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.
Mal: Inara, think you could stoop to being on my arm? Inara: Will you wash it first?
'Heart Of Gold'
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.
Stephanie - Dec 28, 2011 3:05:43 am PST #13322 of 30001
Trust my rage
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...
Jesse - Dec 28, 2011 4:04:42 am PST #13327 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yikes.
§ ita § - Dec 28, 2011 4:41:53 am PST #13328 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Don't sext! Too high a risk of it going terribly terribly wrong!
Jesse - Dec 28, 2011 4:42:48 am PST #13329 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Once I went to the bathroom on a date and got a text meant for the other woman the guy was seeing. Oops. At least it wasn't graphic? But still.
§ ita § - Dec 28, 2011 5:02:36 am PST #13330 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Lessons, people, lessons!
Off to the beach!
Strix - Dec 28, 2011 6:22:02 am PST #13331 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Jealous of ita !
HA! Two traps sprung, one with cleanly killed mouse!
One corpse disposed of, cinnamon rolls baked, some biz stuff done!
Now to clean house, wrangle the kiddo into reading for an hour, and pop off into the grocery store (out of milk and dishwashing powder.)