And then what - do you kill them? No. You take them, and release them into the trees. Only now, they don't eat coconut anymore. Now they will only eat rat.
Posted on 12/01/2018 1:27:41 PM PST by Chickensoup
LOL, there’s only so much tech can do!
that is the one with the little scarf hat.
LOL, there’s only so much tech can do!
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Bet there is big money in it...lol
I support full rodentcide.
My husband is woefully unmotivated to take care of trapping vermin in his mancave barn where he works on old cars.
I give him my kill report from by the AC unit every day ( “got another mouse last night.”) but he lets his barn go to the mice.
Last week I finally dumped a bag of Tomcat bars in a big live trap in the barn ( to keep the dog away from the bars) , since he won’t set traps. We don’t take the dog in there anyway but wanted to be safe.
I told him he’ll have hundreds of mice if he doesn’t go after them like I do.
You have to be diligent and keep at it. I check every day, get rid of the dead and re-bait.
At our old house ( moved in August) I had mouse traps set all year in our garage. This garage seems OK so far.
165 posts is very admirable.
Too bad we were kicked into the dairy section!
Have a good night, must stop reading my tiny iPhone screen.
Taking back the world from the Rodents.
There is a reason they are called vermin.
LOL. Yes
we have done well. considering Admin Moderator’s lack of understanding of the importance of killing vermin.
sleep tight.
And then what - do you kill them? No. You take them, and release them into the trees. Only now, they don't eat coconut anymore. Now they will only eat rat.
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!
You actually paid $10 for this? You can build your own for free with a empty pop can an a wire coat hanger.
Do you have a link?
they are dead and drowned when I send them to the snowbank
That is funny!
Cats do get in to a lot of trouble.
I had a non-mousing Siamese once and live caught a mouse and put it in the bathtub with the cat. The cat just groomed himself.
It was a totally decorative animal.
Hahaha...a “decorative cat”!
Talking about mouse traps...
I am reminded of Admiral Willis Augustus “Ching” Lee Jr. who is largely credited with being the first naval officer in the world to grasp the potential of radar for the direction of naval gunfire, and to put it into use. (He was a distant relative of Gen. Robert E. Lee...he was called “Ching” Lee due to his fondness for the Asiatic fleet and his time in China.
He understood radar from the ground up, including all of the specific electronics involved and knew how to fix it.
A brilliant guy, who also won 7 medals (5 gold, 1 silver, and one bronze), all in shooting events at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. (These were team shooting events)
When the US Navy sent him to Guadalcanal in late summer 1942, he drilled his ship in radar guided gunnery which would later be credited with damaging the battleship IJN Kirishima (a beloved warship in the Japanese navy) which had to be scuttled shortly thereafter due to the damage.
His men loved him, and to pass the time in the wardroom, Admiral Lee himself built from scratch a device with a meat cleaver and an electronically activated solenoid that they placed in the overhead of the wardroom along a route frequently travelled by the bold rats.
It was a contest to see who in the wardroom had the best eye-hand coordination to press the button, activate the solenoid, and bring the cleaver down to chop the rat in two just as it passed over the device!
Now THERE’S a mousetrap!
It sure beats carving whale tooth objects and constructing matchstick buildings.
My sister gave me a beach towel with that cartoon on it, around 35 years ago. Wish I still had it.
Once one of our cats got flypaper stuck the length of her tail, with resulting panic similar to what you describe. Nobody enjoyed the removal process.
i know, it’s a line from the 007 movie Skyfall
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