Flour & cement powder rat poison - queries (2023 Update)

[Bob Villa]

What about mine..."D'CONcrete is whot make it work mon!"

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People who put house cats out can't possibly care about their pets any more than people who put their five year olds out to play on the freeway. Domesticated cats are not ferral, they have very few outdoor survival skills if any. Most folks who are annoyed by their neighbors pet cats will shoot them. .177 pellet guns make no noise and leave no identifying traces.. more cats die from gun shot than from any other cause. Anyone who puts a house cat out because they think they are harming a sentient creature by keeping it indoors is a pinhead with a lower IQ than any cat. And cats don't smell, not unless they are ill. Exuding no odor is just one way how nature made felines one of the best hunters on the planet, which is why they also bury their waste, the only animal that does. Naturally the lazy bastards that don't regularly clean the cat box are who smell, not the cat. Humans smell... and I'm positive if I ever visited your terlits I'd about die from the stench.

[Billy]

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God, where to begin?

(1) Citation other than your backside, please. Can you name a study supporting this view?

(2) Learn spelling and meaning of word before you use it. Feral (F-E-R-A-L): in a wild state, esp. after escape from captivity or domestication : a feral cat. Domesticated cats are not feral by definition.

(3) The leading causes of death in cats: Feline diabetes, AIDS, and Kidney failure.

(4) People will let a cat out, because that is where the cat wants to be. I'm sure with exercise, you could grow up to be a pin-head yourself.

(5) "Exuding no odor is just one way how nature made felines one of the best hunters on the planet."- Citation please to support this statement.

Cats have scent glands along the tail, on each side of their head, on their lips, base of their tail, chin, near their sex organs, and between their front paws. They use these glands to scent mark their territory. When the cat rubs you, he is marking you with his scent, claiming you as "his." Too, he is picking up your scent. Cats rub up against furniture or doorways for the same reason - to mark the item as "his". (Urine spraying is also a territorial marking, by the way.)

[Billy]

(5) And cats don't smell, not unless they are ill. Exuding no odor is just one way how nature made felines one of the best hunters on the planet, which is why they also bury their waste, the only animal that does.

In feral cat colonies, subordinate cats cover their waste, while dominant ferals leave it conspicuously uncovered. Most indoor cats bury their waste, possibly to display subordination to their humans. Sometimes in multi-cat households, however, the dominant cat will leave waste uncovered to indicate his status.

Shelly is our group's version of Ruppert Murdock's Fox News. The more you listen to him, the less you know.

[CJAD]

All of a sudden this becomes an argument about cats... WTF!

[TROUTREPUBLIC.COM]

WORKS VERY VERY WELL. old farm trick to save your cats and dogs from poison. I use about 25% CEMENT OR GROUT . MICE DONT SMELL WHEN DEAD AAS THERE IS LIME IN THE CEMENT.

[Kevin Kirkpatrick]

replying to Gas Bag, Kevin Kirkpatrick wrote: Tile grout will work too. It is very effective but I don't know how you can know where they will die. I would put out straight flour for a week the add cement. The lime in cement helps with smell somewhat . I never add anything to it as I don't want it to spoil and smell. They est it just fine as is.

[Kevin Kirkpatrick]

replying to jellybean stonerfish, Kevin Kirkpatrick wrote: Cats work well also as rat and mice preventers. Especially outdoor barn cats who live outside all the time

[Kevin Kirkpatrick]

replying to Gas Bag, Kevin Kirkpatrick wrote: I would out it outside around the house. They will find it I think.

[Gilla Badaloo]

replying to Frank, Gilla Badaloo wrote: I have done it before. Jamaicans always do this and its a real killer, lol, I just set some as well. I have to do it like once every 3 years. So now is a bit later than usual but I saw a mice and I have to get rid of it. The point. The instant they consume the mixture, they do realize something odd and just like us, we want something to flush it down, so they search, i normally set a container cause I am a nice rat killer. Yes you may put cheese and meat to attract them, It is just an additional treat. Oh, the smell, get prepared, its either you deal with the smell or you deal with leptustirosis. I choses smell. I allow my pup to search and then we keep a memorial.

[Kevin Kirkpatrick]

replying to ransley, Kevin Kirkpatrick wrote: THEY ARE SELLING IT. CEMENT...AND FLOUR....

[Kevin Kirkpatrick]

replying to Brooklyn1, Kevin Kirkpatrick wrote: Living on a farm you have barn cats that live outside year round even in cold climates. They are great hunters and the only issue is they get the song birds too at times.

[Kevin Kirkpatrick]

replying to Gas Bag, Kevin Kirkpatrick wrote: They can smell the flour from a long ways away. You have to understand they are busy creatures and go quite a ways in search of food. I place it in dry areas under trailers, along the side of the house, in the garage and barns. Usually put out a pan of water too. They can smell that a long ways too I believe.

[Frank]

Rats and mice do not have a mechanism for throwing up. I've seen them tested for poisons and stuff can be funneled down their throats but they cannot throw it up. A pet would probably throw up something bothering them.

I think rats and mice will also lick powder off their feet and DDT used to be used as a rodent poison by sprinkling their travel routes.

[Harry K]

I got rid of all the mice and rats that infested this old farmstead. Kept packets of D-Con placed where pets couldn't get at them. Still keep them placed around and in the house, the engine compaartment inthe truck and in the trunk and cabin of the cars.

Nice thing about D-Con is that the victims do not smell, a minor musty/mousy odor for a day or two is all there is even if they die in the house.

[Kevin Kirkpatrick]

replying to Gas Bag, Kevin Kirkpatrick wrote: Works extremely well. I go more flour to cement if they are reluctant to eat it. Grout works fine.

[Robert]

replying to Gas Bag, Robert wrote: This recipe works, I tried cornmeal ( 1 teaspoon) mixed it with 1 teaspoon of hydraulic cement because I had some at home. Put it out in the deck where I saw their droppings. In a day or two at the most, I got two of them drowned in my swimming pool skimmer. It works very well. For those with pets, put it in a mason jar, or something they can't get into. The corn meal may also attract ants, so I used Diatomaceous Earth to kill them. Just sprinkle some of that on the ants and they dehydrate and die. But for killing mice, this mixture works very well and its cheap.

[Snuffy "Hub Cap" McKinney]

I'd like to try this out on roof rats. I have one of these empty bromadiolone containers. The hole is supposed to be small enough to keep squirrels, etc., out.

Cylinder is 14-in long, 4-1/2-in OD with one 1-7/8-in dia hole in one end, cut offcenter, near the left side. It has two semicircular pieces of thin metal with a 1-7/8-in hold cut in each one that lines up with the main opening. They cylinders are laid on the side, with the opening at the left side. Sketch...

[Sassy]

replying to Brooklyn1, Sassy wrote: I apologize but I couldn't help but laugh at what you said to that person. But I do agree with you

[Sassy]

replying to Billy, Sassy wrote: Lol, that was really funny but you told them