[Noisebridge-discuss] [Build] Fauna for 2169

[deleTed]

Jenkies!

So it turns out that rats are indeed innately afraid of cat pee, unless they
are infected with a brain parasite called Toxoplasma gondii, whose primary
host is cats...  Nothing is ever simple, is it?

http://www.livescience.com/animals/070402_cat_urine.html

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:32 AM, deleTed <arbzed at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think it is going to be possible to physically prevent rodents from
> entering the space.
> In my experience poison and traps, though they do result in reduced numbers
> of rats and pungent smells behind walls, aren't very effective as
> deterrents.
>
> I like the robot idea.  What about something that just patrols the space
> smelling like cat pee?
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I've seen rats in the new space, as have a number of other
>> people.  They're pretty ballsy too.  One of the concerns is that they
>> use stairwells to come up from lower levels.  We'd have to have good
>> doors on all the ingress points, including the elevator shaft, if I'm
>> figuring correctly.  I think this is the concern most people have.
>>
>> Christie
>>
>> ---
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>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:01 AM, dpc<weasel at meer.net> wrote:
>> > Quinn Norton <quinn at quinnnorton.com> writes:
>> >
>> >> Did I miss something? Is there a rat problem?
>> >
>> > i've heard things scurrying around when i was coming up, but there were
>> > definitely nests/poo in the walls that we took apart.
>> >
>> > \p
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