rats in wires

North Idaho Wolfman

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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.
 
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A hungry cat.

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

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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.
 
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GeoHorn

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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.) IMG_0085.png
 
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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
 

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

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