Invasion of critters
Posted By: mamawtypes on 2007-03-22
In Reply to: I'm a live-and-let-live person but had to draw the line - Hayseed
I know the feeling, during a drought about 15 years back, our little creek was a great water source for all kinds of critters...including swarms of rats and mice. One of the pesky critters (a rat) actually chewed up through my floor and went running through the kitchen under my new stove...with no place to go from there the rat was cornered. Well my DH can't stand a rat, so he gets out his 22 rifle and sits on the couch and waits on the rat to poke his head out..now mind you this is a BRAND NEW STOVE and back in those days $$$ were tight and I wasn't about to get another one.. I put the warning out.. you had better not hit my stove... After about 2 hours of intense waiting the rat finally appeared and boom... no more rat.. but my stove was still intact. That DH is a dead-eye... Anyway for the other 50 or so critters we got a poison called Blue Death from the local Farm Bureau Co-Op. Put it out in the barns and under the house and every day there would be 7 or so dead rats in the yard, etc. It killed them almost instantly. The guy said that it would make them have an insatiable thirst for water, thus leading them down towards the creek.. or we put out pans of water...when they drank the water they would bloat up, etc. Sort of like the COCA COLA theory, only much quicker. I guess rats can't burp. He was right too, we never did have one die in the house or in the walls, but it was a pretty nasty chore every morning to clean up the remains with the shovel... Uck!
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