Aaarggghhh mice!

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Aaarggghhh mice!

Post by lengster1 » Wed Dec 17, 2014 9:00 am

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Re: Aaarggghhh mice!

Post by DavidRS4 » Wed Dec 17, 2014 10:11 am

Time for a mouse trap!
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Re: Aaarggghhh mice!

Post by RIV » Wed Dec 17, 2014 10:20 am

Same thing happened on a b8,put a mouse trap out, and a bait box

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Re: Aaarggghhh mice!

Post by 22B » Wed Dec 17, 2014 11:07 am

I had the same thing in the same place a few years ago. Could easily be much worse though, I remember mice ate a huge hole out of my lotus Sunbeam seats many years ago. :(
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Re: Aaarggghhh mice!

Post by chandler99 » Wed Oct 26, 2016 12:43 pm

Sorry to drag up an old thread but did you manage to sort this?

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Re: Aaarggghhh mice!

Post by TobyRS4 » Wed Oct 26, 2016 2:18 pm

Near 2 year thread resurrection! perhaps a "cat" back system would have sorted it...... :sleeping_2:
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Re: Aaarggghhh mice!

Post by Red roof » Thu Nov 03, 2016 5:34 pm

Brilliant and timely ressurection.
Checking fluid levels before passing the car to my wife as I go on another offshore trip (mental I know, but whenever I come back the sport button is on and the ESP is off, I think she enjoys it more than I do!) when I noticed the exact same situation. Nibbles out of the insulation on the bulkhead and some of the braiding chewed on a hose under the carbon trim at the back.

Wife put some traps down and caught one mouse, two robins and a sparrow. One of the robins was still struggling. Seems all these creatures like peanut butter (they're welcome to it).

She was pretty upset at the massacre (over the top?) of the garden birds and rightly so. Seems a bit rude to be feeding them on the bird feeders with one hand then callously slaughtering them with the other. When I ventured this to my wife I was not popular.

So, I bought another bird feeder and a sack of bird feed from amazon and got an ultra-sonic pest scarer thing that I shall put near where we park the car. I wouldnt mind so much if they had a go at the Defender, it's 20 years old and could do with a new loom.

So I told the missus to look out for spurious alarms and faults, or the car just generally electronically misbehaving. Hope it doesnt happen when she's side on heading down to Tescos......

Anyone else with other (proved) solutions?

Cheers

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Re: Aaarggghhh mice!

Post by Gsedge1 » Thu Nov 03, 2016 5:50 pm

Cat ?

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