Why does my car smell like dog food?

[Jeremy airjer W]

Had this in the shop last night. Its amazing how fast mice can work overnight.

A little dog food on the cabin filter, no problem.

WRONG!

It took about an hour to get all the dog food out of the HVAC module.

[leech~~]

Love it! Look's like a sled muffler I shook out once!

[pureinsanity]

haha, nice, I would be more worried about why my car smells like little bits of "rice" that is all over that filter

Why did the mouse fill up the fan. he could have exercised on that thing

[Jim Almquist]

Now that is funny !

Poor dog has been going hungry

[leech~~]

Jim, when you think about it that looks like a good 5-7lbs of food. That could be a good amount missing if you thought your dog had eaten it. That maybe happening more then people think where the mice can get at their pets food.

[Jim Almquist]

I have seen them do the same thing to our cat food so its always a good area to set up a few traps- Just have to make sure the cats can't get at them or they will be hauling around a trap with a mouse in it

Just wish they would catch and eat the mice like they are suppose to

[gloomiseye]

Lmao!

[Pinusbanksiana]

I just vacuumed mine out a few days ago. Should have a look at my wifes truck too.

[fishing tech]

I worked on a few of those this year. It is a good idea if you store any pet food or other food in your garage to store it in a hard plastic or metal container. We have also found it in between the headliner and roof.

[Stick in Mud]

Hahaha. Thanks for posting!

[MJ1657]

I had some real rough dealings with mouse damage when I was at the dealership. People would bring their still under warranty car in expecting a free repair and I would get to tell them unfortunately mouse damage is not covered.

It amazed me how many people would argue that they should build the vehicles mouse proof and did not think they should have to pay for repairs.

[gk0116]

Or the people that would swear that thier garage was mouseproof!

[mainbutter]

We always keep mouse traps around our large dog food containers, seems to help quite a bit, but I never knew that a mouse problem could be THAT bad!! Crazy pics

[MJ1657]

We had a truck come in that was owned by a guy that worked out of state for long lengths of time. Mice got in the cab and destroyed the inside of the truck. We basically had to replace the entire interior of the truck. I can't remember anymore how much it cost the insurance company but it was several thousand dollars.

The smell was unbelieveable.

[delcecchi]

I had some real rough dealings with mouse damage when I was at the dealership. People would bring their still under warranty car in expecting a free repair and I would get to tell them unfortunately mouse damage is not covered.

It amazed me how many people would argue that they should build the vehicles mouse proof and did not think they should have to pay for repairs.

I would have tried for the free repair also. Can't hurt to take a shot, eh? But it is a good reason to throw a few of those blocks of mouse/rat poison from fleet farm on the floor of the garage in the fall. (I don't have a dog, and the bird feed is in a garbage can outside)

Did have a mouse eat the plug wire off the coil in my old snowblower.

[deadeye]

We just had a Rogue in twice with the blower box full of bird seed and newspaper. The people could not understand why it wasn't covered under warranty. They finally figured out that they better do something about the mice after the second time having it in to clean it out and pay for it(ouch!). Mice are no bueno for cars.