Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Damn rodents ate my scooter.... :(

Yep have a buddy with F-250 squirrels ate his wires.

Get free icing buckets from local bakery or buy something. Cut rat sized hole in bottom side. Wire rat bait poision chunk in other bottom side. Distribute several around homestead. No mo' mice and your dog can't get at the poison.

We used to have an annual ingress of mice every March. Had to put out traps, etc. I'd remember late February and start putting out traps ahead of time. If it got real bad I'd throw a bait chunk under the house and tolerate the smell for a couple of weeks. I had to rewire the clothes washer twice due to nesting and wire chewing. Then the wiring harness on my wife's Ford was chewed up. Neighbour said previous owner had same trouble; rewired a car twice. That was a couple of years ago. I put out the buckets and have only seen one mouse since. It was dead.

For those that use poison, have you had any issues with a dog or cat eating a poisoned mouse or rat and suffering for it?

Dumb asses might as well make it out of cheese..............

The mice ate the insulation on the firewall of my pickup when it was parked for a couple of weeks in the shop. We had a mouse build a home in the air intake of a Chevy Cruze we had. I had left a Turkey fan and wings on the work bench and one morning a lot of it was gone. The mouse dragged feathers into the air intake of the heating system and it was something to see. Now I use those packets of mouse repellents and, so far, they seem to work well.

No complaints other than the 'meals on wheels' wiring!
Great bike.....

Thank you. Yes, the doggies and cats will eat the poisoned rats.

I don't know why people have an aversion to these electronic rat repellers but they work very well. Spend a couple hundred bucks and the problem will be over.

And, I would like to get my hands on the genius who put soybean oil in the wires on the cars. WTF?

broomd,

That's a really nice bike.

Happy Easter.

When we store our ATV's for the winter we put dryer sheets in the air filter and also stuff them into other nooks and crannies to repel mice. They are cheap and work good.

Thank you, happy Easter to you as well.

Mechanic found two mouse carcasses and this while putting a new clutch in my '06 Dodge 3500 diesel pickup this spring.

Huh. Good to know

So, baiting elk with a trail cam is illegal? How would the warden know you weren't trying to just get its pic?

Blame it on the corona. From NBC

America's rats are being hit hard by the coronavirus.
As millions of Americans shelter indoors to combat the deadly virus, which has claimed over 21,000 U.S. lives, many businesses — including restaurants and grocery stores — have closed or limited operations, cutting off many rodents' main sources for food. On deserted streets across the country, rats are in dire survival mode, experts say.
"If you take rats that have been established in the area or somebody's property and they're doing well, the reason they're doing well is because they're eating well," Bobby Corrigan, an urban rodentologist, told NBC News. "Ever since coronavirus broke out, not a single thing has changed with them, because someone's doing their trash exactly the same in their yard as they've always done it — poorly."
But many other rats are not faring as well, said Corrigan, who works as a consultant for several city health departments and businesses, such as airports and shopping malls.
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"A restaurant all of a sudden closes now, which has happened by the thousands in not just New York City but coast to coast and around the world, and those rats that were living by that restaurant, some place nearby, and perhaps for decades having generations of rats that depended on that restaurant food, well, life is no longer working for them, and they only have a couple of choices."
And those choices are grim. They include cannibalism, rat battles and infanticide.
"It's just like we've seen in the history of mankind, where people try to take over lands and they come in with militaries and armies and fight to the death, literally, for who's going to conquer that land. And that's what happens with rats," he said. "A new 'army' of rats come in, and whichever army has the strongest rats is going to conquer that area."
Rats whose food sources have vanished will not just move into other colonies and cause fights over grub. They will also eat one another.
"They're mammals just like you and I, and so when you're really, really hungry, you're not going to act the same — you're going to act very bad, usually," he said. "So these rats are fighting with one another, now the adults are killing the young in the nest and cannibalizing the pups."

I have had squirrels eat the wire from the remote battery to my cell cameras several times also raise heck with feeder wires. short of running them thru 1" conduit and stuffing steel wool into holes not much luck.