For anyone who wants to use snap traps, I can loan out a plywood box that I
made for ours. It has holes big enough for rats but too small for other
animals. To my horror, I did catch a chipmunk once. But I guess that that's
the down side of trying to play god.
On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 11:29 AM drumzatlibana <drumzatlibana@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Living right next to the construction on Marshall St I know that one of
the first things they did (other than cut 6 trees down
and trim others on the neighboring property line to look like broccoli)
was use rodent traps that sort of lowered into the ground.
I went out immediately to be sure they were not using poison. The guy was
not defensive ( as sometimes they are when a neighbor arrives to see what
the heck is going on) but in fact showed me how the things worked but
somehow they did seem to involve poison but also actually catching the rat?
I was concerned that other small animals might haplessly enter the trap and
be caught or killed.
I also had to wonder if this was just a standard practice when someone
buys a property or if they had reason to believe there were
"undesirable" rodents. The traps were not in place for long and I was not
present when the pest guy returned to check or take them away. So I do
not know the "results". I was also, as Eileen and others note, very
concerned about the food chain and predator issue.
You can also of course note the construction results as you walk past.
That is all I'll say......,
Marytha
On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 11:07 AM Eileen Ryan <
eileenelizabethryan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, traps work. We used a couple successfully in our yard as well.
Eileen
On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 10:23 AM Daniel Grossman <
dangrossmanmedia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The old fashioned rat traps work. Even if it might seem disgusting to
have to clear away a dead rat, it avoids the important concern that
Glorian raises. A couple of years ago, before we got a steel, enclosed
composter, we noticed a hole gnawed in our plastic one. I put a trap in
there and caught a rat. It was no big deal. I wonder whether pest control
people give you the choice of poison or traps?
On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 10:17 AM Sorensen, Glorian <
Glorian_Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thank you, Sam, for calling pest control.
Please note that it is important not to use poison to kill the rats.
Birds, like owls or hawks, will eat the weakened rat, and then die from the
poison. There was just a case the Globe reported about a Great Horned owl
with babies in the nest. The owl was killed by poisoned rats.
Glorian
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None on Hawthorne St.,
On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 10:08 AM Vicki Lee <vicki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yuck! Noooooo
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On Jul 18, 2022, at 10:00 AM, ec a <ecolearch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Oliver.
Sam,
About 2 months ago saw a rat carcass in the intersection of Pearl and
pest control but has anyone else seen rats with the construction on
Lisa Cole
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On Jul 18, 2022, at 9:22 AM, Sam Falkoff <falkoff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
I saw a large rat outside our garage over the weekend. I'll call
Marshall Street?
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