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Title: Can't purchase those little bags of rat poison anymore (d-con)
Post by: Cool Runnings on November 12, 2016, 04:59:00 PM
Guess I'll go to fleet farm and buy 10lb pail for $20. 

More tree-hugger laws, eh. :thewife:
Title: Re: Can't purchase those little bags of rat poison anymore (d-con)
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on November 12, 2016, 05:04:43 PM
 Probably because too many people were feeding them to friends and relatives for fun and profit.
Title: Re: Can't purchase those little bags of rat poison anymore (d-con)
Post by: oldbike54 on November 12, 2016, 05:14:33 PM
Quote from: Sasquatch Jim on November 12, 2016, 05:04:43 PM
Probably because too many people were feeding them to friends and relatives for fun and profit.

 Yep , doubt if "tree huggers" had much to do with it , besides , traps work better , no stinky rat carcasses stuck in walls or under your house .

 Dusty
Title: Re: Can't purchase those little bags of rat poison anymore (d-con)
Post by: lucian on November 12, 2016, 05:19:18 PM
Would you like those to go, or eat them here.    Rodney Dangerfield
Title: Re: Can't purchase those little bags of rat poison anymore (d-con)
Post by: fotoguzzi on November 12, 2016, 05:36:06 PM
do you really have a rat problem? I can't even catch a little mouse in my garage..
Title: Re: Can't purchase those little bags of rat poison anymore (d-con)
Post by: OlDogface on November 12, 2016, 09:09:32 PM
I went the natural route and borrowed my girlfriend's cat.
Title: Re: Can't purchase those little bags of rat poison anymore (d-con)
Post by: charlie b on November 13, 2016, 07:06:53 AM
I use the 'blocks'.  Mice won't carry them off for other animals to get to them like they did the little pieces.  Packrats take them into their nest, which is also good for where I live.

And for mice they make little plastic containers so you can put the poison inside.
Title: Re: Can't purchase those little bags of rat poison anymore (d-con)
Post by: EldoMike on November 13, 2016, 07:19:00 AM
I use peanut butter scented glue boards....catches spiders and mice
Title: Re: Can't purchase those little bags of rat poison anymore (d-con)
Post by: leafman60 on November 15, 2016, 07:15:52 AM
There is some kind of popular drug prescribed for blood thinning that is basically the same thing as DCon as I am told by my medical friends.

Can you just get a prescription?
Title: Re: Can't purchase those little bags of rat poison anymore (d-con)
Post by: Nic in Western NYS on November 15, 2016, 07:54:10 AM
Quote from: leafman60 on November 15, 2016, 07:15:52 AM
There is some kind of popular drug prescribed for blood thinning that is basically the same thing as DCon as I am told by my medical friends.

Can you just get a prescription?
coumadin/warfarin
Bristol-Myers Squibb loves this idea!
Title: Re: Can't purchase those little bags of rat poison anymore (d-con)
Post by: jreagan on November 15, 2016, 07:58:50 AM
EPA regs

https://www.epa.gov/rodenticides/canceling-some-d-con-mouse-and-rat-control-products (https://www.epa.gov/rodenticides/canceling-some-d-con-mouse-and-rat-control-products)
Title: Re: Can't purchase those little bags of rat poison anymore (d-con)
Post by: Moto Fugazzi on November 17, 2016, 07:30:16 PM
I put a tray full of those pellets in my basement every winter. Last winter, an entire tray was emptied one night. I refilled it the following day, and that was quickly emptied. I figured I had some kind of super rat in my basement, so I put out some spring loaded rat traps. The next morning, I caught a regular sized mouse, and that was the end of that.

When spring came, I went to roll out my bicycle from the basement and noticed a huge trail of deacon all the way up the stairs. That little bugger emptied the trays and somehow climbed my bike and stashed the pellets away in the under seat bag I accidentally left open!
Ken
Title: Re: Can't purchase those little bags of rat poison anymore (d-con)
Post by: fotoguzzi on November 17, 2016, 07:55:03 PM
great story.. wonder why the mouse didn't set up in the air box of your V11?
Title: Re: Can't purchase those little bags of rat poison anymore (d-con)
Post by: Moto Fugazzi on November 17, 2016, 08:16:20 PM
Quote from: fotoguzzi on November 17, 2016, 07:55:03 PM
great story.. wonder why the mouse didn't set up in the air box of your V11?

I figured they would, so I put mesh screens over the snorkels.
Ken
Title: Re: Can't purchase those little bags of rat poison anymore (d-con)
Post by: fotoguzzi on November 17, 2016, 08:43:39 PM
keep traps set, I hear they like to chew wiring..

(http://preparednesspro.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/one-tough-mouse.jpg)

(http://www.jcehrlich.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/cs3-cheese-240715.jpg)

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