Packing food for rodent protection
What do people do to protect their food from rodents - rat/ mice when staying in huts.
The last time we were on an overnight they got into our food and we lost a bit of it. They chewed through plastic bags containing cereal, bread and some other stuff.
I am thinking of using hard plastic containers.
What do you do ?
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I stayed at dickeys flat in the kaimai mamaku park, had a rat chew into the tent and got into all but some food. so glad it didnt eat my pack. I was told to spray deodorant around the outside base of the tent to mask any smell?. Got the blighter with the slingshot anyway!
My school just lost 8 packs due to the nasty little rodents! there was no food in them but the smell must've been hanging round
A sealed packet of dried apricots was removed from a tent for some hours after a raid by a white tailed rat. The rat came back simply because it already associated the tent with a source of food.
I've known them to raid a pack for toothpaste once.
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