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Lifted the hood of the truck to replace the battery, only to discover this freeloader.
B
Comfy af
F
Hopefully OP can find it in his heart to transfer the home and supplies to a safer spot.
C
Someone up top said to relocate him to a nearby wooded area with a bag of corn and birdseed and let him figure it out and I love that idea 😭
B
Ain’t no way that rat will agree to those terms.
S
Think about all the work this little guy has put in!
T
He was getting ready to live large all winter.
F
Oh, your wiring? Yeah, I did that. Got tired of the wind noise.
C
Ts. Lost my favorite car because a field mouse chewed through a lot of my wiring.
F
I dose my car with peppermint oil, but lately I’ve started worrying about the bikes, since they’re parked a lot during the winter.
U
I saw a mouse in my garage last night and freaked because I’ve heard horror stories luckily a traditional trap and some American cheese got him.. sprayed the car and garage entry points with peppermint oil today..
D
They like peanut butter more.
A
Nutella is the goat according to our local wildlife sanctuary who have to do a lot of rodent control work.
E
I killed so many mice using the fake $1 nutella from the dollar tree.
C
Damn… you can’t even give them the courtesy of the real thing before execution?? You truly are a monster.
E
Have you seen what they charge for the real thing these days? The container has also shrunk down. If I buy that I’m the one who’s eating it.
T
Buddy looks cozy as hell
S
Bro, i know. I wouldn’t be able to move him if it was me…..
J
lol me whenever my wife and I treat ourselves “look at us living the life of luxury”
M
Free? Dude has a fully stocked larder for you? WTF indeed.
B
It was a fixer-upper when he moved in, but he’s put a lot of work into the place and he’s pretty proud of it. OP should keep him as a pet now. Can’t just kick the poor guy to the curb just before winter.
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Grab a bag of birdseed, a bag of corn, and put him in the wood line with them. He’ll figure it out.
C
That’s actually the kindest relocation option I can think of this late in the season. I like you.
S
… Until 5 seconds after op turns his back and an eagle swoops down to eat him as he’s still trying to comprehend what just happened
M
I know you’re joking, but my mother for a short time loved to feed the squirrels in our backyard. One day she called my father in tears because a hawk swooped down and picked up the fat squirrel right in front of her while she was watching it eat.
T
I’m so sorry for your poor mom but I am cackling
M
Oh yeah, it was hilarious 25 years ago. I still laugh about it, mostly because I warned her while I was away at college that the hawks in the area are going to eat well. This was in winter too with snow on the ground, the evidence of what happened stayed there until it snowed again.
L
All he wanted was a cozy place to call home.
T
OP needs to do this if he didn’t already feed the poor guy to the ravens
L
Put the beans there, too. They make his place look so cozy! And his fur bed, too.
O
he’s got squatter’s rights!
S
Working hard out here to grind for all those beans and gets accused of freeloading. A man can’t catch a break in this world.
P
Looks nice and cozy too
E
Free beans? And potential extra protein? In *this* economy? OP you ungrateful bastard.
M
“Get in bro, we’re having beans for dinner!”
W
*holds up beans as payment for rent*
P
Looks like the nest is mostly mesquite beans. Usually they are 1/2 dried dog turds and cactus. Hopefully you got him on time. Wiring harness repairs suck.
W
I actually had a squirrel move in and eat the wiring harness on an older F350. Surprisingly I found a good electrical specialist that was able to replace all the damage it had done for under $250. To be fair, 5 out of the 8 cylinders were still firing so I could still drive it to the shop, so it may have been a considerate squirrel.
H
Chipmunks did $2,000 in damage to my father’s Chevy Silverado. He put out bucket traps after that. Our farm cat was crippled by an ear infection at that point and there was a chipmunk population explosion in the area at the same time. Poor old Willie cat couldn’t walk in a straight line and was always falling off the porch, the stairs, retaining walls. He also refused to become a housecat. He lived until he was 21. Eight years as ineffective rodent control.
W
> Eight years as ineffective rodent control god forbid a mf gets to retire
H
He still tried to hunt rodents and be rodent control. He’d just veer off in the wrong direction.
A
That mental image is hilarious. Poor Willie but a hell of an age for a barncat.
H
He went to the vet regularly and there were no predators in the area back then. Coyotes were reintroduced years after Willie passed away and mom and dad won’t get another farm cat because of that.
A
Ah, I’m so used to coyotes, foxes, and owls eating farm cats in my neck of the woods. Glad to hear Willie had such a loving family!
H
No foxes where my folks live. Willie was a 15lb cat, too heavy for an owl. He had a wound that we think may have been from a talon once. Stitches and antibiotics from the vet. Dad saw a rutting whitetail buck try to run him down once. Willie was terrified of deer. He almost got run over by a van when he was young. Since then he stopped at the road, looked both ways, listened, looked again, listened, then bolted across the road if all was clear. Unless he heard my car, then he’d lay in the road and roll around. I had to park my car in the road and get out to pick him up and move him more than once. He was skilled at survival and tough. We did try to keep him in the house after the ear damage. He would always come in when it was below freezing or for the occasional nap but he did not like staying inside long term. Once he was healthy enough to move around he bolted out the door (bouncing off the doorframe) and took off zigzagging across the field behind the house. Dad would run in a straight line and catch him, but he kept doing it and getting mad about being brought back in. So dad decided to stop chasing him.
S
fucking legend
V
21 years for an outdoor cat is something else.
H
He did have regular vet visits and there weren’t any major predators for him in the area before he passed away. Coyotes were reintroduced a few years later, that’s why mom and dad won’t get a farm cat now.
A
That was an awesome cat!
J
I came home from a deployment, and none of my windows worked. A squirrel worked his way up inside my wheel well and made a nest and had babies. Part of that nest making meant chewing through the door wiring harness.
R
The idiot light illuminated in my old Toyota Sienna. Opened the hood, found a nest on top of the engine and a damaged wiring harness. Took it to the dealership, they replaced the wiring harness for north of $1000… And then they found new damage that occurred while the van was sitting there on their lot. The rat was still in there after the 20 mile drive to the dealership, and still in there after the wiring harness replacement. I guess I was supposed to stop at the exterminator before going to the dealership? If I ever find rodent damage in a vehicle again I’ll try a different approach… Anyway the insurance company gave up and declared it a total loss. So it was towed off to the nearest Geico lot and they mailed me a check for the replacement value.
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