Re: Help - Rats in my pick-up truck

It's easy to tell, whether a rat or a mouse got into a truck/car, by the
size of their poop.
Rats obviously leave much bigger poop behind, than mice.
Btw, I put some "Irish Spring" soap bars in to my trucks' engine compartment
the last few days, but the rats ignored it.
I seem to get the best results from placing those big back-breaking rat
traps into the engine compartment.
Of course I had to leave the hood open, so that the traps had enough room to
actually work.
A good location is right on top of the air filter housing and also under the
truck itself.
I have been able to trap 2 - 3 rats every night as of lately.
I also had problems with rats getting into my jacuzzi. Unfortunately there
is no room to put a big rat trap into the area, where the motor/pump and
wires are.
So I put the rat traps under the slightly elevated jacuzzi, which did catch
a couple of rats.
However, yesterday a beautiful big bird must have picked on the peanut
butter of the rat trap and got its beak snapped, what an awful sight that
was.
I felt real sorry for that innocent bird.
I was somehow relieved, that it was dead by the time I found it, since I
would not have known, what to do with the bird still being alive and being
severely insured.
The trap under the jacuzzi also killed a chipmunk, that must have gotten
attracted by the smell of the peanut butter.
Now I got to figure out what to do next with regards to setting a rat trap
under the jacuzzi.
I certainly don't want to have another bird or chipmunk suffer the same
fate.
I tell you, there is never a dull moment in a rural setting.


"A Veteran for Peace" <georgek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:georgek-FCD1D7.12084428122005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <1135187000.090790.260830@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> timbirr@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > It's probably mice, not rats. I have the same problem the cat keeps it
> > manageable, but the rodents still manage to occassionally get into the
> > rigs. It's the price of living rural.
> >
> > I tried putting the cat in the car overnight, once. Bad Idea. He did
> > more damage than a whole nest of mice. Anne LaBastille, who wrote the
> > Woodswoman books, actually made a pet of a mouse that was tearing apart
> > her pickup.
> >
> > I have occassionally used a mouse trap baited with peanut butter when
> > they seem to get particularly offensive....
>
> I've had "rats" chew the plastic reservoir on the Master cyclinder for
> the
> brakes. chewed until it leaked, that must have tasted good?
>
> --
> Impeach Bush ! a noble cause
> Operation Iraqi Liberation = O.I.L.


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