Help......bloody Rats :-(

Apparently they don’t like the smell of mint

 

When we bought our strimmer we were warned that mice and rats were known to eat the wires and someone had all the wiring eaten from under their camper van , I've got no answer thought

 

Firstly it looks much more like mouse damage than rats. Secondly. You will have the devils own job denying them access.
So.......a wee box with 3cm holes either end left under the bike and cover and topped up periodically with poisoned bait will knock out your local foragers. £4 odd from your local Tesco. The box is to protect pets. You will not necessarily see dead mice but they share the information and usually peg out in their burrows.
The wee b******s made a similar mess of my Subaru engine bay but I was avenged!

 

Well if it’s mouses you could try this, and if it rats just get a bottle with a bigger opening.

 

The smell of Pussy

 

So it goes to prove mice are smarter than rats, no fingerprints to link them to the crime scene

 

Mice are repelled by the smell of mint. Some people swear that mice are also repelled by the smell of mothballs. Likewise cat's piss - ammonia mimics the odour of urine.

 

A wee story of no practical help but gives an indication of habitual rodent behaviour.......
My late father was a vet. Ministry of Agriculture from pre DEFRA days when the countryside was a food factory not a playground for townies on motorbikes .......
Anyway, he knew all the county’s farmers and their common woes. One chap with a mixed arable and cattle operation had had a real problem with rodents in his grain storage. All the usual methods of trapping, poisoning etc., had barely made a dent in the population. So when he told my Dad there had been a miraculous collapse in the rodent population it was because he sought some possible veterinary answer. Dad could not come up with anything credible but said ‘keep me posted’.
On his next visit the truth was unveiled. As I said, a mixed farm. They had mucked out a small byre used for calving cattle; a routine enough occurrence. However, on this occasion the water butt had not been returned to its usual place but rather left in the corner. Within days there was an overpowering stink and its origin was sought. It was the water butt. When decanted it contained the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of rats and mice. The butt had unknowingly been parked under the rodent M1 where rush hour traffic poured out after dark down the ancestral route. There was a worn ledge and access route from which they jumped down en route to the grain silos......virtually the entire population had drowned in the space of 48hrs using the same route.
Worth a Face Palm?!

 

Before you start your bike, open up the air box, mice love motorcycle air box nests. You don't want your enigine to injest a mouse or its bedding. Where's that squeak coming from?