Advice on unwanted visitors

[ThaiLife]

If I had hair left I would have pulled it all out by now, its driving me crazy as the little buggers are winning and I'm lost for a good workable answer. My car is parked at the side of my house in the dark at night times and in the morning the engine bay is full of mouse / rat droppings and damage to plastic areas . Ive tried the following to discourage the buggers from taking up night time residence , but to date no luck .

1. leaving moth balls in the engine compartment

2. spraying some areas with mosquito repellent

3. dabbing diesel on some areas of the engine compartment ( advice from a Thai neighbor )

4. large rat trap left on the ground under the engine ( nothing caught )

In this photo below I removed the main plastic air intake grill to find a nest being built , ive now made repairs and blocked off all the entrance holes .

this shot below shows the main plastic air intake grill removed and the areas where the buggers had been busy , the green circled area is of a hole that was not originally there , but had been made by biting .

and this morning I was presented with some left left over evening snack

any one have an idea that will work ( I don't want a cat )

[dogpoo]

You have to cure the obvious Rat and Mouse problem before you can cure the problem with your car, try parking somewhere else, your car is a place they love so it's going to be difficult to stop it, sorry can't be any more helpful than that,

[harrry]

You have to cure the obvious Rat and Mouse problem before you can cure the problem with your car, try parking somewhere else, your car is a place they love so it's going to be difficult to stop it, sorry can't be any more helpful than that,

Try putting a carpet snake in the car. Transam has a photo of a couple maybe he can help you source one.

[John 1]

Tesco Lotus has some excellent rat poison small pack about 45bt round blue balls. put on a saucer on the engine compartment my place is nearly 100% rat free. You will have to put up with the smell of a dead rat if you don't find where it died but better than a burnt out car.

[Spoonman]

Get a 12 volt fluorescent trouble light, connect to battery and leave it in the engine bay. this will deter the rodents but may not be good for battery charge.

[ThaiLife]

Get a 12 volt fluorescent trouble light, connect to battery and leave it in the engine bay. this will deter the rodents but may not be good for battery charge.

Now you have got me thinking

Would some 12Volt white flashing LED lights installed under the bonnet keep them away or would it just attract even more ?

[AyG]

Get a 12 volt fluorescent trouble light, connect to battery and leave it in the engine bay. this will deter the rodents but may not be good for battery charge.

Now you have got me thinking

Would some 12Volt white flashing LED lights installed under the bonnet keep them away or would it just attract even more ?

You set up a fancy rodent disco, complete with flashing lights, and ask whether it would keep them away?

Why not add a mirror ball, too?

[funcat]

I would put a lot of glue traps everywhere...but then you have to kill the bastards,I hate this part

[ThaiLife]

Get a 12 volt fluorescent trouble light, connect to battery and leave it in the engine bay. this will deter the rodents but may not be good for battery charge.

Now you have got me thinking

Would some 12Volt white flashing LED lights installed under the bonnet keep them away or would it just attract even more ?

You set up a fancy rodent disco, complete with flashing lights, and ask whether it would keep them away?

Why not add a mirror ball, too?

Ive no idea what you mean

[BSJ]

Get a 12 volt fluorescent trouble light, connect to battery and leave it in the engine bay. this will deter the rodents but may not be good for battery charge.

Now you have got me thinking

Would some 12Volt white flashing LED lights installed under the bonnet keep them away or would it just attract even more ?

You set up a fancy rodent disco, complete with flashing lights, and ask whether it would keep them away?

Why not add a mirror ball, too?

Ive no idea what you mean

What sort of music do rats like?

[harrry]

A catastrophe.

[transam]

Get a 12 volt fluorescent trouble light, connect to battery and leave it in the engine bay. this will deter the rodents but may not be good for battery charge.

Now you have got me thinking

Would some 12Volt white flashing LED lights installed under the bonnet keep them away or would it just attract even more ?

Maybe not but you will look trendy with the young locals.

[kwonitoy]

Tesco Lotus has some excellent rat poison small pack about 45bt round blue balls. put on a saucer on the engine compartment my place is nearly 100% rat free. You will have to put up with the smell of a dead rat if you don't find where it died but better than a burnt out car.

