Similar situation in Vancouver, BC:
Posted on 02/22/2018 1:31:51 PM PST by Phillyred
Trouble is, so do the rats in her neighborhood. They’re chewing through wires in her engine compartment, causing hundreds of dollars in damages.
JoAnn and her husband Tracy live in Santee, Calif., just east of San Diego. Recently retired, they enjoy the open Every night, Joann's pours a little coyote piss around her tires. "I dot my driveway with some too," she says. She also places a Coyote urine-soaked sponge inside a tin pan near the car. She's not sure it's working yet and does not want to take her car in for any more repairs until she's rid of the rats once and for all.
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Next they’ll make new car bodies from milk bone byproducts and you’ll have all the dogs in the neighborhood chewing the fenders off.
Maybe attaching that thing to hold replaceable dryer bars of the stuff in the engine compartment away from extreme heat to prevent any fires, and still get the benefit of repelling rodents.
Too bad “What’s MY Line?” isn’t still on the air. The guy who runs the Pee Store would be an instant classic.
Thinking too of the Rush Limbaugh routine “Little Johnny, what do you want to be when you grow up?” Limbaugh with a child falsetto “Well, I want to sell animal pee for various uses...”
This woman just has barrels of coyote urine in her garage.
Sounds like a fetish.
She needs to kill a couple of the coyotes and strap their carcasses to her hood and trunk.
Toilet paper tubes with mothballs.
Put a few in a tube and tape the ends a little bit with duct tape.
Put them away from the firewall where vent system can pull fumes into the car.
It works for me.
As a mechanic I often find dog or cat kibble in a air filter housing box, sometimes it is enough to block the incoming air.
Look for mouse turds on top of your engine too as evidence that they hang out there.
They like all wires and even hoses too, not just soy based, whatever that is.
They will build nests under engine covers too.
Similar situation in Vancouver, BC:
This is a common problem for RV owners who store their rigs between use.
They should have Wile E. Coyote as Official Spokesperson.
She need to take a bottle of volcano hot sauce and spray all her wiring.
My neighbor’s cat was famous for chewing their printer cable to pieces. Not sure why. Funny, it was always the printer cable, left the others alone.
Just a tip: all the D-Con & Tomcat pellet bait for rats & mice have been replaced & diluted & no longer work well. You can still purchase the real stuff at agricultural stores like Blain’s Farm & Fleet through mail order if there’s not one near you.
Spray Ammonia/water around tires and under the car; moth balls in a small bag placed in the engine compartment are also deterrents. Rats have eaten several wires in the Buick. $300 to repair the first incident. Others were repaired by my guy for free.
I was working at an electronics plant one time when the power went out. Just outside of the building was a power transformer on a concrete pad, with the feed to the plant via underground cable. There was what looked like an animal burrow near the transformer, likely a ground hog. One day we hear this “BOOM”, and the lights went out. I went out to the transformer with some of the other techs, and smoke is coming out of the burrow, and little tufts of ground hog by the entrance. When the cable was replaced, we found the teethmarks on the insulation. Poor groundhog came in contact with 13.5 kV.
I’ve had ground hogs completely disable two vehicles beyond ever starting again, that is without a complete new wiring harness; and one that could be started, but after repair left a continuous check engine lite one.
Needless to say, ground hogs are shot on sight.
“You can buy predator urine on Amazon or from most hunting/trapping outfitters. Predator urine can be used to repel garden pests or to mask human scent.”
I just had to replace the high-pressure power steering line on my 2006 Honda because the mice had chewed through it!!!
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