The critter under my hood
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Well, I went to my wife's pottery class and scored on some clay. I molded the clay to the shape of rats, and had these dummy rats hang out by the rat traps, hoping to attract the critter. My goal is to simulate a rat feeding frenzy. Hope it works. Some of the insulation stuck on the clay when I lowered the hood, and maybe the "hairy" look will add to the stimulation. I'll post my results.
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i dont think our cummins engines are literally bullet proof dispite everyones claims so i would be careful with them guns..although i'd like to see a step by step repair for bullet holes in the 'sticky' section.
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Well, I went to my wife's pottery class and scored on some clay. I molded the clay to the shape of rats, and had these dummy rats hang out by the rat traps, hoping to attract the critter. My goal is to simulate a rat feeding frenzy. Hope it works. Some of the insulation stuck on the clay when I lowered the hood, and maybe the "hairy" look will add to the stimulation. I'll post my results.
All you'll get with that is lawyers.
Regards, DBF
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From: cornelius oregon
trapped a big rat on my porch last fall left some dog food bag out the half full . anyway middle of the night heard noise on porch went out next morning lots of blood no rat just trap and a rats foot. i do believe he chewed it off.
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Nothin yet on the traps, and BTW, I was kidding with the Bill Murray scenario and the clay rats. I also failed to mention at my original post, I have a HAVAHART live catch trap right next to the truck, baited with shelled nuts and hard boiled eggs. Still nothing.
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a rat in my house ate everything i nthe house, chewed holes in doors and chewed live electrical wires in half, but 1 full cup of poision then 2 7.62x39 shells got rid of Fred - bags of poision pellets work the best to slow him down then take'em out with small arms fire, you laugh, im serious. someone has pictures of it somewhere. i shot 2 coons in the kitchen last nite with my .357. long story.
I've got the T-shirt!!!Those darn rats LOVE silicone - ate up the 8MM Blue Max in the GTO and chewed up the secondary wiring in the trim mower a few weeks back.
Couldn't find the rat, so I shot the mower.
When I started the biz at the old ranch, field rats lived in the bunkhouse with us... you haven't lived until you get to discharge firearms indoors with good reason!
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What is it with squirrels and plastic gas jugs??
I hid my saw-mill gas jugs and chainsaw jugs in the fence-row at the edge of the woods, covering them with brush.
A couple days later, I retrieved them, to find that squirrels had devoured the lids and vent-caps.
I couldn't have stomached the gas odor long enough to eat the caps.
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What is it with squirrels and plastic gas jugs??
I hid my saw-mill gas jugs and chainsaw jugs in the fence-row at the edge of the woods, covering them with brush.
A couple days later, I retrieved them, to find that squirrels had devoured the lids and vent-caps.
I couldn't have stomached the gas odor long enough to eat the caps.
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Squirrels in my place(5 acres of oak and pine trees) don't have a long life. Once our vet told me that the tick and flea infestation was squirrel related(my wife thought it would be cute to feed the things with a squirrel feeder made to hold shelled nuts)my wife said to oust them. Out came the Beeman .20 caliber 1250 fpm pellet gun and you get the rest. One of these things made the mistake of tormenting my 3 dogs(big) for weeks. Well, .20 caliber into the shoulder weakened his grip, and down he came right into 3 dogs surrounding the tree, sort of like Sylvester the cat when he tried to get tweetie bird and fell into the pack of dogs. Well, that ended that. BTW, nothing yet in the traps since the last post. Maybe the poison finally kicked in!!