So impressed with how you stay with an effort like this and see it thru! Sounds like something many cities could start using! My concern with letting cats do rat and mice control in a neighborhood setting, is the chance that they might go after a mouse or rat that has been poisoned by a neighbor. Perhaps we could set up a Go Fund Me account for you to have a freezer for your 'Rat Birth Control Bars'. That would at least make having the bars on hand a little easier.
How thoughtful of you re the freezer! I'm thinking of getting a mini one. I don't have room for anything bigger. I believe NYC is using the birth control method. I remember reading something about it. I hate that people poison rats, not only for the rats' sake, but as you say for other critters.
Wow, Sandra, that is dedication! I'm glad you were able to figure out a solution for coexistence. It makes me think of myself cooking for my pets. I hope it doesn't become too much of a burden for you.
Nah, I have it down to a science. I can mix up the bars in the time it takes the oven to heat up. I wash the dishes while the baking happens, and that's it.
Sandra, yes. I'd love that recipe. Just DMd my email. You might be interested in knowing that cotton root bark was the go-to abortifacient in the American South: https://www.amphilsoc.org/item-detail/cotton-root I have also read about its use as a spermicide.
I'm really quite fond of the gray Texas field rats that live under the millet feeders in my vinca bed. (I wrote about a similar community in one of the Cottage Tales.) I see them almost every night when I take the feeders down. Coming into the house is quite another thing, though. Hoping this will cut down on their commuting!
Well Sandra, I found Evolve but not the ingredients. Just says it’s proprietary and safe, but I love your tenacity! We have seen no rats on our patio since we have only suet in a hanging container during the summer and a cat we do not know we have seen catch three. How I love your tenacity! Your take on bugs and animals is similar to ours. We do eat fish and when I have the occasional piece of meat and, being the hypocrite I am, I do apologise for what I am about to do!
Active ingredients: cottonseed oil .0l%; oat flour, cottonseed meal, palm oil, soybean oil, sucrose and citric acid make up 99.99%. Yes, when you feed birds, you have to clean up the mess every night or the rats will do it for you! (Not so with the suet feeder, sounds like). And cats help if they've a mind to.
Wow! Our mouse solution is currently sitting on my lap. ...
Our cats are curious about the rats, but do not try to kill or run them off. One feral cat killed one rat recently.
So impressed with how you stay with an effort like this and see it thru! Sounds like something many cities could start using! My concern with letting cats do rat and mice control in a neighborhood setting, is the chance that they might go after a mouse or rat that has been poisoned by a neighbor. Perhaps we could set up a Go Fund Me account for you to have a freezer for your 'Rat Birth Control Bars'. That would at least make having the bars on hand a little easier.
How thoughtful of you re the freezer! I'm thinking of getting a mini one. I don't have room for anything bigger. I believe NYC is using the birth control method. I remember reading something about it. I hate that people poison rats, not only for the rats' sake, but as you say for other critters.
Wow, Sandra, that is dedication! I'm glad you were able to figure out a solution for coexistence. It makes me think of myself cooking for my pets. I hope it doesn't become too much of a burden for you.
Nah, I have it down to a science. I can mix up the bars in the time it takes the oven to heat up. I wash the dishes while the baking happens, and that's it.
Sandra, yes. I'd love that recipe. Just DMd my email. You might be interested in knowing that cotton root bark was the go-to abortifacient in the American South: https://www.amphilsoc.org/item-detail/cotton-root I have also read about its use as a spermicide.
I'm really quite fond of the gray Texas field rats that live under the millet feeders in my vinca bed. (I wrote about a similar community in one of the Cottage Tales.) I see them almost every night when I take the feeders down. Coming into the house is quite another thing, though. Hoping this will cut down on their commuting!
Wow - impressive! Brava
Thanks!
Well Sandra, I found Evolve but not the ingredients. Just says it’s proprietary and safe, but I love your tenacity! We have seen no rats on our patio since we have only suet in a hanging container during the summer and a cat we do not know we have seen catch three. How I love your tenacity! Your take on bugs and animals is similar to ours. We do eat fish and when I have the occasional piece of meat and, being the hypocrite I am, I do apologise for what I am about to do!
Active ingredients: cottonseed oil .0l%; oat flour, cottonseed meal, palm oil, soybean oil, sucrose and citric acid make up 99.99%. Yes, when you feed birds, you have to clean up the mess every night or the rats will do it for you! (Not so with the suet feeder, sounds like). And cats help if they've a mind to.
Thankyou. All those oils! You have to keep a stock in I imagine and that cannot be cheap. 🐰
My recipe uses only the cottonseed oil, no other oils. No sucrose, no citric acid.