On Aug 14, 10:02 am, gpsman <gps...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Aug 14, 5:12 am, "fries...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> <fries...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > We need to get rid of some rats
> >From where- house, barn, apartment building, warehouse, city,
>
> rural...?
>
> Sometimes, collateral damage can't be eliminated, and isn't that much
> of a risk anyway. Well fed cats and owls that aren't hunting rats to
> begin with are unlikely to eat dead ones, IMO.
>
> I don't believe if you have the numbers of rats I am imagining you
> have weeks or months to attack the problem. Considering their
> reproduction rate the wisest and least expensive method is a campaign
> of "shock and awe".
>
> Protecting cats and wildlife is certainly a moral consideration but
> animals should not be placed above what diseases rats may spread, or
> any danger they might pose to children/infants, or the elderly, or the
> infirmed and the property damage they may cause... IMO.
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>
It is rare, but my cat has manged to cat a rat inside the house on
occasion. The last one was a few months ago. So, while the rats seem
to be in the garage and outside, I worry about MY cat very much. And
my sister lives next door and has an outdoor cat. He usually catches
other smaller rodents, but I wouldn't want him to catch a rat and die.
And while the owl isn't a pet, we do enjoy hearing it hoot every day,
and he does go after the rats.
We are officially in a small city, but we are on the edge of a
greenbelt, so we have trees and wildlife on 2 sides of the house, with
a large area behind and beside us. If we use poison, it will be in
the garage so that other animals cannot get to it directly, just the
rats.
How fast does the poison work? Would they die very quickly, or could
they go outside and still get caught by something else while having
the poison in their system?
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