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When I got my truck serviced, the tec pointed out little paw prints on the battery.
My last 350 had some expensive damage from pack rats. Been reading up more on prevention. I just vacated one from a shed that is about 30 feet from where the truck parks. I try to keep everything uncluttered, but I live in the desert not a neighborhood. The truck is kept outside, but on clean uncluttered concrete.
Keep a light on underneath the truck. Any light will work. We’ve even used those low voltage rope lights to line a carport where cars park. Light is your best friend. Some friends of mine have said they use Irish Spring soap shavings to help keep them away. I haven’t personally tried that one, but they use it in their RV’s on their property.
Won’t matter if you keep it uncluttered, they’ll still invade!
You can also set live traps, they work pretty well.
Good luck!
Jay
I had some rats chew a $1500 wire harness on my last truck. Found some spray on Amazon that's supposed to repel craters. Non-toxic, basically castor oil. Seemed to work well. I sprayed under my hood every few months. Dang rats chewed my firewall insulation trying to get out, probably when I started the engine.
A lot of folks I know in Arizona, New Mexico and that southwest area swear by simply keeping their hood open several inches with a chunk of 2x4. That's what we do when we're RV'ing in the southwest.
I started to get few coming aboard my boat. They were finding food elsewhere and coming aboard to snack on it.
I started out with dryer sheets and added an electronic rodent repellent device that simply plugs into an outlet and creates a sound unpleasant to them so they go elsewhere to lounge. Been 3 months and seems to be working. Squirrels don't like the device either.
Get a cat. Its worked for thousands of years. I have a farm and rats invaded my barn and started eating holes in all of my feed sacks. Didn't like the idea of a cat, but rats are worse. They're also good for killing chipmunks, which are just as destructive to a vehicles wiring. Mine even kill snakes and eat them.
Oh, and be sure to get a female. They hang around longer. They don't whiz on your doorways like the males do to mark they're territory. When they have a litter of kittens they go into hyper kill mode. They're killing machines when they have kittens. Just leave them a handful of food each day. Its enough to keep them coming back home.
I am worried enough to try all suggestions.
we are always on the lookout for signs. We do set traps when we become aware of them
Also, those little green rectangular poison baits work well at killing them. Started with those and had probably a dozen dead rats around the property. They ate those things up. But you know, you can't kill them all so i stay with the electronic device which seems to be more practical in the long run.
Get a cat. Its worked for thousands of years. I have a farm and rats invaded my barn and started eating holes in all of my feed sacks. Didn't like the idea of a cat, but rats are worse. They're also good for killing chipmunks, which are just as destructive to a vehicles wiring. Mine even kill snakes and eat them.
Oh, and be sure to get a female. They hang around longer. They don't whiz on your doorways like the males do to mark they're territory. When they have a litter of kittens they go into hyper kill mode. They're killing machines when they have kittens. Just leave them a handful of food each day. Its enough to keep them coming back home.
I think my German Shepherds would also like me to get a cat.
Also, those little green rectangular poison baits work well at killing them. Started with those and had probably a dozen dead rats around the property. They ate those things up. But you know, you can't kill them all so i stay with the electronic device which seems to be more practical in the long run.
Yeah, I put some of those things out once. Once... Then my wife's Explorer started to get a really foul odor in it. It got so bad that I started to disassemble the vehicle. Finally, I found a decaying mouse in the inner fender of the rear quarter panel behind the plastic panel. The little bugger had a nest in there and that's where he went to take a dirt nap.
Also, if you have a cat and it eats a mouse that has eaten the poison it'll get very sick and die too unless you give them some vitamin K. (thickens the blood and stops the hemorrhaging)
Once heard in South Texas if you encircled your property with dried molten sulfur (powder) no creature will cross over it. That was after a possum got in the house and was cornered in my entertainment center by my 95 lb Collie!
Once heard in South Texas if you encircled your property with dried molten sulfur (powder) no creature will cross over it. That was after a possum got in the house and was cornered in my entertainment center by my 95 lb Collie!
Brings a new meaning to entertainment center...lol. I remember what my two dogs did when a squirrel got in.
I can truly understand the cat idea. I don't think they last long around here. Lots of coyotes.
I think my German Shepherds would also like me to get a cat.
My Rottweiler didn't like cats either until I brought home a kitten and he kind of took a shine to the little guy.
My son raises Golden Retrievers. He says they kill anything that moves from mice to groundhogs. A couple of weeks ago his female snatched a woodpecker off the side of a tree. She's still carrying that dried up bird around.
They're pretty smart dogs, but I still like my German Shepherds and Rottweiler's.
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