been having car troubles (think the battery i warrantied and swapped got swapped for another dud 💀 checked for a parasitic draw and didn’t find one) and i discovered a critter in the car today. it’s alive but didn’t seem very enthusiastic about moving, i think it was probably sleeping. not sure how it survived in there in this heat, but whatever. might be an opossum?
any advice for getting it out of my car if it’s still there tomorrow? i’m a suburb baby, i’ve only heard of finding animals in your cars in myths and legends 💀 was thinking i would gear up from the waist down and poke it till it leaves with my umbrella, but i’d appreciate a more experienced perspective
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Most critters want nothing to do with you. Your poke it till it leaves strategy is a sound one. Just don’t corner it and give it an easy way out. If it is an opposum they play dead which I am sure you are aware of. So if you spook it good it will lay there, then after awhile it will start moving again and take off.
I agree though that keeping it away might be the trickier part but I have no experience on that realm.
Earlier today I evicted a groundhog from my backyard so I feel your pain.
I love animals, but I also collect cars. A friend used to sprinkle hot sauce under his hood to deter invaders. I can’t speak for opossums, but I’ve had luck with natural rodent repelling sprays that contain essential oils such as peppermint and cinnamon (in the US, “Grandpa Gus”) is one such formulation. Highly recommend against glue traps (inhumane) and poison (horrible).
Once gone, I recommend checking your car for chewed hoses and wires – I recently refurbished a car and found a large, ancient mouse nest in the space underneath the windshield and the engine firewall.
Under the hood? If it is hot out maybe spray the hose in there. It might come back. Amazon sells a device that perioeically makes high pitched noises above most human hearing range, you install it onto the battery terminals and zip tie it somewhere
Those ultrasonic pest repellers are useless.
Shawn Woods of Moustrap Monday fame demonstrated this against various rodents.
He has other videos demonstrating the futility of other ultrasonic devices as well.
I doubt that opossum will be affected either.
It worked on my daughters car. She lived in a woodsy area, that had a community garbage dumpster nearby, and rats kept chewing her car wiring. After installing it we had no issues.
Except the odd young person complaining about the noise the car kept making… That I couldn’t hear at all.
Australians in a podcast speculatiing about bears in America
(They don’t know we know they have drop bears)
