# Soy based auto wiring attracts rodents, have they got you yet?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soy-based-auto-wiring-attracts-rodents-have-they-got-you-yet/831894>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 1, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soy-based-auto-wiring-attracts-rodents-have-they-got-you-yet/831894 "2019-04-01T23:19:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soy-based-auto-wiring-attracts-rodents-have-they-got-you-yet/831894/21 "2019-04-04T11:56:10Z")

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It gets worse–I used to have a job dealing with the registers in supermarkets. We called the Walker ducts under the floors for the register cables “Rodent Highways”  
You DON’T want to know what’s under the belts…

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**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soy-based-auto-wiring-attracts-rodents-have-they-got-you-yet/831894/22 "2019-04-04T12:17:33Z")

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> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> The picture is a pet ferret though. Euro martens [look](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Martes_martes_crop.jpg) [different](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Steinmarder_%28cropped%29.jpg).

That photo primed me to be skeptical of the entire article, to be honest. (Way to poison your own well!) Illustrating a news article about the damage caused by a particular animal, by showing a completely different species? And the _domesticated_ version of it to boot?

It’s like an article about, say, the dangers of finding a fox in the henhouse, showing a photo of a wolf at the top.

Except that by “wolf” I actually meant poodle.

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**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2019, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soy-based-auto-wiring-attracts-rodents-have-they-got-you-yet/831894/23 "2019-04-06T03:36:36Z")

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> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> Holy shit, I had no idea. At my parents house they’ve had to bring the cars into get them repaired several times because rodents ate through various wires and lines. I had no idea they were made of soy.

When it goes into the factory, it’s all hydrocarbons. They even make fuel from corn.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soy-based-auto-wiring-attracts-rodents-have-they-got-you-yet/831894/24 "2019-04-06T20:46:46Z")

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My dog ate my Pizza-based dashboard. I shoulda known that was a bad idea.

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