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To: catfish1957

How did you keep the rats with furry tails from eating your pears? You mean you made an example of one?


17 posted on 12/06/2014 4:12:43 PM PST by Bigg Red (Congress, do your duty and repo his pen and his phone.)
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To: Bigg Red
How did you keep the rats with furry tails from eating your pears? You mean you made an example of one?

Yep, picked one off with a pellet rifle in July. Got my ladder out and tied him by his tail to one of the higher branches I could get to. He dried out in a few weeks, and was flapping in the breeze, and not another bushy tailed rat bothered my pairs.

Kind of macabre, but I was getting frustrated.

18 posted on 12/06/2014 4:24:08 PM PST by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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It does work. My dad pots a couple of the little suckers with a pellet gun at the beginning of the summer and has no more trouble with tree rats the rest of the year.

Deer blood is a great fertilize and will warn the other deer, "something bad happened here."

19 posted on 12/06/2014 4:31:04 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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