05-30-2015, 10:07 AM
I have spread a thick layer of mulch around in several locations around our yard.
Something has been digging small holes about 2" to 3" wide by 3" to 5" deep around in the mulch.
I'm certain it is not pigs.
I thought it might be rats, because I had caught a few in traps around our kitchen waste composter last year.
I've been putting out the bromethalin rat poison bait chunks in order to kill off the rats.
Something has been eating them up out of the bait boxes like they were candy, as fast as I can get the boxes rebaited.
Then, I built a "third-world" rat trap out of a 5 gallon bucket, a piece of wire and a small plastic bottle, baiting it with peanut butter.
Something ate the peanut butter and evaded the trap.
Today, looking out the kitchen window, I watched a mongoose saunter across the yard around to the bucket trap.
He jumped up to the top edge of it [I had removed the wood ramp that I had placed to access the baited bottle.], and stretched out to check the now unbaited bottle without falling into the bucket.
I'm beginning to think my digger about the yard might be a mongoose.
So, my question:
Will bromethalin bait kill mongooses, or would that be mongees?
Something has been digging small holes about 2" to 3" wide by 3" to 5" deep around in the mulch.
I'm certain it is not pigs.
I thought it might be rats, because I had caught a few in traps around our kitchen waste composter last year.
I've been putting out the bromethalin rat poison bait chunks in order to kill off the rats.
Something has been eating them up out of the bait boxes like they were candy, as fast as I can get the boxes rebaited.
Then, I built a "third-world" rat trap out of a 5 gallon bucket, a piece of wire and a small plastic bottle, baiting it with peanut butter.
Something ate the peanut butter and evaded the trap.
Today, looking out the kitchen window, I watched a mongoose saunter across the yard around to the bucket trap.
He jumped up to the top edge of it [I had removed the wood ramp that I had placed to access the baited bottle.], and stretched out to check the now unbaited bottle without falling into the bucket.
I'm beginning to think my digger about the yard might be a mongoose.
So, my question:
Will bromethalin bait kill mongooses, or would that be mongees?
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Was a Democrat until gun control became a knee jerk, then a Republican until the crazies took over, back to being a nonpartisan again.
This time, I can no longer participate in the primary.
Was a Democrat until gun control became a knee jerk, then a Republican until the crazies took over, back to being a nonpartisan again.
This time, I can no longer participate in the primary.