Richard,

Perhaps this will inspire you and Bob to submit your Mouse Recipe :)

http://www.roadhaus.com/Recipes/Louisiana_Nutria.html

I can't wait.

If we keep this up ... Maybe we can all learn to live off the land for
months at a time.

good road,
good adventure,
good life,

larry chase

www.roadhaus.com
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www.roadhaus.com/tires/guideline.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard A Jones [mailto:jones@colorado.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 7:33 PM
To: Vanagon Mailing List
Cc: Bob Stevens; Larry Chase
Subject: re: mouse attacks

> I've never had a mouse chew on anything inside my vanagon, the
> cabinets, on the cabin floor or my bed. They have only been inside the
> front passenger vent area. All other areas of egress seem to be
> secure.

This is my experience with my '87 Syncro Westy.  I hear them
up under the dash, then they dash all around.  I catch them with a trap and
throw the little devil's bodies out.  In the morning they are gone, but
there are coyote tracks....
http://jones.colorado.edu/jones/Utah05/three.html

I don't think they are coming in the sink drain, the propane lines, the
battery vents.  They are coming in somewhere up front.  They never come in
when I am parked at home, so I haven't got under the front with the spare
dropped.  They only come in in remote, beautiful places where I don't want
to do anything but watch the sunrise or sunset or enjoy the place or the
people or the wild horses.....
http://jones.colorado.edu/jones/SS04/MolasCamp.jpg

In twenty years of camping in my '81, never a mouse.  No radiator, either.
They come in somewhere under the front of the waterboxers.

[Bob Stevens will agree 100% on this with me.  We are even developing
recipe together.  We'll put it on Larry Chase's site.
http://roadhaus.com/recipes.html   Right, Bob?]

BTW--egress is great.  Egress is when I flip the trap out the door to
release the body....  It is ingress that I want to limit.

                                Richard A Jones
                                Boulder, Colorado