Posted on 08/12/2020 9:54:44 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
“And who hasn’t wanted to set fire to some great building?”
LOL Thanks to Kargol and Janet, now we know.
Some mouse problems are worse than others.
oh i thought this was another life story installment.
No, but I do have one hell of a rat problem. I investigated, and found they were getting in through my TV. So I keep it tuned to the least rat-infested channels I can find, and plan to take more direct action on November 3rd.
I had a moose problem in my house....
After it bit my sister, I put down sticky traps.....
It didn’t work....
Used those with great success. That hair trigger does require care when setting though.
Set out six traps for the field mice that had gotten into the house. Three loud snaps in middle of the night woke me...checked the traps...3 mice with broken/crushed necks. Reset them and by morning found 2 more.
Didn’t bag them though. Carried them to the edge of the woods in a coffee can and tossed them around....feral cats, foxes, squirrels, birds, etc. take care of the remains rather quickly
The mouse can't just lick, has to bite the peanut and then he is done for.
The rooster crows at midnight.
Repeat: The rooster crows at midnight.
My brother has a friend that has the bucket style trap set up at his cabin for long periods of time. IIRC the bucket is filled with antifreeze to help decompose the mice.
After some period of time (A few weeks? All winter?) he dumps the mice soup into the woods.
Hmm - as I write - the anti-FREEZE is used so the mice don’t just land on a block of ice in a Northern Minnesota cabin in winter.
I have a cat.
Yeah, the early bird gets the worm, but the early worm gets turned into bird shit.
Why do you feel the need to put down men with urinary flow problems to make your point?
You are apparently a urohestitantphobe.
Sad that we have people on FR who denigrate those with urinary hesitancy by culturally appropriating the term.
Roger the Shrubber would understand all too well.
/s
I’ve read that Irish Spring soap deters mice. I doubt it but some folks swear it works.
That was the advice (free!) from our pest guy on solving a rat (ugh) problem in our garage. Trouble is they continue to chew through the rubber at the bottom of the garage door to get in.
I’ve tried aluminum tape (for duct work?) and steel wool - but they still get through. It hasn’t been as bad since I got rid of the various food items I had stored in the garage.
Years ago it was really bad. Actually got two of them with my pellet gun and a flashlight. Sat still in the dark until I heard them. Figured out where they were - got the pellet gun in that direction.....hit the flashlight ....pop....dead.
A couple of years ago, my brother came to visit one night. My wife had gone into the bedroom and closed the door. When I asked why, she said she had seen a mouse in the house and didn’t want it coming into the room.
I told her I would take care of it, so my brother and I went out to get some mouse traps. It was about 22:00 so there was no place open near us except for a small convenience store, and they only had the glue traps. I didn’t know where the mouse was, so I bought a package of ten, and set about half of them at various locations, including one right outside the bedroom door...then we figured we would do something else while we waited for the mouse to blunder onto one of them.
We have a yellow cat, but he is an indoor cat and a completely inept hunter. I wasn’t worried about him messing around with the traps, because if something smells or looks weird, he might sniff or stare at it, but he won’t touch it. That’s just the way he is.
My brother and I went into a room to work on a computer problem, and had completely forgotten about all this, when we heard thumping, smashing, things being knocked over followed by the sound of running up the hallway at full speed, then the cat door to the garage flopping.
We peered from our seats out the door to the room at the hallway, then looked at each other in confusion exclaiming “WTF was that?” and before we could move, we heard the whole noisy sequence of events in reverse, the cat door flap-a-flapping, the crazed running, things being knocked over and broken, then silence again.
This whole sequence with sound and commotion from one end of the house, into the garage, and back again in a whirlwind, probably took no more than 10-15 seconds.
We cautiously got up and looked into the hallway...nothing. I looked in the room at the end of the hall, and there was the yellow cat, on the bed, with a glue trap planted firmly on his tail and ass. He was panicked, but completely motionless, as if he was afraid to move.
I walked slowly over, and sat down next to him...his tail was on the trap with a portion of his butt. I tried to see if I could remove it, but it wasn’t going to be peeled off.
It had to be pulled off.
If you have animals, you probably know about talking to them as if they were people. I said “Okay, buddy. I gotta pull this thing off, and it’s gonna hurt.” And then I just yanked it.
It had to hurt like hell, but honestly, he didn’t even flinch! Just amazing. The glue trap was full of cat fur pulled out by the roots.
Apparently, with the bedroom door closed and my wife inside, the cat wanted to get in. (She is kind of a deity for him. He likes me, but worships her) Anyway, he went outside the door to settle in and wait until it opened so he could go to sleep on top of her, and he sat right in the trap.
When he ran in panic, he must have glanced back and seen this terrible rectangular monster following closely behind him, increasing his panic, making him run faster, and smash into more things until he simply didn’t know what to do. Every time he looked back, he couldn’t shake it!
Ever see the Pixar movie “Cars”? They have a scene in it where one of the cars gets tangled in barbed wire and ends up wrapping it around a statue of an old car and dragging it behind him. Every time he looks back, thinking he is outrunning the ghost of a car, it seems to be gaining on him, causing him to panic even more!
Same dynamic!
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