Acorns in my Air Box

[Jeremiah]

Keep looking and you'll find the squirrel's nest in the hidden area of your wheel wells. Or at least that's where a pack rat nested in my truck. I cleaned it out by sticking a garden hose into the well from just under the door hinges. You gotta come at it from the outside.

 

[Tony T.]

See what you get for pissin him off!!!!!!!!!!!! :-laf

Yeah, but I got even, I figured about $500. 00 bucks a rat. :-laf HANG EM HIGH!



Tony

 

[Dean Upson]

We have always had problems with mice, especially in the winter. They seem to like the nice warmth of our CTDs. I keep traps and DConn in my garage for that purpose. If the little #@$%! make a nest in your heater they will make a real stink, not to mention the chewing problem. Once they target a vehicle, they seem to go right back to where they were, must be the smell.



Dean

 

[Torque King Jay]

Furry revenge

I know exactly how you feel. Back at home in Rhode Island when I was growing up my father had a brand new company car and of course I had to see what made it work. I was checking out the motor and took the air cleaner lid off and found it packed with acorns with only about a 3-4 inch space left for air to pass through the filter. He was wondering why his fuel mileage was going down



Here is the other major problem. About a year later my mother had a 1984 Honda Civic and she started complaining of a bad smell in the car. It was still under warranty so she took it back. The guys at the shop took it apart and a mouse jumped out and ran across the shop floor.



They then proceeded to take apart the rest of the air ducting and found a dead roasted mouse in one of the heater ducts. It took months to get the smell out even after cleaning. The guys at the dealership suggested to keep the vent system in RECIRC mode rather the FRESH mode. This closed off the opening to the outside. We did that and never had another problem.



Now that I think of it doe we even have the ability to select outside air or recirc? The trucks is at home so I can't check



Jay R.

 

[Jeremiah]

Re Dean's use of DConn, there is a dilemma. We all try to keep the little rodents out, but once they get in and DConn is used, y'gotta give 'em a way to get out, otherwise, they will bleed (and not from the mouth either) all over everything for the next three or four days while they are dying. I had some workmen redo a deck of mine and they let a rat in the house. I wrongly put out DConn instead of a trap, and began noticing faint smudges of red EVERYWHERE a couple of days later. A couple of days after that, my wife found the black body in the ... are you ready for this?



Are you sure?



A-a-a-a-r-g!



The toilet!



Life hasn't been the same around here since. From now on it's the trap!

 

[Dean Upson]

I like the DConn because the rodents bring it back to the nest to share with the little ones. I'm a family-oriented guy :-laf . I am not fond of any member of the rodent family. Mice, chipmunks, squirrels , woodchucks and rabbits pretty much get deep-sixed if they show up around here. Jeremiah, I may have heard Connie when she found that rat!



Dean

 

[Jeremiah]

I like the DConn because the rodents bring it back to the nest to share with the little ones. I'm a family-oriented guy :-laf . I am not fond of any member of the rodent family. Mice, chipmunks, squirrels , woodchucks and rabbits pretty much get deep-sixed if they show up around here. Jeremiah, I may have heard Connie when she found that rat!



Dean

You did hear her!!! You could've heard me too when I pulled him out of there. Big sucker! Connie now says she never goes in the bathroom at night without turning on the light and looking u-kno-where.



You may have read about me DConning a pack rat under the hood of my truck. He ate the DConn too, only it didn't bother him a bit. I finally got him with a trap. But not before he had a bunch of insulation for dessert.

 

[Tony T.]

I used rat traps with peanut butter on them when I caught the two culprits that done the boat damage. Also tied the traps down in case the trap didn't get'm good enough so they could not run off.



I didn't want them to hide up in the boat somewhere and die from poison and not be able to get them out.



Usually after they eat the poison they look for a water source, I guess that toilet was the closest.



Tony

 

[Jeremiah]

Rat in the toilet

I used rat traps with peanut butter on them when I caught the two culprits that done the boat damage. Also tied the traps down in case the trap didn't get'm good enough so they could not run off.



I didn't want them to hide up in the boat somewhere and die from poison and not be able to get them out.



Usually after they eat the poison they look for a water source, I guess that toilet was the closest.



Tony

That'sa right, they do look for water. But to let 'em out so they can find some, you run the risk of lettin' more of 'em in. Hey, it's cold enough up here in Colorado without leavin' a door open to let a sick rat out.

 

[FATCAT]

This situation calls for an expert ... . a four legged furry feline expert.

Get yourself a ourdoor cat, and feed him once every three days ... the other days he'll take care of the varmit problem. :-laf



Then soon he'll become a FATCAT.

 

[Jeremiah]

I see from you location (NH) that it gets cold up there too. Couldn't go to sleep at night thinking about one of my animals outside at 20 below. He'd have to sleep with the rats to stay warm.

 

[mmi]

Had to rodent proof 2 years ago

for all the damage that can be done they should have come factory equiped