How to keep mice away from cars?
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Field mice are climbing on top of our cars at night and pooping all over them.
We live near the countryside, so the wee things are everywhere!
I don't know what the mice are aiming to achieve by pooping on the roofs of our cars, but they seem to love it.
Traps are pointless. More will come. For every one we kill, 3 more will take its place.
Any ideas?
We live near the countryside, so the wee things are everywhere!
I don't know what the mice are aiming to achieve by pooping on the roofs of our cars, but they seem to love it.
Traps are pointless. More will come. For every one we kill, 3 more will take its place.
Any ideas?
Has the car had a de-cat? If so that's where your problem is!
There are some more helpful ideas here - http://homeguides.sfgate.com/rid-field-mice-natura...
There are some more helpful ideas here - http://homeguides.sfgate.com/rid-field-mice-natura...
Be thankful you don't live in a city. On my old car about once a week there would always be wipe marks on the boot lid as if someone had spilt something on it and wiped it off alongside little scratches that would appear almost every day.
Turns out some local reprobates enjoyed using the boot lid to snort coke off of.
Turns out some local reprobates enjoyed using the boot lid to snort coke off of.
When I was over in Germany once, I remarked on the damage to a colleague's car radio antenna. It was one of those helicoil flexible things and it looked as if it had been vandalised with a pair of pliers...
"Nein! It voss ein Marder", he replied, "it chewed it".
So I asked what the hell this weird German car-eating creature was as my colleague didn't know what the English word for it was. His description was quite alarming - about as big as cat but with lots of teeth. It seems that in the Spring, the young ones like to crawl into cars and chew away on wires, hydraulic pipes and anything else they can get their teeth into. Usually preferring good quality cars too. 'Marder-proofing' one's garage is quite a common undertaking in that part of Germany, I gather.
I found out in the end that it was a Marten. Not the timid British Pine Marten, but quite a burly brute of a distant relative - the Stone Marten. There's a German website selling a device which keeps the hungry monsters away http://www.mardersicher.de/english/e_index.htm but an 'effective high voltage repellent system with ultrasonic' is perhaps a bit OTT for a few crapping mice?
"Nein! It voss ein Marder", he replied, "it chewed it".
So I asked what the hell this weird German car-eating creature was as my colleague didn't know what the English word for it was. His description was quite alarming - about as big as cat but with lots of teeth. It seems that in the Spring, the young ones like to crawl into cars and chew away on wires, hydraulic pipes and anything else they can get their teeth into. Usually preferring good quality cars too. 'Marder-proofing' one's garage is quite a common undertaking in that part of Germany, I gather.
I found out in the end that it was a Marten. Not the timid British Pine Marten, but quite a burly brute of a distant relative - the Stone Marten. There's a German website selling a device which keeps the hungry monsters away http://www.mardersicher.de/english/e_index.htm but an 'effective high voltage repellent system with ultrasonic' is perhaps a bit OTT for a few crapping mice?
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