Fw: [at-l] Mice!! (was Mice (is Mice))

[icw@xxxxxxxxxxx (Clark Wright)]

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a resident black snake is the best remedy of all - look, Ma, no
chemicals! :)

thru-thinker


J Bryan Kramer wrote:

>Oh bosh, this stuff is ubiquitous in our environment and if there were any
>hazards associated with it there would be folks dropping like flies. Since
>no one has seen any such mass kill-offs, especially among the janitorial
>staffs of the world, the evidence is overwhelming that here are no such
>hazards. The same logic that applies to DEET. I wasn't aware that naphalene
>was still in use for moth balls but based on that compounds polynuclear
>aromatic structure I would be slightly more cautious about it.
>
>Bryan
>
>"Si vis pacem para bellum"
>
>>I don't know about them being the same as nerve gas (I doubt
>>that) but they
>>aren't good for you. Check out
>><http://www.howstuffworks.com/question210.htm> including the links for the
>>lists of what they can do to you.  OTOH they seem to depend on
>>concentrated
>>build up of fumes to do harm.  If you had them in your pack or in small
>>bags attached to your hung food in a shelter the fumes would dissipate and
>>probably not pose much danger to you.
>>
>>Saunterer
>>
>>
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