How Do You Eliminate Mice In Outbuildings-A Green Solution?
There are numerous problems with poison: you have to purchase it and you can’t always control which animals will eat it. But consider this, which may be one of the biggest issues. A mouse eats a poison pellet, but doesn’t die right away. He runs off into a field or toward a creek in his weakened state, and is spotted by a winged predator. The falcon or hawk swoops down and gets his little snack and has now ingested the poison. It’s not enough to kill him, but do we know what kind of damage it does? Meanwhile he processes the rodent and leaves the remains somewhere along the way, poison and all. The poison seeps into the surrounding area and makes its way into the groundwater supply. But it’s only a pellet, you say. How many mice and how many pellets? How much illness and cancer rates have increased over the years? Can we honestly say this isn’t a contributor? Even if the mouse doesn’t detour through the bird, it dies somewhere in the wild and leaves the poison behind. Here is a green s
