parrisw
Tree Freak
Every year, when Its time to start burning wood, there is rat crap in the woodshed, its all over the wood I'm handling it really annoys me, how can I keep them out of it?? Any tricks.
Every year, when Its time to start burning wood, there is rat crap in the woodshed, its all over the wood I'm handling it really annoys me, how can I keep them out of it?? Any tricks.
get a few boxes and toss the balls all over.
Along with voles and mice. Milo my cat:
We have zero rats or mice in the woodpiles here. Voles are another issue... too many of them here. But he is working on it. He has caught 5 in the last 2 weeks.
Cats aside, you can get the pet safe rat poison bait that attacks their kidneys. However, they also go into a water crave stage, and tend to eat things like romex wiring and other items before they die. At least that is what we saw in the barn when we used that type of bait down there.
I don't really want to use poisn, pet friendly version might be ok. I don't really want them to die in the woodshed. Seems this year is the worst. I am a auto mechanic, and this year has been the worst for them getting into cars, and chewing up the wiring!!!!!!! I ve had the same car back 3 times to fix chewed up wiring harness's.
Windthrown, How long does it take to kill them using a pet frendly poison,.Never heard of it, Why dosent it affect the cats, dogs liver? Thanks Eric
I don't really want to use poisn, pet friendly version might be ok. I don't really want them to die in the woodshed. Seems this year is the worst. I am a auto mechanic, and this year has been the worst for them getting into cars, and chewing up the wiring!!!!!!! I ve had the same car back 3 times to fix chewed up wiring harness's.
sounds like fun with a night vision scope and a pellet gun. Or you could put out a bait station under a small light and sit back for pellet poppin fun...
Ian
All you need is about 20 adhesive plates about 5 snickers bars. Arrange the strips strategically at night and rip off a one inch square of the snickers and place them on certain strips toward the middle. Get out there kinda early and I don't care how big they are you will systematically eliminate them. They cannot resist the snickers.
It is some type of poison that only works in killing small rodents through their kydneys, and not other mamals. OK if a cat, owl or dog eats the dead rats killed by it, or the dog eats the poison itself. Our house dog got into some real rat poison (blood thinning type) I laid out a few years ago. We had to induce her to vomit (made her chug salt water till she puked) and took her to the vet for some vitamin K and pumped her full of activated charcoal, and she was out of it for a few days. Since then we flipped to the safer rat poison. They are a huge problem in our barn. They ate 8 bags of pig food the year before we started baiting/poisoning them. We ahve also switched to 55 gallon barrel feed storage bins, but they are still down there along with field mice and voles. We have 2 other barn cats just for patroling down at the barn area as well.
I can no longer find the "safe" rat poison at the stores, so I assume that it was not that safe, or had other problems associated with using it. Cats are generally more immune to most types of rat bait than dogs. I suspect that the so-called safe stuff was a type of hypercalcemia poison.
Another option is using traps. Expecially the kind that flip them into the trap and can catch several at a time. Use peanut better as bait; that is the best thing I have found. Once trapped, I toss a trap into the pond and drown the rats or voles or mice in it. Sometimes we will let them loose in front of the dogs, and they go wild chasing them. They usually kill and eat them as well. The house dog catches and tortures ground squirrels here. Not many here this time of year though.
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