RATS

[RexB]

Chipmunks and mice were building nests in all the air breather housings . . . I cut a piece of aluminum 3/16" mesh (expanded metal) and put it over the end of the air intakes, held on by small s/s screws into the plastic/metal intakes.

They also built nests in fender wells and engine compartments. Since I didn't want to kill the chipmunks because they're fun to watch playing, I use Bounce dryer sheets jammed in so that they don't blow out. The chemical smell keeps all the little critters out.

I've got a cat, but it kills everything outside except the owls and coyotes, so Donna keeps it inside.

[dbdartman]

Get that dog food out of whatever you're keeping it in & put it in a metal container with a metal lid. That way the mice won't be using it to plug up parts of your tractor!

[dixie306]

Originally Posted by RexB

Chipmunks and mice were building nests in all the air breather housings . . . I cut a piece of aluminum 3/16" mesh (expanded metal) and put it over the end of the air intakes, held on by small s/s screws into the plastic/metal intakes.

They also built nests in fender wells and engine compartments. Since I didn't want to kill the chipmunks because they're fun to watch playing, I use Bounce dryer sheets jammed in so that they don't blow out. The chemical smell keeps all the little critters out.

I've got a cat, but it kills everything outside except the owls and coyotes, so Donna keeps it inside.

I've had them nest under the cowling during the off season and had to clean up that mess, rat urine and feces on a hot manifold is not a smell I want to have again! I'll try the bounce, BTW, I use them as insect repellent, just put one under my shirt at the shoulders, works great. LOL I need a mouser and a coyote killer, they're really a problem here. I keep the food in a sealed container, I think they're raiding the dogs dishes at night

[RexB]

Those coyotes are the best mousers around, then owls and feral cats . . . when they get too ambitious, like trotting close by when we're outside I let fly with a shotgun but otherwise leave them alone. They keep the wild dog population down too . . . mine are in a kennel at night.

Everything raids food dishes at night, best to leave them empty till morning.

Bounce is great for insects ain't it! We don't have many biting bugs here but the two weeks that the mosquitos do come around I swear that bounce works better than Deet, and no oily stink to go with it.

[WTA]

We keep our dog food in a hog feeder with a lid they have to flip up with their noses. The dogs figured it out pretty fast. The chickens and the mice and rats can't get in no matter how hard they try. I've sat there watching them before.

For rats, we didn't plan this but someone dumped 4 cats on us a few months ago. Now we have 12 because they multiplied before we could get the female fixed. I made a kitty door going into the house and they all come and go as they please. The only time I see rats now is in a cats mouth. They are all funny too. The cats catch them then give the dead rats to the dogs who eat them right up.

Yes we worm the dogs regularly.

We have real bad coyote problems here too. The dogs are always on our property line barking at them every night. They even jumped and killed a couple of them last night. We have a lot of chickens and goats here so whenever I hear the dogs barking at night I am there in a second or two with my rifle. We just don't need coyotes here.

[Just2quickz28]

Well while I would normally agree on a cat to rid the area of mice my Olde English Bulldogge killed more mice than my cats ever did. He would sniff around the wood pile and the tractor and any place else till they came out and he would kill them it was a hard practice to keep him from eating them. There has been only one issue that was when I left my beater car parked for a few days and some mice made a home under the hood and since I was away the person watching the animals did not notice him climbing on my car scratching the hood to bits to get at the mice. My cats when I did have them did not do anything but eat and sleep and piss off the dogs.

Now if I were a mouse and saw Meatball's ugly mug after me I would run the other way

[kc5gxc]

Hi guys
I have dachshunds. A rat was in my shed where I park my S-10. Minnie Sue the dachshund hates rats. She got after it. It ran up into my engine area. Minnie Sue chewed all the ABS System wires that run along the bottom of the frame. She ripped them all off. She was trying to get that rat.
This must have happened at nite. Next AM I saw insulation in the yard. I knew I had a problem.......needless to say....I put out rat poison in a protected area after that. Those dachshunds won't eat the rats, they do like to carry them around and show 'em off, tho.....
Pete/MS
PS...I did find the rat in the S-10. Dead, with a chunk out of it. Don't know what killed it, if the dog bit it or what.

[Treemonkey1000]

Originally Posted by kc5gxc

Hi guys
I have dachshunds. A rat was in my shed where I park my S-10. Minnie Sue the dachshund hates rats. She got after it. It ran up into my engine area. Minnie Sue chewed all the ABS System wires that run along the bottom of the frame. She ripped them all off. She was trying to get that rat.
This must have happened at nite. Next AM I saw insulation in the yard. I knew I had a problem.......needless to say....I put out rat poison in a protected area after that. Those dachshunds won't eat the rats, they do like to carry them around and show 'em off, tho.....
Pete/MS
PS...I did find the rat in the S-10. Dead, with a chunk out of it. Don't know what killed it, if the dog bit it or what.

Hey I like dogs and all but I think after that little adventure that doggie would have been a rear view mirror ornament Is that a ham radio call sign? If so good to see another Ham radio operator... KF7SX

[allpontiac]

I'm glad to see another ham as well - WA4GIQ

[GIJOE]

Same here. KE5AUR

Joe