Forget Anti-Freeze; Forget D-Con; Try Fly Bait (2025 Update)

snipped-for-privacy@home.org (Way Back Jack) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal-september.org:

Sure it isn't your own s*it?

I can't believe someone would kill raccoons but allow a cat to run wild. If I was going to kill something it would be the cat. They are the exotic pests.

No problem for me to believe it. Cats are part of humanity. Raccoons are the enemy.

Cat-haters just don't get it. Cats are pest-control agents. Working animals. Part of humanity. Adorable.

Cats are great for people who like rats. They are the only animal that can reproduce faster than a cat can eat them. That is why we have legends like Touser the cat that killed (pick a number) of rats and never stemmed the infestation.

The cat kills all the other animals and leaves the food supply for the rats which will quickly move in to exploit it.

I'm cat owner, have been for over half a century. Inside cats, outside cats, cats that we've adopted and cats that have adopted us.

But Part of humanity? Adorable? Gimme a break.

My current cat kills more rabbits, chipmunks and birds than any real "pests".

Watching her batting a wounded chipmunk around, finding dead rabbits in the garage and cleaning puked up half-birds off the driveway is far from "adorable".

None of this means I want to get rid of her, but she is by no means "part of humanity". No cat, dog, fish, turtle or lizard I've owned ever has been.

I do believe Bobo is on to something. High fructose sody pop is killing the rest of us, why not groundhogs and raccoons. Open a six-pack, and leave it for them, and let them get obese, type II diabetes. That'll fix their wagons. It's the real thing ;O))

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Especially when they spray urine on your herbs or poop in the flower bed. Simply adorable.

replying to Way Back Jack, MamaMel wrote: Did you try the Golden Malrin with soda mix and did it work? I have a colony of groundhogs living under my shed/garden and destroying my veggies and yard! I've put out bowl of apple cider mixed with antifreeze- don't know yet if it's working...too soon to tell.

replying to MamaMel, Timely Dude wrote: Wait seven years like Way Back Jack did and you won't have any groundhogs either. I don't that they're that long lived.