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Earn your keep, furballs. Granted, the mice are in the drawers and cabinets.
Lorne: My little prince. Oh…what did they do to you? Angel: Nina…tried to…eat me. Lorne: Oh, you're--medic! You're gonna make it Angel. Just don't stop fighting. Doctor! Is there a Gepetto in the house?
'Smile Time'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Strix - Dec 27, 2011 9:17:03 pm PST #13317 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
msbelle - Dec 27, 2011 9:21:51 pm PST #13318 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I'd poison the bait, if they are eating it, then let them eat something that will kill them.
Beverly - Dec 27, 2011 10:06:23 pm PST #13319 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
The only problem with poison is they wander off and die in your walls and then you have dead mouse smell for a while. It does go away, but till it does, yup. Dead mouse smell. Once known, never forgotten. Also, No Sticky Traps!
Erin, you might want to go a size up in spring traps. If they're really healthy cagey mice, a trap with a harder spring and a bigger kill bar may work better. Good luck!
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 27, 2011 11:08:53 pm PST #13320 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Maybe just one successful trap will do the trick. When I had my mouse problem, I caught several with those humane traps, then finally got Daredevil!Mouse with a lethal one, and his broken body left out overnight seemed to convince any others that may have been around to look for greener pastures.
sarameg - Dec 28, 2011 1:39:10 am PST #13321 of 30001
Oh the mice/squirrels at my brothers are totally foiling the traps they have. I kinda think they aren't actually coming into the kitchen, just disgorging insulation from the walls. Which...uhg.
Devi's a known mousekiller. The rest? I have no idea. They've not been tested.
Drugs are kinda winning against the bug. However, at the cost of a good night's sleep. Going to telecommute at least half the day. Will see.
Stephanie - Dec 28, 2011 3:05:43 am PST #13322 of 30001
Trust my rage
We had a horrible experience with a spring trap in CA. it scraped off half the mouse's head but left the thing bleeding and running around. After multiple attempts to kill it, Joe finally ran over it with our car tire. The next time around we used a trap that catches them live and I released it in a field away from the house. The kids thought that was fun and thankfully, there wasn't blood everywhere.
Jesse - Dec 28, 2011 3:08:06 am PST #13323 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
A friend of mine recently came home to find her apartment ransacked by squirrels. It was bananas, following the story on Facebook.
Steph L. - Dec 28, 2011 3:38:09 am PST #13324 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
When we had mice (despite 2 cats), Tim rigged up a humane trap with an empty paper towel roll, peanut butter, and a trash can. We caught and released 2 mice that way. Kind of a pain, though.
Sue - Dec 28, 2011 3:41:50 am PST #13325 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I have always had hunters...so any mouse incursions haven't lasted long. Sometimes the results were pretty gory though. Clio is the most gentle cat with me, but she's ferocious with mice.
§ ita § - Dec 28, 2011 3:45:17 am PST #13326 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My sister forwarded me a text she got sent in error by a cousin. The entire text: "Debs can I fuck you for one whole day baby".
Good god, can you imagine the horrible embarrassment if that went to the wrong person? If that went to family instead of the intended target? Thank god it went to her (although she did reply, because, seriously, how can you not?) and not, say, another 50% of the family...