Rat Damaged

[onefastmustang]

Originally Posted by Sharroll Celby

Someone asked a man if he had ever smelled moth balls.
The man said he HAD.

The questioner then asked "How did you get their little legs apart?"

BA DA BUMP (tish)

Now that was just wrong....

[pgermond]

I had a rat problem during the winter several years ago and there is an easy solution - everyone of my vehicles (excluding the Cobra) has D-Con under the hood. The Cobra is in the garage and the garage is loaded with D-Con. It's clean, no sticky peanut butter or dead rodents to deal with.... and I haven't had a problem since placing the bait.

[Fordzilla]

The Rats around here eat the D-Con & the cardboard box it comes in!

[wtm442]

Originally Posted by Double Venom

.... and the best hint is "Mothballs". Rodents of all types can not tolerate the smell. ED

... and a lot of people hate the smell too. Use Bounce dryer sheets.

[ratsnst1]

You think thats bad I had a mom rat, that was very smart, it would pick out the nuts in the peanut butter and spit them out, finnally after about 5 times I gave up and then tried a glue tray, it worked very well, oh ya that and a shovell over the head, worked well.

[snakebitekit]

At my friends cabin in northern AZ the squirels/mice /rodents only seem to eat the rice burners wires. The american vehicals never get the wires eaten. Are they trying to tell us something?

[Ron61]

Does the mothballs work on Porcupines? One of the local contractors here left his two bulldozers up in the mountains for the weekend and when he went back they had ate all the wiring and part of the seats. He did get a couple of quills where they stuck in the seat.

Ron

[Fordzilla]

Ron, I don't know for sure but would guess that they would. I think moth balls would work on just about all type of animal pests.

[Double Venom]

A true story:
Anybody have a Red-Squirrell problem? Nasty and insistant little buggers! My neighbor had (still does) a very exspensive home, well the "Reds" decided they liked it too! They ate right through the wood shaker shingles and an entire clan took up residence in his attic, then the walls and finally into the house.

Moth balls I told him and after loading the attic up the entire house smelled of Moth Balls. Yes, it took care of the problem........for awhile! The Reds moved back in after less than a week so he went back to the attic and could not find a single one of the hundreds of Moth Balls he had spread around!

Went outside to the area that they would come into the house and he found this perfectly neat-stacked pile of Moth Balls laying on the ground! Seems they had carried everyone of those Moth Balls outside and put them in a single pile!

His new solution was to get on his roof, sit on the highest peak and everytime one of those Reds stuck his head up my neighbor would let em have it........with a .22 rifle shot! As far as I know he is still doing roof duty!

Not to worry, he built the house so I suppose he was capable of repairing any extra holes!

DV

[Ron61]

Now that is funny. We have several Gray squirrels around here but they don't bother anything. Just stay in the pine trees and eat the nuts from the big cones mostly unless you set something out for them. And they do pick walnuts from my neighbors tree but he likes to watch them.

Ron

[Joy]

But does the peanut butter actually attract them?

[Double Venom]

Un-scientific assumption, Yes, they will draw to peanut butter/oil. Thats one of the many reason they eat the wiring. They may come in an engine compartment to get out of mother natures nasty stuff or to get warm from engine heat ???? but......then they find the bonus-wiring!

On the other hand and living in the country I have had traps set around at different locations in our house (ugh), baited with everything from bread, crackers and peanut butter. The peanut butter will always catch the little buggers while the other traps stay untripped.

What a topic!!!!!!!!!!
DV

[Doug I]

rat

50-cal

pick a winner

[poboy427]

Well, this could be the time to bolt the drivers seat over on the passenger side and treat the driver side to that track seat that you have wanted to try. Later on send the damaged seat out for repair.

Ray

[onefastmustang]

Well I went to the upholsterer and got a quote.. 150 to fix the seat. Luckily I have the cloth already on hand left over from the build. Somehow I got two pieces of dash cloth from CR when I got the phase 3 portion.