Wednesday, March 9, 2022

 mar 9 2022

 Boston --- is the 13th most rat infested city in the us, (per orkin)   ,,  chicago is #1...followed byt the usual. nyc.. etc...  but i was shocked at #13....  well ..... the real problem is we humans  are about #13 on the  intelliugence scale. with rats at #7, they are ahead of us. not only that but feral pigs (150 pound rats) book in at #11 and they are on thier way north/..i have alot to say about rats-- every honest farmer does... they are a wildlife that does not need to be protected..  
people who so royally say  keep  your trash and food out of the way...-- i have anyone yet to even consider what  ipswich rats seem to prefer.... RIDEX...    that stuff to update your septic system. -- now come on orkin... lets have a real list of what rats will eat/prefer......  start with my toyota. 50k miles..... -- apparently the wires were covered with a soy material-- so the reason  all those little lights came on  on my dashboard-- were not only my inability to understand internet but the wires were all naked--so any toyota n the top 13 cities is suspect for being considered "totaled"  due top soy material... may as well smear the wirers with the peanutbutter everyone says to put on th t traps...  they  are smart enough to avoid peanut butter....

 we found out about ridex when i bought 4 boxes for our 4 tanks and it landed in my tool shop for 2 weeks before i got around to  distributing-- and i came to 4 totally empty cartons.... not one tiny grain left. --- oh... how can i forget. teh second most preferred...chinese fortune cookies..
 now... lets redo the thinking. peanut butter, raw bacon, grape jelly and rat sex attractant.  that we are advised to buy ( by the sellers of peanutbutter and rat attractant)   jest aint cutting the mustard....and we should know better....

back when-- or more so now that  i am in the electric wheelchair offered by home depot and market basket....

This is absolutely nothing negative about Home Depot but that's where I first noticed going down the aisle of nuts and bolts the dogs were absolutely fascinated by the cartoons on the floor that supplied the little bins without some bolts in them I don't know what they're eating there well I'll bet you that's not on  orkin's list.. we humans are all generated to believe the rats eat garbage and I'm sure they do but they eat an awful lot of perfectly good food all carefully wrapped in cellophane like the Chinese fortune cookies... we have one wrap that saves to prefer those as somebody came to a big pile of cellophane wrappers and didn't recognize what I initially were it was about two weeks worth of Chinese food..    funny thing was I never noticed they were gone they were consumed in the corner As opposed to the wires in my Toyota which were consumed on the spot..  now Mr Orkin.  could you possibly rethink list of things hauled off and consumed elsewhere as opposed to consumed on the spot because it awful lot of that stuff we don't consider food in the first place I would never think of chewing on the wires of my Toyota but apparently the rats like that soy material I have a sneaking suspicion Toyota is not going to do that again but they have an awful lot of cars on the road which woodwind have a wire to replaced they're not getting an awful lot of publicity on that score but it's true I think I did read the statistic of anything from 2013 on That's an awful lot of cars I wonder if that's enough for Toyota to figure out what sort of anti rat pill.  like Donna what's the funny smelly stuff to keep rats away excuse me what's the funny smelling stuff to put in your closet funny smelling popery no no bad bad smell yes supposed to put it in your closets got on your car to keep your rats away I have no idea what you do it's something like Clorox oh it's a pill it's a oh oh wait not cedar rocks you know it's 4 letters or something oh come on you put in your closet in your car to keep the rats away.  like like mothballs are supposed to work I don't don't see any success but Toyota should be trying to figure out something like that so that anybody who brings a car in for service should get one of those little things planted in the car by all those wires... so that maybe you wouldn't recognize the fact that you only had to replace one wire at a time in the meantime that is one place I would look for something which might succeed... and it's never going to be on the market advertise by this is the stuff that kept the wires Hoover Toyota going or whatever they're not gonna advertise it but    I bet that product exists now.  do tool Toyota companies efficiency even if it is 2020 hindsight.

 

If nobody has invented it yet---- then there's my hot tip of the day---  you'd sell millions

 

My other rat story of the day.  is I think it would be wise for people to read up on the feral pig situation..  it's not just Florida and Louisiana it is Tennessee big time. and upper New York which is probably how apparently one feral pig was struck by a car on route 2 in Massachusetts during the Christmas rush .   Feral pigs have approximately the same statistics as rats like they can have a litter of 700 every 20 minutes and are mature greeting adults at 14 days whatever.   pigs are like humans they can eat almost anything and apparently have a lot of the same viral capabilities..

 

I'm always reading about how they use pigs to test/grow vaccines and things.. Well if their system is that like ours then probably the other end of it is like they can catch what we can catch along with the monkeys but let's not bother with that. now I'm in a hurry

 

I have a goal to get the Christmas litter of puppies out in my  car around 9:00 o'clock for a quick run to the fairgrounds..



Good morning Carlene , just giving you a heads up that Mr Grey and I will be making an appearance at the farm tomorrow ( Thursday ) and Friday. Looking forward to seeing you. Scott and Grey.