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Went down today to the van to take a new gas bottle down and gave the inside a quick inspection. MOUSE/RAT droppings on the floor .

Hurt my back lifting the gas so needed to leave pdq - question, how on earth could they have got in?.

All the way from the front to the show. Didnt check under anything as I need to get home (couldnt stand straight) so will need to go back down this week - hopefully.

Didnt think they could get into the vans?????

hi see

mice in van

Borrow a good farm JRT ratting dog next time you go down, give him the run of the van, and he will clear out any rats and mice quicker than you can say Jack Robinson!

You just need some gloves and a shovel to dispose of the corpses then lol!

ok only Joking! but some farmers do use this meathod of clearing vermin out of their barns and outbuildings. we regularly get mice in our garage, and use the blue grain type killer placed behind a sheet of plywood where they seem to like to nest, the dish becomes empty quite quickly, and the culprits are often flound on the floor a few days later.

Julia

We had a field mouse living in our caravan that's in storage about 3 years ago. The first question is what do you have in the caravan that is an attraction to them? Well, we found out the hard way but luckily no soft furnishings were destroyed except for the polystyrene insulation around the hot water tank that they had a good nibble on. There was a shoe box under the seat (home) inside was a pair of my wife's slippers (bedding) so that's what the attraction was but what was the food chain. Well there were some non perishable doggy chew sticks in a plastic bag and it wasn't till I got them out that the little devil's had had a feast. So everything was there from the living quarters to the dining table as so to speak. Anyway, we removed all the attractions and went a step further and purchased a battery operated sonic rodent repeller that operates off a 9 volt battery. We have had one installed now for 6 months and it seemed to have done the trick as I have just returned to changed the battery. I bought mine off Ebay for £12.95 with free p&p so it's well worth the investment without breaking the bank and also a good deterrent for the future. I much prefer to keep the mice at bay rather than set traps and kill them as I appreciate nature as many others do that camp etc. Anyway, here is the Ebay link for the rodent repeller.

 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Battery-Ultra-Sonic-Rat-Mouse-Rodent-Repeller-Deterrent-/320656488835?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Garden_Plants_Weed_Pest_Control_CV&hash=item4aa89db983

Was able to walk today so went down to the van.

Looks like they found some Weetabix and slippers they fancied. If think they came in under the front sofa area by the boiler, there is a hole where the pipes come up and about a 1" hole through the floor .

Looks like they have slept in the slippers as that was where the most of the droppings were and stains. Also they had the run of the undersink cupbards to.

Hoovered and wiped everywhere with anti-bac and brought all items home to be put through the diswasher / bin.

Do you think me running the heating a few weeks back would of attracted them of the just a case of unlucky?

Put a couple of pots of poison under the van and scattered a few pellits all around the underside.

Neil

Quote: Originally posted by lyn hathaway on 01/3/2011

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would one of these be ok in our van ? it is in storage on a farm .i mean with the animals would it be safe to use

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Hi, we had mice in a caravan that was totally empty of any food. When the weather is very cold mice will start looking for somewhere indoors to live (it's that or die basically) they'll just nip out & forage if needs be - any port in a storm as they say.

Unfortunately I've tried several of these sonic repellant things i& they never made a damn bit of difference. The fact that you've no rodents visiting may just be serendipity - though of course maybe they've improved them or maybe you have more sensitive rodents where you folks live ?!  

These days I block off any access points (use wire mesh or similar if ventilation is needed) & leave traps too if you want to be safe.

ps remember if you use poison you run the risk of 1) having a stinking dead corpse in a pipe somewhere,  - or worse still 2) it drops dead somewhere that a cat or dog can get to and you've then got a very ill or dead cat / dog

I saw a mouse in the kitchen in the very cold weather, and my dog ran behind me to hide!!! Wimp!!!!

I got a sonic thing for the kitchen and one for the conservatory where it looks like they came in, and seems the kitchen is now ok, no further evidence there, but I was still seeing droppings in the conservatory. So I got a capture trap, baited it with dog biscuits and bingo - a teeny field mouse! I released him a few miles away in a local country park.

It's a country park - all long walks, fresh air and splendid views.

Mousy hopped away into the bushes and was out of sight in seconds!

I'm told that you need to release at least a mile away or they find their way back!!!!!