Ridgetop - our place and how we muddle along

[Baymule]

I am laughing! Rats and ground squirrels! They don't stand a chance against these Super Heros, Squirrelinator! and Ratinator! Those are some super duper action heroes ya' got there! Superman might be made of steel, but he don't catch rats and ground squirrels.

 

[Ridgetop]

UPDATE! RATINATOR 5 - RATS 0!

Another 5 have bit the dust. The Squirrelinator is also attracting varmints but they seem to get in and eat the bait then walk right out. DS1 says they are being lulled into entering the trap. Good practice except that they are costing us bait.. I could put poisoned bait in but if the dogs eat the poisoned squirrels they will get sick. I can't risk my fearless defenders - the coyotes are brazenly walking up the road to our gates now. DH saw one the other day and chased it away while the dogs were on the field with the sheep. Last night the dogs would nt leave the front area by the road and kept up their threatening barks.

 

[Ridgetop]

DS1 just came in and said that whatever is not getting caught in the Ratinator is climbing into the elevated rose bed (Graveyard of Lost Hopes) and then tunneling under the Ratinator to eat the bait from the bottom! These are obviously genetically altered rodents with higher IQs than normal. DS1 said he will set the trap on a piece of wood or metal to foil them. If they try to tunnel up they will get a headache from the piece of solid wood! LOL

Tonight he will bait the trap and put it under the house. I heard a large one banging around under the office floor 5 minutes ago.

DEATH TO RATS AND GROUND SQUIRRELS! LONG LIVE RATINATOR AND SQUIRRELINATOR!

 

[Bruce]

These are obviously genetically altered rodents with higher IQs than normal.

And possibly have higher IQs than people who make Ratinators!

 

[Ridgetop]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

HAVE THEIR LITTLE RAT MINDS GRASPED THE CONCEPT? IF SO I AM DOOMED!!!

 

[Bruce]

Speaking of rats ... Odd thing today. I have a plastic cover I throw over the garden tractor in the barn so the birds don't sh!t on it. Nothing special, it came on a pile of lumber when the house was worked on 7 years ago. Today I found a little green "pellet" on it. I recognize it as the Ramik I was using earlier in the year to rid the lower part of the barn of rats. It worked.

Now I never put any of that other than in a couple of chicken non accessible places in the lower part of the barn and haven't used it for several months. How the heck did it get to the upper level AND on the tractor "tarp" which has been put on and off many times since I last used the Ramik???

Is a puzzlement!

 

[Mike CHS]

The nator part of those terms gets a broad use. Back when I just used my Weber grill for smoking meat I bought a gadget that was named Smokenator that turned the Weber into a smoker.

Glad to see that you are getting their numbers down.

 

[Baymule]

@Bruce I have found rat poison in little piles where rats/mice cached them to eat later. Mice come in the house in the winter, this doublewide is skirted and the dogs can't get under the house. So I toss chunks of One Bite under the house and the mice die before they can get in.

 

[Ridgetop]

Another ground squirrel in the trap last night. Tonight the trap goes in the attic. So far 15 rats, 11ground squirrels, and 2 rabbits! Will we get some ripe tomatoes finally? Otherwse, I should have picked them green and made fried green tomatoes and green dilled tomato pickles.

 

[farmerjan]

That is like me with the predators there at the chickens this last batch.... Good for you getting the population thinned down. Hope you do finally get some ripe ones.