Might make interesting gear shift lever handles, as well. The problem
would be how one could attach the rodent to the lever. Hmmmmm.
Larry Dickstein
bugide@juno.com
There is no problem that cannot be solved
with either a checkbook or high explosives.
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997 12:09:22 -0800 Carol <car@intersatx.net> writes:
>Art!
>
>What are the proportions? Half and half??
>
>Sounds cheaper and meaner than the Just One Bite stuff we've been
>using.
>More ecological, too!
>
>Once they set up you can dress them, paint funny faces on them, etc.
>and
>sell them at craft shows and drug stores as Rock-Hard Rodents --
>sorta'
>like a chia pet that doesn't need water anymore.
>
>Carol
>
>At 11:46 AM 12/29/97 -0500, Art Pfenninger wrote:
>>Two other cheap ways to kill the critters. Make a mixture of cement
>and
>>corn meal. They love it but it sets up hard! Another method is a a
>cup of
>>old anti freeze. It's sweet but poison. Be sure you don't have any
>>"freindly" animals or kids that may want some of it.
>>...Art
>>
>>
>>On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, ROBERT G. HOWARD wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Mike,
>>> Go with the mothballs, cedar chips, electronic repellers, cat
>>> balls--whatever it takes. D-con is supposed to attract the
>critters. Its
>>> active ingredient is warfarin, the blood anticoagulant that is used
>for
>>> the same purpose in heart-attack and stroke survivors. Bought as an
>>> ethical drug, the stuff is expensive. Bought at the feed & grain
>store,
>>> it's almost free. Perhaps the difference in price has something to
>do
>>> with the accuracy of the dose? So the way it works is that the
>rodent
>>> blood gets so thin that the critter hemmorhages internally. That's
>why
>>> you find them at the watering hole. That it takes a couple of
>weeks to
>>> do the deed serves at least two purposes. 1) if the domestic
>animals get
>>> into the stuff, it's not likely that they will get into it enough
>times
>>> to do them serious harm, and 2) the critters try to get to water,
>so they
>>> don't die in your house, or cylinder, and 3) apparently rats are
>smart
>>> enough so that they appoint scouts to test samples of
>feast-appearing
>>> gifts, suspicious that they might be too good to be true. Since
>warfarin
>>> takes a couple of weeks to work, the rats don't see the tester
>croak,
>>> thus assume that the gift is healthful..
>>> Bob
>>> who once kept the TD in a barn, used D-con, mothballs, camphor
>balls,
>>> mouse traps and numerous barn cats
>>> On Sun, 28 Dec 1997 03:10:44 -0800 Mike Lishego
><mikesl@tartan.sapc.edu>
>>> writes:
>>> >Hello,
>>> > I'm getting ready to install the new carpeting into my 'B,
>but
>>> >it will sit in
>>> >a garage with a rodent problem. My father and I have been putting
>out
>>> >a fresh tray of
>>> >D-Con since I've been home with no real success. As an odd aside,
>my
>>> >neighbor has
>>> >fished 38 dead rodents of all kinds out of his pond in the past
>few
>>> >weeks...Anyway,
>>> >the little suckers have eaten my old seats apart and I found two
>dead
>>> >mice trapped in
>>> >the cylinder bores of a headless engine. What can I put in my car
>to
>>> >keep them from
>>> >nesting in my wiring or eating my new carpet? It's obvious that
>the
>>> >D-Con is
>>> >pointless, since more animals come into the garage to take their
>dead
>>> >comrades place.
>>> > What about mothballs? Cedar? Electronic pest repellers?
>>> > Thanks in advance, however, cats are out of the
>question...8-(
>>> >
>>> >--
>>> >Michael S. Lishego
>>> >St. Andrews Presbyterian College
>>> >Elementary Education Major,
>>> >English Minor, Class of 1999
>>> >R.A. of Winston-Salem Hall
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>
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