Posted on 08/12/2020 9:54:44 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
Have you ever had a mouse problem in your house?
I have a friend who rents a room in some big house...The house is in a big city...
His landlord put some mouse traps in the kitchen area...
My friend saw a mouse on a trap...It was a sticky trap...A mouse was stuck on it...It was not dead yet...
He lived at that house for several years...He never saw his landlord using mouse traps before...
So what is this? The Mouse Report?
So what’s the point? It’s vanity for pete’s sake. Make your point! Why stop midstream?
I’ve used those in the past.
You can just fold the glue paper over and stomp on the mouse.
I recall the mouse trap SNAP! of my early days...
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese......
A single mouse may stray into a home and be quickly eliminated, but that ought not to be the default assumption. Any appearance of a mouse or signs of a mouse (droppings, gnawing, spoiled food) should produce a thorough effort to locate and repair any point of entry.
Just watch a streaming copy of the movie Mouse Hunt. With I believe John Goodman.
The corn is green.
Repeat: The corn is green.
I guess my friend’s landlord might have to use the professional exterminator to deal with mouse problem...
Nope ... Not Goodman.
Cats work. I don’t have mice apparently. Just moles and pointy-nosed shrews and lizards and snakes and baby rabbits and baby squirrels and frogs and birds.
It’s in the kitchen..easy...get a skewer..wooden will work but preferably a big ole long metal one..
Stab the critter on the skewer....
Easy peasy..
Shish-ka-Mickey
I’m a big fan of the “bar” type rat poison.
You can see how much disappears to kill them. They go away to die.
Landlord can’t do anything about other tenants’ habits that encourage rats.
But that tenant can.
Go to the pound and get a rescue kitty.
It’s theoretically up to YOU to take care of mieces [to pieces] in your crib.
No food out, everything cleaned up, traps of multiple types.
Maybe a young hungry cat.
EZ Peezy.
Perhaps, depending on the structure. Modern single-family homes are designed to resist rodents, so entry holes can usually be determined with a careful inspection. Eaves, roof flashings, garages, basements, and any sort of cracks or gaps are the most common points of entry. Or, it could be a single mouse that scurried in at night unseen when a door was opened.
Get a cat. Period. Nothing else is 100% effective.
Eaves, roof flashings, garages, basements, and any sort of cracks or gaps are the most common points of entry. Or, it could be a single mouse that scurried in at night unseen when a door was opened.
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My friend told me that the kitchen was near the basement door...
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