You don't have a pest problem...

**dumpy** · 08-27-2010, 09:31 AM

You have a pest opportunity

**m167ab** · 05-24-2016, 06:47 AM

Pest infestation was a painful experience for me. My home was badly infested and it has taken a long time to get rid of all the pests from my home.

**Buster Highmen** · 05-24-2016, 07:13 AM

Ask Congress.

**Harry** · 05-24-2016, 07:25 AM

Divorce her.

**Kenny Satch** · 05-24-2016, 08:12 AM

DD

**iceman** · 05-24-2016, 08:55 AM

Originally Posted by m167ab

Pest infestation was a painful experience for me. My home was badly infested and it has taken a long time to get rid of all the pests from my home.

Kids?

**m7c4ad** · 03-06-2018, 11:12 PM

Yes, I totally agree with m167ab. Even my home was infested a few years back it was a painful experience I would ever have that was of bed bug bites. To get rid of those bed bugs my parents called professional exterminators to get them out of the house.

**cmcrawfo** · 03-06-2018, 11:28 PM

Originally Posted by m7c4ad

Yes, I totally agree with m167ab.

They have become self aware

**Skidog** · 03-06-2018, 11:30 PM

Originally Posted by cmcrawfo

They have become self aware

Boston Dynamics shit man.

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**liv2ski** · 03-07-2018, 09:12 AM

Tenant states they hear something walking around in the attic. Exterminators have set traps with no results / anything caught. Any access to the home is sealed up tighter than a nuns vag, so what to do? Just throw a few sticks of rat poison in there? Is it possible for the rodents to go up inside the walls, in a 1930ish home? I thought there were cross members between the framing that would not allow that to happen.

**Vt-Freeheel** · 03-07-2018, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by liv2ski

Tenant states they hear something walking around in the attic. Exterminators have set traps with no results / anything caught. Any access to the home is sealed up tighter than a nuns vag, so what to do? Just throw a few sticks of rat poison in there? Is it possible for the rodents to go up inside the walls, in a 1930ish home? I thought there were cross members between the framing that would not allow that to happen.

Many old houses were balloon framed and open from sill to attic. A little water damage near the sill and the red squirrels will open it up and climb up the walls if insulated with fiberglass.

**Jong Lafitte** · 03-07-2018, 09:37 AM

**cmcrawfo** · 03-07-2018, 10:38 AM

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scien...ess-180959484/

Do insects have consciousness? ... probably.

**liv2ski** · 03-07-2018, 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by Vt-Freeheel

Many old houses were balloon framed and open from sill to attic. A little water damage near the sill and the red squirrels will open it up and climb up the walls if insulated with fiberglass.

Googled that and I see what your saying. I guess I need to really examine the property again as I swear I have sealed up ever vent on the house with heavy duty fine mesh screening and see no access points. I think I am just going to throw rat poison in the ceiling crawl space. Bummer is, if they die up there I can't get to them to remove.

**wooley12** · 03-07-2018, 12:04 PM

You will never seal a 1930 house to keep them out. Use the poison for mice or rats. They will die in the wall and the stink from their rotting body will only last for one summer IME

**Game Over** · 03-07-2018, 12:26 PM

I think I recall that mice can get thru a dime sized hole. Rats will fit thru a quarter sized hole.

**Skidog** · 03-07-2018, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by steepconcrete

I think I recall that mice can get thru a dime sized hole. Rats will fit thru a quarter sized hole.

you havent lived until you've had to remove a poisoned rat from its access/egress hole...the poison bloats them...they get stuck and die in place...trust me its super fun...

mice and rats are more troublesome than squirrels. You can create exits for squirrels if you know where they are getting in...chicken wire fashioned into a "tube" that is big on the egress hole and gets smaller towards the end (think cone)...this will let a squirrel out (then can get flat for out..not back in) and then they cannot get back into the tube...extend it out from the access hole maybe 12". Hope this helps...pest control companies make big bucks doing these simple things...i worked for one for a while....ill never use one again likely.

**goldengatestinx** · 03-07-2018, 09:30 PM

Originally Posted by cmcrawfo

They have become self aware

Made me lol. Scary times.

**Thaleia** · 03-25-2021, 02:41 PM

Any pest control Experts here?

Neighbor started keeping chickens last year, and now we have rats in the back yard. Fuck. What a surprise. Saw one last week, todays there were three of them, broad day light, eating seeds that fell out of a birder feeder. So I guess the feeders are coming down. Fuck.

We have a pretty decent squirrel population. I don't suppose there's such a thing as a poison that only affects rats? Shit they just got a puppy too. Many factors here. Fuck!

Any advice besides nuking the coup?!

**riser4** · 03-25-2021, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by Thaleia

Any pest control Experts here?

Neighbor started keeping chickens last year, and now we have rats in the back yard. Fuck. What a surprise. Saw one last week, todays there were three of them, broad day light, eating seeds that fell out of a birder feeder. So I guess the feeders are coming down. Fuck.

We have a pretty decent squirrel population. I don't suppose there's such a thing as a poison that only affects rats? Shit they just got a puppy too. Many factors here. Fuck!

Any advice besides nuking the coup?!

Bb guns still legal in Canaduh? Get live traps, let the squirrels go and kill the rats?

**stealurface831** · 03-25-2021, 02:50 PM

plutonium

**Core Shot** · 03-25-2021, 05:24 PM

Fucking stink bugs
Every spring.
Where do they come from?

**old goat** · 03-25-2021, 05:58 PM

We've had a mouse in the house for months. It sits there and eats poison and looks at me. The poison no effect. Put out a baited kill trap where you don't have to look at the thing. The mouse got the peanut butter and got out alive. Covid isn't the only thing evolving more resistant variants. Next is the old fashioned snap trap I guess. If it weren'[t for hanta I'd leave the thing be.

**MTT** · 03-25-2021, 06:46 PM

Originally Posted by old goat

We've had a mouse in the house for months. It sits there and eats poison and looks at me. The poison no effect. Put out a baited kill trap where you don't have to look at the thing. The mouse got the peanut butter and got out alive. Covid isn't the only thing evolving more resistant variants. Next is the old fashioned snap trap I guess. If it weren'[t for hanta I'd leave the thing be.

?? the sticky traps work pretty good. Really good in my experience. In the days before the cat.
The cat is relentless he sit still staking out a spot all night if necessary

**Thaleia** · 03-25-2021, 07:03 PM

I've had good luck getting rid of mice with the standard mouse traps baited with peanut butter. With kitties about poison isn't an option. I personally feel sticky traps are too inhumane. The way I see mouse infestations is, as a home owner, if they are present it is because of your negligence. Therefore I want to get rid of them as pain free as possible. That said the standard mouse traps don't always work perfectly and not all kills are 'clean' or instant.

riser3 I like that suggestion, thank you. We can get air rifles here that shoot up to ~495 fps. Anything more powerful than that I need to get an actual firearms license, which takes 28 + days (45 is the pre covid average). (that is awesome btw, but maybe that's for one of those other threads). I think I'll try one of these lower powered air rifles for fun. (unlike with mice inside) I would have zero remorse if I shot a rat and didn't kill it. I don't fuck with rats.