Living in the mountains, we have problems with rodents getting into the cars. They chew wires and hoses, and build nests out of insulation and upholstery, often in the partially inaccessible ventilation system. One of the methods we employ to prevent this is a natural rodent repellent called Fresh Cab. It works pretty well, but only for a short while. Recently, we went to the extreme of putting one inside the vent system. Now, granted, this was two or three months ago, but here was the result:
Yes, they chewed up the rodent repellent and made a nice nest out of it. Guess we’ll have to replace it more often.
This morning, Gracie was outside while a group of deer was grazing through. We couldn’t see Gracie, but could tell where she was by the direction all the deer were looking. At one point, she was surrounded by FIVE young deer, all peering curiously at her. (The one on the far left, you can only see its ears.) Wonder what she was thinking.







She’s thinking, “Good God! I come all the way out here to take a crap and STILL can’t get any privacy!”
LOL!
How funny! The rodent repellant is great for nest building!
I love the deer.
One of my old cats was outside and a deer came right up to him and touched noses with him. I was sure wishing I had a video camera that day!
Gracie’s crept up pretty close to deer before, maybe within 2 or 3 feet…
Holy cow. You ought to charge them rent, for cripes sake. Maybe revers psychology? Put some cheese in there next time.
Really, the only way that works is to put baited snap-traps inside the car. We’ll do that when we know there’s one in there. We hate killing the cute little dudes, but they CANNOT be in the cars.
a snake … just saying.
That’d work for the cabin, and gopher snakes are pretty harmless. But the problem is all those tight crevices they get into, getting into the engine and ventilation system. One made a nest on top of the gas tank (before chewing through the fuel line), scaring the bejesus out of the mechanic who opened the panel up!
We even went to the extreme once of placing a running week-whacker inside the sealed car for 15 minutes, in an effort to gas them. Didn’t work.
I wasn’t serious. I’d forget the snake was in the car until it crawled across my foot while I was driving around a curve with a steep drop-off … and went plummeting to my death …
Believe it or not, people do that!