When Do Rats Start Smelling
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Comments (12)Thorny branches are a good idea. Gardener's supply used to sell these small mat-like things with spikes on them that did the same thing, you could try their website. Actually, I bought some spiked mats from Drs. Foster and Smith pet supply website to keep the dogs off the furniture and they work great! So check the pet supply store, too. But if you have rose or barberry branches available, those would accomplish the same thing and are free, so I'd go that route first, if available. Or, let the dog out. Personally, I'd love to see my dog go after the neighbor's cat, worth the price of admission (this cat has a habit of teasing my dog while she's out on the line - that smart-*ss cat knows exactly how far that line reaches and will stand about 6" away from it and hiss and tease the dog - if I weren't on good terms with my neighbor that cat would be toast by now...)...See MoreWhen do you start to feel the excitement?
Comments (32)I get the blues when the days are short, and it's too cold to be in the garden. I don't let myself get too excited about gardening, but this year, I'm gardening by going through my pics from different times of the past season, looking for pics of specific flowers for my blog. Usually, I have dreams about gardening a couple times a month, but have only had one so far. Maybe it's because of the blogging. We have melting snow today, as it's currently a warm 50 degrees. I am always excited when the days start getting longer instead of shorter. I feel that I can survive the winter, and hope for the soil to be dry enough the end of February to plant my first lettuce, spinach, radishes, and kale. I figure that I want to get out while I can, and if it rains or snows later, it's OK, because those seeds are in there, ready to grow when the conditions are right. I have had seedlings get snowed on, and still survive. Besides, I am already planting more when I see they are up. I have a plan to put a tomato plant or two in my new flower bed, and try to keep the leaves from touching the dirt, because mine always get diseased and die, and I don't have room in the veggie garden to rotate them well. I have some holes to fill in different beds, including the area by our repaired shed. I plan to put in some not too tall growing goldenrods, coneflowers, asters, and some kind of summer blooming annuals. Sue...See MoreWhat happens when rat poison is used
Comments (3)elly and joepyeweed - many thanks for your posts! sure hope you can change the thinking of some people at least and that they will pass it on. re; making connections; everyone has learning curves. unfortunately some are slower learners. i had an endless parade of ground squirrels digging up into my small chicken pen, eating amazing amounts of the feed, followed by rats using the tunnels to do the same. so we concreted the floor of the coop, put a layer of dirt on top and solved that problem. i was afraid of using the regular rat poisons around this place so i got one that is called Fastrak and doesn't stay in a dead rat to poison any animal or bird that might then eat it ...BUT... it has NO antidote. i thought i was using it very 'securely' only way up high in nailed-to-the-wall gallon jugs, in the rafters of the garages and in our attic. somehow, in spite of those precautions, one day our puppy showed up with a little half empty Fastrak package, and we spent two days AND nights giving him charcoal every 4 hours, after the vet pumped his stomach and gave him emetics. that whole thing was frightening and hard for all of us, but the vet made big bucks. (i have since found out that ingesting charcoal doesn't help.) Our pup was lucky, wasn't poisoned, but i sure learned my lesson; NO poisons at all here now! i use a little hav-a-heart trap for rats and put the whole thing in a garbage can of water to drown a rat. (keep it under the water for at least 10 minutes!) we have no lawns at our place and the moles only plow around under the dirt and don't really bother anything at all. i have taught the dogs not to dig them up because i figure they are only doing their natural jobs. min...See MoreBad Smell --- Dead Rat?
Comments (4)davidandkasie, Thanks for your post. The smell has been around for more than 2 weeks. My wife is much more sensitive to it than I am -- no surprise, because women are supposed to have a more sensitive sense of smell than men. To me it seems that the smell comes and goes, and I cannot figure out what that fluctuation might be due to. It's not related to when the AC blower goes on. I haven't had the HVAC duct cleaned even once in the 17 years we live here (the house is 23 years old). We were told that it is not necessary. Now I wonder. We do, however, put in expensive filters (FILTRETE) that are endorsed by the American Lung Association, and change them every 3 months as per directions. And our vacuum cleaner has a HEPA filter. Our crawl space has a kind of musty smell, different from the smell in the house that we're worried about. The crawl space is well ventilated. We have a dehumidifier there, but used last about 10 years ago to dry it out after a water leak made a mess. Since then, we haven't felt the need to use it. But I might use the dehumidifier for a few days, just in case the problem is caused by humidity that's seeping in from the crawl space. It wouldn't hurt any to try that. Any other suggestions would be welcome....See More- 6 years ago
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