Re: Help - Rats in my pick-up truck

didn't try mothballs, huh?

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Barry


<maxh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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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