Each of the rat zappers killed a rat Wednesday evening or Thursday morning, so the total is now
rats in truck 16
rats in well house 9
mouse (in truck) 1
ground squirrel (in truck) 1
Andy put the Rid-a-Rat in the truck Thursday. A rat had moved it yesterday, but there was no new nesting material and no rat in the zapper.
Today he’s going to put the motion-activated light in the well house. We don’t want rats destroying things in the truck and well house, but we don’t want to kill them either. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
September 20, 2014
It is survival of the fittest. The creatures have no chance against such technology!
Hopefully the lights will keep them away so they don’t get zapped.
Why do I love reading your tally of the zapped ones & ones that got away?
I think tallies are interesting too. But I would love it if the number of new ones suddenly goes to zero.
is this new? i mean so many of them and as SUCH a problem?
i don’t recall your writing about it before now …
i know you of all people hate killing things. so i hope it gets better!
i’ll hold good thoughts.
and bhb comment ….
oh. LOLOL. incorrigible. LOL.
(always wanted to use that word) 😀
You were ordered to stay off the computer when she was writing about it.
tammy,
I hope it gets better too. When we had a garden and the animals were eating everything, Andy started trapping and killing them. I was so upset I stopped going up there, so we spent a lot of money and built the greenhouse. He had his garden and the plants and rodents were safe.
The Rid-a-Rat and motion-detecting light are a lot less expensive than a big greenhouse!
PS In the past the rat zapper got only one or two rats a year. This year was amazing. Probably because we had so much moisture and the vegetation flourished? The rabbits were abundant too.