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hi

we are looking to buy an FC possible a trigano or a pennine We are going to have to store it in our front garden but am worried about mice getting to the canvas anyone know of any way of keeping them at bay.

thanks

Teresa

Don't know the answer to your question. We bought a brand new £300 tent 18 months ago and stored it in the garage over winter. We then brought it out to use and arrived at the campsite only to discover we had a mouse in the garage and it had totally destrpyed the tent. Had to tke it to the tip :(

Would hate this to happen again!!

I was told that spreading tumble drier sheets around in it when you pack it away for winter deters the mice - makes it smell nice when you open it up, too.

I'm hoping it's worked, haven't had time to open my Combi up since autumn, and I had a lone mouse in my car which is parked next to it a few weeks back - ate all my fruit gums & spearmint polos. So I had to kill it.

I can tell you here and now that the tumble drier sheets don't work!!!  Even the more expensive "Bounce" ones. 

We have found evidence of mice in our caravan and we had spread two packets of Bounce sheets in there.

Fortunately all they chewed was the foam pipe laggers that we had bought to pad the sides of our Ultima awning.  Had these not been in the caravan, I dread to think what they would have chewed.  Of course, we have to clean the whole caravan now - just bought a steam cleaner. 

We've bought a battery operated mouse deterrent but, of course, that is not likely to help in a folding camper or trailer tent as it needs the air space to reach the mice.  We were considering using Jan P's suggestion of moth balls but we didn't really want the caravan to smell like an old lady.  Still, that might be preferable to the smell of mice.

We have cats, maybe they scare mice away from the trailer tents - we've had mice in the sheds, but never in the trailer tents.  (Had hamsters in one, but that's another story!)

Hi Alfred, we used to have a cat 'Mickey' who always brought the mice in, minus their noses, must have been his favourite' bit. He was terrified of birds due to the fact that a blackbird pecked him on his head when he was a kitten. After that, if birds came into the garden, he used to run in, and hide behind the back door,.

Rosie, the cat we have now, has never brought a mouse in, don't think she was ever into chasing things,except, she chases Digby our Cocker Spaniel. She is now 22yrs old, but can give the young whippersnapper a run for his money.