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Originally Posted by SarFred

Has anyone had the experience of rats in their car here in TV? A rat is in our car and has eaten all the spark plug wires and the air filter. We took it in to get it fixed after discovering the wires eaten. But he's still there! We put a trap in there, and he ate the peanut butter without springing the trap. We also have put poison covered in peanut butter. But he ate one of the new wires already, so we can't drive the car again. Has anyone else ever had this happen? The guys at the garage said they'd never seen anything like it.

Ironically, we did have this situation when we were living in California on a very rural ranch. But it seems like TV wouldn't have this situation. Can't figure where we picked him up.

that we had the same problem!! Only it wasn't a rat, it was a mouse!

I was reading your post to my "better half" when he decided to inform me that we had the same problem a few months ago! (I don't know if I'm better off hearing about it or not hearing about it!)

When we first moved here to TV in August, we discovered that we had a mouse in the house. We figured it was due to all the new builds going on around us, called our bug people, put out a couple of traps and caught not one, but two of them! (I just wish they didn't look so much like my son's gerbils...I loved those guys!)

Now he informs me that when he took his car in for an oil change, the guy discovered a nest!

The solution??? Just sprinkle moth balls around the engine, so he says. Geez, I was wondering what that smell was and where it was coming from...I didn't have a clue!!!