thing? Plug it in the garage?

They are a waste of time. Just put a trap down.

[joe58]

Serious suggestion, how much can mice climb? What about getting some of those metal wheel boxes car dealers used to raise the car off the ground half a dozen inches. Then putting bait around the metal boxes. Surely that's their only way 'in'? And now it's booby trapped. Or do they jump?

[NiceCupOfTea]

4 or 5 mousetraps baited with a bit of chocolate, put round the edges of the garage (mice like to follow edges/boundaries of things). Dealt with a few visitors to our shed we had a couple of years back.

[soad]

joe58 said:

Serious suggestion, how much can mice climb? What about getting some of those metal wheel boxes car dealers used to raise the car off the ground half a dozen inches. Then putting bait around the metal boxes. Surely that's their only way 'in'? And now it's booby trapped. Or do they jump?

Mice can jump from a standing position up to 12 inches from the floor; can jump from a running start up to 38 inches, can use vertical surfaces as a spring board to gain additional height, and can jump downwards 8 feet to the floor.
Can run up almost any vertical surface, including wood, brick, metal pipes and girders, sheet metal, wire mesh, and cables.
Can easily run along suspended electric wires and ropes of most common sizes.

[theironduke]

joe58 said:

Serious suggestion, how much can mice climb? What about getting some of those metal wheel boxes car dealers used to raise the car off the ground half a dozen inches. Then putting bait around the metal boxes. Surely that's their only way 'in'? And now it's booby trapped. Or do they jump?

Like staddlestones....good thinking

[joe58]

soad said:

joe58 said:

Serious suggestion, how much can mice climb? What about getting some of those metal wheel boxes car dealers used to raise the car off the ground half a dozen inches. Then putting bait around the metal boxes. Surely that's their only way 'in'? And now it's booby trapped. Or do they jump?

Mice can jump from a standing position up to 12 inches from the floor; can jump from a running start up to 38 inches, can use vertical surfaces as a spring board to gain additional height, and can jump downwards 8 feet to the floor.
Can run up almost any vertical surface, including wood, brick, metal pipes and girders, sheet metal, wire mesh, and cables.
Can easily run along suspended electric wires and ropes of most common sizes.

You had to go and ruin it didn't you. I thought that was genius. Go on, clear off.

[soad]

joe58 said:

You had to go and ruin it didn't you. I thought that was genius. Go on, clear off.

Sorry, chap

[PaulB81]

Get a flute or even a recorder would do, then open the garage door and start playing. When the mice start following, lead them down to the nearest pond or other standing water and they will jump in and drown.

[Hasbeen]

I was not kidding about rat bait.

I live in the country. I have twice had the insulation of house wiring, in the roof, eaten by mice. I have also had spark plug wires, in the valley, between the cam covers in a Toyota Cressida eaten.

The first time I did not know any better, & did not expect it.

The second time was my own fool fault, because I had allowed the rat bait, [Ratsak], to run out, in the car port & the laundry, where they climb into the ceiling.

I have 3 convertibles in a greenhouse, converted into a car shed, & have never had a problem with them, as I don't let the Ratsak run out in there.

[chunkol]

Lion manure is what the OP needs.