airguns, rats and respect

[Timothy]

I lived in a 250 year old New England farmhouse for eight years that was riddle with mice, squirrels and who knows what.  I don't think we had any rats but can't be certain.  I fought the hoards the entire time.  One weekend I snared about 50 mice and didn't even make a dent in the population.

At any rate, control your dog and do what ever you can to annihilate the disease ridden vermin.  The amount of filth and nastiness that a family of rats can leave is not worth worrying about how humane you need to be.  If you have to club the little bastards, shoot them, poison them, take a hatchet to them, burn them out, smoke them out but get them out of your house.

A cat is a good thing to have around sometimes.

No offense Haz.....

[tombogan03884]

Had squirrels in the bedroom wall years ago, I pulled the door casing off and fired the shot gun in there.