Rat: feast, drown, bury, retrieve.
A few weeks ago, we planted beautiful new flowers all over the front yard with some night lighting, including in some large, tall flower pots, planters, etc. It was adorable until...
About a week later, a rat or rats feasted on them. Some just had flowers eaten, while others had roots dug up.
Then, the rat needed a drink to wash all the feast down. There was a large, tall bucket with water in it. The rat drank. The rat fell into the bucket of water. The rat could not get back out because the sides were too slippery. The rat
drowned.
We now have a dead cute but naughty rat.
Rat gets buried about a foot deep near where it dined.
A few days ago, the rat emerged from the grave.
Dead but not eaten. We assume a coyote, dog, or cat dug it up.
We now have a dead, smelly from the start of decomposing dead rat in a flower garden.
We are now thinking of pouring bleach on it, digging about three feet deep, burying it again, and hoping it will not emerge again. Or do we need to build a sealed coffin so it will not reemerge?
A few years ago, rats ate into a locked steel shed used for old file storage. The rats got in through the wood flooring and ate all the papers in the files. We trapped the rats and redid the shed base with concrete.
Previously, rats or other rodents dined on my new Honda Accord's yummy (soy-based) wire harness, which cost $1500 to replace. We have a carport, not a garage.
We did ask a cute squirrel hanging around the next day, but he/she just wiggled its ears and scampered off. Besides tasty soy, which some car makers started using in 2000, rodent teeth are constantly growing, and they need to gnaw on stuff to wear them down. It's a compulsion; they gnaw on anything softer than their teeth.
I now have my rodent army recruited and on duty. I didn't have a cat or friendly guard owl. However, I have two small sonic and flashing light boxes under the hood. Plus, on the side of the car, an electronic predator noise maker that chirps, growls, and other rotating sounds and a bright flashing strobe light next to the front tires (but pointed away from the road). Both only go on at night. No more chewing on wires, but it didn't deter the rat in front of the home from eating the new flowers.
Hopefully, it will not have friends who will come since we have replanted new flowers. This has never happened before when we had various plants in the same places.
A few weeks ago, we planted beautiful new flowers all over the front yard with some night lighting, including in some large, tall flower pots, planters, etc. It was adorable until...
About a week later, a rat or rats feasted on them. Some just had flowers eaten, while others had roots dug up.
Then, the rat needed a drink to wash all the feast down. There was a large, tall bucket with water in it. The rat drank. The rat fell into the bucket of water. The rat could not get back out because the sides were too slippery. The rat
drowned.
We now have a dead cute but naughty rat.
Rat gets buried about a foot deep near where it dined.
A few days ago, the rat emerged from the grave.
Dead but not eaten. We assume a coyote, dog, or cat dug it up.
We now have a dead, smelly from the start of decomposing dead rat in a flower garden.
We are now thinking of pouring bleach on it, digging about three feet deep, burying it again, and hoping it will not emerge again. Or do we need to build a sealed coffin so it will not reemerge?
A few years ago, rats ate into a locked steel shed used for old file storage. The rats got in through the wood flooring and ate all the papers in the files. We trapped the rats and redid the shed base with concrete.
Previously, rats or other rodents dined on my new Honda Accord's yummy (soy-based) wire harness, which cost $1500 to replace. We have a carport, not a garage.
We did ask a cute squirrel hanging around the next day, but he/she just wiggled its ears and scampered off. Besides tasty soy, which some car makers started using in 2000, rodent teeth are constantly growing, and they need to gnaw on stuff to wear them down. It's a compulsion; they gnaw on anything softer than their teeth.
I now have my rodent army recruited and on duty. I didn't have a cat or friendly guard owl. However, I have two small sonic and flashing light boxes under the hood. Plus, on the side of the car, an electronic predator noise maker that chirps, growls, and other rotating sounds and a bright flashing strobe light next to the front tires (but pointed away from the road). Both only go on at night. No more chewing on wires, but it didn't deter the rat in front of the home from eating the new flowers.
Hopefully, it will not have friends who will come since we have replanted new flowers. This has never happened before when we had various plants in the same places.
