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 I have to start a thread on this because alot of you do not have issues with mice like us on the Prairies or due to you geographical region..........

 This car, '02 Buick Century, was dropped off for me yesterday for a "dog food" smell coming from the heater. Lifted the hood and sure enough, a mouse house and with take-out present. Pulled the blower motor and nothing there. Lucky enough this car has a pollen filter... Pulled the cowl panel and voila......... There is enough dog food there to fill a 9" by 9" by 6" box!! Thats 486 cubic inches of food!!! 

 I have some more stories as well with pics to add..............



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thats funny! I had one last year start flipping out between my feet while driving the GP. I had never noticed any signs of mice, but I was driving at the time and it was jumping as high as my knees, I had to find a good spot to pull over, and ask him to get out.

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our nebor is a cat lady has food all over outside her house the coons love it they are here all the time we have bushrats but at least her cats take care of those but those coons...wow

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We see a lot of rodent related damage at work. The biggest laugh I had was when a customer came back a few days after we did a repair and accused the tech of "eating a hamburger" while working on his car. He popped the hood and there was the remains of a hamburger on top of the engine. Further inspection revealed a large mouse nest behind the fuse panel in the engine compartment. The owner felt like an idiot.

We see a lot of mouse nests in pollen filters. Sometimes we even find live babies! I love the look of horror on the owners faces when we show them!



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Mine chewed thru the weather stripping on the bottom of my garage door. So I put steel wool in the corner and fixed it and the bugger chewed the other corner disbeliefdisbelief
he dead now...end of story.


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69Laurentian wrote:

We see a lot of rodent related damage at work. The biggest laugh I had was when a customer came back a few days after we did a repair and accused the tech of "eating a hamburger" while working on his car. He popped the hood and there was the remains of a hamburger on top of the engine. Further inspection revealed a large mouse nest behind the fuse panel in the engine compartment. The owner felt like an idiot.

We see a lot of mouse nests in pollen filters. Sometimes we even find live babies! I love the look of horror on the owners faces when we show them!


you should let them run free in the car. that would be alot of fun todd!

 



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I killed 7 mice in our house this winter. Those electric mouse traps work great!


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The first year in our house SuperFuzz killed 13 mice in our house. The second year 7 were caught.
The house was always vacant in Winter for the previous 20+ years (my Wife had a bed & breakfast in the Summer only).
Between me plugging holes and SuperFuzz, there has been zero mice caught in the house in the past 2 years.

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The sheds are a different story. Lots of carnage. I have traps, poison, mothballs & bounce sheets everywhere! My car is a mouse-free zone!

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Vincent, the pics of dog food on the intake bring back memories of growing up on the farm. That was pretty common around our place. Every spring there would be mouse nests and dog food under the hood of my Beaumont. They eventually got into the headliner and destroyed it. I happen to have a very strong dislike for these little critters!!!!

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I heard cloves on the floor will keep the buggers out.

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We.ve had a few of the little crappers this year at work, or should I say in customers cars at work. Some still alive and looking straight at ya. LOL. Another tech at work opened a hood on a Tundra and slammed it right away, LOL, Rat was looking right back at him, we found it on top of the trans hiding, he put the truck down and put it outside, LOL. We had a Lexus in a couple of times with crap all over, last time inside the SUV, Lucky me gets to be the one to find the nest. I pulled close to a box of cleanex out from behind the glove box fixed some wires at the top of the dash. We decided to see if rat was still in car, loaded a couple of traps and within 2 hours we had a Large Rat. Still not sure how he got into the vehicle though. Pollen filter was intact.

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Oh ya they also like Tundra 5.7 intake manifolds valleys, had 4 trucks in the last 2 months with chewed knock sensor wires. 1 truck was in twice in 2 weeks with same wires chewed through, customer accussed us of not fixing it right, then appoligized after seeing the wires.

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About 2007 we sold a crew cab and he was back in less than 2 months with a Service Engine light, mad as heck, demanding warranty (until we showed him about 10 chewed wires on the main computer harness....)

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Lemans64 wrote:

We.ve had a few of the little crappers this year at work, or should I say in customers cars at work. Some still alive and looking straight at ya. LOL. Another tech at work opened a hood on a Tundra and slammed it right away, LOL, Rat was looking right back at him, we found it on top of the trans hiding, he put the truck down and put it outside, LOL. We had a Lexus in a couple of times with crap all over, last time inside the SUV, Lucky me gets to be the one to find the nest. I pulled close to a box of cleanex out from behind the glove box fixed some wires at the top of the dash. We decided to see if rat was still in car, loaded a couple of traps and within 2 hours we had a Large Rat. Still not sure how he got into the vehicle though. Pollen filter was intact.


Too bad it wasn't one of those CP rats under the hood! biggrin

 



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Squirrels also like to hide stuff in engine compartments. A friend of mine used to get up every morning in the Fall just to empty his engine compartment full of chesnuts.

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Never, ever had mice problems. Then one winter, I left the convertible top down with the car covered. Pulled the car out in spring and took the boot cover off and almost died! Mice had made nests in both corners of the top where it folds together. They ate multiple holes into the roof on both sides. Nice $1500 error in judgement.


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Never have a mouse problem where I store my car and it's in a quanset on
an acreage. The owner feeds them with warfrin all around the inner perimeter
of the building.They get thirsty so they go outside and die there. Don't put any
thing in the vehicle. You don't want them dieing there. As for pets getting into
the poison it's cold storage so doors are basicaly closed all winter. Says he's
never had an issue (over twenty years). Fifteen for me.
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his guy was in the glove box or what remained of it



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Dead mouse smile (above, far right)

The worse was when a weasel got into our cellarfurious

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