Rodent in car

[GTP owner]

How about leaving a cat in the car for a night - install Cat i.1 to remove mouse 0.0

It worked for the mice in our roof at home!

[TUF_302]

I have an idea, its a bit destructive but will work, set the car on fire lol!, Jokes!

Just dont leave it any food, it wont stay if it will starve

[Mad Maxine]

Just a bit of advice - if you choose to use a sticky trap, you will have to kill the mouse, as you will NEVER get it off the trap without it being covered in adhesive. These traps are NOT humane if you set it and forget it - the poor buggers die of thirst or starvation or stress or a combo of all three.

Do it quickly and humanely or use a live trap: simple to make if you've got an old glass milk bottle or something similar. Really easy: place some bacon fat or peanut paste or something nice and fatty (chocolate is also good, believe it or not, but squandering it on a mouse might be a big ask, even if it is to be it's last meal!) in the bottle. Stand bottle up in middle of footwell of car, braced at the base by something like a couple of shoes or whatever. Mouse crawls up outside via the shoes/towel outside, jumps into bottle, can't jump back out.

Another method uses a bucket with a thin rod or stick tied across it, and a piece of tasty steak or chop fat tied to the stick in the middle by a piece of string over the middle of the bucket so it dangles halfway down into the bucket. Coat middle of stick with vaseline. Mousie walks on stick to get at food below, slips and falls in. Can't jump back out if bottom of bucket is full of water either (only has to be four inches deep) but this is also a horrible way to kill mice though it will catch many mice each night without need to reset anything. Bushies use a similar method using a greased longneck beer bottle placed over one edge of the bucket with some food stuffed in the neck.

MM

[Mark351]

You can get these newer, plastic traps, and when used with peanut butter are very good at catching mice... well, the odd mouse doesn't get the trap clamped around it's head properly and they trash around a bit. Had one that managed to pull its way out but was so stunned by the trap closing on his noggin that I was able to catch him with my hands.

[svo supporter]

Originally Posted by Mark351

You can get these newer, plastic traps, and when used with peanut butter are very good at catching mice... well, the odd mouse doesn't get the trap clamped around it's head properly and they trash around a bit. Had one that managed to pull its way out but was so stunned by the trap closing on his noggin that I was able to catch him with my hands.

Any chance of you posting piccies up of your traps. They sound very similar to the ones I use, but unfortunately I still don't know how to post piccies on this forum to compare

[1LOUDXFUTE]

Originally Posted by svo supporter

Any chance of you posting piccies up of your traps. They sound very similar to the ones I use, but unfortunately I still don't know how to post piccies on this forum to compare

hey mate,
have a look at this thread on how to post pictures
http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=20569

[aussie muscle]

Originally Posted by svo supporter

They sound very similar to the ones I use,

are they two halves of plastic with a wrap around spring? thats the ones i use. peanut butter is good as they have to lick it off (pressure on the trigger)

Originally Posted by TUF_302

Just dont leave it any food, it wont stay if it will starve

you forget they eat wire, upholstery and anything else?

[03wrx]

I just read thru this thread, and its unbelievably funny.

If I ever meet someone who has this problem, I am sure I could blow their minds with the knowledge I have acquired from this thread.

[Mad Maxine]

Ha ha! Welcome to the wonderful world of the AFF, LOL!

MM

[chrisfpv]

Originally Posted by Mad Maxine

Ha ha! Welcome to the wonderful world of the AFF, LOL!

MM

Haha, there's def some great info in here. I'll have to refer back to it if a mouse ever decides to make a home out my XR6.

[dogfish]

Bend the wire in more of an arc on the old fashion Mouse trap it makes it more sensitive.

[rick'o]

......or do as a country fella told me:

mix a plate of milk with plaster of paris

[Marquis 351]

Ive tryed super gluing a dog busicut to the mouse trap and the bugger has ate it off with the trap set on trigger hair!!!! I got a mortein trap that springs shut and as it dose it kills the mouse some how, but it hasnt gone near it. I swear If its still alive by the weekend I may name it!!!!! At least 1 things is for sure its garnteed a feed every night! I will try everything every1 has said [Execpt for burrning the car] :togo:

[LukeGT]

I've got a slightly bigger problem at my place (than mice) -- CATS, how do you get rid of them?!?! On the of them went into my shed a knocked XA brown manual console and XT GT dash off a shelf and broke them both :-( Any tricks on how to catch them??

[svo supporter]

Local councils or the RSCPA hire out cat traps for a small fee per day. Once the cat has been caught, give them a ring and they take care of the rest.

On the subject of the mouse traps. XR6AUS (thank you very much) has kindly offered to post the picture up for me, so we'll wait for that to occur.

[auxr]

Ha - mice, uploading pictures now cats. This thread just seems to be getting better.
Sorry to a be bit off topic, but my problem is a little bit bigger - my brother continually turns up, rummages through the pantry, drinks my beer and then leaves.

Any suggestions in curbing this pest?

[svo supporter]

Originally Posted by auxr

Ha - mice, uploading pictures now cats. This thread just seems to be getting better.
Sorry to a be bit off topic, but my problem is a little bit bigger - my brother continually turns up, rummages through the pantry, drinks my beer and then leaves.

Any suggestions in curbing this pest?

