Furthermore, they will go off and die under my deck, then decompose and stink me out of the place.
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 3:53 PM, fmiser via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Curly wrote: > > > > I've been feedin em rat poison. works well in > > winter and spring, but not when they can invade the > > garden. Need a good pellet gun for them and hasenpfeffer. > > The trouble with poison is it doesn't stop with the pest. > The natural pest controllers will probably die too. That is, > the owls, hawks, coyote, bobcat, etc. that eat the pests will > usually target the weak and slow - that is the > poisoned-but-not-yet-dead pest. After ingesting a poisoned > chipmunk or two the predator also dies. Which certainly > doesn't discourage the pest population. > > Yet there are times when poison seems the only effective > method. I guess I'm saying "please think a moment and be > sure before using poison". > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
