!!Alert: mice break-ins at trailheads!!

[Rick]

Want another one? It's a '78 with no axles, but has many good parts.

I would consider it, but my wife ain't as REDNECK as me and dudn't want any more LAWN FURNITURE!!!!!!

 

[bubba]

Okay - my wife's Subaru wagon had a mouse for a couple months. Initially found by my daughter in her child seat as the mouse ran acrss the top of my wife's driver's seat (as she was driving) -- daughter probably around 2 yrs.

I put in a mouse trap and didn't get it for the longest time. The deal was that my wife always had Cherrios for my daughter in the car. The mouse had plenty of stash under the seats before coming out for the trap. There's more to the story about my wife on the side of the road and police coming to help... We figure the mouse went over the CDN border with us a few times (and we didn't declare it...)

Strange thread, but from a cottage owner who knows... as soon as the weather drops, they start looking for warmer more comfortable places. I prefer traps -- I know I've got 'em.

 

[Doc McPeak]

This is a great thread, for I've never considered mice break-ins, and I just did a big car-camp blitz with many good vittles in the truck. With a double backpack coming up in a few days I had planned on putting the second trips grub in a box as per usual and then transfering it. I think it all goes in the cooler. Do mice chew their way into coolers?

Too bad my pet snake Reggie hates the cold.....

 

[John H Swanson]

really gross mouse story.

A number of years ago I had a labor day backpack trip into the Sewards. On the way to the trailhead I hit Stewarts and got a quart of chocolate milk. Then I spent some time at the Corey's summer trailhead orginizing the gear and sipping on the milk.

The trip started with the milk not finished so I left it in the van. When I returned from the woods I was loading the gear and saw the milk container. I thought about the weekend temps, that weren't too warm, and thought the milk might be okay. As I was raising the continer to my mouth, I saw a speck of black inside the containers and thought it was probably mold. So I went to pour out the milk and a dead mouse difficultly passed out the opening in the top of the container. As this was the only food in the van, he had drown after woeming his way into the container.

I thought he jumped into the unwatched open door...or more likely there was a hole somewhere. I never had another mouse in car problem.

My fondness in chocolate milk was not phased by the experience.

 

[ken]

I put in a mouse trap and didn't get it for the longest time. The deal was that my wife always had Cherrios for my daughter in the car. The mouse had plenty of stash under the seats before coming out for the trap.:

use peanut butter on the traps - they cant seem to resist it (it works better than cheese).

Do mice chew their way into coolers?

they can - even worse is that thier bodies & bones can flatten to about 1/4 inch, so if you have a 1/4 inch space they can get in... the little pests are always crapping inside everyones barbecues - make sure you heat it up good before you put your meat on the grill!