Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 07:26:04 -0600 From: "Susan Farrington" <sfarrington@ridgway.mobot.org> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg791$foo@default> Subject: Poisoning squirrels
Andrew wrote:
> If you can't use traps, get peanut butter and mix in some rat poison.
> It will work. Make small balls of this bait and leave them next to
> your plants or in the places only squirrels go. They have a keen
> sense of small and will smell the peanut butter easily from a long
> distance. They come running over, eat it and go away to die.
> This way you do not leave poison all over the place for any animal
> to
> get into, you only get the squirrels.
Please remember that dead squirrels don't just disappear: some other
animal WILL eat their carcass (a hawk, a vulture, a coyote, etc). So
that poison WILL affect another creature, and even another, as that
animal dies and some other animal eats it. You are killing multiple
animals when you use poison in this fashion. So PLEASE... find other
means to get rid of the offender. How about a pellet gun?
Susan Farrington
Missouri Botanical Garden
P.O. Box 299
St. Louis MO 63166-0299
susan.farrington@mobot.org
(314)577-9402
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