Over the Gate

imme · Joined: 28 Apr 2008 Posts: 15

Just before we moved cross country 6 months ago, a mouse got into the car...and it has become a little squatter.
The little bugger's days were numbered when I discovered it had munched my Christmas treat: choc brazils.
Then it ate the baby's cardigan!
Now, it's been in my special and very expensive sourdough proving basket - I stupidly left it in the car overnight. NO ONE messes with my precious breadmaking tools and goes unpunished!!! :q52: :q52: :q52: :q52:

We've tried a humane mouse trap with bait but it arrogantly refused to have anything to do with it and ate the sunshade instead.

We've never seen or heard it.

If I put poison down I'm worried the mouse will have the audacity to die somewhere inaccessible and rot there without us being able to remove it.

And I don't fancy mouse blood and guts everywhere either which is why I haven't tried a 'splat trap'.

How do I get rid of the little $^&"^??

Justme · Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 932 Location: Pwllheli

lock a cat in the car but you might get less mess with a splat trap.

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green man · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 5:56 pm Post subject:

A regular trap should see it off, rarely get any splat - but if worried stick the trap in a shoe box with a neat little hole cut in one corner , peanut butter choc spread something that they can't just grab and run. They used to really annoy especially when they ate a hole in the front seat. stretch16.gif
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imme · Joined: 28 Apr 2008 Posts: 15

I'm glad I'm not the only one with a mouse in the car!

I would stick the cat in the car, but i don't think she would ever forgive me...

A shoebox, peanut butter and a splat trap seem like a fab combination!

lilwitedogs · Joined: 05 Dec 2007 Posts: 749 Location: Kentucky

I had that same problem once. I went after him with traps and sticky glue boards. No luck. :q52: My best mouse hound Moxie and I tore the truck apart looking for him. No luck. :q52: I finally just left the windows open and he said Geronimo! and jumped out.
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imme · Joined: 28 Apr 2008 Posts: 15

The little b*gger has now stopped eating anything....I'm desperately hoping he jumped ship one day or got blown out when we went on the motorway...anything except having died somewhere in the car where I can't get it to remove it!