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14. Rats are real problem here too.
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 05:25 PM
Jul 26

I have thinned them out greatly but still we have tons of them some of my liberal neighbors
don’t like to use bait because they are worried about the feral cats eating the rat bodies with
the rat poison inside the rat corpse.

I have devoted much of my life to nature and ecological restoration and people don’t get that
we need human actions to help biodiversity and agriculture.

When I was 20 in S.E. Ohio @ Ohio U. I had some friends who were in the Ohio National Guard
and one of them was a local good old boy and we lived @ the edge of town and when the subject
of ground hogs and we had one living under our house came up and he looked @ me and said, “Son
you are gonna have to shoot it.” To which I said it isn’t doing anything its fine to which he said,
“So you are going to have to shoot it” and walked away. And when I saw him few weeks later I told him
him he was right I had to shoot it. The little fucker was eating my marijuana plants.

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