# How can mice and rats under the hood be controlled?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-can-mice-and-rats-under-the-hood-be-controlled/52160>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** s70, california, volvo\
**Created:** [July 20, 2010, 6:38am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-can-mice-and-rats-under-the-hood-be-controlled/52160 "2010-07-20T06:38:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-can-mice-and-rats-under-the-hood-be-controlled/52160/22 "2018-12-21T23:11:59Z")

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Cdaquila needs to **permanently** ban Rick Suddes from this site.

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**Author:** ![VOLVO-V70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@VOLVO-V70](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VOLVO-V70)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 11:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-can-mice-and-rats-under-the-hood-be-controlled/52160/23 "2018-12-21T23:15:11Z")

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Joe, apparently Carolyn has removed Rick’s Spam post. Respectfully asking that you edit out the link also.

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**Author:** ![cwatkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@cwatkin](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cwatkin)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-can-mice-and-rats-under-the-hood-be-controlled/52160/24 "2018-12-21T23:22:16Z")

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I live in the country and had this same problem as well. I would use rat traps on the packrats that caused so much damage but didn’t want to leave a baited trap around. Those things are NASTY if a pet or other animal gets into them.

Another problem with living in the country is that people from town dump animals. I had two pregnant cats dumped because anytime a female cat gets dumped, it has to be pregnant. Once the kittens were raised and I had the mothers fixed, I kept the mothers, gave the kitties away, and no more rodent damage! My only complaint is that they like to leave dead animals around but I know they are doing there job.

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**Author:** ![NYBo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/32/17281_2.png) [@NYBo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NYBo)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 1:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-can-mice-and-rats-under-the-hood-be-controlled/52160/25 "2018-12-22T01:44:07Z")

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Another zombie thread.

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**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 3:27am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-can-mice-and-rats-under-the-hood-be-controlled/52160/26 "2018-12-22T03:27:00Z")

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Yep after five years same answer-cats and garages unless you prefer snakes. Even spraying that stuff around, you still need a garage.

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