First they built a nest in the cab interior air filter for my son’s truck. Then they crawled up into the engine air intake for my truck, ate the air filter and made a nest in there! A couple of weeks ago I started getting error messages in my BMW about the fog lights being inoperable and the outside temperature being -40 degrees F. So I ordered the parts online and went about cleaning out the garage for another home project. Of course, I found a huge pack rat nest under a storage rack. They had chewed through the garage door seal. So I spent three days cleaning and sanitizing the garage. The parts for my car finally arrived, I took the front bumper cover off and discovered the wires for the fog lights and outside temperature sensor had been chewed through! I now have to splice the wires back together. I have put sticky traps in the garage (caught four of them), strobe lights under each vehicle, open the car hoods during the day and have a long piece of heavy angle iron blocking the bottom of the garage door until I get a new seal.

I guess they are still making the wire coatings out of soy. They smell or like the taste.
The squirrels like it too.They chewed thru my brake wires. Tree rats!!

Yeah. Those bastards built a nest of cactus in a big coffee can full of miscellaneous nuts and bolts I had on a shelf in a cabinet in my shop building. When I reached in and grabbed the can I got a handful of stickers.

I had to move my ranch truck to town this summer because the rodents are so bad this year. I catch 4-5 a week in various kinds of traps. Hopefully the predator population will catch up to the rodent supply and balance will be restored soon.

Awww man.....what did I do now?? I am trying my best here.
LOL

I have a continuous battle with the destructive little bastards, and keep traps set constantly. They wreck your vehicles as well as your fruit trees, and other things......death on sight via .177cal pellet rifle!!

Heck, I thought you were talking about people. I'm married (for now) to one.

Works well for me. Mix with some seed or dried corn and place around where you store and park your vehicles.

Or you can try something that Honda makes and sells.

The Chevy dealer used that Honda tape on my truck after my first bout with the f’ing squirrels. It didn’t help. Nothing I have tried helps.

I know the electric utilities went to capsaicin infused insulation on wires decades ago. Works, too. My plan is to douse the things they like to chew with the hottest spices I can find. I’m also going to try all the suggestions I’ve gotten locally, chlorine tabs, moth balls, etc.

But not the granulated coyote urine. That s step too far.

Rats killed my Ford Escape.

Those bastards nested in my engine compartment in front of my radiator.

I now have an exterminator contractor who sets traps and sprays everything.

Caught 4 freaking rats with the traps and since I put a door sweep on the back garage door no more dead rats in the traps.

Had a 1” gap on the bottom of the door.

Can you explain the strobe lights?

I'll be honest, this is not what I was expecting when I opened the thread. I was thinking of hoarders.

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Originally posted by akcopnfbks:
I'll be honest, this is not what I was expecting when I opened the thread. I was thinking of hoarders.

Ha! Me, too.

The strobe lights are supposed to drive then away from vehicles. As are all the other odd sounding items.

Coolest mouse/rat trap...

Ratt-X seems to work well. Put the bait out around the property, defense in depth.

I had mice get in my tractor cab recent past.
I cleaned the mess out.
I put bait blocks and traps out. I have been catching between 1 and 3 mice per night. they are also hitting the baits hard. I have not found any dead mice from the baits yet.
from now on I will keep traps and bait out year round.