Vengeance (warning: minor gore)

Steve, your AC system has a drain in the heater box for AC evaporator ice melt, they chew thru the rubber drain tube and enter the heater case. Check for the drain tube, most of the time you can see the tube from under vehicle on the right side on the bottom of the heater/ac case. Try some cayenne pepper to run off the rodents, they don't like the stuff!!
 
fish more said:
Steve, your AC system has a drain in the heater box for AC evaporator ice melt, they chew thru the rubber drain tube and enter the heater case. Check for the drain tube, most of the time you can see the tube from under vehicle on the right side on the bottom of the heater/ac case. Try some cayenne pepper to run off the rodents, they don't like the stuff!!
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Thank you, much appreciated!
 
In the barn it's rats in the feed, in the house it's mice in the EVERYTHING, in the garden it's gophers and in the harbor it's the flying rodents, the pigeons! The birds can destroy a boat in no time.

No mercy!

Rodents are the only beasts that I terminate not for food, but out of self defense. My good friend came within inches of his life from mice. He contracted Hantavirus from mice droppings when cleaning the attic of his cabin and no joke, almost died.

Be sure to wear a respirator and gloves when going into battle. Hantavirus is real and not to be taken lightly.
 
Sage, the rodents will often enter through the cabin air intake system, particularly in Toyotas. Worthwhile putting a piece of hardware cloth over the top of the cabin air filter, which will keep them from getting into the interior (at least through the air intake route). Another thing that apparently helps on Toyotas is to put the air on recirc before shutting down. We had a mouse set up shop in our FJ Cruiser that sat in a garage for 2.5 years (we couldn't get to it as it was in Canada) that made a real mess. We pulled the entire interior, including seats, floor, headliner etc. and cleaned it all up and the FJ still smells like mouse. We're now calling it the mousemobile. Hoping that the smell eventually goes away.....
 
No joy finding the entry point, but since the nest was on top of the cabin air filter, I suspect the air intake to be the POI. I replaced the filter, stuck a bunch of rodent repellent in the cab, and I keep a snap trap inside.

So far, no evidence of more visitors.
 
Well… sugarfoot! One of the little monsters is back. He even chewed on the bags of “Rodent Repellent “. Thankfully, no nest in the cabin air filter.

It’s time to get my Wrodent Wrangler duds on and catch the little twerp.
 
Wandering Sagebrush said:
Well… sugarfoot! One of the little monsters is back. He even chewed on the bags of “Rodent Repellent “. Thankfully, no nest in the cabin air filter.

It’s time to get my Wrodent Wrangler duds on and catch the little twerp.
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No explosives Mr. Sage. I know we can get easily tempted, but don't use explosives until it's absolutely necessary.
 
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You beast!

By any means necessary, these destructive pests must be stopped. I replace my repellant bags every 8 weeks as recommended. Have had only one invasion since I started using the repellant. I had let it go for 12 weeks. So far, they have invaded the truck only, not the camper.

Paul
 
Congrats on eliminating the vermin. Worst I ever had was when one died in my heater. Took a while for the smell to go away.
 
My husband's heater fan caught on fire while he was driving. It was a mouse nest. One time my husband opened the glove box while I was driving and a mouse dove behind the box and the heater fan stopped. I turned it off, he reached behind the glove box and pulled out a mouse head which he threw out the window along with the nest in the box. The rest of the body was never found.

I had a dog who was a pro at determining there was a nest in an engine compartment. I would warn people if he became obsessed with their vehicle.

A year or so ago I popped up my camper to find a cache of dog biscuits on the bed. A mouse must have carried them one by one from the bag I had left unprotected beneath the counter. And last autumn I had a chipmunk get in the camper through one of the tie down access doors. That was fun.

This year, two years after two fires in the area, the rodents have exploded. We have trapped 14, the cat got 2 and one went into the vacuum cleaner and could not get back out. We found it by the smell. Next year the snakes will increase. Oh joy.
 
Wandering Sagebrush said:
Nah, the hides are going to the tannery, the carcasses to my fox pack.
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I was going to mention that the foxes would like them. If you can train the foxes to come in and mouse for you?? Put the fear of fox in them vermin. The Coopers hawks like mine.
 
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