Mice or larger rodents in my wall.
CarlR
18 years ago
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Comments (26)Tinan, I would say your definition of "harm" and mine are different. Having all the insulation eaten off your car's engine wires, sitting outside in your driveway, causing a $1,200 repair bill not *relatively* harmless. I respectfully disagree with your observation. My neighbor and his brand new Jag were not happy, nor did they consider the roof rats responsible for that damage *relatively* harmless. Roof rats have also destroyed several of my fruit trees by girdling them (now have chicken wire around trunks), as well as eaten large amounts of my citrus at my expense. Of course risk of disease will be higher if rats invade your home, garage or storage sheds, but they are still not *relatively* harmless even outside. As Renee has provided for us, careful trapping can keep the population down, and reduce damage and harm to both yourself and your property. I have successfully trapped and poisoned the rats to the point of keeping the damage down to reasonable levels, but I will always battle them out here where I live, due to ideal living conditions for roof rats. Even with all the predators I have in my area, Barn owls, Great Horned owls, Red Tailed hawks, Red Shoulder hawks, White Tailed kites, Peregrine Falcons, American Kestrels, Sharp Shinned hawks, coyotes, bobcats, roadrunners and weasels. All these predators I see on a daily basis still cannot keep our rodent population down, so I assist to keep my property from harm. Patty S....See Moremy groundcover is rodent heaven
Comments (3)I was once sitting on a park bench and realized that rats were running around in the 1' tall Vinca-type groundcover right next to me. Ugh. Anyway, I use lava rock in planting holes to keep voles from eating my daylily roots, so maybe adding a sprinkling of lava rock to the soil when you remove the myoporum would help keep the tunneling rodents at bay....See MoreGrey Mice in My NEW Kitchen! Cute pics but geez...
Comments (22)I fail to see how those pix could be considered 'cute'. Oh, yuck! I've fought mice in several rent houses before buying my current home. It's older, too, but I do not willing share my home with mice! When literally over-run in the last rental, I went ... in desparation... to a feed store. If you have no pets in the house (therefore, no water dishes), there is a wax based poison that works GREAT. I will not use the sticky traps (don't want to listen to squeals, I think it's cruel). And I don't want them set loose just to return. With the wax based product I used, the mice go outside the house to search for water. When they die, they are not in your house to create smells. The feed store where I bought the product this last time said this is what they use IN THE STORE! so you know it's GOOOODDD!! :-) After getting no help from siblings re: traps reset to rid my mom's home of mice, I put out this product. For the first time in YEARS she hasn't seen the nasty things. Maybe this will help; Good luck!!!...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 Morebyron
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