Rats and mice in car wiring?

[A10]

Rats and mice in wiring have been a problem for a long time, BUT, are you aware that some wiring manufacturers are using soy based plastics for insulation now? One of the car manufacturers is using a soy based foam for seats too.......sounds like rat food to me!

I like the oats/plaster of paris idea......have little statues of mouse stomachs all over the yard.....

 

[gmiller0737]

If you have Rat problems there is a food source close by eliminate the food source & rats will be gone,Most likely source is dog or cat food outside garbage that they can get into is another likely source it may be a neighbors house that is the source look around a bit & you will find it


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[kraynky]

Very interesting reading here. I've got a good one to add to the mix. Found out squirrels were getting in my stand alone garage a couple of years ago. I was able to use a Single Six and rat shot on a few, closed up the holes and moth balled everything. Later found about six of those small flying squirrels were inhabiting my cabinets. Poison and rat shot again solved the problem. Then it was mice!

I bought a couple of those new plastic traps with the wide trigger and sharp plastic teeth. Nailed two the first night, baiting with small pieces of peanuts (they have pockets for the bait) soon afterward I started removing the mice and setting the trap with nothing in it for bait.

I've taken 5-6 mice without bait! Those things are mice magnets I tell ya! My building is next to a wooded lot and they are apparently coming in from miles away to get to these empty traps. I'm now torn, do I get rid of the traps (are they attracting mice) or just keep killing the suckers?

Oh, by the way, I used to have an old Dodge Power Wagon that mice loved to get into. It was nothing to open the glove box and see a nest once a week. Have had a Chevy and now a Ford occupying the same space and no mice. hmmmm, is it just Chrysler products???? Makes me wonder........

 

[GatorFarmer]

There are various commercial models of trap where the critter goes in and does not come out. If you look closely you will see them at Walmarts by where they push the carts in, in the back of Home Depot, self storage places etc. Some models the rat goes in and dies, other the rat can go in, eat the poison and leave to die. But they are sturdily built so that pets and kids cannot get into one. Thus Walmart kills vermin and doesn't get sued when two year old Johnny or Mitch the Helper Dog get into the poison.

Or you could get a cat again. But that is kind of boring. What about buying a large carnivorous African toad and naming him Mr. Snuggles....

 

[EQGuy]

Rats and mice in wiring have been a problem for a long time, BUT, are you aware that some wiring manufacturers are using soy based plastics for insulation now? One of the car manufacturers is using a soy based foam for seats too.......sounds like rat food to me!

I like the oats/plaster of paris idea......have little statues of mouse stomachs all over the yard.....

I got this trick by listening to a garden show. The fellow that told about it said that he knew it worked when one day there was a vulture eating something on his property. It was a rat and all that was left was a plaster cast of its intestinal tract. He gets a lot of hate mail from the animal rights folk every time he recommends it. I feel kind of bad but I did not invite them into my shed to ruin my stuff and I do not want to poison other critters that might eat the dead rat.

 

[Brian41]

Good information here. Squirrels or something got the wiring on my truck and cost me a few bucks. Started using the commercial ritter critter sprays around it and they quit bothering it. Since it's been in the garage and Buick in it's place in the drive yet they leave it alone..........so far.
I've used D-Con and moth balls in my sheds but still have had rodents chew cushions and market umbrellas. Had mice build a nest in power washer motor and what a fire it caused too. Quick spray and it was out but what a mess.

 

[model70hunter]

Recently, some kinda critter ate through my metal fuel line on our Crown Vic. You could plainly see shiny teeth marks all over the metal.

Later, same critter ate through the wiring harness below the front cowl/radiator area.

Probably a squirrel.

I'm still puzzled why the fuel line.

Out of gas.

 

[model70hunter]

There are various commercial models of trap where the critter goes in and does not come out. If you look closely you will see them at Walmarts by where they push the carts in, in the back of Home Depot, self storage places etc. Some models the rat goes in and dies, other the rat can go in, eat the poison and leave to die. But they are sturdily built so that pets and kids cannot get into one. Thus Walmart kills vermin and doesn't get sued when two year old Johnny or Mitch the Helper Dog get into the poison.

Or you could get a cat again. But that is kind of boring. What about buying a large carnivorous toad and naming her Mrs. Snuggles....

He can't she remarried right after our divorce.