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Posted: Sat Jul 21st, 2012 08:21

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Eric

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Squarerigger wrote:
Great find Eric.

I did some searching and found these critters sometimes do use stones for making nests. Also, it seems some species of these gather up objects and on the way to where they want to use them, they find something they like better and switch out objects and forget about the first item they had.

Sounds like the wife shopping.

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Posted: Sat Jul 21st, 2012 10:29

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Here in southern Arizona we ahve a rat known as the 'Pack' Rat probably because he will 'pack' anything into his nest. I have a particular hate against this species. They also have a nasty habit of building their nests in autos ,in the engine compartment usually. In addition the seem to like the taste of any covering of electric wires. They can build theses nests in literally a matter of hours. My personal hate is because in my case he decided to build his nest on top of the transmission of my 2006 Mustang ( prized possesion) and prceded to chew in two some of the wires there. First cost was $600 to splice 2 wires after finding a mechanic with small hands . Second occurance cost another $600 to repair what I feel was a wire the first mechanic missed. Last cost was $1200 to repar more wires that were probably missed in the first two repairs. This time they dropped the transmission to do the job correctly (maybe). Have no idea how to stop the infestations. Some say a light in area will discourage them,others say a bar of Irish Spring soap will discourage them, others an electronic noise device. I have instituted the Irish Spring solution and the electronic device and have hopes they will discourage further destruction. So I kinda hate Rats for economic reasons especially the 'Pack' type.

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Posted: Sun Jul 22nd, 2012 03:32

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Rats will sometimes use stones to form a base for there nests.

Posted: Sun Jul 22nd, 2012 04:37

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KenRay wrote: Here in southern Arizona we ahve a rat known as the 'Pack' Rat probably because he will 'pack' anything into his nest. I have a particular hate against this species. They also have a nasty habit of building their nests in autos ,in the engine compartment usually. In addition the seem to like the taste of any covering of electric wires. They can build theses nests in literally a matter of hours. My personal hate is because in my case he decided to build his nest on top of the transmission of my 2006 Mustang ( prized possesion) and prceded to chew in two some of the wires there. First cost was $600 to splice 2 wires after finding a mechanic with small hands . Second occurance cost another $600 to repair what I feel was a wire the first mechanic missed. Last cost was $1200 to repar more wires that were probably missed in the first two repairs. This time they dropped the transmission to do the job correctly (maybe). Have no idea how to stop the infestations. Some say a light in area will discourage them,others say a bar of Irish Spring soap will discourage them, others an electronic noise device. I have instituted the Irish Spring solution and the electronic device and have hopes they will discourage further destruction. So I kinda hate Rats for economic reasons especially the 'Pack' type.Ken,
Understand your problem.

There is a similar problem in Germany that one of my friends told me about.

The 'cure' is to seal the underside of the car engine bay with chicken wire so they cant get in.
Of course you need to make sure that there is airflow so that the engine doesnt lose the additional cooling otherwise a solid plate would work better.

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