Thought it had been going down a bit quick, even though I eat them by the bowl full. Then a few days ago, I looked in my car cleaning kit in the garage and saw this:
Then today, went out there again and it was definitely down a lot more. So starting looking, and heard a scuffle in the corner behind the E Type where loads of rubbish is piled up. So moved E Type out, and removed all the stuff from the corner.
My God! Massive stash of nuts, bedding, all sorts.
Kept digging down, and found more bedding:
So thought I'd better look on top shelf, and looked inside a cardboard box of "bits"
ext to it, was the box of gadgets for the Kirby vacuum cleaner
And then the box of kirby cleaning bits
Got to the box that contained my daughters old cycling helmet, and saw further evidence
Moved some stuff to study the helmet, and a mouse leapt out at me! Big one, and ran across to opposite corner of garage
So moved the wife's car out, and emptied stuff from that corner. Left the wife to carry on emptying tools from the corner while I took some of the crap to the tip
When I got back, the wife had been chasing the mouse in and out of the garage the whole time! Apparently, screaming loudly every time it appeared! While I was there, we found it behind a board. It ran out of the garage, hid in the stuff we'd piled up, then ran back in. I nearly got it with the fish landing net, but missed. Quick little bugger! This happened a few times, then we got it trapped in the corner behind a few remaining tools. . The wifer slowly moved them while I waited with the net. Moved the last thing - Nothing! Vanished! Searched for ages, then thought we'd better check other stuff.
So looked in my wellies:
And under where the pressure washer was kept:
This is under where the tools were:
This was in a couple of storage boxes:
Altogether, there were 3.6 kilos of whole nuts stashed, and loads of eaten ones. There was another big stash INSIDE the engine section of the petrol lawnmower! Couldn't get to them, so spent ages shaking it about and slowly getting them out. About 20 came out of there. At one stage, the mouse ran and hid inside the engine compartment. I had to bash the lawnmower up and down to get it out.
Finally failed to catch him, so put everything back
So we've now got 3 traps down, baited with - walnuts!
Still not sure how a mouse moves 3.6 kilos of walnuts from inside a slippery plastic trug, to places like shelves high up on the wall.
No sign of entry into the E, but very wary, so checking regularly. Might have to sit out there with the shotgun tonight![/u]
