Posted on 06/07/2011 10:18:53 AM PDT by Nachum
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday that it plans to ban the sale of “the most toxic rat and mouse poisons, as well as most loose bait and pellet products” to residential customers. The goal is to better protect children, pets and wildlife. “These changes are essential to reduce the thousands of accidental exposures of children that occur every year from rat and mouse control products and also to protect household pets,” said Steve Owens, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. The EPA also will require that all rat and mouse poisons
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The peasants must not be allowed access to any chemical or drug that actually works.
LOL! I know the feeling well. Although our beagle already had us well-trained by the time the cat came along. Now, they get along wonderfully; whenever one wants a treat, the other is never far behind, tag-teaming.
I bought bug killer fluid the other day, in a gallon, spray jug. It had the name ‘Bayer’ prominently on the jug. It occurred to me that I am now buying pain killers and bug killers from the same killers. Hope they don’t confuse the mixing ...
We rescued her from a warehouse where she had been abandoned, apparently for several weeks, so we were not entirely surprised at her survival skills. She is now a year old, well-fed, and quite content to watch the birds and chipmunks outside until we get home in the afternoon.
That is so sad. You know, the rescued pets make the best ones. I had a dog that I found as a puppy (starving in a graveyard). His siblings were deceased (starved to death). We weren’t sure he would make it but he did and he was the best dog ever. I am so happy that you found her before it was too late. That just makes my day!
It baffles me what hurdle they’re waiting to be attained, to declare them wild-fires. I’m sorry to hear of towns having to be evacuated. I hate to see U. S. Citizens having to endure disasters and their aftermath.
Here are a few links:
You may pick up something at one of them.
http://www.google.com/search?q=arizona+fires&hl=en&num=10&lr=&ft=i&cr=&safe=images&tbs=
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=arizona+fires+2011&aq=f
Hey!
I use Mouse on my hair!
What gives?
My wife and I decided a long time ago that whatever animals we’d adopt, they would come from a “rescue” mission. Our dog is another such character - he had been badly treated when we took him in and it took a long time before he truly trusted us (always expecting to be hit). He still gets a lot of hugs every day. ;-)
Thanks Doughty...
It appears the smoke is crossing several states as well so it must be huge. I would imagine weather conditions would define the danger to a great extent....along with the pace of the fires movement....but from the news story it does seem to be flaring.
Not yet...had a job loss and then new one, college courses and other happenings going on so haven’t done this yet. But will once things are settled again. But am thinking of getting two so they keep each other company while I’m at work.
Not to imply those fires are anything but huge, but I have been amazed at times to see how much smoke can be produced by a fire of even a few hundred acres. Expand that out to thousands of acres, and the smoke become that much more massive.
We’ve had ashes and particulate matter travel at least 25 and possibly up to 50 miles to rain on us at our home in Southern California.
Flying out to Las Vegas years ago, I saw the smog from L. A. at least half the way over, and perhaps as much as 75% of the way.
The scope of these events are interesting to observe aren’t they. The wind patterns must be rather interesting right now, to bring that Arizona smoke as far as they have.
Is there a rat shortage?
Whe I was in high school, my younger sisters had to depart before me in order to catch their school bus. I always knew that one of the cats had left a present on the welcome mat by the resulting screams.
If the cats ever caught a mouse, they never brought it in or near the house. The *rats* that they caught, however, were brought to our doorstep before dawn. Apparently the successful hunters judged that to be an adequate attempt to deliver the gift... either that, or he or she got hungry.
All that usually remained were feet, tails and heads (all oddly arranged and spaced as though still attached to a now-invisible rat torso). I can imagine the cat thinking "Oh, they won't miss just this one bite..." again and again until only the extremities remained.
The dachshund wasn't so neat about it - when she caught a rat it was a bloody, nasty spectacle.
We've always had "families" of cats. We've had some that weren't related to the others but there's always been at least 2. It does help them from being lonely. And you get twice the "fun". LOL
That's funny about the feet too. D-i-L was cleaning and said "What's that?" and picked it up. It was a mouse tail. Yeah. She screamed. :-)
These nuts killed millions of people by banning DDT. They will kill additional people by this stupid rule.
Same here. Good for the chipmunks too. Well, except when she leaves a head in the living room.
But glue traps, which cause the varmints to suffer a lot more, will be legal.
Old fashioned rat poison:
Mix half portland cement and half flour/sugar in bowl.
Leave a bowl of water alongside.
Rat eats cement, gets thirsty, and drinks water.
Terminal constipation.
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