Around North America with a mouscedes...

We've had some seriously hot days this last week... the hottest we have had the whole trip. Temperatures of over 40 degrees on the move and even higher while stationary so we decided no animal could survive that in the car, we probably had a dead mouse on board!

There was no water available for it and little food it couldn't possibly survive, so not wanting to find a corpse in my luggage, two nights ago I decided to empty everything completely - food bags, bathroom box, kitchen box, our wardrobes, (rucksacks) the day packs - every thing got emptied and the only sign was a few mouse droppings in the bottom of my bag... no dead mammals - All returned neatly and orderly packed up back to normal...

The next day we found a load of blue stuffing on Dr Fred's bag!! Another start of a nest - our pet mouscedes was still with us!!! We must have disturbed it without realising and this must be car seat stuffing - it doesn't match anything of ours!!

We threw the stuffing out, left the boot open for ages hoping the moose would jump out, but today we found more shredded paper - there's no food or water in the car... kinda feels cruel to be honest but this creatures has a serious will to survive - its probably got family back in Vancouver and wants to get back there!!!

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