> The card was thicker and had a heavy waxy coating on inside. Also Rats=20
> and Humans don't eat the same stuff.
> Rats don't like Celery or peaches, but like all cereals and also sweet=20
> corn. They are not so fond of peanut butter as mice are, but do like fat.
>
> I find mice especially like yellow pvc. They were careful not to eat the=
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> copper screen.
> Rats seem to prefer organic materials to PV
>  =20


About 25 years ago we had a rat problem in the old house we lived in. I=20
bought some DCON rat poison.  I took some of the packets of poison and=20
set them out.  I checked the places I had put the packets. They were all=20
gone.  When I went to get more the complete box of poison was gone.  I=20
bought another box and the same thing happened.
but the rats were gone.

When I talked to an exterminator about it his explanation was the the=20
rats were breeding and they were taking the cardboard to build nest=20
with.    This was confirmed  later when I removed an old shed next to the
house and found remains of the colony.

OLD BOB
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