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Well I wanted to.
Some of my Facebook friends were being hacked recently so I changed my password...............it didn't take and I got booted out completely.
I believe it's Waltz's Blofeld responsible- the author of my pain.
All my Bond groups everything I have to go back and start over and rejoin with a new account.
I only saw Dio (with his band) once, in 2005. ^:)^
Is this a serious statement, @Walecs? Because if it is, I'm sure I can put your mind at ease. ;-)
Safe to say I'm furious, as I never have food or beverages in the car, and the car is not parked outside either. Can only hope I catch the damn thing before it does more damage; I fear it might become (more) expensive if not…
Next step will be to take the car to my local dealership so they can have a look so the engine room looks alright, and then taking the car to a car wash for a thorough cleaning.
If anyone have experienced the same and have any suggestions about what to do, let me know!
Toss a grenade into the front seat - I guarantee you'll have no mouse (or car) problems after that.
Haha! Really need that car though, so…
I’ve heard of this becoming more common since the advent of soy based plastics and foams. They’re edible and apparently quite appealing to rodents. I believe GM had to start putting pepper in their soy based wire covers because rats were chewing through wiring harnesses on some of their cars.
Never heard of this before! How recent are these soy based plastics/foams? I have a 2010 Honda myself.
The first car to use soy foam was the 2008 Ford Mustang, and its use took off from there. So it’s quite possible that your car has some soy or other plant based material. Apparently coconut fiber is also seeing widespread use.
It happened to us probably about 20 years ago by now. My wife got into our beloved Mazda MX-5 (NA) and backed out of the garage when she saw a mouse on the panel behind the seats by looking into the rear-view mirror. She turned (herself) around and saw the mouse vanishing in some hole or cavity, whatever it was. She checked that car and found a "nest" in the trunk (boot for you Brits) built from rags and plastic foam we had kept in the garage, but no mouse.
A few days later, the car became really smelly (we are cat owners and know the smell of dead mice). It seemed to keep smelling for weeks, if not months. We tried to fight it with Febrèze but the only effect was that we now can't stand the smell of Febréze, if it still exists, because it reminds us of dead mice. Anyway, about ten years later we sold the MX-5 with probably at least one mouse skeleton hidden in whichever cavity to be found (or not found) in that car.
My friend has a 2010 Mazda 3 and a rat decided to chew through some of the insulation on his firewall and make a nest out of it on top of the battery.
Interesting. I couldn't notice any chewed foams or plastic around the engine itself, but I need the dealership to take a closer look to be sure.
Seems strange that they've started using materials like that if this might be one of the consequences? It takes so little for a mouse to enter the car.
Oh, I certainly hope I won't be dealing with a mouse nest and/or dead mouse smell; that seems horrible! But given the amount of small cavities there are in a car, that might be expected now.
Did the mouse smell itself ever go away?
Did your friend get rid of the rat?
The work of the cat those mice under the cupboards?
Very likely so (though there were between one and three cats in our household over time, not necessarily just one). Though the only mice we ever had on the attic happened in the sole five years that we did not have a cat at all. Now, this may be better suited for the Crazy Cat Person thread, but in former times people kept cats to get rid of the mice in the home. Now it seems they rather provide for mice being in the home. But we love them anyway.
Never owned a cat myself, but it certainly seems they have a tendency to drag dead mice inside! Still, they probably do a decent job in keeping (some) mice away too.
Ask who sent him. Who is he working for.
I fear I'm not intimidating enough to get anything out of him/her!
Fortunately the rat seems to have left on his own. He hasn’t noticed any more signs since he first saw it while changing his oil.
=)) Post of the day!
That's good! A rat should be able to do even more damage than a mouse (one would think).
That's definitely worse! Looks like cats can be lazy hunters sometimes.
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Update: after placing two mouse traps inside the car (as well as three on the outside), a mouse finally got caught in one of the traps. Of course it had managed to shit around on the floor of the car (again), so I had to do another round of cleaning. I've placed additional traps inside the car in case there's more than just the one mouse. Certainly hope there isn't.
I really want to take the car to a car wash for a proper interior cleaning now, but I can't do that until I'm sure there's no more mice. Wonder how long I should wait!
I have the same issue. Telemarketers call me very day – often very early in the morning or late at night. It's been going on for so long now that I recognise some of the numbers, so I avoid answering.
@barryt007 By box trap, I take it you mean the kind which only traps the mouse and doesn't kill it?
The kind I went for is this kind of traps, which is a variation of those wooden type ones. The mouse has to get underneath the yellow bait lid to reach the bait, which sets off the trap. It must be quite powerful, as the state of the mouse I caught wasn't pretty.
Disgusting indeed, there was mouse blood involved…
At least I placed the mouse traps on the rubber car mats and not the car floor itself, so the cleaning process didn't take too long. I certainly hope I won't need to do the same cleaning process all over again!