rats/mice are eating my orchids
eileenat3313
17 years ago
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Comments (31)Trust me when I say you don't want to find anything in those sticky traps ... it will be alive, it will scream, it will squirm, and it will be awful. Snap traps are far less upsetting for everyone ... the mouse is just dead, and the clean-up crew doesn't have to deal with a screaming, squirming, suffering creature. I'll admit we did have one snaptrap victim vanish ... it was there and seemed dead (not a close inspection (just noted from across the basement), and then a few hours later when we went to clean it up, the trap had moved a foot to by a crevace in the floor - concrete floor, not a way out, just a crevace - and the it was empty. No idea what happened there ... but there was no screaming, no squirming, nothing like a gluetrap. I've cleaned those up at a workplace ... it was traumatizing ... and worse, there were two....See Morerats!......or rather mice......1st time problem.....is it the com
Comments (13)Again I say, PLEASE don't use baits of any kind. I have a 2 year old mouser who is currently clinging to life because of secondary poisoning so anyone who says that it can't happen unless the bait is directly eaten is misinformed. Takes 2-3 days before symptoms are evident and by that time all bodily Vitamin K has been depleted so there are a host of problems all involving anticoagulant properties of the poison (ie: internal bleeding in multiple organs and brain). Only solution is big, long term doses of Vit K and prayer. I thought we had the bait far enough away to prevent direct ingestion by pets but it doesn't matter.....rats come out after eating bait and become weaker, thus easier to catch and if you have a good mouser who's just doing his/her job, then the rodents will be caught and eaten. We played the odds for about a year before this happened so believe me, it WILL eventually happen. Bring out the traps again...I've found that small pieces of Slim Jim in traps works better than peanut butter b/c it's greasy/meaty smelling and stays in place longer too. We also try to avoid creating an environment that provides both things rats look for: food and shelter. I'm finding out the truth of baits the hard way and perhaps too late so please don't follow my example. Thx, Jan in TX...See MoreHelp! Mice and Rats eating my succulents
Comments (24)Buy some plastic rat traps (you can find them on Amazon), and bait them with raisins. Place one or two traps near damaged plants or obvious entryways into your yard. Do this after sundown, and collect the traps as early in the morning as you can, else you may trap/kill some friendlies. Mix up the trap placement. There is a fair chance packrats are contributing to your damage. Left unchecked, they will make more packrats -- quickly -- and may wind up inflicting costly damage to more than just your plants. IE??? Seriously??...See MoreMice eating all ,my tomatos
Comments (8)I recommend against getting cats as working animals. They're not reliable, they're not all good mousers, and they usually get the bad end of the stick when they are disappointing to their owners. Cats should only be kept by people who actively like cats, want them as companion animals, and are willing to accept them on whatever terms the cats offer. If I were you, I'd set some traps so that I could be sure that I'm actually dealing with mice. You could also have rats, voles, squirrels/ground squirrels, or any number of other pests. I would want to know who the culprits were, and if my own trapping didn't take care of them, I'd call a professional to deal with them. I would also recommend you pick the fruits at first blush and let them ripen indoors in a protected location. I doubt that, this time of year in Calgary, leaving the tomatoes to ripen fully on the vine will do much for their flavor. Not to mention that ripening them on the vine will take forever, even in a heated tunnel. You might also try putting the low-hanging tomatoes in organza bags. The weave on them is usually tight enough to deter small rodents like mice long enough to get the tomatoes to first blush, although you should keep in mind that you may not be dealing with small rodents, and you should also keep in mind that, once fruits start smelling really ripe, the rodents may become more determined and try to gnaw through the bags and succeed, so picking them right at first blush is key. For your amount of tomatoes, it's a lot of fuss, but I doubt you have many more weeks to harvest tomatoes unless you are planning to build a much more solid greenhouse around them in the immediate future, and the low-hanging ones are likely to the be only ones you manage to get to maturity before it's too cold....See Morebob8_gw
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