Rats in a new Powerboost

[Rinn69]

The new ones with the big yellow plastic pan/trigger are not nearly as effective. The "old" style (little metal pan/trigger) of Victor rat traps are the best. The best tip I can give you is make sure you do 2 things with this trap: 1--Use peanut butter and if you have some peanuts, shove a chunk of one into the top part of the trigger. 2--Smear some peanut butter UNDER the trigger --NO chunks. The reason for this style vs the new style is simple...the new style only trips if the trigger is pressed down. The old style "4-way trigger" trips if it is moved up, down, left or right. It wouldn't hurt to tie some string or fishing line to the trap to keep them from dragging it away--secure the other end too.

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[3DogKnight]

Get five of the biggest cats you can find.

 

[Bronco574]

I parked a lease Silverado outside for a couple months and the Alvin’s - chipmonks ate the hood liner. I also had a trailer generator parked in the woods and something ate the wiring, Bottom line, “ it’s wild out there”!

 

[Babbage]

Not true according to my vet. The amount of poison is small, plus it metabolizes and then the rodent dies. If your dog eats the dead rat, the dog in theory should be fine. We had an issue with our dog eating mice, voles, etc. Some were already dead and poison was a concern of ours.

https://beyondpesticides.org/dailyn...soned-as-rodenticides-move-up-the-food-chain/

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/...alibu-santa-monica-mountains-animals/1966598/
Mountain lion kittens that died after being found in Thousand Oaks had rat poison in systems

https://www.kpax.com/news/a-wilder-view/a-wilder-view-how-rat-poisons-impact-the-entire-ecosystem


As animals eat rats that have ingested poisons, the poison concentrations increase as it moves up the food chain in a process called bioaccumulation. These toxins weaken immune systems and can eventually lead to death. Mar 8, 2023

Your vet is an idiot and wrong. There are hundreds and hundreds of such examples, unless you are using some 'new rat poison' but I doubt it.

Stop using poison and hurting the whole food chain.

 

[Babbage]

For rat bait to be effective, they must not be allowed to carry it off otherwise they'll stash it.

 

[ks54703]

Thank you for all of the replies, I will try everything!

Drove a 2008 GMC pickup as a company vehicle. One day went to start it and it had 0 oil pressure. Shut it off and then that day used my personal truck which was at that time a 2007 Silverado basically same truck.

Company mechanic later that day took a ride to the truck to see the issue and returned with the truck. Overnight a critter of some type had chewed off the oil pressure sender wire at the sender easy fix. He handed the engine cover to me and said now keep it behind the seat and you should be good. Seems once these critters find a good thing to eat under a cover they will never stop coming back or until it is either changed or gone. Looked under the hood of the personal 2007 and yes they had been there on that truck also. Removed the engine cover cleaned up the mess to never have the problem again. In 14 bought a new 13 GMC 1rst thing removed was the engine cover.

As always Keep It Simple Silly or KISS

FYI bought a 22 with the 2.7 and it has no engine cover. 16 F150 with a 2.7 had a engine cover.

 

[rtf150]

I had great success with this method. Use a dog food bag. Larger bag. Really almost any sturdy heavier plastic material bag you can find that would be easy to prop open the front of it.
Leave some of the food at the bottom of it. Use anything. Use the glue traps that were mentioned but cut the tops off or buy just the flat kind.
Next morning you’ll have several inside the bag stuck to the traps.
Use a heavy foot until you hear a crutch. But don’t use a full step…messy!
Keep doing it until they are gone. If you have a pest control company they should give you the traps. I would also call them. No bait boxes. No poison.

 

[Stealth88]

Had giant field mice under the hood of my F150 and my son’s mustang. Loved all the insulation and chewed up some stuff but no wiring. We have a greenspace and a creek behind our property in town (North Texas) and they come around from time to time. Battling them from the patio and flower beds and all. We have bird feeders and have baffling on them now to keep them away from that but they still make their way to the front yard. By nature they hug cover when they are out at night, like along the edge of the house, and we parked our vehicles front facing the house in the driveway and found the evidence under the hoods of both our vehicles. The farther away parked vehicles (we have five) were fine. We found that backing into the driveway has kept them out from under the hood and when I see evidence of them around the house I step up my mouse trap game.

 

[Spiffers]

Old school rat traps. Baits are a waste of time

Dad got some bait when they got into the Explorer and they came out of shed looking for water I assume. We ended up shooting them with a 22. BIG ass rats all drunk and staggering. Neighbor had pack rats in his attic that someone came with live traps and caught them. Supposedly "released" them somewhere else but who knows where he let them go at.

 

[Snakebitten]

I removed the factory Powerboost (Ecoboost) engine cover shortly after acquiring the truck.

And I have those electronic rodent devices in the barn.

So far, so good.

Now snakes, raccoons, possums, armadillos... are another thing.

 

[rtf150]

At least they weren’t skunks! I had them get under my crawl space encapsulation and spit out some babies. Trapped mama before we knew. That was early spring in late March and really to soon for babies. What an ordeal. Then this summer when I seen another I couldn’t take it. .22 round. Smell? Yes. Under my house. Nope!

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