Danged Pack Rats

[kumathebear]

We were at our lease 2 weekends ago and my TBH son got a big, nasty surprise. He went to fire up his old Ford Ranger 4x4 and NO go! Would turn over, but die as soon as he put it in gear.

Long story/short: They opened the hood and a PACK RAT had taken EVERY piece of a broken bag of corn out of the bed and built a HUGE nest under the hood. The air intake was FULL of corn AND the little ******* had chewed thru the AC wire, chewed one of the spark plug cables thru.....

I had one last year crawl up the exhaust pip on our Polaris Ranger...Anyone have ANYTHING that will work on these Rodent "Masters of Disasters?"

[Jakesfish]

Wait till you get a call from a shop and one dies in a lexus. and has eaten his way 6k into the harness and firewall ducts.. trapped in the heater box and dies...


Tractor supply has a product called fresh cab, it has worked for us over a year...

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[myway]

I think the big ones just treat the poison as a acid trip and enjoy it. I have also had them run off with the glue strips. If I had video of me pulling that big ******* by the trap as it escaped I would have lots of laughs for sure. If I would have had my pistol I would have shot the **** thing in the camper.

[Mudslinger]

Spent over $800 bucks when those turds built a nest and chewed a bunch of wiring on my new 2104 F150 Super Crew while I was at the lease on a weekend.
I was told by the Ford dealer that when wires are pulled thru the covering, that vegetable oil is used in a lot of them for lubrication and that is what the rats are after along with using the chewed wiring covers for nest building. Chewed some wires on one of my 4 wheelers also.

[Randell]

Looks like a baby squirrel... he said F your rat poison!!!

[Dusty Britches]

This is why I like snakes. Snakes don't tear stuff up and they eat rats.

[kaizen]

Parked my 2010 Tundra overnight at my office in Austin. Rats ate through the main engine harness and other assorted wires. About $7,000 to fix but covered by insurance because anti-lock brake wiring, electronic accelerator, etc were all affected. Truck hasn't performed the same since.

[Rat]

Looks more like a Norwegian (Brown) Rat than a Pack (Wood) Rat to me.

Where there is one there are more, keep the trapping and baiting going.

[hardtner]

So glad we don't have pack rats here. I have seen them do some amazing things in OK and KS