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Roger Tonkin[_2_] · 30-12-2017, 06:44 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

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Broadback wrote:
They have "found" my shed and decided my petrol vacuum/blower is fair
game. Having eaten a hole on the vacuum bag chewed a strap they have
now eaten the plastic small petrol pump, rendering it useless until I
get another. What will the beasts not climb, so that I can protect it in
future?

Shiny/smooth plastic usually works OK in my experience. E.g. mice
won't get into plastic dustbins as long as they're reasonably smooth
and there's nothing leaning against them to 'bridge' the smoothness.

This from keeping horse feed and such (*very* attractive to mice and
rats) over several years. The thick plastic and/or paper bags that the
feed comes in aren't in general rat/mouse proof, plastic better than
paper but get eaten through in the end.

Friend of ours house got flooded/wrecked when mice chewed
through plastic water pipes in the loft!

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Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales