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So there we were…. enjoying a quiet evening during a week-long boondocking trip in a remote part of southern Utah. We had the lights in the RV down low, when we thought we spotted something moving in the shadows up front near the driver’s seat. Sure enough, a little field mouse had somehow gotten on board.
We’d never had a mouse on the RV before, so we didn’t have any mousetraps. Even if we had been anywhere near a store that might carry mousetraps, they’d surely be closed this late at night. But we were eager to catch him before he could do any damage to wiring or other important RV systems, so we had to figure out how to make a mousetrap with items we had around the RV.
Watch our short video to see how we did it.
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Bob Pauls
Sunday 30th of November 2014
BTW, was that critter a USB or a PS/2 mouse?
TheRVgeeks
Sunday 30th of November 2014
USB (Apple). :)
Tony King
Tuesday 27th of May 2014
We got a mouse in our RV while in Yellowstone and they don't sell anything that will trap/hurt/poison anything ! Not even bug repellant.....nothing,zip,nada ! So that night I came up with my "Trap" by lying a towel across the kitchen sink and putting some peanut butter on a paper plate and then putting the sink cover back over it, mine had a finger hole in it. Turned off the lights and waited about 5 minutes and could hear it running around etc then it got silent. I slide sink cover to the side while bringing one side of the towel with it. I grabbed both sides of towel and picked it up and bingo ! I could feel him in the bottom of the towel. Me and him went for a short hike and everyone inside finally went to sleep. I carry 2 different kinds of traps now, one kills the other doesn't .
TheRVgeeks
Tuesday 27th of May 2014
Great mousetrap story Tony! But I have to be honest... rodents freak me out a little, so it was hard enough carrying one in a stainless steel bowl with an atlas on top. I doubt I could have gotten very far from the RV with him in just a towel! lol Nice work. And we always carry mousetraps on board now too.
Ingrid
Tuesday 27th of May 2014
Unfortunately, we've had mice in our RV....not fun. We now travel with a supply of mouse traps but perhaps you've provided another option!
TheRVgeeks
Tuesday 27th of May 2014
This was just our first experience, and so we now carry mousetraps too, to be deployed in case of the slightest sign of mouse activity. ;-)
Scott
Tuesday 27th of May 2014
Very cool and funny, too! :)
Bob Alexander
Tuesday 27th of May 2014
I always knew Geeks have a sense of humor!