Another sacrifice to the eco gods: soy-based car wire insulation

Rats, mice, and foxes are all making a tasty meal out of your car's innards

 Your cat can keep mice out of the house, but you probably didn’t post her on sentry duty around your car.

It might not help anyway. Mice—along with rats, foxes, and squirrels—can attack your car, or, more precisely, your car’s wiring, from wherever you park. Rural areas are more affected but urban areas are hardly being spared. Recent fox attacks have been noted across the globe.

Eddie Mitchell, in suburban England, described a neighborhood of cars under attack by foxes:

Everyone around us has been affected. There’s been at least 20 attacks by foxes on the brakes system under cars. One neighbor ended up spending £1,500 on his Jaguar after it was attacked.

Sometimes the bulk of the damage is covered by insurance, though the owner will still have to pay a substantial deductible himself.

But why is all this happening?

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