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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on November 07, 2013, 07:15:40 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/11582599
Oh my.
Warpy (72,523 posts) Wed Nov 6, 2013, 11:21 PM
To catch a mouse
Well, it's that time of year again and my 20 year old cat will sit and growl at a place she's heard wildlife but she's too old to do much more than that.
So I started to experiment. The spring traps are out because my manual dexterity and weak joints can't cope. In addition, I hate touching mouse corpses because they carry a lot of really horrible diseases here in NM. The glue traps work beautifully, but you're stuck with a panicked mousie trying to chew his leg off to get off the glue. Not good for the mousie or my own emotional equilibrium.
I put out electronic traps a month ago before it got cold enough for mice to come in and managed to zap a few desert cockroaches. Yes, they are that big here. I pulled them up and forgot where I put them until today.
I started to hear mouse noises a couple of days ago and the cat was growling. So I experimented.
Low tech, the toilet paper roll precariously balanced on the edge of the countertop was the first. Mousies were smart this year and just rotated the tube to get the cream cheese. Then I put vitamin bottles on either side of the tube and caught two mice that way. Live mousies went into the wheelie bin with the week's garbage to gorge themselves in mouse heaven before the Sanitation Local bore them off to glory this morning.
The third mouse was zapped 20 minutes after I put out an electronic trap baited with peanut butter. Disposal is easy, just open the door and drop the corpse in the garbage.
I will continue to keep the electronic traps out, even though I've only seen evidence of the three mice and they're all gone.
The bottom line is that somebody did make a better mousetrap. I can recommend these highly:
after which a photograph of some plastic boxes
The Kai primitive, from southernmost Texas, who cheated a young kid selling a pick-up truck, and in turn discovered kharma.
Kali (36,036 posts) Wed Nov 6, 2013, 11:26 PM
1. the plastic snap traps are a LOT easier than the wood ones
and a lot cheaper but those do sound effective
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I thought these people didn't believe in the death penalty. I guess it's okay to kill animals as long as they're not animals to be put on the table to fill their bellies.
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I would imagine the warped primitives sits nearby, gleefully listening to the screams of mouse agony.
The warped primitive is sick, and an idiot.
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I thought these people didn't believe in the death penalty. I guess it's okay to kill animals as long as they're not animals to be put on the table to fill their bellies.
OMG! Call PETA stat...........
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[youtube=425,350]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKMBk3js7e0[/youtube]
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The youtube said it humanely kills the mouse, a shock is humane?
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Lost in this is the apparent fact that every DUmmy seems to have an ancient cat. 20 years old? Geez. I hardly had a cat for 20 DAYS before it was coyote chow.
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Sounds like its time to get a new cat.
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Ever watch a cat with a mouse?
Don't....it's gross........ :panic:
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Ever watch a cat with a mouse?
Don't....it's gross........ :panic:
I guess it's time to come clean with my mouse story. One night I saw a mouse. Freaked. Ran to Wallyworld and bought mouse traps with hubby. He purchased the old-fashioned wooden kind. I purchased the electronic because I dumb that way. He told me it wouldn't work.
"Yeah, it will."
"No, it won't."
"Yeah, it will."
"No, it won't."
"Whoever's works is the one that has to clean out all the cabinets?"
"Deal!"
Got home. Set them up. He put his on the counter right by the sink. I put mine way in the back of this dark cabinet that one has to crawl into to retrieve anything put back there. Consequently, it is unused.
We watched TV for a few hours, then heard the loud "SNAP!" Success. Scrap one mouse. Done. Hubby hauled off the mouse because I wasn't going to touch the vile thing. All was well other than I had to scrub out all the darned cabinets because I lost the bet.
A week or so later, we returned from an out-of-town trip. The kitchen reeked. It smelled of DEATH. WTF? Out came all my kitchen equipment, but nothing was found. Hubby decided something had crawled into a wall and died and claimed there was absolutely nothing we could do about it other than rip off the wall; something he was not about to do. I decided a trip I had been putting off was in order and away I went, coward that I am.
Upon return, the smell was gone. I thanked hubby dearest for getting rid of the smell, but he said it disappeared on its own. He said that animals in heat can smell like that and maybe it was the dog my son's friend had brought over while house-sitting for us. Gross, but I didn't care… the smell was gone.
I can't remember how long later… at least a year, we moved. While packing the kitchen, I crawled into that crawlspace type cabinet to ensure nothing had fallen back there with a flashlight to have a look. I found a small, rectangular black box. "What is this?" I wondered. Dragged it out and looked at it in better light. It had a lid. It took me a bit to figure out the lid slides. Got her open and… Aaaaack! It was a perfectly formed skeleton of a little mouse with a wee bit of dust. The black box turned out to be a coffin.
I can attest to the fact that the electronic mouse traps DO work, dead mice stink, and Dummies haven't completely cornered the market on stupidity.