rats in wires

[slipp04]

any tips on sprays that works for rats not eating wires.

 

[Mowbizz]

Try stuffing scented dryer sheets in every nook n cranny…

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Spray of 223 or 5.56 will do it.
I don't know if any spray to keep rats away.
Tomcat sells some, but I don't know of it's effectiveness.
Get an exterminator to deal with the rats.
And if you can't do that, get a seaboard container to store the tractor in.

 

[GeoHorn]

A hungry cat.

if you INSIST on a Spray……... get a MALE CAT!

 

[aemsee]

neighbor had a grain drying facility. Learned to shoot by sniping rats with a Pumpmaster 760. So long ago that bb gun had wood stock and fore grip. Or just get a small animal live trap.

 

[Scm]

any tips on sprays that works for rats not eating wires.

peppermint oil

 

[Jim L.]

Coyote urine (not really, obviously it is a synthetic) worked for us.

 

[Ridger]

I had rats chew into my UTV wires. I repaired them and used "rodent anti-chew deterrent tape" (do an Amazon search). I also put out some poison rat chunks in dog/cat proof boxes. So far, that has worked.

 

[Scm]

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[mikester]

How about chipmunks chewing holes in my new garden hose? Birdshot spray? WTF

 

[Bee-Positive]

Best stuff I've ever used.

 

[GeoHorn]

I’ve never found sprays, moth-balls, or dryer-sheets to do anything but Waste My Time.

The only Sure-Cure I’ve found has been Tom Cat blocks scattered around th place in hidden corners and walls where my dog can’t get to ‘em.

It really did end my rat/mouse problems out here on the ranch.

(But I found a very lethargic porcupine one day in the hangar. I picked him up and moved him outside using a shovel, but he died next day. I felt bad about that.)

 

[Scm]

A word of caution when using poisons is if you have chicken and a mouse dies where they can get to it, your chicken may get sick/killed too

 

[Runs With Scissors]

A picture is worth a thousand words…………..



I don’t own one, but I am “VERY NICE” to my neighbors 5 cats and often give them a “snack"

 

[Cathy Liebchen]

We tried every kind of spray, oil, repellant nothing worked but Tom Cat bait blocks in the containers. Haven’t seen a rodent in a year

 

[Mowbizz]

No “rats” here! Only mice and chipmunks…dryer sheets have worked for years!
Maybe your rats would use the dryer sheets to wipe their a$$es after eating your wires!

 

[Spam Bot]

I use a mouse and rat bait called Final that is sold by Amazon. If it so effective that the next crop of mice tried to chew into the container.

 

[Mak65]

I use a mouse and rat bait called Final that is sold by Amazon. If it so effective that the next crop of mice tried to chew into the container.

Since there was a “next crop” does that mean it is effective? I would think parents bit the dust before the next crop. Or, the next generation treated it like candy?

 

[Bee-Positive]

Since there was a “next crop” does that mean it is effective? I would think parents bit the dust before the next crop. Or, the next generation treated it like candy?

After I get rid of the "local squatters" seems the '"out-of-towners" eventually wonder in from the fields looking for a cozy home. It's a year-round never-ending endeavor.

 

[Mak65]

Got it. it does work. The next crop are non or distant relatives.