<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi all, it's Dale here,</div><div><br></div><div>I've had I don't know how many people ask me to post this. Wendie asked me for it privately and then she asked me to post it. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times, serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12pt; ">Here's the message I sent. This has worked not only for us but for most of our neighbors at this point as well. I left out a couple of tips, those being:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12pt; "> </div><div
style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12pt; ">1) bait the traps with walnuts, works better than peanut butter and really easy to get on there</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12pt; ">2) it's a myth that there is a swarm of rodents if they are on the inside. If they are in the building there will be a mating pair which protect their turf, and possibly young ... but only two adults.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12pt; ">3) For the vents under the house what we did is buy steel loovers that go OVER the screen the rodents have compromised and screw on with a screw on each corner. They cost 99 cents and have worked all these years. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;
font-size: 12pt; ">4) For the attic vents (yes there are there too) I used caulk to reattach the screens to the frames as removing and replacing those can be difficult. As stated before..... it's cheap and it's permanent and it works!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12pt; "> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12pt; ">Good luck,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12pt; ">Dale<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: times, serif; "><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font size="2" face="Tahoma" style="font-size: 13px; ">----- Forwarded Message
----<br><b><br></b></font><br>We had them when we bought the house 15 years ago. Eliminated and gone more than a decade now. They are getting in via your attic or vents. For sure. We replaced every single screen vent to the garage and crawl space. And then we used a ladder to find every place the roof has different angles that meet up. Under the eaves we found a hole you could stick your hand through. Filled those with steal wool and covered with stucco patch. Used mechanical traps to get rid of the pair (they were rats) and then plugged the last hole<br><br>Btw if you don't want to do the work call exterminators until you find one that will guarantee to get rid of them without poison. They are out there and they do cost more but the rodents won't come back that way. <br><br>To give you an idea of cost my friend bought her house at the same time and had the same problem. She spent $800 and
achieved the desired result. My husband and I did the work ourselves (my husband did the traps those are nasty) and we spent less than $50<br><br>Take your pick and good luck<br><br>Dale </div><div><br></div></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="2" face="Tahoma"></font></div></div></span></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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