Rats in my car

Put poison tomato next time

 

mice get in from under the hood, through several points to the cabin air filter. i think there may be entry points in the back as well. not sure how much space a rat needs.
check out the mice threads here, for advice on sealing the car with wire mesh.
check you engine and cabin filters for evidence.

 

It's probably a mouse rather than a rat.
In the US we have glue traps.
They're about 10 x 15cm and smell enough like food that rodents are attracted to them.
If you have a pair of pliers, they're even re-usable, although sometimes their little feet will stay on the trap afterwards.
If the trap is missing the next morning, then I am probably wrong about it being a mouse rather than a rat.
Get a larger size.


As mentioned above,
Be sure and examine the car under your hood and in the cabin air filter.

Rodents LOVE to do three things, roughly in this order:
1. Eat
2. Make baby rodents.
3. CHEW ON WIRES.

It's the third activity that causes the most problems for Prius owners.

 

A friend's used Gen2 Prius had a rodent problem -- point of entry was via the center console, I'm told. (No firsthand knowledge.) Apparently there had been an undisclosed hole somewhere in the undercarriage and it chewed through the plastic bottom of the console.

 

An expert in mice in the Prius -- rats no experience. But, search around, there are detailed instructions on this site on how to screen out MICE.

Personally, I don't see how rats could get in, but anything is possible....I suppose.

 

i can get in.

 

1) MOTHBALLS! Suitably distributed in garage's nooks and crannies! Mousies don't like the smell!
2) CATS
3) ..er, that's it!

 

Leave your smart phone loudly playing cats meowing or better yet fighting inside your car with all doors and hatch open...also leave the garage door open....stay away and make no noise outside....come back in a couple of hours. Problem solved!

 

If you can smell the mothballs, you are poisoning yourself. If you can't smell them, the concentration is not high enough to bother a mouse.

Health Effects of Mothballs


I tried peppermint on the Cabin Filter years ago. That made me sick.

Personally, glue traps are cruel. I would never use them. I use snap traps for mice, but rat snap traps are capable of breaking fingers or hands.

 

Agreed, that is why I like my solution the best

 

Some people are suggesting snap traps, i suggest snap fireworks with peanut butter on them. It will explode when it eats it yet not be powerful enough to kill or seriously hurt the mouse. That should be enough for the mouse to get the message to get the F out your home.

 

check out todays thread on the new class action lawsuit.

 

A mouse can squeeze itself though a hole the size of a pencil. That being said, I have had good luck catching live mice (by accident) using a 5-gallon bucket. When we had glue traps, we put peanut butter on them. The mice ate their way through the PB, the glue, the cardboard, everything. I guess they figured if they ate enough glue, they would get free lol.


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I have a huge mouse magnet somewhere i my Prius, I've caught seven mice in the last 2 months, one got away.

 

Just don't use poison (i.e. coumadin) because they die slowly and can crawl up into some inaccessible spot like the headliner, or bleed onto the cabin air filter. If you have a garage use baited snap traps.

 

Bleeding on the Cabin filter is the best case...

You can buy them from Rock Auto for $3.33.

 

Also, the poison will let them live long enough to stockpile it inside the car, like on the cabin filter or engine air filter


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It all sounds nasty. Ew. Put a cat in your car hungry maybe the stupid rodent will get a drift his live shak is now under new management.

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