advice needed on some furry fiends.

[clodhopper]

out in the disco this morning and the engine died at the worst possible moment. managed to coast far enough to get off the busy road, lifted the bonnet to investigate and found something with small sharp teeth has been eating my lead between coil and distributor.  :shock: i am assuming it's mice. any ideas how i can stop them. the cat keeps jumping out when i move.(joking).

[ben_haynes]

out in the disco this morning and the engine died at the worst possible moment. managed to coast far enough to get off the busy road, lifted the bonnet to investigate and found something with small sharp teeth has been eating my lead between coil and distributor.  :shock: i am assuming it's mice. any ideas how i can stop them. the cat keeps jumping out when i move.(joking).

starve the cats before you put them back under :lol:

[Guardian.]

mice are a nightmare!, they tottally destroyed one of the missus mondeos, ate the electics, power steering pipes, aircon pipes, ignition, then they ate through a grommet in the floor and started inside, dash, seats everything. had to get her a new one!
they have never bothered with her other car or any of mine as yet, its strange,youd have thought they would come in the landy i shoot in as it  has dead bodies in it, but never!

[lurch_917]

fun awnser is to buy a air riffel and have some pay back time

[Guardian.]

air rifle would be better! :lol:

[stuvy]

mice are a nightmare!, they tottally destroyed one of the missus mondeos, ate the electics, power steering pipes, aircon pipes, ignition, then they ate through a grommet in the floor and started inside, dash, seats everything. had to get her a new one!
they have never bothered with her other car or any of mine as yet, its strange,youd have thought they would come in the landy i shoot in as it  has dead bodies in it, but never!

Im not going to ask why you had dead bodies in your motor, i presume it coincides with the tank gaurds and wizard lol :twisted: :P

fun awnser is to buy a air riffel and have some pay back time

Do you shoot under the bonnet and hit stuff though? :P

[treeman]

 :lol: on a serious note, try mouse traps around ur disco, i had mice eating away at my fishing gear last year  ( they love boilies) so i brought 4 mouse traps an loaded em up with boilies an all 4 caught the 1st nite, leave the dead ones lying around for a bit, that deters them,  they aint touched the fishing gear since :dance:

[burgerman]

 Worked for a jaguar dealer a whilst back - A guy brought his V8 s type in for allsorts of problems ( lights and rough running ect )  Lifted the bonnet and found a mouse nest in the engine bay  :shock: and had chomped through a bunch of wiring, Therfore not covered under warranty  :lol: But after a complete new loom :doh: and a suitable bill  :twisted:, He was actually quite happy as apparantly he had a few nice pieces of art/paintings stored in there and did not want them to have a similar experience

[Fergy]

had to get her a new one! - Why buy a new mouse?  squish the little s*d :roll:

[clodhopper]

glad to see i'm not the only one the mice are picking on. placed 2 traps but nothing yet. :-k

[boss]

soak some grain or musley in hydraulic oil and leave it in a spraycan lid.....cheaper and more effective than the poison......as for air rifles, a 12bore or a 243 is more intresting :lol:

[Disco Matt]

Problem with poisoning them is that they'll invariably crawl off to somewhere they feel safe. Which is usually deep inside the walls or behind your dashboard. You won't know about this until the whiff of dead mouse begins to assail your nostrils...

Standard mouse traps are much better. Always felt them to be more humane too - instant rather than taking hours to work.

[Range Rover Blues]

Poisen them