Re: always something new in the garden

My spouse would use his pellet (air) rifle.
Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On Sep 14, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Donna wrote:
hum.... and what is going to keep the cats from eating the poison? Or the 
birds or.....
I understand that the rat HAS to go..... unfortuately, I don't have a better 
way to do it.
Got any snakes around? Or a hawk? Between the two of them, they have killed 
off the mouse population.

Donna


--- On Mon, 9/14/09, Theresa <macycat3@sbcglobal.net> 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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