Rats in my car
Rats in my car
I only use my car maybe twice a week at most so it sits around doing nothing for most of the time.
I noticed the yard dog sniffing around near the wheel arch the other day and had a little listen and heard rustling and squeaking, so it appears a family are squatting on my property without any title or permission.
I have also noticed for a few months small rat droppings on the rocker cover.
I had to take the car to get an oil leak fixed and asked them to remove the wheel arch plastics to get the rat out. "No can. Rat then live in my house. You keep rat not mine. I have many rats already....plus rats bite and jump and smell."!
They told me to sprinkle talc all over the engine bay and whilst I scoffed at the idea my wife said that she knows people that have used it but only for confined spaces, like a car, as the rats will just walk around the talc.
It appears the rats either don't like he smell or the talc itself or as they forced to drag their bodies through it it gets all over them and they get mocked for smelling like a poofs parlor.
I did not want to put bait down because the smell of a dead fat family would put me off driving for at least six weeks!
So anyway. For six weeks of getting odd looks from the security guard I have been liberally sprinkling perfumed talc (Has to be talc and not corn starch) all over the engine bay and in crevices where the rats get into. It seems to have worked. No more rat poos and the dog does not seem interested when I go to the car, whereas before when i blipped the alarm she would run over and start stiffing around and even getting under the car.
Before I could see marks where the rat(s) had moved around but now there is no marks and no poo!
Might be bollocks but it seems to have worked.
I only found one web page https://hortographical.wordpress.com/20 ... eter-rats/ and all the others seem to be about using it to see the rats route, then putting bait down. I don't thing it will work in a house as they will just go around but maybe try putting it on cables and such?
Interestingly I remember years ago an engineer telling me that rats don't like to chew electrical wiring with talc coated internals.
The only downside, apart from it looking like my hidden bag of cocaine has burst open, is that the car smells like a poofs parlor...
I noticed the yard dog sniffing around near the wheel arch the other day and had a little listen and heard rustling and squeaking, so it appears a family are squatting on my property without any title or permission.
I have also noticed for a few months small rat droppings on the rocker cover.
I had to take the car to get an oil leak fixed and asked them to remove the wheel arch plastics to get the rat out. "No can. Rat then live in my house. You keep rat not mine. I have many rats already....plus rats bite and jump and smell."!
They told me to sprinkle talc all over the engine bay and whilst I scoffed at the idea my wife said that she knows people that have used it but only for confined spaces, like a car, as the rats will just walk around the talc.
It appears the rats either don't like he smell or the talc itself or as they forced to drag their bodies through it it gets all over them and they get mocked for smelling like a poofs parlor.
I did not want to put bait down because the smell of a dead fat family would put me off driving for at least six weeks!
So anyway. For six weeks of getting odd looks from the security guard I have been liberally sprinkling perfumed talc (Has to be talc and not corn starch) all over the engine bay and in crevices where the rats get into. It seems to have worked. No more rat poos and the dog does not seem interested when I go to the car, whereas before when i blipped the alarm she would run over and start stiffing around and even getting under the car.
Before I could see marks where the rat(s) had moved around but now there is no marks and no poo!
Might be bollocks but it seems to have worked.
I only found one web page https://hortographical.wordpress.com/20 ... eter-rats/ and all the others seem to be about using it to see the rats route, then putting bait down. I don't thing it will work in a house as they will just go around but maybe try putting it on cables and such?
Interestingly I remember years ago an engineer telling me that rats don't like to chew electrical wiring with talc coated internals.
The only downside, apart from it looking like my hidden bag of cocaine has burst open, is that the car smells like a poofs parlor...
pew, pew, pew, pew!
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All you have to do now is check all the wiring until you find wich one they bothered to chew through..
Next time, use baits.
Next time might be just around the corner - lay those baits and kill the fuckers..
Scaring them off with Playboy-Powder-Puff=Shit, wont work for too long!!!
good luck
Next time, use baits.
Next time might be just around the corner - lay those baits and kill the fuckers..
Scaring them off with Playboy-Powder-Puff=Shit, wont work for too long!!!
good luck
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I've found baited glue traps clog up with rats very quickly and then you still end up with rats nesting in your vehicle.
Never heard of the powder deterrent though, interesting.
Never heard of the powder deterrent though, interesting.
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Rats can't fart.
This means that any build up of intestinal gas makes theirs insides burst and kills them.
I have used baking soda - either mix it into something sweet like chocolate spread or peanut butter or just sprinkle the powder around where you know they are. They walk through it then lick it off their feet and a few hours later die for the want of a fart.
What a horrible way to go...
This means that any build up of intestinal gas makes theirs insides burst and kills them.
I have used baking soda - either mix it into something sweet like chocolate spread or peanut butter or just sprinkle the powder around where you know they are. They walk through it then lick it off their feet and a few hours later die for the want of a fart.
What a horrible way to go...
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Moth balls.Lucky Supermarkets.I tried everything.As you know,you DON"T want them dying in your car.I had to pull the dash out of a car one time to get to one that had died in the A/C evaporator box.The box was full of dry dog food.Seen the same thing in the air filter box.In the west its the winter time,here its the wet season.They have cost me over 4K here in Cambodia.
That's horrid!henryhungfunny wrote:Moth balls.Lucky Supermarkets.I tried everything.As you know,you DON"T want them dying in your car.I had to pull the dash out of a car one time to get to one that had died in the A/C evaporator box.The box was full of dry dog food.Seen the same thing in the air filter box.In the west its the winter time,here its the wet season.They have cost me over 4K here in Cambodia.
Try that talc thing.
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When I first arrived in SR, I had a lot of cables chewed. Now I love all animals but when my personal safety is at stake, no holds are barred. Pest control came in, no idea what they did, but never had that problem again.
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Sorry, but I laughed at the thought of this.henryhungfunny wrote:As you know,you DON"T want them dying in your car.I had to pull the dash out of a car one time to get to one that had died in the A/C evaporator box.
Had a rat chew a hole through my air cleaner and then get stuck and die in the venturi of the carb causing it to choke the motor, but never in the interior. God I can only imagine.
In the A/C vents? Wouldn't you end up like this?YaTingPom wrote: That's horrid!
Try that talc thing.
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Like a dry bukkake.
I can imagine the rat died a horrible death in the Venturi. If it was a 400bhp turbo motor it would've skinned it!
So I was hoping that someone would tell me they'd also tried the talc thing and it worked. Maybe the mechanics were just taking the piss.
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Had the same problem, the fuckers were chewing through wires.
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I would tell you, but since you neva tell me shit ... and plus I loved the idea of YTP putting 3lbs of talc on his engine. Fuckin moron. That made me laugh so fuckin hard I started coughin and pukin.
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