I used sticky traps too, those are very cruel though. I try catching them as they just get stuck and then break their necks so they stop suffering. Main reason I like the electronic traps, instant death.

 

Yes,

Go to the animal shelter and take home a couple of rescue cats. Don't pick long fluffy fur high maintenance or declawed. Get the scrappy and most active and playful ones. Encourage the cats to play around your Superduty and eliminate the rodents source of food. Reward the cats with affection and treats when they bring you a dead gift. My two rescue cats are hard at work protecting my trucks and RV.

Good luck!

 

This guy has a cool channel, I stumbled upon him a few years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/@ShawnWoodsM...ery=peppermint

 

My Ford Transit Connect Wagon 2020 had pak rat damage big time! All the lights on my dashboard lit up. I had no power steering, no safety features, my navigation screen was spinning around and no wipers. When I opened the hood, I found a huge rat nest on top of my engine. (Photo attached)/

This was the rodent nest I found on my engine after I saw all the warning lights lit up on my dashboard.

I brought it to a mechanic who was recommended to me. He turned to be honest and caring. My insurance covered $4500 in damage and I paid the $500 deductible. I was in shock. I live in a 600 sq ft casita on 1+ acres. My landlord lives on the property as well. The land is rural. The landlord told me there were pak rats before I moved in. To keep them at bay he suggested having a gizmo in the engine area under the hood that made an unpleasant sound only Pak Rats could hear. That would stop them. Iy did for awhile. Obviously it did not. The damage took place in Nov 2025. My car was in the shop for a month. When I got it back, to protect my car from the rats, I got a set of 2 Dusk-to-Dawn Spot Lights and an extension cord. I put the spot lights on the ground under the engine area of the vehicle. That seemed to work keeping the rats away. Then, a friend suggested an added precaution––place my dog's piddle pads under the lights on the ground and on top of the engine, under the hood. I also added a plastic bag of my cat's urine litter clumps and 2 small plastic open containers of litter clumps...That worked too for 3 months. In March 2026, the rats began getting into my car stealing pieces of the used piddle pads. Then, it rained. (It doesn't rain often in Northern AZ.) When I turned on the wipers, nothing happened. The rats ate the wires to my wipers. I told my landlord. He told me that he puts one of his spot lights under the car hood on the engine. I did that, without placing the piddle pads or my cats' urine litter clumps under the hood. So far so good.... However I still need to get my wires fixed when it does rain here!!! Why am I telling you all this? 1. Because this information can help you deter the rats for a while. 2. Because it is the responsibility of Ford Motor Company to find a way to make insulation for the wires that do not have soy, which attracts rodents to eat the wires. This is unacceptable. Not only because it is extraordinarily costly to repair but it also devalues the car. My mechanic told me that the insurance adjustor should have "totaled the car" because when I go to sell this car, it will not be the value of a car with its original wiring. This problem needs a class action suit. Since most car manufacturers these days use soy wiring it would be to Ford's advantage to eliminate this problem. I personally will not consider buying another Ford vehicle again.

 

get the truck sprayed once a year with thin film oil.


if your handy and want to do it yourself ...use a product like corrosion X .or corrosion block

dont use the greasy stuff which to me smells like lard

 

Isn't cruelty the point? F--- those little *******s.