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This is a discussion thread titled "A Tundra Critter Story", within the Tundra forum, part of the Truck Forums category.
Here's a little break from the serious threads.
I go to pick up my truck from the dealer after an oil change and my service rep comes out and says "we need to show you something." He opens my hood and sitting on top of my engine cover are about 30 snail shells!
I went home and cleaned them off and found rat droppings in with the shells.
I'm trying to think where the heck they came from, and thought OK we were up north the weekend prior at Clear Lake at a concert, so there must of been rats around the hotel that night, problem solved. A couple days later I open the hood for some other reason, and there's another pile of shells on my cover! Now it's like, oh s--t!
I work in a rural area, so I figured they're getting into my truck when I get to work in the early morning. Checked, and no, not at work. So I check the next morning before work and there's another dozen shells! (Nothing in my wife's Highlander.) So I get sticky traps and lay them by my garage side door, and by the main garage door, and next morning there are rat footprints in the glue, but it was too cold for the glue to stick their feet.
I finally put a weather strip on the bottom of the side door and stuffed welded wire in a small crack in my garage door, and that solved it!
Even fancy rats that eat escargot prefer Tundras!!
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From your description it sounds like you have found a nest of the snail eating and thought to be extinct Tundrats! Post pictures or nobody on this forum will believe you.
I used to get a lot of mouse nests in my car and truck. The dealer told me to put moth balls in my filter box. I did. I can't smell them because they are inside the box, but I haven't had a nest since I started doing it.
When I took my Camry in for it's 60,000 check up, not only was there a mouse nest there, but there were 2 baby mice in the nest. That must have been a hell of a ride for them.....
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So I get sticky traps and lay them by my garage side door, and by the main garage door, and next morning there are rat footprints in the glue, but it was too cold for the glue to stick their feet.
Now that's funny! Good luck. I've seen people use some sort of electric deterant. I think they produce some low freq noise or something that annoys the little buggers. You might look into that. Of course a little rat poision might work as well.
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