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Post by FFS Corders on Oct 26, 2017 8:52:19 GMT
So I have been keeping a pair of RX7 seats in the conservatory ready for when I get round to fitting long seatbelt stalks...came home one day and the cat was very interested in something in the conservatory. Turn over the driver's seat and am greeted by this fella  IMG-20171020-WA0003[1] by james cordery, on Flickr I swiftly put the seat outside, then waited for the self-eviction  IMG-20171020-WA0005 by james cordery, on Flickr Safe to say the cat was a little disappointed when i put the seat back inside, "where did my snack go??"  IMG-20171020-WA0009 by james cordery, on Flickr Who else has had to evict unwelcome guests from their car/parts? |
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Post by FFS Corders on Oct 26, 2017 8:55:53 GMT
erghh i suck at embedding pictures
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Post by Horney on Oct 26, 2017 9:11:25 GMT
Did you buy them off Rich Wilson? His RX and 5 are both mice infested!
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Post by FFS Corders on Oct 26, 2017 9:36:01 GMT
not sure who had them before him, but i got them from Matt Armitage's shed.
it didn't seem to have been in there long (not much poo around and only under the seat) so i'm guessing Maya brough the damn thing in a few days before!
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Post by lowender on Oct 26, 2017 19:14:33 GMT
A mate of mine had a DB9, kept it in a warm garage. Some small furry creature got in, and ate the Aston's wiring loom. It had to go back to the factory to be taken apart and rewired. Mercedes used to offer, among hundreds of options on the W124 cars, an anti-marten kit, which was a complicated series of plastic shields to encapsulate the car's engine bay and prevent the critters from getting inside and eating things. Another friend kept his 1950's Ford special under a tarp in the front garden. It had literally handfuls of hazel nut shells in every cavity, courtesy of the local gangsta squirrels.
It's a jungle out there.
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Post by FFS Corders on Oct 26, 2017 19:33:30 GMT
Anti-marten kit sounds great
It's sods law that wires happy to be a real favourite for small things to chew on
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Post by lowender on Oct 26, 2017 21:49:49 GMT
Martens are ferociously territorial little buggers, and will rip up each other's cribs if they detect the smell of another marten in there. They chew up all the plastics, including engine covers, rip heater hoses off, chew off the wiring, and will pull the insulation off the firewall to eliminate the scent of the other marten. You can get ultrasonic repellers now.
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Post by martiny on Oct 27, 2017 12:55:01 GMT
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Post by lowender on Oct 27, 2017 16:03:22 GMT
That sounds promising. Maybe they should be encouraged more. But somebody had better have a word with them about the eating cars thing. Or tag them with an ultrasound generator that goes off automatically whenever they approach a car. Aversion therapy.
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Post by melx5 on Oct 28, 2017 6:25:06 GMT
Had a Thrush fly straight through the rear wheel of a motorcycle, well I say straight through, it went in Thrush shape and came out like Pizza topping, took bloody ages to clean up the mess.
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Post by minty on Oct 28, 2017 6:49:19 GMT
Nice of you to supply gym gear for the little fella.
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Post by Dewi on Oct 29, 2017 18:08:19 GMT
Must be the time of year for mooses to come in to hooses. A week or so ago I went into our bedroom just in time to see a little furry ball scuttling across the bedroom floor to go hide under the bed. This is like 1.30 o'clock am and missus Dewi was already well tucked up and fast asleep, so I woke her and we went and slept in the spare room leaving mousey to his own devices after sealing up the bedroom door. I didn't want to start moving beds around at that time and disturbing the neighbours next door. Following morning there was no sign of the little blighter but we stuck a couple of humane mouse traps down that night - but still no signs and we never saw him again...... ...... Until yesterday, the girl from next door came in to to pick up a parcel the postie had left here for her, and in passing she mentioned they'd had a mouse in there - and showed us a photo she snapped on her phone - it looked like the same one that was in here. He must have got into the loft somehow and found his way thro' to next door. Anyway she tried to catch him in a salad bowl with a domed lid but he was too quick for her so she let her two cats in - it took them less than a minute to nab it. Sadly the poor little bugger died of fright, but he shouldn't go mooching about in people's houses. We're just hoping he hasn't left behind a wife and a several kids. We continue with our surveillance  |
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