Had the same problem with my pickup in a enclosed garage, they ate through the wires for the auto shift control. Couldn't shift into gear without pressing the button on the consol

Used the above, rat poison in a dish under the hood and in the corner of the garage. Problem solved.

Also put a little dish in the attic to stop the little buggers from running around in the night. Works like a charm

[hanno]

Tesco Lotus has some excellent rat poison small pack about 45bt round blue balls. put on a saucer on the engine compartment my place is nearly 100% rat free. You will have to put up with the smell of a dead rat if you don't find where it died but better than a burnt out car.

Had the same problem with my pickup in a enclosed garage, they ate through the wires for the auto shift control. Couldn't shift into gear without pressing the button on the consol

Used the above, rat poison in a dish under the hood and in the corner of the garage. Problem solved.

Also put a little dish in the attic to stop the little buggers from running around in the night. Works like a charm

Had the same thing; plenty of glue traps and poison took care of it.

[steveromagnino]

You definitely don't want the rats hanging around in your engine bay. I had the same issue, lost power windows on the left hand side, lost lights, lost most of the display on the dashboard and that was all in one night.

My recommendation is poison. Bell Biv Devoe weren't wrong.

However, I do have another suggestion. It is called a 'perpetual business model' with which you could buy another car.

Ask yourself. What do rats like? Your engine. What likes rats? Cats. What do cats produce? Cat poop. What grows well in cat poop? Pumpkins. So what you do is you invest in 5 additional cars. This will create enough rats to breed to keep the cats healthy and breeding. You then can gather up the poop of the cats, and use that to grow a garden of pumpkins inside the engine bay.

Each pumpkin will sell for 40b. You can produce a ratio of 1 pumpkin per day on average for your 5 cats worth of poop, and every 5 cats requires to eat 2 rats per day, meaning you need 10 rats per day. Rats breed at the rat, er, rate of 10 rats p breeding couple every 60 days. Therefore, as long as you have 120 rats to start with, you will on average be producing the same number of rats as the cats require to eat, and you have a sustainable business for the pumpkins, earning you a healthy income of 14,000b per year. that's more than 1 rai of pledged rice, and you only need I think 5 cars to do this. Your cats will breed as required to keep the number of cats correct.

Now I agree, it may look a little odd driving to and from the market, with a pumpkin vine hanging out your engine bay, and piles and piles of cat poo with a hoard of rats following you down the road, but as long as you drive slowly enough, and don't run the rats over, the business is mobile. And what an advertisement for your business!

Now, facebook says all their earnings growth is down to an increase in mobile advertising. They trade an a p/e ratio of somewhere around 165. Now your business is mobile too.It's a car! And sustainable! So you can value your poop mobiles at a p/e ratio of 165, so applying that to 14,000b that means you can sell your business at around 100X earnings or 1.4m baht.

Now you can invest in another car, which enables you to either redo the entire business model again, or this time to have a rat free motor, since all the rats will have gone with the poop mobiles already.

I really can't see any flaws. but would still suggest....deal with the rats ASAP or this will be the end result and do you really want to grow pumpkins?

[IMHO]

You definitely don't want the rats hanging around in your engine bay. I had the same issue, lost power windows on the left hand side, lost lights, lost most of the display on the dashboard and that was all in one night.

My recommendation is poison. Bell Biv Devoe weren't wrong.

However, I do have another suggestion. It is called a 'perpetual business model' with which you could buy another car.

Ask yourself. What do rats like? Your engine. What likes rats? Cats. What do cats produce? Cat poop. What grows well in cat poop? Pumpkins. So what you do is you invest in 5 additional cars. This will create enough rats to breed to keep the cats healthy and breeding. You then can gather up the poop of the cats, and use that to grow a garden of pumpkins inside the engine bay.

