<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Have been using hot peppered covered seed available from Wild Birds, Olympia food Co-op, and probably other places, that rodents will not eat, or at least avoid. Not all is available in all forms but some, and our rat population has decreased pretty dramatically. We do have a pesticide company coming but do not allow anything that will make to rats toxic to coyotes, raptors, corvids or our dog. Just a suggestion. </div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">Kristin Stewart</div><div dir="ltr">Olympia<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 17, 2023, at 5:45 AM, Tom Benedict <benedict.t@comcast.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">We’ve tried to minimized out bird->rat feeding by adding a tray under our suet cakes to catch much of the waste that is dropped by the feeding birds. It may have helped able bit. We stopped feeding with birdseed years ago. <div><div><br></div><div>The bird control rat bait looks like a very appealing alternative. A similar approach has been used some places for mosquito/malaria control, although I haven’t followed the outcomes.<div><br></div><div>Tom Benedict</div><div>Seahurst, WA<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 16, 2023, at 09:20, Alan Roedell <alanroedell@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="auto">Interesting article. If you feed birds, you're feeding rats. What's to be done?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 16, 2023, 2:28 AM Dan Reiff <<a href="mailto:dan.owl.reiff@gmail.com">dan.owl.reiff@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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