Re: Please Help me with the RAT/MICE problem

On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 22:14:06 +0100, sssmith22@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote
(in article <1152479646.381839.146640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

We have 2 sheds outside in our back yerd. They are quite a distance
from out house and I do not have a problem in the house, but one of the
sheds has been taken over with these critters. we clean the shed out
monthly and do not keep things like paper in there. we store ice chests
and 5 gal buckets etc. Now they have eaten 5 ice chests and a plastic
bouncing horse that we stored in there. they all have huge holes in
them, and have been thrown away as of this evening. The floor is
covers in droppings and it seems to be getting worse. We have placed
several boxes of Decon and we thought the problem was resolved. It was
not until I just read that the mice/rats will eat the poison and get
ill but will not die and then are learly of the poison. we will find a
couple of rats a month in the chicken coop, that is next to the shed,
and we discard of them. this is normally right when the decon is put
out and then they stop dying near the chickens, it could be that the
critters go in there for the water and the chickens just attack them.
Please help me with this problem,, before they enter my other shed
(that has all my husbands tools, fridge, and storage items. we have not
seen them in there yet.



Put down simple mousetraps <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_trap> or get a
cat (remove the poison first, obviously). They will get in the tiniest hole
in your shed.



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