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    I need help getting rid of rodents!

    Location:  Sebastopol but near Cotati
    Hello folks! Does anyone know of a good but low-cost person or company that can get rid of rodents in a house?
    I live in Sebastopol but near Cotati and Rohnert Park and I would appreciate some feedback so very much.
    I'm a senior on a fixed income and I really need some help. Thank you very much!
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    Re: I need help getting rid of rodents!

    Location:  Sebastopol but near Cotati
    For mice and rats, the best bet is a wooden paddle trap baited with peanut butter. The wood absorbs the oil and you only have to bait it once and they keep on a comin. It's nasty and cruel, but it works.

    Old Granddad

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    Re: I need help getting rid of rodents!

    Location:  Sebastopol but near Cotati
    Please don't suggest something 'nasty and cruel' when dealing with any type of rodent or any other animals. Never, ever. Be humane, always. Here is an article you might find with some interesting things to do and #3 is a good one. https://dengarden.com/pest-control/H...to-Rat-Control


    Thanks.


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    Re: I need help getting rid of rodents!

    Location:  Sebastopol but near Cotati
    Solution # 3 is send them over to annoy your neighbor or someone else. If you don't want to be nasty and cruel, just learn to live with them. I wish that folks with your ideas would also consider applying them to human animals. They deserve to be treated as well as the rats. Maybe you could work on the slimeballs who shot the 2 cops and get them to change their ways. I'll bet they were the only 2 good cops on the force.

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    Re: I need help getting rid of rodents!

    Location:  Sebastopol but near Cotati
    I entirely got rid of mice with peppermint oil! They apparently hate the smell. Ever since I put it out on the counters on cotton pads, no mice. I don't know about rats.


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    Re: I need help getting rid of rodents!

    Location:  Sebastopol but near Cotati
    Live traps are available from western farms in Santa Rosa, cost about $10/cage, metal cages/traps re-usable.

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    Re: I need help getting rid of rodents!

    Location:  Sebastopol but near Cotati
    If you like cats, I recommend getting one or more. They can be powerful rodent killers, and those they don't find tend to vacate the premises. It's grisly, but so is poison!

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    Re: I need help getting rid of rodents!

    Location:  Sebastopol but near Cotati
    =*OR*=

    You could look into getting a Mongoose as a House-pet. You could name it "Ricky-ticky-tavi". Just don't ever let it out of the house. It might not wish to return, and they can really do a number on the local ecology...

    Just kidding...


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    Re: I need help getting rid of rodents!

    Location:  Sebastopol but near Cotati
    Quote You could look into getting a Mongoose
    or a ferret, which is more at home this continent. You call it Shredni Vashtar if you want literary allusions.
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    Re: I need help getting rid of rodents!

    Location:  Sebastopol but near Cotati
    If you just want the rodents to leave the building as it were, and the building has reliable 110V-AC electrical power, you can use an electronic rodent repellent device. Basically it emits an unpleasant sound audible only to rodents.

    Friedman Brothers used to sell them; hopefully they still do. You want the one that is the size and shape of a box of cigarettes (not the small round type). Make sure that the device rotates the frequency of the sound it generates so the critters do not get accustomed to it and resume residing in the building.

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    Re: I need help getting rid of rodents!

    Location:  Sebastopol but near Cotati
    PLEASE do NOT use poison on rodents, trapping while more labor intensive, is better for animals. Poison will kill any animal that eats that rodent after it dies somewhere. While poison kills the target, there is a chain of death, when you trap, the corpse will not kill a bird of prey, scavenger birds, raccoons, fox, bobcat, and the rest. I toss the dead rodents on my roof, they are gone quickly by the birds. Rarely do they stay more than 2 hours.

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    Re: I need help getting rid of rodents!

    Location:  Sebastopol but near Cotati
    I'd contact Forgotten Felines of Sonoma County:
    1814 Empire Industrial Ct. Suite G, Santa Rosa, CA 95403
    (707) 576-7999

    Or:

    Humane Society of Sonoma County
    5345 Hwy. 12, Santa Rosa CA 95407
    (707) 542-0882

    Both of these organizations have felines looking for gainful employment in the rodent control field. Some offer advanced field hunting and disposal experience, who only require a warm place to sleep, some fresh water, and occasional kibble to nibble if their natural all-raw food diet doesn't produce. Midnight Kitty, our second adoptee, would run TOWARD our Belgian Malinois to get sniffed when coming in from the hunt. In 11 years, we only cleaned the litter box ONCE, otherwise she'd ask to go out (even in the pouring rain) to take care of business.

    Our first adoptee was Pumpkin, a third-strike tenant @Humane Society for attacking other cats AND DOGS. Before he moved in, we'd hear the rodents in the walls, occasionally in the ceiling, and see them on the counter once in a great while. Pumpkin came home, and it was only a matter of days before he started earning his keep, and eliminating the rodent population.




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