• its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    Have you tried one of those essential diffuser things, and use peppermint. Powerful smells like that “blind” rodents because their main sense is smell. We also couldn’t get the tap dancing chipmunks to get out of the attic. Tried everything, peppermint essential oil worked for us. Tried the things made for rodent repelling that smells, but they don’t really work as well. Lol

    Poison can kill nontarget animals, pets, owls, hawks, foxes, etc.

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      12 hours ago

      We’ve tried fox urine. Wolf urine. Moose urine. Getting cat hair and leaving it all around the attic. I’ve lost count of all the nonpoison methods we’ve tried. These fuckers are smart, but the are also hungry.

      They flee the [agricultural product] fields when the farmers hire a plane to spray for probably everything. Then they don’t leave unless we kill them all. When there’s poison out we keep an eye out for dead rodents to remove the carcasses, since I hear some of those poisons can stay in the environment for like 60 years and I’m putting them outside the environment dammit.

      Edit fuck you autocarrot