Ratty old shite (literally)

[Guest Breadvan72]

I repeat that all rats are smart and hard to trap, and the local ones are immune to the poisons available retail. Mice are easier to zap, but I suspect rat. I think it is a small one that was in the kitchen bin having a shuftie, got bagged up, and escaped from the rubbish bag carelessly forgotten in the boot rather than taken to the dump when dustbins were full.

 

I will try a trap as have got some vicious plastic ones that work on all mice and on untutored rats, but if this one is a survivor of the now decimated house colony it will have the learning and will say fook that.

[Guest Breadvan72]

As for shooting rats, I can do that myself, but I make it a rule not to engage in ranged weapons combat inside a car unless driving through Dalston (or Stokenchurch).

[Guest Breadvan72]

I add, by the way, that the rats in the house didn't bother me, as it's an old place in a wood and the rats were there first and/or just trying to hustle a break, but my wife insisted on ratmageddon.

[TimothyClaypole]

[Guest Breadvan72]

U bastid if ai catchez U its sticky taep N up some shlebz Jacksy 4 U

[Guest Breadvan72]

Actually, which is worse: Being shoved up some celebrity bumhole, or having to live in a thirteen year old Alfa? Tough one.

[HH-R]

[Louise2cv]

My one of those ran away when it saw a rat and didn't come back until we'd killed them.

 

We got several, all in the same trap in a cupboard with a bin in it (so they even got caught when a bucket full of tempting leftovers were next to the bacon-bait trap.), so I still think a trap is the way to go for a rat in a car.

[dugong]

A friend north of the border used to 'splat' rats with a pump-action shotgun.

And no, I'm not sure where he got it from, either. GANGSTA

[Taff]

another vote for your feline friend here. nothing says "getdafug out of my motor, varmint" quite like an angry ginger tom cat.

 

Apart from a shot gun or white phosphorus, but both of those will cause, ahem, other issues.

[forddeliveryboy]

Mice in my neck of the woods don't chew wires - they're amazingly polite and generally live under a rear seat, gathering paper and fluff for nests. Rats will often leave their droppings on an exposed, high-up and horizontal bit of car, the battery/tray is a fave. I've had wires and fuel lines neatly removed, they'll go through anything they want to. Favourite living places are under the bonnet in the insulation and in the scuttle, amidst leaves.

 

I once found a courting couple (rats) on the rocker cover of a scrap Merc, it was a hot day (must have been 60C under the bonnet) - they took ages to notice me and the dogs. Squeak, squeak, crunch, crunch. What a way to go, when in mid-swoon. He was quite an ugly, scrawny odl bugger, she was young and obviously inexperienced in what to expect.

 

Once they know you're aware of them and are armed with terrier/JR the chances are they'll be off, same with mice. I saw three mice tumble out of a car door one day when I sent a terrier in to let them know they weren't wanted.

 

Poisin only when you've tried everything else - it's a foul way for everyone.

[fred]

I killed a mouse which had made its home in my old Sherpa van. mousetrap with a malteaser on it

Council vermin guy advised malteasers - they love em

2 days later dead Jerry

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

I have never had rats in the house, but we have had pretty much every other type of rodent. A rat would have to be a very small one to hide in a car though, wouldn't it?

 

I've always felt a bit sad killing them - I don't like to kill anything I wouldn't eat. I would kill rats though.

 

I have spent a while trying to catch a mouse I have glimpsed strolling round late at night. He was a cunning little thing and took ages to be lured by the Nutella I put in the tip trap. When I finally did catch him, he turned out to be a little vole. I'm now trying to catch his wife - or he's come back!!

[Vin]

I lifted the rear seat in the 126 a couple of years ago to be greeted by this deceased little fella ...Fiat seat foam maybe a bit too toxic :-D

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

The critter or critters has or have made a nest of shredded paper in the spare wheel well. I will get the car thoroughly hoovered out and then ponder next move.

[Taff]

I have a field mouse living under the bonnet of the Galaxie at the moment, every time I fire it up he jumps out of his hidey hole under the heater, climbs onto the rocker box and legs it towards the front of the car and freedom. One day he is going to go face first into the big fuck-off metal cooling fan, and I'll be cleaning mouse-based tomato puree off my windscreen