How to keep rats out of Jetta

Get a garage cat.

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Can you blame the rat for wanting to sleep in a nice jetta!!! At least the rat has good taste! Trade your jetta in for an hyundai elantra station wagon that ought to scare your rat away!!!

inbetweendays

1. Figure out where they are getting into your garage and fix it. If there are no holes to the outside they cant get in, unless they sneak in when you open the door.
2. Figure out how/where they are getting into your car and fix that. Sentence two from 1. also applies here as well.

We use mothballs.

They're looking for food, water and shelter.

If you make sure there's no food or water then they tend not to stick around (especially if you're in California and the weather's always nice). This means that all trash cans are sealed, no standing water, etc.

Tim Wohlford

I heard that rats and mice also don't like Irish Spring soap.

At least it might smell better to YOU than mothballs. ;-)

later, dave Reminder........ Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes. Frieda Norris

Cat(s).

Feed them well, but once a week or month or so you cut way down on the chow, yes starve them a bit, to regen the feral aspect.

There have been dogs bred to handle them as well, if for some reason you are anti-cat and refuse treatment. (Get them young & raise them together and you can have both.)

Of course preventing the rats from getting into the house/garage in the

TBerk

Jim B.

Put pieces of cheese all around your Jetta so the rats are drawn to those instead of the car.

Have you ever smelled moth balls? Yes? Well, how did you get their little legs apart?

LOL! (sorry, couldn't resist)

You're going to have the Rats hot wiring the car to get beer from the store. To go with the cheese.

TBerk

As someone else said, mothballs placed around the garage are helpful. However, the rats are in the garage because there's something to eat there. If there's nothing obvious there such as a bag of bird seed, think about bugs. Rodents are often drawn into buildings to eat insects such as cockroaches and crickets.

Bill

I'm telling you Bill- they are trying to hot wire the car.

TBerk

In that case, it is fortunate for Michael that late model VWs are hard to hot wire! :-)