Re: rat traps

Yeah.  I tried the electronic ones that are supposed to electrocute 
immediately, since they are enclosed.  Only problem was that nothing 
would go into it (no matter what I used for bait)
Theresa

james singer wrote:
> There are traps and then there are traps. A snare trap can catch a lot 
> of critters and not, necessarily, kill them... at least not immediately.
>
>
> On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Theresa wrote:
>
>> 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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> Willamette Valley
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