Painted Rat Scares Others Away

Painted Rat Scares Others Away MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Pest Animals 30-6-11 There's an old saying that if you have rat problems you should catch one, paint it white, and then turn it loose. The other rats will disappear. I was recently reading an Amish magazine about a farmer who tried the idea. He and his boys trapped a rat in the barn and then poured white paint over it before setting it free. A week or so later their dog started catching rats out in the fields around the homestead where they had never seen rats before. And, at the time his story was written, he had not seen any signs of rats around the barn for six weeks.

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