On my truck they chewed up the soundproofing off the underside of the bonnet and used it to build a nest in the ventilation inlet duct.
I only found out when the fan started making a strange noise and not blowing very efficiently.
I dropped the fan out of the bottom of the dash board and found it had sucked the nest into the housing blocking up the fan. Luckily the mice were gone otherwise they would have got sucked into the fan as well.
Rats/mice are eating my house and car
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dtaai-maai
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I bought my pick-up 4 years ago and hardly used it for the first week, then a friend of Mrs D-M said she was sure she'd seen a rat heading under the bonnet. Sure enough, nest, chewed wiring, etc. It was only then I realised why all my neighbours left the bonnet up overnight...
The insulating tape has lasted well so far!
The insulating tape has lasted well so far!
This is the way
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margaretcarnes
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Rat/mice are eating my house/car
Migrant and Spitfire have mentioned peanut butter as bait and it's apparently irresistable to rats. There's a programme currently running on TV in the UK about a pest controller in London, who swears by peanut butter (and a canny little Jack Russell.)
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Re: Rat/mice are eating my house/car
Yes, but you can't get the Jack Russell to stay on the trap as long as the peanut butter!!margaretcarnes wrote:Migrant and Spitfire have mentioned peanut butter as bait and it's apparently irresistable to rats. There's a programme currently running on TV in the UK about a pest controller in London, who swears by peanut butter (and a canny little Jack Russell.)
I'm now following several sets of advice.
Using sticky traps... caught several small ones, big ones eat the bait and walk away with sticky feet!
Backing the autos into the garage now so the the engine compartments are toward the light instead of the dark side of the garage (seems to work, unless now they are eating my rear brake lines
).
Set the dogs on them; the male dog has actually caught two.
Told the monthly pest control people if they want a renewal at the end of this year I better not see another rodent (worked so far
)
Using sticky traps... caught several small ones, big ones eat the bait and walk away with sticky feet!
Backing the autos into the garage now so the the engine compartments are toward the light instead of the dark side of the garage (seems to work, unless now they are eating my rear brake lines
). Set the dogs on them; the male dog has actually caught two.
Told the monthly pest control people if they want a renewal at the end of this year I better not see another rodent (worked so far
)My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?
I think Thai rats have an immunity to those and just consider them to be tasty appetizers while searching for the main course.they seem to have eaten the tasty little blue BAYER offerings. Die you dirty rats!!!
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?