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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Sacie, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>After 42 years in pest control, my advice
if for you to go to the grocery store, get a package of what we in the
business, call toss packs. You can toss the packs near the hidden area
where they live, mice are inquisitive creatures, they will find the packs. These
packs contain a first generation anti-coagulant that breaks down the lining of
their stomach. They will bleed to death, I use them in the kitchen and utility
room of my home; we never smell the dead mice. We buy the anticoagulant by the
small case.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>My suggestion to an Architect would be to
wrap the outside joints of the doors, windows and corners with aluminum sheet
metal, before the tarpaper was applied the exterior, being sure to make entries
of pipes etc, clamped with screw pipe clamps. If you were cold and or <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Hungary</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
you would do as they do, find food and warmth.</span></font><font color=olive
face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana;color:olive'>
After bldg is built, go to the Dollar Store, buy stainless chore pads,
pound them with a hammer and punch into the hole, then caulk. </span></font><font
face="Script MT Bold"><span style='font-family:"Script MT Bold"'>K</span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Kenn Brown<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Environment Sensitive <st1:place w:st="on">Pest</st1:place>
Control<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>512 805 7777 (a few days AT&T coast to
coast, cell, toll free, rather than a local land toll line)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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w:st="on">greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org</st1:PersonName>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Sacie Lambertson<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, May 04, 2012 12:10
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Rob Tom; <st1:PersonName
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Green</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Greenbuilding] Pest
Management, mice in particular</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Hey RT, you're just full of neat
suggestions for unwanted critters. All of them ingenious.
Unfortunately the powder to detect foot prints won't work in our case.
Our mice enter through some minute hole in our standing seam metal roof, entry
point unknown. They end up inside however, on the top of a large
beam that supports the gable roof of my office. The area between the
edges of the beam and the triangle formed by the gable is large and wide for a
mouse, or in our case a number, including newly birthed ones
occasionally. It is my opinion, since mice are territorial, we may
sometimes have two groups up there along the 14 ft beam. Certainly at
night I can hear them moving around at each end.<br>
<br>
At one end of the beam, probably near where they enter, there is barely
sufficient space to allow us to slip a piece of paper loaded with warfarin onto
the top of the beam. Sort of a mouse banquet. Ingesting Warfarin
causes critters to seek water<font color=olive><span style='color:olive'> </span></font>so
out they go after they've eaten enough of the bad stuff. For a while I no
longer hear mice scurrying along the beam. Eventually one returns and we
go through the process again. I hate using poison, but it is
effective. Unfortunately mice will sometimes die up there on the beam; I
must then put up with that smell for a few days. <br>
<br>
My problem with the whole scenario is the holes they make in the foam ceiling
insulation in order to get inside the house. Holes that I obviously don't
want in our envelope. Once a mouse discovers such a soft easy
to-move-through entry point, they can make a very large hole.<br>
<br>
Cheers, Sacie<br>
<br>
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