feb 11 2022
rats 17- humans 2 ----for all of mass....don;t be shocked-- and in spite of all the attention i got with. 5 vehicles yesterdayi will be very upset if they can think of something i should have done by now and have not. what was so insulting was to have one "inspector" notice the 3 inch round hole in the garage door and very proudly say " see that is how they are getting in... you must cover that and you problems could be solved"
that was the level of discussion. -- these people were not here to discuss and learn.. they would be in. command of this ship as soon as they found out what the rudder was for.
this whole problem with rats is nation wide- and in mass it is normal size rats -------tho one 200 pound feral rat was killed here on route 2 last month.
people are beginning to pay attention-- the last encouraging thing is the rat birth control food -- i will try.... i ordered 3 units quickly...
i certainly do not know everything about rats- but i know some things. the last infestation of rats was when they dug up the partridgeberry property for the developement... we had hundreds of rats running the fences between barn and laundry... details like... we had 8 bags of horse food delivered weekly and by the time i went to dump the 8th bag it was empty. 50 pounds .. in a week.... you want to apply that to some corn farmers numbers...- we snap trapped and got control eventually i was younger and more agile. and the owls, and fishercats did their part...-- there were things i did "off label". like backing my car up to a tree where i had seen a rat hole... and stuffed an extension to my exhaust pipe in the hole for a while.
most noteably. these were not poisoned-- happily living on grain---wildlife ate them... and i packaged them and froze them in the meeting house freezer and ran the "frozen rodent delivery company". with george myers help rehabilitatiors, snake people etc loved our non poisoned rodents.
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we were fine for years with semi normal control. -- a snap trap once in a while. owls and cats -- seemed to stay at a reasonable level.... untilthe fallof 2021 when the house had too manyvisitors. so .. on amazon. i bought 4 cases of rat traps from nov to jan1. and people sent me a huge variety of ones to try...
and at the moment. i think i have only 10 traps left... so we are catching them.. and we have hired an exterminator-- who is using our type traps and they have caught about 1 a week the guy is younger and can bend...
my overnight report from heather... who is keeping track.. says we are down to 4 rats who come out overnight. - so we are getting there..
the problem is-- for all of mass... these are not stupid animals- and i think i am reduced to 4 rtats who know exactly what those traps are. and until i figure out somethignelse, i am not going to catch those... my latest concept is to train the remaining 4 to come to a specific spot and trap in conjunction with that...
and i have ordered 3 of the birthcontrol "kits"
and i finally got my "hog rings to maked small cages in whichi can put traps so pups dpnt get intot hem....
