My poor, once-neat pile’o’stuff.
I don’t know what started it. Maybe the rat came out for something – in the heat of the middle of the day – but what ever it did it made the mistake of attracting Ghost’s attention. And Ghost decided it must die, and he wasn’t taking no for an answer.
What you can’t see or hear is an extremely loud and frustrated Little Bear, constrained by his cable. If I let him go he wouldn’t just knock my stuff over; he’d shred it. I just got the cedar panels stacked back up under the Lair after the last Rat War.
Any exposed contacts on those solar panels he could get fried on while tearing into that pile??
Those panels are so weak you can’t even get a tickle from them. I only keep them because I never throw anything away.
Little terrier dogs are excellent for ferreting-out (ratting out?) vermin. My late-great terrier was a snake assassin. The boys are trying to earn their keep, but they’re just a little too big (and clumsy) for the job, me thinks.
You can get special chocolate treats for ratties.
They come as blue cubes with a skull and cross bones on them.
a length of 4″ diam pipe makes a good feeding station. just don’t be in a hurry to re-stock it when the stuff goes – the little b’ggers will only stash it somewhere. one feed of the stuff snuffs them.
I don’t actually mind ratties – its what they destroy that gets me upset.
Just fwiw – the problem I have with poisoning is that it’s indiscriminate. You don’t necessarily know what’s going to get into it – nor what’s going to eat whatever got into the poison first.
There’s more than a few packrats that I’ve cursed – and I do know a lot of creative ways to keep them at bay. Problem is that I’ve found the more I do to keep the wild off my doorstep – at some point I might as well go live with the herd!
I tried the rat poison myself. Tucked them neatly in behind tight areas along their running paths, thinking there was NO WAY the dog would get at them.
I hadn’t counted on the little buggers dragging their “rat chocolates” into the middle of the garage! Then fido got into them as evidenced by the blue in his poo.
That was one expensive vet bill. Never again.
No, I don’t do poison. If I want a rat gone, I set up a T-rex trap. You can get them big enough for pack rats and squirrels. They’re absolutely deadly on rodents but can’t do worse than teach a big dog a painful lesson.