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The rat poison that we buy from the market stall is the black powder. I don't remember exactly the name. What we do is get a bait like a piece of meat but the best is fish because it attracts the rat with its scent. We pour half a teaspoon of the powder on the bait and place it in the garden (the meat is on a piece of clean paper). When not eaten by the rat, we throw it in the garbage can and place another at night. On the 3rd night and the bait remains untouched, that means there are no more pests.
I guess that would work. I think I'd just be afraid it would seep into the soil or something. I've never used rat poison for anything, or poison whatsoever, but I would be afraid of the after effects, personally.
 
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OMG, just read this about the rat poison, and you have cats that roam, the cats can eat the rat poison also.

Best thing is to get humane rat trap and prime it with food, such as peanut butter, then the rat is trapped live and you can dispose of it that way. Take it somewhere.
 
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OMG, just read this about the rat poison, and you have cats that roam, the cats can eat the rat poison also.

Best thing is to get humane rat trap and prime it with food, such as peanut butter, then the rat is trapped live and you can dispose of it that way. Take it somewhere.
This is what we do.
I’m a terrible person and would prefer to shoot rats and dispose of them that way but my family thinks I’m a monster so we trap them and my husband drives them to a wetland several miles away.
 
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This is what we do.
I’m a terrible person and would prefer to shoot rats and dispose of them that way but my family thinks I’m a monster so we trap them and my husband drives them to a wetland several miles away.
I see nothing wrong with shooting rats. my neighbor shoots squirrels. good target practice. Before someone gets all warm and fuzzy about shooting squirrels ----will have to share----on two occasions I had almost tragic events with to cars because of squirrels. My little white sports car---the engine smoked up because some squirrel decided it was a good place to hid nuts, so almost an engine fire. And our big truck its breaks failed because some squirrel chewed the break lines, good thing I was able to stop the truck before I got to the street------had to pay for a tow truck $$$ to get it to the mechanic to fix the break lines $$$$$.
 
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This is what we do.
I’m a terrible person and would prefer to shoot rats and dispose of them that way but my family thinks I’m a monster so we trap them and my husband drives them to a wetland several miles away.
Our biology dept has us kill the animals rather than upset other area balances or create starvation and disease conditions. Use a silencer. I have a gamo whisper in 22 cal.
 
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Our biology dept has us kill the animals rather than upset other area balances or create starvation and disease conditions. Use a silencer. I have a gamo whisper in 22 cal.
My dad was a truck broker and most of what his drivers hauled was grass seed.
You can imagine the rats in the grass seed warehouses.
My sister and I worked in those warehouses every summer loading grass seed bags into trucks.
We become little Annie Oakleys before we were 10 years old :giggle:
 
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Never forget my first sighting of real rats running about in New Orleans down by the dock area. They certainly are large. Which made me realize, be hard for a cat to handle that size of a rat. Guess that is why the Rat Terrior dog was developed. And one time, at a resort in the Dominion Republic, saw some running about on a roof there. SMH. We really don't have any out here in the country. Just have little cute field mice.
 
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Never forget my first sighting of real rats running about in New Orleans down by the dock area. They certainly are large. Which made me realize, be hard for a cat to handle that size of a rat. Guess that is why the Rat Terrior dog was developed. And one time, at a resort in the Dominion Republic, saw some running about on a roof there. SMH. We really don't have any out here in the country. Just have little cute field mice.
Not enough terriers around to make a dent in their population unfortunately.
I loathe rats. I know we’re supposed to believe everything plays a part in this system but I’m with dirt….22 plays its part as well! :D
 
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Just noted @Eeilee , see your from Oregon. Love that coastline, hope to get back for a 3rd time. My favorite place to stay is Sylvia Beach Hotel in Newport. Then I get up to Astoria and enjoy that area, crossing the Columbia river bridge getting up to Washington state along the ocean. Beautiful area.
 
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I used to live in Newport. We’re in the valley now. I’ve lived up and down the west coast and Oregon is for sure one of the prettiest places! Wonderful for gardening here in the valley too.
 
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I used to live in Newport. We’re in the valley now. I’ve lived up and down the west coast and Oregon is for sure one of the prettiest places! Wonderful for gardening here in the valley too.
When I get there, I fly into Eugene, rent a car and drive west straight to the coastline, then head north and first stop is Newport.
 

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