Rat in glove box - How?

[Viper501]

"Critter buckets"

How effective for squirrels?

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[Lunentucker]

You can browse through the service manual and probably pinpoint the point of entry.

 

[Viper501]

They don't need over night to get in. If the door was left open for 5 mins or less.....game on. There was probably a smell of something edible and it was in like flint.

Get that fucker out like yesterday before it destroys your wiring harness

Almost as important, get him out before he dies inside and starts decomposing. My aunt, in South Florida, came home from college and brought her pet gerbil. It escaped inside of the car sometime during the drive from Orlando to home. It never left. Nor did the odor.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

How effective for squirrels?

Never caught a squirrel in one........ interesting as our yard often has a dozen squirrels digging in the yard for the acorns or walnuts. They love our oak trees. I have a feeling a squirrel could get out since they can stretch out pretty tall - tall enough to chew through Christmas lights hanging a foot off the ground.

 

[Viper501]

Never caught a squirrel in one........ interesting as our yard often has a dozen squirrels digging in the yard for the acorns or walnuts. They love our oak trees. I have a feeling a squirrel could get out since they can stretch out pretty tall - tall enough to chew through Christmas lights hanging a foot off the ground.

That is what I was wondering about. Need a taller bucket. And deeper water ….

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Almost as important, get him out before he dies inside and starts decomposing. My aunt, in South Florida, came home from college and brought her pet gerbil. It escaped inside of the car sometime during the drive from Orlando to home. It never left. Nor did the odor.

Reminds me of the Chicago Fire episode - "Foul is Fair"...........

 

[Viper501]

Reminds me of the Chicago Fire episode - "Foul is Fair"...........

Not one I watch but it was *very* foul. South Florida heat in a Datsun 210. IIRC they eventually, years later, found his mummified carcass in the headliner.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Not one I watch but it was *very* foul. South Florida heat in a Datsun 210. IIRC they eventually, years later, found his mummified carcass in the headliner.

Several years ago my wife drove her Grand Cherokee up to a friend's cabin in the woods for a quilting weekend with friends. She parked it out in the driveway overnight.
The following week she asked me about a noise when the heater was running (meaning she had the fan on for heat). It sounded like something had slipped down the defroster and gotten into the squirrel cage fan. A couple of days later, she drove and we went shopping. Got back to the garage, she backed in and stopped and a mouse dropped out of the heater duct onto her right foot (dead). The HVAC fan was whisper quiet after that. She wasn't happy.

 

[Viper501]

On the positive side, he came out before decomposing.

 

[Minty JL]

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[PDXsarge]

 

[Reddog]

Hey everyone! Having a lovely Monday here heading home from a camping trip and open the glove box to a damn rat in it. It climbed back up behind the cabin air filter / dash before we could stop to get it out.

The doors were not left open overnight.
My guess is my lovely friend wanted warmth. I’ll get it out, but I need know how it got in.

Where would it have access from the engine compartment to the glove box so I can seal it?

Short answer is they can squeeze thru just about any opening. Mice are even worse. Try some scent deterrents and do not eat in your rig. They can smell it great distances away. I put a couple mice bait tabs under my hood when I go visit my son at his ranch. They work. One bite and that's it. Mice and rats also like some wiring since they use soy in the manufacturing process now. The mice/rat bait cubes work best though.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Mice and rats also like some wiring since they use soy in the manufacturing process now

That's been proven to not be the reason. Mice and other rodents chew wiring for their teeth. There's no flavor or smell to modern insulation. Testing has been done and shows that the insulation type didn't matter.
I've put out some quotes from the article that described the testing and reasoning.

Mice chewed up the high voltage wiring in my home heat pump years ago - got revenge on one of them, though - he was found fried between the wire and the metal part he was standing on.
They've been chewing wiring for decades - tractors, combines, trucks, campers, you name it. I've had mouse damage to wiring long before the year 2000 when they pretty much switched over to "Soy".

 

[Undecided]

I dug around best I could with lights and didn’t find it or a sign of it.
Left doors and hood open for the night in the garage with every trap we had (about 8 lol) around the truck.

Only one was tripped and the PB wasn’t even missing so it may have misfired.

All this meaning It’s either stuck somewhere or got out somewhere in our stops on the 10 hour drive home. Gonna be a fun hunt for the next few days.
Thanks all

 

[Reddog]

That's been proven to not be the reason. Mice and other rodents chew wiring for their teeth. There's no flavor or smell to modern insulation. Testing has been done and shows that the insulation type didn't matter.
I've put out some quotes from the article that described the testing and reasoning.

Mice chewed up the high voltage wiring in my home heat pump years ago - got revenge on one of them, though - he was found fried between the wire and the metal part he was standing on.
They've been chewing wiring for decades - tractors, combines, trucks, campers, you name it. I've had mouse damage to wiring long before the year 2000 when they pretty much switched over to "Soy".

Well, then MB is wrong because they have tons of bulletins out regrading mice damage to wiring and they specifically cite soy. But it doesn't matter. The little shits are terribly destructive and the only way I have stopped them is with bait blocks. Works everytime.

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