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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On 12/30/06, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> No, you just use a bigger bucket, like a trashcan. the metal or the
> plastic kind.  Also, you make sure there is enough water in the bottom
> so that the rat cannot get a foothold...no foothold, no jumpy. :)
Ah, yes,  a large trash can would work.Well, now that the poison is
down and consumed, I'll see how many corpses I get out of it. For
mice, I've used a 5 gallon bucket, which I take out to the field to
dump -- it gives the mice a chance and the cats some sport (call me a
bleeding heart).  With my luck, the rats will mostly die in the space
between floors, and I'll be smelling rotting rat for a while. I
haven't found more corpses beyond the first two, but I  know there
must be more. (I don't have the same compassion for rats as for mice
-- I'd rather have snakes lose in the house than rats.)

Marie