Re: Eradicating the local rat population

From: Carl & Kathy Cundy (mistymtn@gwtc.net)
Date: Wed Nov 02 2005 - 10:22:28 PST

(1) "COKE" I've read that they drink it & DIE because they can't FAR*
(METHANE BUILD-UP & BOOM!) Wive's tale? Sounds too simple.

(2) "SKUNKS" A friend of mine is taming a wild skunk which has killed
"many" rats in an old house. Trapped it, locked it in a building & feeds it.
No spraying or aggressiveness from the skunk, hangs around & hunts.

Really !!

Good luck --- MISTYMTN

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J. Blair, NF6X" <nf6x@nf6x.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 8:47 AM
Subject: [MV] Detroit Diesel paint, Gama Goat filters, and rodent killage

> Do any of y'all know where I can get some suitable paint for touching up
> the light blue on my M561 Gama Goat's Detroit 3-53 engine? The local auto
> parts shop didn't have any engine paints that matched it well. I'm
> guessing that it's probably a standard color that was common on Detroits
> of that era.
>
> I'll probably want to replace all of my Goat's filters soon, too. If any
> of y'all have favorite sources, have recommended cross-references, etc.,
> I'd appreciate hearing about them.
>
> After letting it set for a year or two, I'm getting my Gama Goat running
> again. I live out in a rural area, surrounded by citrus groves and open
> fields. Various rodents are very common out here, and they love to nest
> inside vehicles. They make nests out of large sticks, insulation chewed
> off the insides of the vehicles, dog turds, various greenery, etc. Once
> they move in, the crap and pee all over everything, and fight off boredom
> by chewing on any any convenient wires. They chewed up the wiring in my
> Bobcat badly enough that it was immobilized until I made repairs. Opening
> the hood on my Goat, I found that the space between the fan and radiator
> is packed with sticks and greenery. It's gonna take me hours to clean it
> out enough to even try cranking the engine. Luckily, the only chewed wire
> I've seen so far is the spark plug wire for the air box heater, and that's
> not critical here because it never gets cold enough to need it.
>
> So, can anybody suggest ways to keep them out of my vehicles and/or die
> painful deaths? I cannot use poisons, because my dogs would be too likely
> to catch and eat poisoned rats, nosh on their poisoned corpses, etc.
> Eradicating the local rat population is an impossibility, because there's
> just way too much land around here that's very hospitable to them. Thus, I
> think my only remaining option is to convince them to live somewhere other
> than inside my vehicles.
>
> TIA
>
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> Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x@nf6x.net>
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