Pack rats ate the wiring harness under the hood --$800 to repair on truck that only has 8k miles - company truck too (not in sig). They managed that much damage in one night.

How do I stop this from occurring again, have heard of sound devices but get annoying very quickly. Have been baiting for several months as they had found their way into garage and into tack room, ate part of one of my pack saddles and latigos off of wifes saddle. Have tried high speed lead poisoning with some success but I dont have that much time to sit around and wait for them to come out to play. Thought about getting couple of cats but there are too many coyotes around and I dont feel like feeding them. Already lost 1 small pup to the scoundrels.

Any ideas?

 

I've seen several reports of folks using Bounce dryer sheets to repel rodents.
It seems the rats can't stand the smell of them either..........

 

Clean up the barn. Rub the wires with hot sauce. Bait them to another location. Shoot them with bb guns.

 

Man for a second there I thought you were talking about my fiances MOM!!!!! Boy that lady likes to collect stuff!

My co-worker has that same problem with the dang mice getting up in the truck.......and for some reason they always manage to squirm up into the vents. He tried putting mouse poison around his truck, but the only problem was that they would eat it, crawl up inside the truck and die!! He's truck STUNK forever.

The only thing I can think is like said above, try to bait them somewhere else.....make the truck a little less appealing to them!


~Nick

 

Mule Skinner, pm djgaston, he has had the same problem with one of his trucks, he may have found some way to get rid of them, I'm not sure though.

 

I'll send you some of my rattle snakes next time I see one or two. They are just timber rattlers, so they aren't too agressive. You won't have any more pack-rat problems. My wife would also thank you for taking them off our hands. The only pack-rat that I have seen this year was over at the dump a few weeks ago. I thought it was a rabbit when I first saw it. That little turd could have carried my dog off if he wanted to.....'til I turned his head into a canoe with my pistol.

 

We do have a couple of bull snakes and king snakes around but I think there is an over abundance of these rats, I need more snakes, not sure the wife wants more snakes around tho. She had a little 18" rattler chopped into about 1000 peices about 2 months ago, must have looked like she might have been doing some sort of dance with the shovel chopping him up.
I remove one or two a day from the pool, several neighbors are also having problems. We have plenty of redtail hawks and great horned owls around that I would think would help w/ the problem but rats must breed like rabbits.

 

In case you thought I was joking about the dryer sheets.....

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I will give the bounce a try, don't want to see the critters get into the other truck or the wiring in one of my trailers or tractor.

 

If you don't have other little animals (dogs or the like) sniffing around, moth ***** are supposed to deture them also. The bounce sheets peaked my interest though, cause my "kids" <read dogs> eat everything they can find on the floor, and the one of the last things I want them to snack on is a mothball

 

Why? Momma says it will alawys come out, eventually, in the end.

 

Get one male and four female wild barn cats and let them do what they do. Before you know it your rat problem will be under control and you'[ll be dealing with an abundance of barn cats. Natural selection and the cyotes should take care that problem.

 

I had a cat that you needed, He was MEAN. Loved people but hated every other animal on earth. I lost count of how many other cats he killed. Moles and rats/mice had no chance against him. I think he took out 6 rabbits. And his best kill was a full grown fox that was in the area. That was a heck of a fight on the back deck. I seen him fight full grown dogs off our property with there tail tucked between there legs.

Poor old guy had half of one ear missing and several scars all over. I figured he would get rabies after the fox killing, but he never did. He finally fought something he couldn't take out one day, a half ton chebby truck. Poor little fellow I guess he used up too many lives on all the other animals.

 

I was gonna suggest the dryer sheets too, good to put in drawers under the clothes. Maybe roll a couple up and zip-tie them to hoses or wires in 2 or 3 places?

 

Don't worry...I beleived ya! I have never drove any wheat truck that didn't have a bunch of them in the floorboards. My grandparents and others have done that for a lot longer than I have been alive.