As crazy as it seems Ford used vegetable oil during the production of their wire insulation a few years back.

I always embed hardware cloth into the hole for good measure before foaming it.If you catch one in a glue board, you can use vegetable oil to free it once outside without harming it.I've always used the snap traps with PB as @Victor S. suggests, but the most important thing is to find their means of access and block that. 

They shave the paint down to bare wood and then you let your painter go to work.

I would give them a few very safe electric space heaters until they buy their oil.

If hardware is not a bad style just paint it with oil rubbed bronze spray paint.

Our area is hit hard by low oil price and there are recent layoffs in the nearby hospitals too.

My husband's W2 job is in the oil business, we give $25 gas cards.  

Im looking into getting an oil boiler (9-10yrs old) converted to a gas boiler.

In my experience, folks who say things like this are:1)Guru snake oil salesman touting huge fantasy profits with zero risk trying to lure the next sucker into their scheme, or2)Are so full of themselves and enamored with their own investment greatness that they have bought into their own hype and actually believe that what they are doing has no market risk and can't lose, or3)Both 1 & 2 above.If I can alert newbies out there that anyone claiming to be immune from market forces and can't lose money is not to be trusted, admired, emulated, or even taken very seriously, then I have added HUGE value to this forum.

The professional power washer said they might be oil as well.