So, like, you know that moment when the guy at the oil change place opens the hood of your car and says "ya there's a rat in there" and he really means there is a Dead Rat under the hood of your car along with a blue, kid's glove and some plant material .... ya well I had that moment today.
It was a pack rat, not to be confused with the Rat Pack.
They bring stuff with them. I wonder whose little blue glove he stole? Somebody on Facebook pointed out that it would have been nice if he had brought a gold watch with him instead. I agree.
We think he must have gone in there back in early October when I was up at the cabin for Canadian Thanksgiving. It would have been a wild ride home that is for sure.
I did notice a smell in the garage and in my car. I was looking around under my seats for an errant bit of food maybe from my grocery shopping. I never thought to look under the hood. Gack.
It was quite the sight watching my BB Guy peel the carcass off my valve cover using the rat’s own, stolen blue glove. The guys in the oil shop were pretty grossed out especially the guy who got to take the valve cover and wash it clean. We gave them a hefty tip.
Pack rats are apparently quite a problem and will destroy all kinds of things around your home and car. So far I think my car is okay and he would have been dead for sure by the time I got home from the cabin as it is a 2 1/2 hour drive.
Have you ever had a rodent hitchhiker?
YUCH!!! I've heard of cats crawling up under the hood or laying on top of tires, but never rats. I'd have freaked if I'd opened the hood and spied your hitch-hiker.
ReplyDeleteOh major ick.
ReplyDeleteBut I've had worse.
Larger, and needed a mechanic
to extricate the remains.
Traumatic for me, but worse for
the mechanic, and especially for
the ... cat. Yes. Awful.
I didn't make it out of my
driveway. Cars don't GO with
that kind of entanglement.
On that happy note ... Cass
.....and with that I ran away screaming like a little girl!
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ReplyDeleteHey Lori -- another benefit of the baking soda silver polishing, other than how stupid easy it is -- there's no icky chemcal smell left from the commercial polishes. No tarnish smell, no chemical smell. Works for me.
ReplyDeletePost pics of your before and after silver!
Cass
I first thought my truck was haunted. After a couple of days of being parked, suddenly the heater fan would go on (while the ignition was off and the fan switch was off). this happened several times over a long spell,sometimes resulting in a dead battery. we put WD40 in the ignition--that helped a bit. Then one day, on my way home from church--odor. And the fan wouldn't stop. Took it in, told them it smells like something died--it had. $420later I learned there was a mouse nest in the fan motor area. There were dead things,and the tubes/hoses all had to be cleaned out because they had been "Ensuites" if you get my drift. The motor wasn't salvageable.
ReplyDeleteEuuuuwwwww! Fried rat?
ReplyDeleteYuck, but apparently there are tons of mice in vehicles around here...ugh.
See I'm a converted city girl through and through.
Jen
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