Pack Rats:

These little critters are the scourge of mountain living. They mark their territory with urine and feces that smells terrible. They have a love for the hoses, wiring harnesses and vacuum hoses under the hood of vehicles. If they can get to electrical wires they will chew the insulation off them creating a very real fire hazard. 

They carry disease's and are very smart. They have built in GPS and can find their way back home is a few days if you live trap them. So far I have live trapped 18 of them in the past three weeks. I know I'm trapping the same ones but I don't want to let them go where they will be a problem for others. It is getting hard to find a location where they won't find their way back.  

I'm getting pretty familiar with some who have returned to get more peanut butter and a free Jeep ride. Unless we run out of peanut butter this will go on for a few more weeks. I don't like to kill them so we will play the game until one of us has had enough. With their big ears they are cute little guys but they are also highly destructive. About the only way to get rid of them for good is to drive them to the next state.  The games now begin......