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Frick a mouse
Posted on 10/21/20 at 6:48 am
Posted on 10/21/20 at 6:48 am
I popped the hood on my late FILs F250HD to reveal a mouse nest on top of the engine cover. I opened the air filter box to find it FULL of dog food. Then, I took the engine cover off to see that the V between the cylinder banks was all the way full of dog food from the fuel filter to under the turbo, all covered by a layer of leaves and twigs. The only real damage I've found so far is the wires to the injection control pressure sensor chewed through.
Not to mention, I was there to replace plug wires and vacuum lines that had been chewed through on a Ranger. MIL needs a cat.
What mouse stories y'all got, OB?
Not to mention, I was there to replace plug wires and vacuum lines that had been chewed through on a Ranger. MIL needs a cat.
What mouse stories y'all got, OB?
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Posted on 10/21/20 at 6:58 am to Oxforder
My uncle had a duck lease a long time ago. He bought a small house near it to use as a camp when we hunted there.
I remember waking up in the middle of the night and watching two mice crawl around my legs on top of the comforter.
Went back to sleep. If they were that brazen, there's nothing I could have done in the middle of the night that would have kept them from coming back.
I remember waking up in the middle of the night and watching two mice crawl around my legs on top of the comforter.
Went back to sleep. If they were that brazen, there's nothing I could have done in the middle of the night that would have kept them from coming back.
This post was edited on 10/21/20 at 3:04 pm
Posted on 10/21/20 at 7:05 am to Oxforder
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What mouse stories y'all got, OB
I could write a book. My old man's barn used to be filthy with them.
One of my favorites: me and my brother got word that the triple tail were ripe for the picking so we both took a day off work to go get em while the weather was good. Pulled out at 3am and got to the landing before daylight, back the boat down and turn the key and nothing. Brand new engine with 10 hours on it. Get out the jumper cables still nothing. I told him to pull up and park and damnit we were going to fix this shite and go fishing. I went in the marina and bought a trailer light to use for a half-assed volt meter since we didn't have shite for tools and started troubleshooting. Nothing in the engine is getting voltage except the start solenoid. I start working backwards and find out that a rat has chewed through the entire engine harness under the floor. All 20something wires smooth through on a brand spanking new engine.
We bought a roll of wire and wire nutted the whole damn thing back together and got the engine running about 9am, just in time to talk to a guy loading his boat back up with a box full of triple tail. We went out and didn't catch shite
frick a rat. Im working on rewiring my old man's bike right now, they've chewed through almost every wire on it
Posted on 10/21/20 at 7:07 am to Oxforder
I have a big glue trap in the dog food closet. Haven't caught a mouse yet but my puppy got caught up in it yesterday. Was a mess.
Back in college there were 5 or 6 of us living in a straight up flop house in the Gardere area. It was infested with mice. They would climb up under the stove elements and hang out there. We set traps under there one Saturday while drinking and watching football. Every 10 minutes or so you would hear the trap go off. Reset and repeat. We caught 20 or so there. That house was horrible.
Back in college there were 5 or 6 of us living in a straight up flop house in the Gardere area. It was infested with mice. They would climb up under the stove elements and hang out there. We set traps under there one Saturday while drinking and watching football. Every 10 minutes or so you would hear the trap go off. Reset and repeat. We caught 20 or so there. That house was horrible.
Posted on 10/21/20 at 8:45 am to Oxforder
1st real job after graduation I was working in Stillwater, OK. Apartment out just West of town was cheaper than anything in town and newer too (plus had rural electric coop so when tornado came through still had power when rest of the entire town was out, literally 1 Mexican restaurant out West of me was the only place with food/water for the entire city for 2 weeks).
Anyway, back to the mouse, ...
I was young and still had my hearing and one night I could hear the scritchey scratch of little mouse feet on the kitchen tile/linoleum. Caught 2 of those critters over the next week when I set bait out. 1 pack of poison pellets between fridge and counter, another under a little cabinet just inside the living room off the kitchen. My OSU grad boss was surprised it worked so he took my unused poison bait to his apartment on the North side of town and got 6.
Frankly I was surprised to have any. 2nd floor above guys that kept a big boa that would get loose from time to time (neighbor on end of building found it in her living room one time) and the other end upstairs, 2 doors down, was a couple wild cute chicks with an Akita and a Dalmatian in the their 2 bedroom unit.(dog stories too, supposedly all their BF's got bitten but those doggies loved me)
Anyway, back to the mouse, ...
I was young and still had my hearing and one night I could hear the scritchey scratch of little mouse feet on the kitchen tile/linoleum. Caught 2 of those critters over the next week when I set bait out. 1 pack of poison pellets between fridge and counter, another under a little cabinet just inside the living room off the kitchen. My OSU grad boss was surprised it worked so he took my unused poison bait to his apartment on the North side of town and got 6.
Frankly I was surprised to have any. 2nd floor above guys that kept a big boa that would get loose from time to time (neighbor on end of building found it in her living room one time) and the other end upstairs, 2 doors down, was a couple wild cute chicks with an Akita and a Dalmatian in the their 2 bedroom unit.(dog stories too, supposedly all their BF's got bitten but those doggies loved me)
Posted on 10/21/20 at 9:56 am to Sidicous
Knew an older couple at campground we used to stay at long term that had a mice nest in some ant poison they had in storage. One weekend when they went up to stay and turned on the water, it sprayed all throughout walls of camper. Mice had chewed through pex tubing several places. Needless to say they had quite a mess.
Posted on 10/21/20 at 10:00 am to Oxforder
Combine and trucks used to get ate up over winter. Got a herd of cats now and no problems
Posted on 10/21/20 at 10:08 am to Oxforder
I had two mice going into my bird feeder every night around 8pm. So I put out a rat trap. Well the next day the rat trap was nowhere to be found, but I have not seen the mice since. So they must have gotten slammed but were able to crawl away and die somewhere else.
Posted on 10/21/20 at 10:21 am to SpillwayRoyalty
Make sure it's not squirrels doing the damage. I have had way more issues with squirrels doing thousands of dollars of destruction than mice.
Squirrels nest twice a yea and love vehicles. I have killed at least 100 in the past year.
Squirrels nest twice a yea and love vehicles. I have killed at least 100 in the past year.
Posted on 10/21/20 at 11:06 am to El Segundo Guy
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have killed at least 100 in the past year.
First you put on some rice
Posted on 10/21/20 at 11:11 am to X123F45
Posted on 10/21/20 at 11:11 am to Tigerpaw123
Posted on 10/21/20 at 11:23 am to Oxforder
Was in line to wash hands in the cafeteria in elementary school. Couple of girls started screeching at a mouse running from behind the water trough. I chased after it trying to catch it until the very large principal (who had one eye looking at Sunday and one looking at Monday) seemingly jumped out of no where and stepped on it. Damn thing exploded like a tomato.
After my mom and dad divorced he lived in a crappy little shotgun rental house my grandparents owned. At night, when you were laying down in bed, you could hear the rats crawling on the ceiling. Did not make for a restful sleep.
After my mom and dad divorced he lived in a crappy little shotgun rental house my grandparents owned. At night, when you were laying down in bed, you could hear the rats crawling on the ceiling. Did not make for a restful sleep.
Posted on 10/21/20 at 1:46 pm to Oxforder
We just bought an 80 year old house. I kept hearing my wife's cats rustling around this morning when I was leaving for work. I went to check on what they were doing, and they came around the corner batting a very tired mouse. I guess I'm going to have to start finding and fixing entry points. I knew it was coming.
Posted on 10/21/20 at 11:57 pm to Teague
Wife saw a mouse in the kitchen the week of opening day of gun season. She informed me that I was not going to the camp until I caught that rat bastard.
I must've spent $50 on mouse traps the next day. I caught his arse, but if I hadn't, I would've bought a mouse from the pet store as a decoy.
I must've spent $50 on mouse traps the next day. I caught his arse, but if I hadn't, I would've bought a mouse from the pet store as a decoy.
Posted on 10/22/20 at 5:50 am to Teague
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We just bought an 80 year old house. I kept hearing my wife's cats rustling around this morning when I was leaving for work. I went to check on what they were doing, and they came around the corner batting a very tired mouse. I guess I'm going to have to start finding and fixing entry points. I knew it was coming.
Snake food!
Posted on 10/22/20 at 8:32 am to Oxforder
A mouse snuck into my riding mower a few weeks ago and chewed through a wire that connects the spark plug. The mower stopped running. After inspection, found the dead mouse inside the mower.
I replaced the spark plug, the ignition coil, and the battery. Mower still didn't work.
Took the fricker apart and found the fuel solenoid was not allowing gas to flow properly. Replaced that as well.
Mower started, only to find the flywheel fan was broken apart. Replaced that part as well. Spent lots of time and money replacing parts because of a fricking mouse deciding to build a nest and die in my mower.
The only good thing to come out of this is that the mower runs much better than before.
I replaced the spark plug, the ignition coil, and the battery. Mower still didn't work.
Took the fricker apart and found the fuel solenoid was not allowing gas to flow properly. Replaced that as well.
Mower started, only to find the flywheel fan was broken apart. Replaced that part as well. Spent lots of time and money replacing parts because of a fricking mouse deciding to build a nest and die in my mower.
The only good thing to come out of this is that the mower runs much better than before.
Posted on 10/22/20 at 9:19 am to Oxforder
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The only real damage I've found so far is the wires to the injection control pressure sensor chewed through.
There is a class action lawsuit in California against Toyota because Toyota decided to "go green" and use soy based wire covers. The mice are chewing wiring like crazy bc of it. The irony that Cali is suing a company for "going green", I love it.
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Posted on 10/22/20 at 9:31 am to Oxforder
Not really a mouse story...but a damn big rat story.
Pawpaw had a feed barn that backed up to grandma's chicken yard. He kept all his rice bran, sweet feed, and her chicken feed in there. Well one day my cousin told me he had seen a big rat eating in the feed drums (old 55 gallon drums Pawpaw got from the shipyard). The cats wouldn't even go in the barn. Well we opened up the door and the biggest rat I've ever seen was eating in the sweet feed we had for our horse....I mean he was huge. Tommy(My cousin) went and got his compound bow and decided he was gonna stick him to the back wall. So we opened the door back up and he shot...missed about 2" left. Shut the door and drew again...this time stuck that rat to the back wall. When he pulled that sucker out...I'm not kidding...his tail was about 18" long....and as big around at the base as a grown man's finger. I was impressed...and glad he was dead.
Pawpaw had a feed barn that backed up to grandma's chicken yard. He kept all his rice bran, sweet feed, and her chicken feed in there. Well one day my cousin told me he had seen a big rat eating in the feed drums (old 55 gallon drums Pawpaw got from the shipyard). The cats wouldn't even go in the barn. Well we opened up the door and the biggest rat I've ever seen was eating in the sweet feed we had for our horse....I mean he was huge. Tommy(My cousin) went and got his compound bow and decided he was gonna stick him to the back wall. So we opened the door back up and he shot...missed about 2" left. Shut the door and drew again...this time stuck that rat to the back wall. When he pulled that sucker out...I'm not kidding...his tail was about 18" long....and as big around at the base as a grown man's finger. I was impressed...and glad he was dead.
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