is it usual for door mice to set up home in your car?

Rich1988

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I hadnt used the car (due to having a bike etc) for nearly 6 weeks, when I opened it up to start using it again I discovered behind the passenger seat chewed up paper/crisp packets along with a mcdonalds bbq sauce packet that had been chewed up, today when I went to take a bag out of it I saw a really light brown what i guess must be a door mouse/shrew run from out under the passenger seat to behind the stereo!. personally I think its pretty cool and put some bread out for him/her has anyone else had a small or large animal set up home in their car?
 
That could be a potential fire risk... No way I'd want a small rodent setting up camp in my car.

You have to ask yourself how it got in as well!
 
I did wonder how it got in, I saw evidence of it before I stopped using the car 6 weeks ago and it has been shut and locked since then with the furry creature survirving that whole time so he must be able to get in and out, I assume he gets in through the whole I made in the bulk head for the speaker/amp wiring? I didnt really think about it chewing through wiring though, hmmmm
 
Plenty of spiders live in mine. Once was driving along and it abseiled down from the sun visor onto the steering wheel, ran along and across my hand, the abseiled down onto the gearstick and ran off :D

I had woodworm in the floor panels when I bought it. Found that out when I fell through it :D
 
Did it bring the McD's into the car on it's own?


I do hope so! Otherwise your car is a bin, and all good bins need mice/tramps.


p.s. I can supply a tramp if you want to be REALLY cool.

pps i'm only being silly, no offense intended unless you are... a heron. I hate herons.
 
So you're actually keeping it as a pet in your car? won't it smell of mouse poo? and wouldn't the possibility of sitting on mouse poo increase the longer it's there?

Reminds me of that scene with tommy and his cat in train spotting.

Give the little guy a name.
 
My stepsons transit attracts rats - they love that chewy wiring!

Mind you he could tell where they were getting in and out cos he found a half eaten ginsters part pulled through a grommet hole behind the dash :eek:
 
A work colleague of mine had a mouse (non optional extra) in her brand new Honda Jazz. This car suffered from random problems for months and would just randomly cut out. The car then developed a hideous stink and then refused to start so was towed to Honda. They found a dead mouse mouse behind the dash who had chewed through the vast majority of the cables behind the dash which would have to be replaced.
 
If it's actually a dormouse (fat fluffy tail) and not a normal house mouse, be careful; they're endangered iirc.

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If it's actually a dormouse (fat fluffy tail) and not a normal house mouse, be careful; they're endangered iirc.
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Maybe setting up in people's cars has something to do with the dwindling numbers.
 
aw you minger. You want to exterminate that. The missus would kill me if a wild creature (other than myself) lived in either of my cars!
 
When my mate got his SJ410 we gave it a service, took the air filter out and it was all fluffy and there was a hole through it. At some point a small rodent was living in the air filter in the engine...


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