Each pumpkin will sell for 40b. You can produce a ratio of 1 pumpkin per day on average for your 5 cats worth of poop, and every 5 cats requires to eat 2 rats per day, meaning you need 10 rats per day. Rats breed at the rat, er, rate of 10 rats p breeding couple every 60 days. Therefore, as long as you have 120 rats to start with, you will on average be producing the same number of rats as the cats require to eat, and you have a sustainable business for the pumpkins, earning you a healthy income of 14,000b per year. that's more than 1 rai of pledged rice, and you only need I think 5 cars to do this. Your cats will breed as required to keep the number of cats correct.

Now I agree, it may look a little odd driving to and from the market, with a pumpkin vine hanging out your engine bay, and piles and piles of cat poo with a hoard of rats following you down the road, but as long as you drive slowly enough, and don't run the rats over, the business is mobile. And what an advertisement for your business!

Now, facebook says all their earnings growth is down to an increase in mobile advertising. They trade an a p/e ratio of somewhere around 165. Now your business is mobile too.It's a car! And sustainable! So you can value your poop mobiles at a p/e ratio of 165, so applying that to 14,000b that means you can sell your business at around 100X earnings or 1.4m baht.

Now you can invest in another car, which enables you to either redo the entire business model again, or this time to have a rat free motor, since all the rats will have gone with the poop mobiles already.

I really can't see any flaws. but would still suggest....deal with the rats ASAP or this will be the end result and do you really want to grow pumpkins?

100x EBT, lol.

[anon210]

You definitely don't want the rats hanging around in your engine bay. I had the same issue, lost power windows on the left hand side, lost lights, lost most of the display on the dashboard and that was all in one night.

My recommendation is poison. Bell Biv Devoe weren't wrong.

However, I do have another suggestion. It is called a 'perpetual business model' with which you could buy another car.

Ask yourself. What do rats like? Your engine. What likes rats? Cats. What do cats produce? Cat poop. What grows well in cat poop? Pumpkins. So what you do is you invest in 5 additional cars. This will create enough rats to breed to keep the cats healthy and breeding. You then can gather up the poop of the cats, and use that to grow a garden of pumpkins inside the engine bay.

Each pumpkin will sell for 40b. You can produce a ratio of 1 pumpkin per day on average for your 5 cats worth of poop, and every 5 cats requires to eat 2 rats per day, meaning you need 10 rats per day. Rats breed at the rat, er, rate of 10 rats p breeding couple every 60 days. Therefore, as long as you have 120 rats to start with, you will on average be producing the same number of rats as the cats require to eat, and you have a sustainable business for the pumpkins, earning you a healthy income of 14,000b per year. that's more than 1 rai of pledged rice, and you only need I think 5 cars to do this. Your cats will breed as required to keep the number of cats correct.

Now I agree, it may look a little odd driving to and from the market, with a pumpkin vine hanging out your engine bay, and piles and piles of cat poo with a hoard of rats following you down the road, but as long as you drive slowly enough, and don't run the rats over, the business is mobile. And what an advertisement for your business!

Now, facebook says all their earnings growth is down to an increase in mobile advertising. They trade an a p/e ratio of somewhere around 165. Now your business is mobile too.It's a car! And sustainable! So you can value your poop mobiles at a p/e ratio of 165, so applying that to 14,000b that means you can sell your business at around 100X earnings or 1.4m baht.

Now you can invest in another car, which enables you to either redo the entire business model again, or this time to have a rat free motor, since all the rats will have gone with the poop mobiles already.

I really can't see any flaws. but would still suggest....deal with the rats ASAP or this will be the end result and do you really want to grow pumpkins?

How does this business model work with mice instead of rats? Less ROI, in terms of cat feeding, I guess, as one mouse must be about 1/3rd of a rat...

I would suggest investing into pigeons too (imagine the multiple factor of guano in terms of pumpkin growth?).

[steveromagnino]

Some of you are attempting to cash in on this idea with similar ideas. A mouse? Oh no. That's rats 2.0 don't give away the new strategy for next year. Pidgeons? that's rats 3.0. Don't get me started on rats 4.0.

Our rat pumpkin cat business plan is unique, and will solve the world's pumpkin shortage. We will achieve 100X earnings valuation, because this is 65 times less than facebook. So it must be good.

