Todays tip, don’t leave horse feed in your car !

[smiggy]

Dh got into big car yesterday to go and get my horse feed out before going to airport.opened boot to find half a bag of happy hoof and a bit of spillers balancer lavishly distributed through the boot. Clearly a mouse attack. I laughed, said I would never drive car again and helped him clear it out. It’s now in airport carport with a boot full of mousetraps .
went to transfer a bag of nuts into friends car today, from my little car, hmmmm boot full of pony nuts and wood pellets, with a little nest in the vent bit behind the back light. Buggers had even gone in my handbag and eaten a packet of chocolate biscuits !
so cleaned out everything disinfected, borrowed more traps from next door and hoping to catch him overnight or may have to set car on fire tomorrow !
they must have a mouse infestation at feed merchants with mice getting in to bags through tiny holes, bags looked fine.
so be smart, don’t do it people!

 

[Red-1]

I've had mice in my vehicle. They weren't from the feed store as they were attracted to a packet of biscuits. They were just attracted by the smell. I no longer keep food in my car!

 

[smiggy]

I've had mice in my vehicle. They weren't from the feed store as they were attracted to a packet of biscuits. They were just attracted by the smell. I no longer keep food in my car!

I think these were though, as two cars parked in separate places , never having had mice before seems a coincidence.
not blaming the feedstore, my own stupid fault !
least my cars been mucked out now.

 

[chaps89]

I mucked my car out tonight, no sign of small furries but I’m wondering how to reclaim my lounge (this is only about half of what I emptied out ) have previously had small furries, most most unpleasant

 

[DSB]

We've had mice and rat plagues in Australia .
In the last twelve months three of the farm trucks have had rats nests under the bonnet

 

[m1stify]

Yes happened to me too. Sold the car soon after! Had a full valet etc when mouse was despatched but on a warm day I got the tell tale smell

 

[smiggy]

We've had mice and rat plagues in Australia .
In the last twelve months three of the farm trucks have had rats nests under the bonnet

I’d prefer under the bonnet, I’m worried its going to leap at my throat while I’m driving

 

[Squeak]

I've heard so many stories about mice in cars this winter. Starting to get really paranoid and planning on emptying all food out of my car tomorrow. I think a mouse popping up while I was driving would literally be my worst nightmare!

 

[Kaylum]

Watch out as mice in the car will chew threw your wiring and wreck it. Hopefully it's just a split bag.

 

[meleeka]

I had mice in my car once. It camped in the roof lining. I must have had one in there another time. I didn’t notice, but the JRT shredded my passenger seat when I left her in the car

 

[ecb89]

Re-leve cubes do make your car smell nice though

 

[Snow Falcon]

Friend had a furry visitor in her car once. I would have forty fits if one was riding about in my car. I can't cope with them running about live in my house (courtesy of cats).

 

[alsxx]

Oh no! I had a mouse in the horsebox cab. I'd left the kids car seats in the tack room, put them back in box and obviously managed to transport one in. Still smells of wee a year later

 

[angel7]

Mice aside also be carefull how you fill your car boot with horsefeed.
I made the mistake of filling estate car boot with bales of shavings first, taking up all the boot room, then piling the 6x bags of nuts and mix ontop, taking out the parcel shelf to fit more in, right up the back window.
Then managed en route home to crash at 50mph by aquaplaning into a hedge, and said bags of feed sailed through gap between seats right through the windscreen. Some bags hit the head rests and exploded, only thing saved me from being beheaded.

 

[spotty_pony]

Yep, just before Christmas a mouse got in my bonnet and chewed through a wire. Thank goodness that’s all he had done, it was a quick fix but cost me a day off work at our busiest time!

 

[Rusty Rider]

New fear unlocked

i have a quite severe phobia of rodents - if one appeared in the cab as I was driving I’m pretty sure I would not make it alive…

 

[Fransurrey]

I mucked my car out tonight, no sign of small furries but I’m wondering how to reclaim my lounge (this is only about half of what I emptied out ) have previously had small furries, most most unpleasant

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I spy a tow float donut thingy! You don't swim with Surrey Outdoor Swimmers, do you? If so, we probably have nattered about horses!

 

[Archangel]

Buggers had even gone in my handbag and eaten a packet of chocolate biscuits !

That's just so rude isn't it.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

Not had mice in the car but had a Robins nest under the bonnet in my horsebox one year.

 

[Peglo]

The trouble I would get in from OH if I brought mice in the cars via horse feed

 

[rabatsa]

Not had mice in the car but had a Robins nest under the bonnet in my horsebox one year.

The local small bird population attempt to use our cars as homes if they do not move for a couple of days. I have had swallows nest in the horse trailer, they did some trips to lessons, shows and vets one year.

 

[SantaVera]

LOL

 

[scruffyponies]

Beware: OH took to keeping pig feed in the boot a few years ago, and the rats decided to move in.

They ate through the wiring loom of the car in ONE NIGHT!!
6pm, driving fine; 8am dead as a door-nail. It was a write-off.

 

[rabatsa]

I watched a rat try to get into the horse trailer once. I had some feed stored inside and the rat tried every which way to get in. Long before video on phones unfortunatly.