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If you have a varmint problem of some type, I would highly recommend using spring traps over putting out DCON or other poison. If you care about killing them ki
by thrower123 7y ago
If you have a varmint problem of some type, I would highly recommend using spring traps over putting out DCON or other poison. If you care about killing them kindly, a big snap that crushes their skull or breaks their neck is better than slowly dying of poison.
More importantly, if they die in your trap, you know where they are and can clean them up easily. There are few things more disgusting than finding a rat or a squirrel that has crawled off into some tight space to die, and sat there long enough in the heat for the flies and maggots to get at the corpse
- koolba 7y agoAlso having dead rats or mice rotting away in a hidden corner literally stinks.
- Jill_the_Pill 7y agoAlso, have a thought for the animals up the food chain, poisoned by poisoned rats and mice.
- astazangasta 7y agoThis LRB bit on rats is a good read: > ‘Rats that survive to the age of four are the wisest and the most cynical beasts on earth,’ an exterminator told Mitchell sixty years ago. ‘A trap means nothing to them, no matter how skilfully set. They just kick it around until it snaps; then they eat the bait. And they can detect poisoned bait a yard off. I believe some of them can read.’ https://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n06/sean-wilsey/some-of-them-can-read https://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n06/sean-wilsey/some-of-them-can-r...