I propose the business is called The Rat in the Cat Pumpkin brand. I have innovated with a new logo that has a cartoon aristocratic cat wearing a hat made of rat skin in the shape of an elongated pumpkin with stripes. No one has ever thought of anything like this before.

[anon210]

Some of you are attempting to cash in on this idea with similar ideas. A mouse? Oh no. That's rats 2.0 don't give away the new strategy for next year. Pidgeons? that's rats 3.0. Don't get me started on rats 4.0.

Our rat pumpkin cat business plan is unique, and will solve the world's pumpkin shortage. We will achieve 100X earnings valuation, because this is 65 times less than facebook. So it must be good.

I propose the business is called The Rat in the Cat Pumpkin brand. I have innovated with a new logo that has a cartoon aristocratic cat wearing a hat made of rat skin in the shape of an elongated pumpkin with stripes. No one has ever thought of anything like this before.

Rats 4.0 is bringing in soi dogs who feed on cats. We take it then to the new level by organizing the export of the said soi dogs to Vietnam!

[anon210]

Some of you are attempting to cash in on this idea with similar ideas. A mouse? Oh no. That's rats 2.0 don't give away the new strategy for next year. Pidgeons? that's rats 3.0. Don't get me started on rats 4.0.

Our rat pumpkin cat business plan is unique, and will solve the world's pumpkin shortage. We will achieve 100X earnings valuation, because this is 65 times less than facebook. So it must be good.

I propose the business is called The Rat in the Cat Pumpkin brand. I have innovated with a new logo that has a cartoon aristocratic cat wearing a hat made of rat skin in the shape of an elongated pumpkin with stripes. No one has ever thought of anything like this before.

Rats have been bugging the forum... LOL

[harrry]

You definitely don't want the rats hanging around in your engine bay. I had the same issue, lost power windows on the left hand side, lost lights, lost most of the display on the dashboard and that was all in one night.

My recommendation is poison. Bell Biv Devoe weren't wrong.

However, I do have another suggestion. It is called a 'perpetual business model' with which you could buy another car.

Ask yourself. What do rats like? Your engine. What likes rats? Cats. What do cats produce? Cat poop. What grows well in cat poop? Pumpkins. So what you do is you invest in 5 additional cars. This will create enough rats to breed to keep the cats healthy and breeding. You then can gather up the poop of the cats, and use that to grow a garden of pumpkins inside the engine bay.

Each pumpkin will sell for 40b. You can produce a ratio of 1 pumpkin per day on average for your 5 cats worth of poop, and every 5 cats requires to eat 2 rats per day, meaning you need 10 rats per day. Rats breed at the rat, er, rate of 10 rats p breeding couple every 60 days. Therefore, as long as you have 120 rats to start with, you will on average be producing the same number of rats as the cats require to eat, and you have a sustainable business for the pumpkins, earning you a healthy income of 14,000b per year. that's more than 1 rai of pledged rice, and you only need I think 5 cars to do this. Your cats will breed as required to keep the number of cats correct.

Now I agree, it may look a little odd driving to and from the market, with a pumpkin vine hanging out your engine bay, and piles and piles of cat poo with a hoard of rats following you down the road, but as long as you drive slowly enough, and don't run the rats over, the business is mobile. And what an advertisement for your business!

Now, facebook says all their earnings growth is down to an increase in mobile advertising. They trade an a p/e ratio of somewhere around 165. Now your business is mobile too.It's a car! And sustainable! So you can value your poop mobiles at a p/e ratio of 165, so applying that to 14,000b that means you can sell your business at around 100X earnings or 1.4m baht.

Now you can invest in another car, which enables you to either redo the entire business model again, or this time to have a rat free motor, since all the rats will have gone with the poop mobiles already.

I really can't see any flaws. but would still suggest....deal with the rats ASAP or this will be the end result and do you really want to grow pumpkins?

But wouldn't the rats turn the pumpkins into coaches like in Cinderella and set up business like a Phuket tuktuk owner?

[Slip]

Some of you are attempting to cash in on this idea with similar ideas. A mouse? Oh no. That's rats 2.0 don't give away the new strategy for next year. Pidgeons? that's rats 3.0. Don't get me started on rats 4.0.