Either some Big Mother F#*king padlocks, 4X2 or don't open the door to him

Oh and thanks XR6AUS for posting the piccies up for me. Much appreciated

[BOSHOG]

traps are useless. i chase rodents for a living, glue boards baited with beanut butter wins every time

[Marquis 351]

Originally Posted by BOSHOG

traps are useless. i chase rodents for a living, glue boards baited with beanut butter wins every time

To be honest I'm starting to figure that!!!!! What sort of glue? as I'm getting desprit here! :

[GavinB]

Originally Posted by BOSHOG

traps are useless. i chase rodents for a living, glue boards baited with beanut butter wins every time

Glue boards are terrible. The RSPCA condemn them, and some states have actually banned them. They also encourage disease because frightened animals tend to urinate and excrete a lot, so that will build up. More messier than a snap trap really. And since they are alive, they could still escape it.

I am surprised they are still legal in QLD. Point is, there are better ways to go about getting rid of these animals without having to torture them - quick-killing lethal traps are always best. Causing pointless suffering is quite pathetic, and that's what glue traps do 100% of the time (the only exception is if you regularly monitor the trap and humanely kill the animal, but how often does that happen?)

[cool65]

Well don't use tarzan grip. That's only good for catching elephants, and if you have an elephant in the lane, you better firstly do what it wants and secondly get a new set of springs

[Silver Ghia]

Sounds horrible, they should be banned everywhere immediately. The people using those must have no feelings whatsoever IMO.

Those plastic traps shown earlier work well from my experience, using peanut butter.

[Charliewool]

Just be careful he's not a Nolan's Cheddar mouse!...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqlQS5CCmwI

[left]

Thumbs up to GavinB. Fair enough to get rid of the little guy but it doesn't take much to be humane about it. Some of the suggestions here have been making my stomach churn.

OP I still reckon you should keep him and give him a name, it seems like he is enjoying your company

[svo supporter]

I know I'll cop flack for this comments, but here goes anyway. Who really cares how "inhumane" these glue raps are. As long as you catch the mouse.

Has anyone seen what a mouse can do to a wiring loom in a car or a house? Personally, I'd prefer the mouse to suffer, rather than have one of them chew wiring in a car or my home and me end up either in intensive care or dead from burns.

[GavinB]

Originally Posted by svo supporter

I know I'll cop flack for this comments, but here goes anyway. Who really cares how "inhumane" these glue raps are. As long as you catch the mouse.

I suppose I care because I actually have a conscience and respect that fact that they're animals that can feel pain. You can still catch the mouse anyway, without being too inhumane about it.

What do you gain by making it suffer? What is the point?

Personally, I'd prefer the mouse to suffer, rather than have one of them chew wiring in a car or my home and me end up either in intensive care or dead from burns.

That's pretty simplistic. The mouse has no intention to hurt you, or cause you to suffer - and yet, you have the intent to? It's like you're saying here "either make it suffer or die"... uhh, that doesn't make too much sense considering you don't need to do that to solve the problem.

[BOSHOG]

Originally Posted by svo supporter

I know I'll cop flack for this comments, but here goes anyway. Who really cares how "inhumane" these glue raps are. As long as you catch the mouse.

Has anyone seen what a mouse can do to a wiring loom in a car or a house? Personally, I'd prefer the mouse to suffer, rather than have one of them chew wiring in a car or my home and me end up either in intensive care or dead from burns.

im with you mate, its a mouse FFS! some people care more about these disease bags than they do about their own health and safety. the damage they do to wiring alone can cause house fires, let alone the diseases they spread.

ive tried all different things to catch mice and nothing works like a glue board, so ill continue using them

[GavinB]

Originally Posted by BOSHOG

im with you mate, its a mouse FFS! some people care more about these disease bags than they do about their own health and safety. the damage they do to wiring alone can cause house fires, let alone the diseases they spread.

Thing is, no one is saying they care more about mice then their health. And quite frankly, that is a strawman argument. You've given reasons why we need to get rid of them, yeah, but no one is arguing that. But that's not the point.

Heck, some of the stuff we've done as a species is comparatively a lot worse... but does that mean we should torture each other? Just saying, no need to be a jerk about things.

[BOSHOG]

Originally Posted by GavinB

Thing is, no one is saying they care more about mice then their health. And quite frankly, that is a strawman argument. You've given reasons why we need to get rid of them, yeah, but no one is arguing that. But that's not the point.

Heck, some of the stuff we've done as a species is comparatively a lot worse... but does that mean we should torture each other? Just saying, no need to be a jerk about things.

im not being a jerk, it is my job to kill these animals. it is not economically viable for me to go back hourly to check traps so i want to get one kill per trap, glue boards work on the first time (usually)

the chemicals used in my field (pest control) to terrible things to insects nervous system yet noone here is arguing for their welfare.

is it just because rodents are furry that people seem to care about them more than ants, cockies or spiders?

[GavinB]

Originally Posted by BOSHOG

im not being a jerk, it is my job to kill these animals. it is not economically viable for me to go back hourly to check traps so i want to get one kill per trap, glue boards work on the first time (usually)

I'm not talking about the killing. It's simply a jerkish thing to do to force a mouse to chew its limbs off or starve to death. All while it's scared out of its mind, half drowned in its own urine and faeces. It's torture.

They're not supposed to be left unattended for long periods of time anyway.

the chemicals used in my field (pest control) to terrible things to insects nervous system yet noone here is arguing for their welfare.

is it just because rodents are furry that people seem to care about them more than ants, cockies or spiders?

That's because they kill the insects quick, and if you knew anything about animal biology you'd realise that insects actually don't feel pain, since they lack a cerebral cortex that mammals such as mice possess.

And I'm pretty sure there are regulations when it comes to glueboards so they are not open to abuse, such as frequent checking and humanely disposing of any animal caught. It's an outdated practice and with the other multitude of options, I don't see the point other than laziness (and a distinct lack of compassion). There are also a couple of major practical issues with them as well, but since you're "in the industry" I'm sure I don't need to explain...