Rodent damage

[gearguywb]

Pulled the center console out to do some 12v installs last week and right underneath it was a nice rat den complete with a stash of dog food. Looked like they like the dog foood better than the wiring...lucky.

 

[Grench]

Humane treatment of mice?

That "mouse cube" they have needs one added feature.

A hole through which to stick an ice pick and stab the little eating s then fill with lighter fluid and burn the remains in an open pit for all other vermin to see.

Interesting problem. You think something like this would work as a precautionary device? (providing it doesn't do damage to rubber)

http://www.dreamingearth.com/mouse-away.html

 

[Texus]

f'in dan...did you voodoo me??

look what I found recently...

 

[chibo]

^^^ You should have seen the rat nest I dug out of a Lexus IS300 a few weeks ago. The thing was next to the battery, a good 3 or 4lbs of grass.

I was told it's because there is some sort of peanut extract in the insulation of wires.

I work at an auto repair shop, kinda weird some of the stuff I see. I've taken an intake off to find a mouse living in it. I've also had to dig them out of carbs... mm fun.

 

[Scamper]

Anyone else notice that they tend to love the battery? I find their nests tucked next to it now and then; just use a shop vac to evict them. Maybe the little suckers like battery acid?

I used to garage the truck until about a year ago, then parked it outside. For eight years I never had a single sign of them, then in one month of being outside, they set up quarters. Bastids.

 

[reffug]

Found some wasps in my frame while working on the brake calipers.......

Not fun.

 

[L8Shift]

Like he'd want to go camping with me......;p

Stormy spring evening, heavy rain, I hopped in the 80 and drove off to the store ~4 miles away. Stopped raining when I arrived, got out of the 80 and see my cat squawking at me on the ground under the truck. She hitched a ride on the spare tire, I guess she didn't realize I had boarded to drive off. When I got done shopping, she hopped back up the spare tire for the ride home...

..... and No other rodents have been seen near the 80...

 

[ed97fzj80]

If you go up to places like Mineral King, in the Sierras, guys who park and leave their vehicles for extended periods drive onto a tarp then wrap the entire vehicle. The problem is marmots which love salt and eat every rubber part on a car. Sometimes, these marmots make it back to LA under the hood.

I don't point at these strangely wrapped vehicles and snicker after the Ranger told what a tow cost from his area.

I've never seen one fully tarped up, but every time I go up there I see at least one car with it's own little chicken wire fence. A buddy of mine left his truck there overnight and came back to find a radiator hose eaten through, but he was fortunate that his brother's cabin is just down the road and hegot a ride down the hill for parts. That would have been a very expensive lesson.

 

[landtank]

My wife actually grabbed one of them with a gloved hand and crushed it and "spiked" it like a football player in the endzone...

I'm not sure I'd let that woman anywhere near Jim and the twins!