Our rat pumpkin cat business plan is unique, and will solve the world's pumpkin shortage. We will achieve 100X earnings valuation, because this is 65 times less than facebook. So it must be good.

I propose the business is called The Rat in the Cat Pumpkin brand. I have innovated with a new logo that has a cartoon aristocratic cat wearing a hat made of rat skin in the shape of an elongated pumpkin with stripes. No one has ever thought of anything like this before.

Rats have been bugging the forum... LOL

So we have rats, mice, pumpkins, cats, and pigeons?

It sounds like my house apart from the pumpkins. Remember however that rats in the early builds bring rats 5.0 and 6.0 and those slippery serpents and lizards might cause problems of their own. I solved this by buying Pitbull 1.0. No more cats, snakes or huge lizards. The rats still chew the electrics on my car though- 10k baht a go. Now my friend looks after my car at his house

EDIT- Still have pigeons too. They're the worst.

[GirlDrinkDrunk]

What sort of music do rats like?

edm and dubstep

[hanno]

You definitely don't want the rats hanging around in your engine bay. I had the same issue, lost power windows on the left hand side, lost lights, lost most of the display on the dashboard and that was all in one night.

My recommendation is poison. Bell Biv Devoe weren't wrong.

However, I do have another suggestion. It is called a 'perpetual business model' with which you could buy another car.

Ask yourself. What do rats like? Your engine. What likes rats? Cats. What do cats produce? Cat poop. What grows well in cat poop? Pumpkins. So what you do is you invest in 5 additional cars. This will create enough rats to breed to keep the cats healthy and breeding. You then can gather up the poop of the cats, and use that to grow a garden of pumpkins inside the engine bay.

Each pumpkin will sell for 40b. You can produce a ratio of 1 pumpkin per day on average for your 5 cats worth of poop, and every 5 cats requires to eat 2 rats per day, meaning you need 10 rats per day. Rats breed at the rat, er, rate of 10 rats p breeding couple every 60 days. Therefore, as long as you have 120 rats to start with, you will on average be producing the same number of rats as the cats require to eat, and you have a sustainable business for the pumpkins, earning you a healthy income of 14,000b per year. that's more than 1 rai of pledged rice, and you only need I think 5 cars to do this. Your cats will breed as required to keep the number of cats correct.

Now I agree, it may look a little odd driving to and from the market, with a pumpkin vine hanging out your engine bay, and piles and piles of cat poo with a hoard of rats following you down the road, but as long as you drive slowly enough, and don't run the rats over, the business is mobile. And what an advertisement for your business!

Now, facebook says all their earnings growth is down to an increase in mobile advertising. They trade an a p/e ratio of somewhere around 165. Now your business is mobile too.It's a car! And sustainable! So you can value your poop mobiles at a p/e ratio of 165, so applying that to 14,000b that means you can sell your business at around 100X earnings or 1.4m baht.

Now you can invest in another car, which enables you to either redo the entire business model again, or this time to have a rat free motor, since all the rats will have gone with the poop mobiles already.

I really can't see any flaws. but would still suggest....deal with the rats ASAP or this will be the end result and do you really want to grow pumpkins?

[culicine]

Just don't let the Thai missus know your killing animals on her property I have to put snail bait down by stealth to kill the snails in my...her garden..

[anon210]

What sort of music do rats like?

edm and dubstep

Actually not. They dance K-Pop and prefer Kia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv1RzX77luc

[IMHO]

What sort of music do rats like?

edm and dubstep

Actually not. They dance K-Pop and prefer Kia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv1RzX77luc

Those are hamsters. Rats are definitely more hardcore than hamsters, so I'm betting they prefer dubstep.

[GirlDrinkDrunk]

What sort of music do rats like?

edm and dubstep

Actually not. They dance K-Pop and prefer Kia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv1RzX77luc

Those are hamsters. Rats are definitely more hardcore than hamsters, so I'm betting they prefer dubstep.

indeed,

they are nuts about squirrelex

[harrry]

Maybe they are opening a new restaurant there.

[steveromagnino]

What sort of music do rats like?

edm and dubstep

Cheesy house