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Old 06-11-2025, 08:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Accidental1 View Post
Been seeing them recently at our house too mainly in the common area ground cover. Called the district and they sent someone to look but ultimately told us they’d do nothing. Called Dean’s (pest/lawn contractor) and they put down a bait station. Haven’t seen any since but haven’t really been looking for them.
This is the worst thing you can do because the poisoned rats are consumed by our local wildlife and the poison then kills the birds and other critters up the food chain.
Bait stations were banned where we moved from due to all of the carnage happening to the wildlife.