Critters in the 4Runner

So we just spent 4 days way up at Bowman lake, had the 4Runner doors open here and there, anyway noticed some fruit had been munched. Didn't think much about it as the chipmonks were thick.

Later that night I went to the car with my flashlight, when I caught a quick glimpse of a critter darting into the darkness of the floor area. Decided to lock it up and leave some more fruit out. Sure enough, it was munched on again.

End of camp trip we drove home, and I knew it just was not the 3 of us in the car. Once we got home I set a trap, checked it in the morning, and I had caught and killed a Fin Deer Mouse. Just for good measure, I left some more fruit out. Tonight I checked it and the fruit had been munched! WTF?

So I just set another trap, has anyone delt with this madness? I park the 4runner on the side of our house and use it mostly for camping.

I am now certain this mouse did not come from Boman, more likely it happened on the side of my house.

Any help here? The car is clean inside, other then the newst trap.

I get mice making nests in our vehicles quite regularly if they are parked for any length of time.  Some will even chew wires and make a real headache for me.  My best solution is to put one of our cats in the car overnight. 

I had to get some "great stuff" and seal each and every crevice on my trailer at home, kept finding droppings, but finally I was successful, or at least I told the GF I was .

It doesn't do any good to keep the doors closed, on a trip last year I watched chipmunks jump straight up off the ground and into the undercarriage of a truck in the camp next to us. Not sure if they found a way in but on most vehicles they probably can.

Deer mouse Hantavirus?  Get that chit tented asap, pork!  Then drop some coin and get the 4runner detailed at the car wash.

Yosemite curry village, dude.

Had the same problem at a weekend camping trip at DL Bliss / Tahoe. I opened my hood to fill my wind shield fluid and found a little mouse chewing on stuff. 

My mechanic friend advised me that it ever happened again, leave the vehicle running, put the heater on high and roll up all the windows.

....maybe even honk your horn a few times 

Go get 'em Brent!

Believe it or not those static cling free towels you put in your dryer will run them off. these are used to keep them out of a mobile home. Or I'd set 2 bug bombs off. 

I picked up a big ass rat from Red Barn 1 in my 4Runner. It was in there for a few days and chewing on all kinds of stuff.

I just left my truck parked in the sun with all the windows rolled up during the day and cracked all the windows a bit at night. Rodents get in your car to be comfortable and cozy. If you make it uncomfortable for them they will usually leave on their own.

Traps! traps!! traps!!!! Don't make them die in the car. Just finished an AC repair to pull a dead rat out of an AC in a Chevy Tahoe. The price was $1200.00 Catch them... no poison!!!! They die in the worst places

just stocked up on traps.

concerned about hanta virus though with all thats happened lately.

Deer mouse Hantavirus?  Get that chit tented asap, pork!  Then drop some coin and get the 4runner detailed at the car wash.

Yosemite curry village, dude.

Screw hanta, those things can carry the bubonic plague!

Well there carrying it dead, in ashes in the bottom of our fir pit. Claimed 2 lives with glue traps and fire, no activity since.

Looks like the squeez in through the firewall in the engine compartment.

Bastards.

I had a critter chew up the wires in my wife's car.  Finally got him by loading a trap up with peanut butter.  He did quite the job on the wires.  I used some liquid tape to fix the insulation on the wires that were chewed down to bare copper.