Quote Originally Posted by OakLeaf View Post
Dear car,
I'm sorry for blaming you for what I suspected was mice all along.
Dear mice,
I could literally buy half a new car for what you've cost me over the years. There's a whole outdoors out there. Not only that, there are plenty of nooks and crannies in the garage where I'd never find you and you'd never bother my stuff. Stay out of my freakin' car.
Dear wiring harness manufacturers,
Seriously, do you really make enough profit off replacement wires that you continue to make housing that tastes good to mice, even though it's been a known problem for decades???
I hear you. My car only has 11,000 miles on it. It sits on a pristine asphalt driveway, with neat lawn all around. Last month, a chipmunk had my engine wiring harness for a little snack, and it just cost me $1200 to replace a stupid bunch of wires wrapped in chipmunk jerky- oops, I mean wrapped in rubber. My insurance coughed up $450 which helped ...a little.
The next day the chipmunk was back inside the engine and left his little tufts of red fur and poop on the sticky trap I put there.
I started placing RAT TRAPS baited with p.butter right under the car engine, on the driveway. In one month the traps have killed 5 chipmunks under my car. The chipm population in my backyard seems to be almost gone now, and no signs of them in my engine now. I'll keep putting the traps out till thanksgiving i think.
I dont like killing things but this was simply too expensive to let happen again.
I'm just glad nothing else gets caught in the traps by mistake.