You may recall last October it cost us $920 to have to have the truck towed and repaired after rats chewed on the wiring. We’re not the only one with problems like that.
Recently the fellows at the ski hill tried starting one of the lifts in preparation for skiing this weekend. No luck, the lift wouldn’t start. It turns out a pack rat had climbed up the top tower and chewed through all of the safety wires. It took a major repair to get the lift working again.
Do you know of any problems like that where you are?
February 6, 2016
We’ve had years of drought here in Central Texas, and rabbits are continually chewing through and puncturing our drip irrigation in our vegetable gardens. It’s not quite the same safety issue as what you’re experiencing, but it certainly can run up a water bill!
We can relate to that. We used to have black plastic pipe running down to our garden and fruit trees, so every time we were ready to water we walked along the pipes with black tape to plug the newly chewed holes.
i know rodents HAVE to gnaw on something to keep their teeth filed down…
but WHY must it be cables and such!!!
just this past trip to tulsa with the marine last week…
when having lunch with his sister in law and others… that topic came up.
one had to pay a very expensive bill because the little devils had done such a lot of damage. TWICE.
there must be something VERY TASTY about car and ski lines! and soaker hoses! LOLOL.
actually. sorry. it’s not funny if it happens to you!
I do think it’s funny, except the flashing lights don’t keep the rats and mice from doing damage, so we have to use the rat zappers. That should be quick. but I would much rather not kill them.
We have had mice. Indoors. Obviously mice (being small even when pregnant) are a totally different proposition to rats. Rats are HUGE. So with mice, my nerves being strong, I could live. If it had been rats I’d moved out and slept under the nearest bridge. No doubt in close proximity to rats.
Then there are seagulls. Living a stone throw away from the coast (and in “Restaurant Street” with all its ensuing nightly garbage) there is little I do not know about seagulls. Cue Hitchcock. The main thing about seagulls is that they are HUGE (see above ref rats). But they don’t take advantage of you in person. They just hop about and are, as opposed to RATS, rather beautiful.
Other than that I have blended out the saying that you are never further away from a rat than, say for sake of argument and in New York, six feet. Don’t believe everything you read.
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I have sympathy for the pack rats, probably not so much for city rats.
Thank god, NO!
No rats here.
In fact the only rats I’ve ever seen, were at pets stores.
There have been mice though.
None this year but the year before last after I had cleared the ravine of a hill behind the house, a mouse now and then would came into the basement.
Incredibly stupid of them.
And then they died a horrible death, I imagine.
I found one being tossed around by the cats down there.
It’s lifeless body looking like a toy.
But that was better than the other two that I discovered without heads.
Ugh, I don’t even want to know…
But none this year, thank god.
Poor mice, but the cats probably keep most of them away, so that’s a blessing.
We have mice who will build their home in and on our tractor in the winter. It always causes a needed major repair. But I also remember on the news several years ago about a grasshopper that jumped on an electric fence, was incinerated and was the culprit behind a fire that burned a few thousand acres. Crazy!!!
Yes, the grasshopper would be a lot worse! Thanks for the story, I had never heard of such a thing
I haven’t had such problems myself, but I’ve heard of squirrels getting into people’s attics and chewing up everything in sight including electric cables. The only time I’ve ever seen rats is on the London Underground, running along the tunnels.
I must say I would be a bit freaked out if I saw rats in the underground, but I suppose one would get used to it. Were they seen often?