| Title: | Meower Power is Valuing Differences | 
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| Created: | Sun Feb 09 1986 | 
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     I've found a company in Indiana that sells a pet-safe rodent killer. 
    (Unless your pets are mice or rats, that is)
      It's a form of vitamin D. It seems that rats and mice have system
    that cannot regulate calcium levels in the bloodstream very well. The 
    presence of vitamin D is interpreted by the rodent's system as a need 
    for more calcium....a physiological quirk that proves FATAL!!
    
      Ther is NO toxic biuldup in the rodent's system, so no danger to a
    cat or dog if they happened to find one.... I've always been afraid to
    put out things like "D-con" or other rodent poisons for fear one of my
    babies or someone else's would eat a poisined carcass....
    
      the company is:
    
         Natural Gardening Research Center
         Highway 48--P.O. Box 149,
         Sunman, Indiana 47041
    
    John McDonough
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| 2250.1 | AIMHI::OFFEN | Thu Feb 23 1989 17:19 | 4 | ||
|     Sounds good, but how long before it takes effect in the rodent and
    kills it??
    
    
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| 2250.2 | Here's the dosage and prices | CPDW::MCDONOUGH | Thu Feb 23 1989 17:27 | 21 | |
|      
     Re .1
     According to the writeup, it takes 2 to 4 days. A lethal dose for
    a mouse is 2.8 grams.....for a rat it's about 14 grams.
    
     It sells as follows:
    
     #8783...Box of Pellets, 8 pkts,
             30 grams per packet.............$7.60  (for rats)
    
     #8784...Box of Granules, 24 pkts,
             10 grams per packet.............$19.95 (for mice)
    
      I don't know why there's such a wide difference in the price, and I
    intend to find out.... the quantity's the same in both cases...
    
      I also understand that there is no pain involved in the death of the
    rodents....the systems simply shut-down slowly and the rodent simply 
    goes to sleep...
      
    JM
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