Today's Surprise!

Years ago I had experienced a fire in the wiring harnesses of one of my headlights only to discover a family of field mice had massed quite the collection of trash in and around my battery box and wiring harness.

I'm sorry for my typo before. Just found out the mice chewed the wires to the auto water meter. I guess it was not reading so they sent someone out to repair it. DH said the man was fuming on how the design was asinine and so prone to be chewed. I would think it would be job security.

On the mouse in the house wiring.... please reassure me that I can sleep tonight with out worrying about a mouse chewing house wiring and starting fires.... yikes!!!! add something else to fret over at might when I should be sleeping. too bad you could not have taken the whole thing to show homeowners and coworkers. sounds like it should be an exhibit for a safety museum.

What I did do was cut the wires right there and pull it back both ways then install two junction boxes and I ran new wire between the boxes. Again I really do wish we all had cameras in our pockets back then. This was three years before my first bag phone and it was four phones later before I had one that would take a picture. If you really need to go downstairs and look for mouse nests between the floor joists over walls.
I just find it is better to have the downstairs and the upstairs patrolled by our three cats.

I just spent $400 replacing the wiring harness in my car because some rodent had chewed through the wires and shorted out the ABS and Traction control systems.

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If the grass looks greener it is probably over the septic tank. - troy n sarah tx

Our existance here is soley for the expoitation of CMG

Gee, thanks!

looking at the bright side be glad its not field mice when the old chevy truck had no heat I found a nest blocking the heat system after removeing it the heat worked but the oder of their urine would make your eyes water ,and their chewing the wires the turn signals no longer work . always check the air filters of veicals left parked for some time I uslly find nest or stashes of acorns ect all bad news if sucked into the motor. besides having a mouse run up my pants leg as I pushed the cluch in an old truck i'v been shocked by raiseing the hood to find a black snake in there likely hunting mise ; moth balls or peperment oil in trunks underhoods n seats all help , those old farm trucks prked behind the barn are favorite haunts of these critters

I think I would be filling that 5 gallon bucket with dead red squirrels! Cats will eat these little buggers as well as mice. Our cat has kept our red squirrel numbers way down. And yeah, squirrels and mice can really do a number on your vehicles!

Pack rats are big problem here with vehicles

We have an old dump truck that gets used once in a blue moon. It has a "smell" that I always attributed to cat pee, but maybe what I'm smelling is mouse pee?

I also have a Siberian Husky that likes to kill things - but only possums. She's caught 7-8 in the last year and brings them back into the yard and stuffs them into holes and covers them up (sometimes they're still alive! YIKES!) How can I teach her to catch red squirrels? They are FAST little buggars.