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Old 03-30-2008, 10:55 PM   #14 (permalink)
sniper1958
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Originally Posted by Cyrano View Post
We did find one thing that worked consistently. Mix equal parts of instant mashed potato powder and cement and put it out in pie pans someplace where it will stay dry, preferably in a low humidity area. Put another pie pan of water nearby. Rats cannot vomit. Once they ingest something, they must digest and pass it, or die. They would eat the potato powder-cement mixture and drink water; and in essence their guts turned to concrete and killed them. They couldn't develop an immunity to it because it wasn't a poison in the clinical sense. The mix cost next to nothing and was 100% reliable. As long as you don't have children or pets that could get into it, it works just fine.
That's a great idea - thanks! Thankfully, we don't deal with rats nearly as much as we did in central Florida. Mice eat the blood thinner and just go and bleed out.
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