Now, they're asking the city for help.
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Watch the video. This guy provides the perfect habitat for them - a natural environment with native shrubs, rocks, sandy soil, and water, then not only bitches when he's overran with field mice, but he expects the city to do something about it.
I'd advise him to get a couple barn cats, but then he'd probably whine about cat shit.
Should head to the city council meeting and bitch to the elected officials. Worker bees' at any level don't respond to citizens.
ReplyDeleteBefore the little fucker died on me, a feral that showed up March of 23 eliminated my mouse and vole problems almost completely. He would bring at least one and sometimes two rodents a day to the back porch, even in the dead of winter. Broke my heart when he died of chronic pancreatitis two weeks ago. We had him in and out of the vets' office for two months and they couldn't figure out what was wrong with him, took a necropsy after the fact to find out. Maynard had a great personality for an old wildman. Eod1sg Ret
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Deletehe should be able to poison them with the vitamin D based poisons. Then, there is no danger of secondary poisoning of owls and other animals prey.
ReplyDeletethere where 4 cats here when we moved in. told the wife to put some food out so they hang around and kill mice. she hates mice like crazy ! anyway, ended up with 14 of them !!
ReplyDeletegot them all fixed at the clinic for about 25 bucks a cat or so. we are down to 10-11 of them now after 7 years. but I have not had to deal with ANY critters in the house.
dead ones outside is another matter. as long as I clean up the dead ones and she doesn't have too. life is good. now with the new puppy who sees them as some sort of toy ?
she spend 30 minutes getting a dead one out of his mouth the other day and then spent
the same amount of time washing her hands and bitching about it.
so, now when I let the dogs out, I have to do a police call of the year for dead mice again ! but barn/outside cats do a great job of keeping the critters down. dave in pa.
Precisely. I'll go you one further. Mice aren't stupid and won't go into a house where there's cat dander. And neither would you if you knew there was a highly evolved killer a hundred times your size waiting for you in there.
DeleteMaybe that is a rule for your own home, but my home has three cats (and four German Shepherds) and we have mice inside especially when the weather gets cold. Of course, the cats make quick work of killing the rodents, but they have the balls to come inside.
DeleteRat snakes work too. And they keep the MIL away.
ReplyDeleteDaisy and a little practise would be a lot of fun on those bastards. I have a Crossman MKI over 50 years old that would get head shots at 15-yards.
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Remember to hold the sight down a little when you're aiming or you'll overshoot them.
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Free roaming cats don't last long around here, I dispatch them with vengeance. I like birds more than some stupid cat.
ReplyDeleteWe had an infestaion but the neighbors orange cat took care of it. He's an indoor cat who comes out in the daytime. He also comes to the back door, meows to be let in, comes in, checks the place out, and then leaves. I call it the daily security check. He'll also occasionally kill a bird and leave it dead center on the front door mat.
ReplyDelete"Get a couple of cats" was my first thought, too. I adopted a tomcat while living in suburbia and brought him along after moving to the country. For the first couple of years there were regular deliveries of field mice, shrews, and gophers. Those have become increasingly rare and now it's mostly lizards, skinks, and geckos. About the only birds he catches anymore are the mockingbirds that relentlessly harass him by dive bombing him, landing a tree to screech, then dive bombing again. Eventually they get too close and...no more mockingbird.
ReplyDeleteWe have Cairn terriers. Critters don't venture into our yard. We also have some higher order predators in the area. The collar of a neighborhood cat that liked to roam was recently found in someone's front yard.
ReplyDeleteBlackhole / tunnel traps for gophers, cage traps for rats, totally reusuable. I caught a small opossum a few days ago, a wren (bird), and the rat that was doing usual rat things. I have even caught a rat snake before in one of my cage traps. By-catch gets released, rats are killed with great prejudice.
ReplyDeleteCats are great until renters / scumbag neighbors deliberately feed them poison. I didn't have a rat problem until the tenants from Hell poisoned most of our cats.
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Set out some little vole traps. If two of them wind up in a trap together they'll literally tear each other apart.
ReplyDeleteHorrid little things.