Rats
Anyone know a good way of keeping rats away by *smell*?
Poison is not good because they die on the lawn and the dawg gnaws it and then *he* dies.
We don't do cats no more: they're the surefire anti-rodent stuff but they get loony and tear the place apart, or they get killed by the dawgs.
Mama is full of old wives' remedies: tar, mint oil, carbolic acid (what?) but so far no silver bullet and I'm not allowed to tote the Webley at meals which is when I see them scurrying over the trellis.
Cake of olive oil soap for the solution.
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This only works in a small area but it does work well.
Take a can with a lid (or bottle with a tight neck). Punch a hole in the lid, insert a wicking cloth (like a torn towel or old wash cloth. Fill the can with ammonia and put the lid on. The "wick" make ammonia last longer and be safer.
The ammonia is a fair facsimile for concentrated cat urine which the rats take to mean there is a serious cat presence which they will avoid.
I used this to good effect under my car to keep the rats from nibbling on soft engine components.
http://www.metrokc.gov/HEALTH/env_hlth/Rats.htm
Good Luck.
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LOL. I printed and pinned it to the noticeboard and everyone loves the phrase.
Lulu scribbling it down: "I *know* I don't have rats - I just want a 'serious cat presence' ".
And they all tell me I *must* now buy that cake of olive oil soap and despatch it to Ashers.
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