My wife unwittingly carried a mouse in her handbag into our car yesterday, it was hiding in her bag from our cat

So, it jumped out of the bag when my wife screamed in shock as she was was looking for a pen in the bag, then it ran under the passenger seat and disappeared. I tried a powerful leaf blower to try and scare it out that didn't work. I've left a mousetrap in the car overnight but that hasn't done the trick. Thinking about locking the bloody cat in the car overnight to sort it out but could cause havoc with the leather chasing a mouse down
So, maybe a lump of cheese by the mousetrap? Any other idea's? Rather get it out than fumigate it otherwise it'll stink the car out as it decomposes!

Any tricks gladly listened to.

Have visions of it eating away the electric cables and giving all sorts of fault messages on the dashboard

Forget cheese, that's just Tom & Jerry!

Peanut butter or melted chocolate on a strong mouse trap. They can't resist it. Good luck.  2006 4.2 SC
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Put the cat in and watch. The cat will sniff out it's location.

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We caught our mouse with whiskey fudge!

Though it wasn't in my Range Rover but my kitchen.

Lots of nice warm places to hide & wires to chew. You need to get it out ASAP.

Chuck the cat in and video it... brings cage fighting to a new level.

AERO bar! NOT the mint one. They can't resist.
Sellotape a bit to the trap - seriously!

Peanut butter everytime

Peanut butter on a trap, one in each footwell and one in the boot for good measure. n fact, short of a shotgun I would say do anything to get rid ASAP. I've seen what they can do on a friend's RRS. 9 grand was what it cost to put right, and all because she wanted it caught and released (bloody Vegetarian freak) rather than killed. Poison isn't a great option 'cos it might crawl some place inaccessible and die leaving you with the smell of a rotting carcass. Mousetraps, lots of them is what I would do. All baited with something different, peanut butter, chocolate, Milky Way chunks, Nutella spread etc. Mice are like kids, sweet tooth.

Seriously, everything non damaging is what you need to be doing. Wiring looms need the whole interior stripping out so they can be replaced. Even repairing leather is a much cheaper option.

Get the plastic type of trap if you can, they work on a hammer action, and usually have a receptical where you can smear the p/butter. Don't know where you are, but Wilkos sell them.
Don't use the old fashioned Tom and Jerry type trap, they're pants !!
Know of a lad who works on the estate here with us, leaves his Corsa outside house. He was pottering along the M1 when a mouse ran out of the glovebox and along the dashboard
When he looked there was a whole family nesting in the glovebox, been there ages, used the soundproofing from inside the bonnet as nesting material
Mind you, the car was like a slip inside

RRV78 wrote:

We caught our mouse with whiskey fudge!

Though it wasn't in my Range Rover but my kitchen.

Well perhaps you should keep the Whisky Fudge out of the mouse's reach then!!

Mars bars

i put some in a couple of baited traps in a floor void once when a mouse was chewing through plastic water pipes......

got 3 of the little over the course of a few days. There is nothing that can't be fixed with a hammer😜😜
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mzpicg - what size mice you got up there - in Hampshire we call them rats

Andy - I have caught 114 mice in the last 2 years in our bin store and a couple in the house and garage. Before anyone asks yes the house is clean but we live in the new forest and the house is 210 years old so the bloody things are well established. Plus I think the neighbour encourages them to come round !

When I had my sport I was driving down to the local shops and one appeared on my bonnet. Had been asleep in the engine bay. Saw the thing run over the bonnet as I slowed down. Braked hard and it slid off the front. It looked as me as it tried to grip the bonnet but it fell off.

I find sliced cherry tomatoes works very well in a mouse trap. The bloody things love them. I found out the hard way as the wife used to keep the tomatoes in a bowl in the veg rack - needless to say everything is now in the fridge.

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MZPICG:


I'm in the New Forest too so probably had a cousin of one of your little beggars.

Anyway, we caught it in one of the clear plastic trap that the door closes once it goes in so it's a nice way to catch rather than killing it. More like a field mouse than the normal domestic grey one's. Peanut butter was the bait so thanks for the tips guys, happy ending for RR and mouse [/b]