Re: always something new in the garden

Good thought- but no.  And really if the pet got injured or bitten at 
all.... not a risk I'd be willing to take (if I knew anyone that is).
Theresa

BONNIE_HOLMES wrote:
> Do any of your friends or neighbors have a terrier? They were originally bred to take care of rats for farmers. 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Theresa" <macycat3@sbcglobal.net> 
> To: gardenchat@hort.net 
> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 7:11:41 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] always something new in the garden 
>
> Traps would be great, except there are incredibly stupid cats in my 
> neighborhood who step into traps and get a leg broken and then one 
> neighbor suing another (this actually happened). 
> So there is the delimma. If someone has any other ideas of how to get 
> rid of the rat, I'm certainly open to suggestion. 
> Theresa 
>
> Jesse Bell wrote: 
>   
>> Just a word about rat poison...simply because I do wildlife rescue and 
>> have seen owls and hawks (and other predators) die from eating a mouse 
>> or rat that was poisoned. It sets off a very bad chain reaction. And 
>> it is a slow, horrible death for the animal that eats that rat as it 
>> stumbles around, sick, and dying. 
>> Just a thought. Traps are better. 
>>
>>
>> On 9/13/09, Theresa <macycat3@sbcglobal.net> wrote: 
>>
>>     
>>> Bad news- 
>>> Something has eaten off all the leaves from my fairly large japanese painted 
>>> fern! Noticed this morning. What did this (we don't have wildlife here) 
>>>
>>> Good news- 
>>> My coral tree (which is still tiny, but about 5 yrs old) have blossoms on 
>>> it! It is going to bloom!! yeah. It better hurry up though. It is only 
>>> marginally hardy here (most years has died back to the ground). 
>>>
>>> Bad news- 
>>> There is a huge, fat, damned rat in my birdfeeder! Yuck! Now I know what 
>>> ate my fern. Need to get rat poison from HD. 
>>>
>>> Good news- 
>>> Loquat is blooming : ) A little worried bc I haven't seen many bees.... 
>>>
>>> Happy weekend all- 
>>> Theresa 
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