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On 2025-12-11, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 06:14:01 -0500, c186282 wrote:
>
>> Was in the middle of posting here some hours ago when a small RAT
>> suddenly scurried across my floor.
>> Never had one indoors.
>
> A rat or a field mouse? I've never seen a rat around here although there 
> are plenty of field mice. It's not very good rat habitat.
>
> I leave the rodent problems to the Cat Force. 
>
> When I was a kid we dried some squash/pumpkin seeds in the fall and that 
> attracted mice. My mother had a thing about mice so my father put down 
> some poison. It was some sort of phosphorous concoction that smoked as you 
> spread it on the bread. No more mice.
>
> Fast forward to just before Christmas when there was a cold snap. The dog 
> had a house out in the chicken house but we let him in the cellar. Of 
> course he found the long forgotten rat poison. Scratch one beagle. 
>
> No way would I use poison. I'd rather not kill the hawks, eagles, cats, 
> raccoons, and other things that might eat a dead rat. 

In my part of the US, there are two products (that appear to be
exactly the same thing but with different labeling) called MouseX
and RatX.  The active ingredients are salt and corn gluten.  Zero
risk of harm to children, other humans, dogs, cats, other
wildlife.  The corn gluten coats the cilia in the rodent's
digestive tract, which signals the rodent's brain that it is full
of food and water, so the rodent starves and dehydrates itself to
death.  The effect happens ONLY with rodents of the rat/mouse
type.

A few years ago, some small rodents got into the crawlspace under
my house and from there to the space around the shower stall.
Ever night, they would have a party scritching around the shower
stall.  After I found MouseX, I removed the chrome cover around
the control valve unit and poured the product into the hole,
which put it on the 2x4 footer of the wall.  That night, the
party sounds were different than earlier.  The next night and
essentially every night since, nothing but the sweet sounds of
silence.

-- 
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@jacob21819.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

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Mr. Ratt Screws Up c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-10 06:14 -0500
  Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-10 13:10 +0100
    Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-10 21:21 -0500
      Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-11 11:33 +0100
        Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-11 23:27 -0500
  Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2025-12-11 00:18 +0000
    Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-11 09:33 +0000
  Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-11 03:38 +0000
    Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2025-12-11 04:20 +0000
      Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-11 03:53 -0500
    Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-11 01:16 -0500
      Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-11 11:43 +0100
        Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-11 23:30 -0500
          Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-12 12:09 +0100
          Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-12 11:16 +0000
            Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-12 13:44 +0100
              Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-12 15:24 +0000
            Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-12 20:02 +0000
              Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-15 19:16 +0000

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