Re: always something new in the garden

Umm- and then exactly what am I supposed to do with a live rat in a trap?? 
Theresa

droman wrote:
> A small Havahart trap should do it. Some hardware stores rent them as 
> do some animal shelters and rental stores.
>
> Dan in PA
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Theresa" <macycat3@sbcglobal.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 7:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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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