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Re: Getting rid of rodents,,,W/O Cats!

To: bugide@juno.com
Subject: Re: Getting rid of rodents,,,W/O Cats!
From: gofastmg@juno.com (Rick Morrison)
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 21:22:30 EST
Simply check that the rodent is right handed thread.  Otherwise one is
forced to stuff the lever up the little buggers A**.
Rick Morrison
72 MGBGT
74 Midget
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997 16:47:34 EST bugide@juno.com (Larry Dickstein)
writes:
>Might make interesting gear shift lever handles, as well.  The problem 
>would be how one could attach the rodent to the lever.  Hmmmmm.
>
>Larry Dickstein
>bugide@juno.com
>
>There is no problem that cannot be solved
>with either a checkbook or high explosives.
>
>On Mon, 29 Dec 1997 12:09:22 -0800 Carol <car@intersatx.net> writes:
>>Art!
>>
>>What are the proportions? Half and half??
>>
>>Sounds cheaper and meaner than the Just One Bite stuff we've been 
>>using.
>>More ecological, too!
>>
>>Once they set up you can dress them, paint funny faces on them, etc. 
>>and
>>sell them at craft shows and drug stores as Rock-Hard Rodents -- 
>>sorta'
>>like a chia pet that doesn't need water anymore.
>>
>>Carol
>>
>>At 11:46 AM 12/29/97 -0500, Art Pfenninger wrote:
>>>Two other cheap ways to kill the critters. Make a mixture of cement 
>>and
>>>corn meal. They love it but it sets up hard! Another method is a a 
>>cup of
>>>old anti freeze. It's sweet but poison. Be sure you don't have any
>>>"freindly" animals or kids that may want some of it.
>>>...Art
>>>
>>>
>>>On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, ROBERT G. HOWARD wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Mike,
>>>>   Go with the mothballs, cedar chips, electronic repellers, cat
>>>> balls--whatever it takes.  D-con is supposed to attract the 
>>critters. Its
>>>> active ingredient is warfarin, the blood anticoagulant that is 
>used 
>>for
>>>> the same purpose in heart-attack and stroke survivors. Bought as 
>an
>>>> ethical drug, the stuff is expensive. Bought at the feed & grain 
>>store,
>>>> it's almost free.  Perhaps the difference in price has something 
>to 
>>do
>>>> with the accuracy of the dose?  So the way it works is that the 
>>rodent
>>>> blood gets so thin that the critter hemmorhages internally. That's 
>
>>why
>>>> you find them at the watering hole.  That it takes a couple of 
>>weeks to
>>>> do the deed serves at least two purposes. 1) if the domestic 
>>animals get
>>>> into the stuff, it's not likely that they will get into it enough 
>>times
>>>> to do them serious harm, and 2) the critters try to get to water, 
>>so they
>>>> don't die in your house, or cylinder, and 3) apparently rats are 
>>smart
>>>> enough so that they appoint scouts to test samples of 
>>feast-appearing
>>>> gifts, suspicious that they might be too good to be true. Since 
>>warfarin
>>>> takes a couple of weeks to work, the rats don't see the tester 
>>croak,
>>>> thus assume that the gift is healthful.. 
>>>> Bob
>>>>   who once kept the TD in a barn, used D-con, mothballs, camphor 
>>balls,
>>>> mouse traps and numerous barn cats
>>>> On Sun, 28 Dec 1997 03:10:44 -0800 Mike Lishego 
>><mikesl@tartan.sapc.edu>
>>>> writes:
>>>> >Hello,
>>>> >  I'm getting ready to install the new carpeting into my 
>'B, 
>>but 
>>>> >it will sit in 
>>>> >a garage with a rodent problem.  My father and I have been 
>putting 
>>out 
>>>> >a fresh tray of 
>>>> >D-Con since I've been home with no real success.  As an odd 
>aside, 
>>my 
>>>> >neighbor has 
>>>> >fished 38 dead rodents of all kinds out of his pond in the past 
>>few 
>>>> >weeks...Anyway, 
>>>> >the little suckers have eaten my old seats apart and I found two 
>>dead 
>>>> >mice trapped in 
>>>> >the cylinder bores of a headless engine.  What can I put in my 
>car 
>>to 
>>>> >keep them from 
>>>> >nesting in my wiring or eating my new carpet?  It's obvious that 
>>the 
>>>> >D-Con is 
>>>> >pointless, since more animals come into the garage to take their 
>>dead 
>>>> >comrades place. 
>>>> > What about mothballs?  Cedar?  Electronic pest repellers?
>>>> >  Thanks in advance, however, cats are out of the 
>>question...8-(
>>>> >
>>>> >-- 
>>>> >Michael S. Lishego
>>>> >St. Andrews Presbyterian College
>>>> >Elementary Education Major,
>>>> >English Minor, Class of 1999
>>>> >R.A. of Winston-Salem Hall
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> 
>>>
>>>
>>
>>

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