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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