Posted on 10/10/2019 11:07:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
The latest version of Meals on Wheels.
Solution: Mice and rats hate the ozone smell. buy one of those little clean air machines, install it under the hood and plug it in at night. For extreme infestations buy a bigger unit and run it all the time. I do this in the tornado shelter and tree house. Kills bugs too. Don’t breathe in the concentrated stuff.
We live rural. They ate the wiring out of my brothers new Toyota pickup once. Now they do not bother it.
Mothballs might be effective if the car is garaged. Parked outdoors? Not so much
Now this is funny!
Rat now in Rat heaven.
Lawsuit from PETA soon to follow.
No problem, heaven is no where PETA would find
In 1944 the State of Montana issued a soy based license plate due to the war effort.
Virtually none of the plates attached to farm-owned vehicles survived the natural bovine appetite.
Back to metal plates in ‘45.
“This has been going on since my 2000 ford focus...........”
This has been going on forever.
On the farm our 1 ton Studebaker truck was the least used vehicle. We were constantly fixing chewed through wires.
Even the pick up truck we used the most had rat/mouse damage to wiring and seats.
Many old buildings burned to the ground because rats/mice chewed up the insulation in the electric wiring.
Go into any telephone company Central Office. There are live catch traps everywhere.
All the cables have a very thick insulation that is impregnated with rat poison.
The telephone companies learned very early they were building All You Can Eat buffets for vermin.
I have had good luck with dryer sheets.
I place them in the engine compartment and on the dash and floors too.
This is in my classic car that sits over the winter.
no mice issues in the two years I have been doing this.
Not sure how it would work in an everyday driver, but you can jam dryer sheets just about anywhere.
Great use for sheets we quit using years ago. Smell one yourself to get the effect. kind of overwhelming.
“Toyota, however, denies that modern insulation is any more appealing to rodents than the old petroleum-based insulation.”
Tell that to the guy who had a JD tractor in the barn. The rats chewed the insulation, snorted the wiring, burned the tractor and the hay and the barn.
snorted the wiring?......................must have been Coke heads..................
Imagine turning on the air conditioner on a hot day. Now your car smells like fox piss!
Here in Florida we have tiny green tree frogs that get into everything, including car’s AC ducts.
They die and stink to high heaven!...................
MAD Magazine back it it’s glory days (1960s) didn’t come up with stuff as crazy as what passes for good ideas today. Edible wires? What could go wrong?
South Alabama here. We have those green tree frogs here, too. Do you know they bark like a dog?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0uGmeVikkc
They scream like an eagle!...................
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