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Date:         Sun, 3 Aug 2008 18:01:51 -0700
Reply-To:     neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: rodents in pantry
Comments: To: ken fischman <jerry233@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <f0ac23250808031730n79858d83v27c9686e02dc5bc@mail.gmail.com>
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Even if they could climb up the side, they wouldn't be able to get in via the fridge vent. If anything, they would get stuck in the intake or exhaust tube.

Mice can get in via some really small holes. AFAIK, they are somehow able to wriggle through.

Here's a few posts of solutions and ingress points I found in the archives:

http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0111C&L=vanagon&P=R2693

http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0111C&L=vanagon&P=R4173

http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0311A&L=vanagon&P=R3552

http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0409A&L=vanagon&P=R8528

Best of luck!

Neil.

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 5:30 PM, ken fischman <jerry233@gmail.com> wrote: > Couldn't find postings on this important subject so here goes. > Was camping in our 87 Westfalia near the Escalante River in southern Utah > last May when we returned from an overnight backpack to find the food in our > pantry (under the sink) ravaged by unknown assailants; small turds indicated > mice. So the rest of the trip we had mousetraps set and they would go off > randomly as food shifted during the drive, but no mouse. Left the baited > traps in for weeks after we returned home to Boise but still nothing. > So now, 2 months later, we leave the van parked at the portage into Murtle > Lake in Wells Gray Park in BC. When we returned the 2 pounds of peanuts in > the shell we had in the pantry looked like they had been run over by a large > truck. Devastation. Heartbreak. > Two theories. It was the same mouse who had gone into a state of > semi-hibernation waiting for food supply to return. Or two, new mouse, > attracted to the smell of peanuts wafting through the air and he gained > access to our pantry . . . how? > This is the question I pose. Anybody with thoughts on how a small rodent > gets from outside to inside, and we are sure he/she didn't come through the > door. Are there openings under the van we should be trying to close off? > They couldn't climb up the side and come through the fridge vent and then to > the food? Rest of the trip south, no sign of mouse. > Any ideas greatly appreciated. > Jerry > Boise, Idaho >

-- Neil Nicholson '81 JettaWesty "Jaco http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines http://web.mac.com/tubaneil http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/


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