Mice as passengers

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Get a pet snake :))

Cheers Kev

Once they get the scent of each other it is hard to stop them. a mate had one or two call his Landcruiser home. After lifting the bonnet with the light just right, we could see their trail. They 'piddle', leaving a trail for others to follow.

A good engine wash to get rid of the trail, silicon the offending grommet and a libral spray of peppermint escence stopped the problem.

Mice hate the smell of peppermint. A bit soaked into a tissue of piece of sponge and put in the car/van will generally discourage them. Also a dab where you think they are coming in to turn them off.

Bonus is the fresh smell of peppermint is quiet pleasent to the human nose!


Tim

hi, we had a simular problem when we camped at Streaky Bay a few years ago, there was a bad mice plague happening there at the time and when hubby opened the bonnet to check things over before we left he jumped that high nearly knocked himself out on the bonnet, the motor was covered in mice, trying to workout were they kept coming from was hard until we looked up they were in the gussets of the bonnet, couldn't believe there were so many hiding out there. we studied them for a while and they were getting in the cars from climbing up the wheels. bye the way cheese works ok on mice traps if you melt it on there a bit with a lighter. good luck getting rid of them.

Hi emem,
Back in 2001, a group of us did the Simpson. The trip leader, in a troopy, collected a mouse somewhere near Purnie Bore. Tried to catch the thing for nearly a week, but it kept evading every attempt. It even started pinching tissues out of the box on the dashboard and making a nest under the drawer system in the back. I can remember one afternoon, after stopping early, we emptied absolutely everything out of the car! Convinced it was gone, put everything back and guess what - next day it was back again. It kept nibbling at everything it could find and making a real pest of itself.

Eventually, it gnawed a hole through the port wine cask, which REALLY stirred things up! Interestingly, it must have died of alcohol poisoning, or perhaps fell out of the car in a drunken stupor, but anyway, we never saw it again from that day on.

So no emem, you ain't alone mate...

Cheers
Gerry