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It is not unusual for rodents to nest in cars, especially during cold weather. If your car is making weird noises when the heater is on, you should check the heater, they may already have a nest there. It sounds like your car stays outdoors...can you garage it? That would help.
I know someone who is a mechanic who has told me some crazy rats-or-mice in-car stories...they will strip the insulation from the wires, and fill the headliner with urine & feces!
My coworker was having some trouble with his truck. I thought it sounded like it was suffocating - he had plenty of spark and gas so what else is there? I cannot believe he didn't check his air filter! Finally stopped running on him and he had it towed to the mechanic. They found a MOUSE had burrowed into his air filter and built a nest of all kinds of debris which had been sucked into his intake. Thankfully it didn't do any real damage and was at a place the mechanic was able to fish it out and clean up the mess.
We have chipmunks in our basement, I fear. We've discouraged the cat from going down there but I'm thinking it's time to build him a scaffold to reach the floor joists.
I have a cat door cut into the exterior wall of my bedroom closet. I have a "catch and release" problem. The mice come in as cat toys, escape, and bunk in. They usually weigh about 10 pounds by the time I catch them from the gourmet dining.
I have a cat door cut into the exterior wall of my bedroom closet. I have a "catch and release" problem. The mice come in as cat toys, escape, and bunk in. They usually weigh about 10 pounds by the time I catch them from the gourmet dining.
Time to cut back on the Cat's food, so he eats it, or otherwise fire your cat and get another.
Living where you do, there is an endless supply of rodents. Mice, rats and squirrels love to set up house in cars. Acorns and seeds will be stashed in assorted places- air filter boxes, glove compartments, heater fans, etc.. Insulation will be chewed off wires, upholstery will be ripped up for bedding.
There are too many to try to trap them, an endless supply. Setting traps baited with food will only encourage *more* guests. Never leave anything edible in the car.
Some say that dryer sheets in strategic places will repel them, I don't know for sure if it works.
I live in a similar situation. The cats kill the ones that come in the house...the cats are no longer allowed out because there are too many things here that eat cats, so I have trained the dog to hunt mice, rats and squirrels (she loves it). It took some time but I finally trained her to just kill them, and not eat them too (rodents carry fleas, which harbor tapeworms, an animal eating the rodents eats the fleas too, which completes the life-cycle of the tapeworm and you see little white things waving at you from the animal's butt, which requires a trip to the vet for medication to kill the tapeworms).
Despite the best efforts of the cats and dog, my running over them with the mower, and shooting the ones that escape the blades...I have been unable to make even the slightest dent in the population. They just keep coming and coming and coming...it used to be cheap entertainment until the cost of ammunition got so high...$75.00 for a brick of .22 shells? Outrageous, the last one I bought cost only $12.00, now a box of 50 can cost that much.
What somebody said about Maine Coon-cats and dogs- absolutely true. I have a one, the dog is a mix of Australian Shepherd and Newfie...the cat has no trouble attacking and fighting/playing with the dog...
I have a cat door cut into the exterior wall of my bedroom closet. I have a "catch and release" problem. The mice come in as cat toys, escape, and bunk in. They usually weigh about 10 pounds by the time I catch them from the gourmet dining.
Haha, this is how I think ours got in also. We had one mouse with a perfect little set up behind the refrigerator, which was half way between the dog food in the pantry and the dryer lint in the laundry room. You've got to feel a little sorry for them, just trying to survive as best they can.
Another time one was living in a purse on the closet shelf....also convenient to the dog food and dryer lint.
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