Rat control

I love this Craigslist rat control ad. He was featured in our local paper too.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/grd/5360192827.html

I forgot to post the local article:

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/PressDemocrat/News/story.csp?cid=1863515&sid=555&fid=181&gallery=2319042&artslide=0

I presume its the dogs doing the work? Does't really sell themselves well with the not very clear ad.

A rat terrier and or a dozen barn cats sure does make a difference on a place. We got down to 3 sickly tom cats years ago, and the varnits overran us. Got some new cats and they multiplied, and maybe 1 in 4 cats will pick out a territory on the farm and hunt it every day. Not every cat is a good hunter, but those that are sure work hard. Took then a while but they cleaned things up quite a bit.

Had an orange cat, man she would light up and make a bee line for the corn crib when I started up the tractor with the grinder on it. She would be there waiting that was her building, and she knew where to sit.....

Had a Tom cat, his territory was the drainage ditch bank, he traveled the pasture fence every day, if he brought a striped gopher home with him we assumed it was his bonus catch, as he would have had the first one he caught in a day.

My very old momma barn cat wrecked her front wrist this summer, she still gets around ok but she can't hunt with speed any more. Her spot was the barn, I see more activity there. Someone is going to have to take over her route.

A momma had kittens in my newest shed a few years ago. 4 of the desendents prefer staying there now, don't mind if they are locked in over night it is their home. Combine and grain truck don't have any damage on them now since that started.....

Funny how critters are.

Paul

Rats will eventual get wise to poison but they never get wise to cats. Problem around our area is any cats that are allow free range of the place is eaten by coyotes. Tough to keep a cat that isn't locked indoors.

I worked in Nevada Iowa in '03. The man that did the roofing on the project told a story of his experience with rats. He had worked for a traveling corn shelling outfit in his teen years. The story he told was on a farm where the buildings were separated by the township road. In this case there were cribs on both sides of the road. He said when they shelled the farm side cribs the rats came out and migrated to the other side's cribs. The following day he said his boss showed up with 3 push mowers in his truck. After setting up the sheller and starting out on the next cribs the boss told him to take the mowers and set them in front of the empty cribs with them running at low speed. As the cribs were shelled down the rats ran for the familiar cribs that were now empty and were intercepted when they dove under the mowers.

You dont idle the mowers yoou run them wide open cause at idle one rat will kill the engine. BTDT

If rats see their own kind dying, they leave.

This is a great thing he is doing. I wish he was around here.
Article on the Rat Killer

Graigs list ad with pictures of rats killed

Best rat killer is a boy with a box of .22 shorts.

That's some big rats there.