How did a mouse get in my car?

Fresh-air vent cowling?

Is it messy?

its very clean so i dont know how it got in there. someone said something about getting in through the brakes i dont know its just really wierd

well maybe cuz you don’t have a cat

Is your car yellow and made of cheese?
That would explain a lot

Are any of your friends pranksters?

i havent driven my car for 4 days and its been at home so no one’s been in there.

Mice are industrious creatures. They’ll get into places you wouldn’t think they could.

cheet-os.

im trying to figure out if there’s a hole somewhere in my car that i dont know about, there’s really no other way i can think of, which is the reason for this

@bamagrl101 Check your floorboards.

I did it. It was me!

I was bored. Sorry.

Um, fresh-air vent cowling?

What is that? I dont know much about cars.

At the base of your windshield where the fresh air enters the cabin when the windows are up. It’s a common place for rodent access.

where do the air vents come out at?

It was probably hanging from your notebook.

That squeak you’ve been hearing . . . .

Now you know.

Yea because I have magic mice that appear out of thin air.

Usually the footwells and the dash. Mice can squeeze through tiny cracks.

Is there anyway i can prevent this from happening again?

Geez, I’d rathe a mouse than a bug.

Keep a cat in your car?

Seriously, rodent-caused damage to cars can be a serious problem. You may want to be certain to park only on pavement and as far from bushes and grass as possible, so it will be risky for a mouse to make the trip across to your car.

Otherwise, check for small openings that you can fill with something, or routinely scatter mouse bait in the access points. I wouldn’t suggest scattering it outside of your car because someone’s pet might find it, eat it, and become ill or die.

Imagine all the other creepy animals that can crawl in cars through small openings.
Snakes, spiders, snailes.
I’m happy to only have a bicycle.

Welcome to Fluther, @bamagrl101.

Have you recently hauled any boxes or large bags that it could’ve stowed away in?

<——-agrees with @casheroo
I so much prefer a mouse. It can be a pet, you know? :)

My guess would be through vents.

I was driving one day when a mouse crawled out of the vents at the bottom of the windshield until it was right in front of my face. Thank god it was on the outside, but I still flipped the f*** out. I screamed and flailed my arms all around – I’m sure I was a sight and a danger on the road. (Good thing it was very rural.) The mouse had all fours stretched out trying to hang on. It finally flew off the side, which freaked me out even more because the window was open and I started thinking about it flying into my hair.

A mouse can easily get into your car through either holes in the floorboards, holes in the body, and even the holes in the firewall where your linkages (from the pedals to the engine) are. Any hole a mouse can get his head through, he can get the rest of his body through.

@rebbel I have quite a few small spiders that live in my truck, and they take no notice of my window sticker that reads Warning to Tailgaters, Cockroaches on Board.

Once a friend took the dashboard off the inside of his car to fix some electrical problems and found a six foot snake coiled up inside. He was surprised, to say the least.

@evelyns_pet_zebra Yuk.
Even more happier with my bicycle now.

Mice can get through very small openings. I’ve had them in my car, and they’re a nuisance to get out. The problem is, we store our garbage cans in the garage, so the larger critters like raccoons don’t get to them, and that’s why we have mice. I have a small child and two dogs, so I don’t want to use poison or traps out there.

@evelyns_pet_zebra – Maybe the spiders are there because of the roaches. They do like to eat them, you know.

My car sits right next to our garbage can but we dont actually keep trash in there until it goes to the street. But thank you for all the smart answers it really helps, would i be able to see any holes in my firewall if there is one there?

It might have stepped on your infrared car key.