[off-topic] Someone be nice to me, please? Oh GOD.

[graceanne]

Just kidding. The bad thing is if you have one you probably have an infestation. Get some of the little blue cubes of mice poison at Walmart. They love that shit and it will get rid of them in about 3 days.

That stuff works, but don't put it out if you have small children.

At my old house we weren't allowed animals. Then we started having rat problems (for those who know what I'm talking about, we lived by Johnson Creek - rats happen). I called my landlords who told me to put out poison, but I had an 8 months old who was crawling around. I was not going to put poison out that he could get in to. My landlords refused to do anything other than poison, so I got a cat. Didn't have a rat problem after that.

 

[Bandit58]

Get a couple of mouse traps and put some peanut butter on them. I used that method when I had a mouse in my bedroom, he got hungry after 2 days and snap!

I'm not afraid of small furry mammals but insects and spiders....YUK

 

[Brandii]

... Or perhaps a yacht?

( lol ) Love it, Quint!

 

[Brandii]

The Gold Coast hinterland is inindated with 5 to 6 metre snakes which enter yards and occasionally homes. I occasionally have stepped over one or brushed one off the retainer wall where it has been sunning itself. Once I got the workmen near by to get rid of a huge snake near the front door. You get used to it after a while. We have huntsmen too and they can be big mongrels.

 

[Brandii]

Actually that should read 5 - 6 feet snakes. 6 metres would be about 18 feet and that's an *anaconda*

 

[Quint]

...........

 

[graceanne]

Away from land and presumably land animals.

Oh, ok.

Fyi - ships are known for their mouse and rat problems.

 

[ShyGuy68]

[off-topic] Someone be nice to me, please? Oh GOD.

After having looked at the name of this thread several times, and thought the same tought several times, I think it's about time to ask it:
What do you mean with "be nice to me"? To me it have several meanings http://kennl.dk/smileys/images/devil.gif

 

[SephStarr]

Panic over, hopefully. Haven't heard the thing since, and am now in fact capable of sleeping in my own bed again [grin]. And I have an avatar!

I'm going to go out and buy one of those things that make silent sonic noises that are supposed to scare them away, and hopefully the bugger will leave for good. [sigh]

 

[Yang4yin]

I'm going to go out and buy one of those things that make silent sonic noises that are supposed to scare them away, and hopefully the bugger will leave for good. [sigh]

Don't waste your money!

 

[graceanne]

Don't waste your money!

Ditto! A mouse trap would work better - or a cat.

 

[Kierae]

FUCK the cat - that is all! I have a cat - my first clue was the name of the cat was Peyote (hey I didn't name the damn thing, I just inherited it from a kid).

Story:

So I was sitting here the other day and I notice my pitbull (liam) and my cat "romping" in the bathroom. Now this is not normal since my other 2 pits will play with the cat but not Liam. So I notice he is focused at something under the cabinet...think its a bug..oh no...see a tail - hey its a mouse! This no doubt is the same mouse that has been terrorizing via the "cat" door we have (hey I like my 7 hours of sleep uninterrupted if possible and the cat is fucking neurotic). So I go into the bathroom and see its the mouse. I go for reinforcements - ie something that will trap the damn mouse. I return QUICKLY with tupperware bowls and lid in hand to watch the cat meander off...and the dog sitting there...mouse nowhere to be seen. DAMN! I search but nothing (sneaking mofos!). I sit down to surf and look over and see Liam (did I mention I love him) attentive. I go check - pull the shower curtain away to see the said mouse staring at Liam who was staring at him. I go to trap the mouse who JUMPS, I scream, Liam snaps, and catches him midstream. THANK GOD Liam takes him outside to show me what a good boy he was (versus the freaking cat who plays with the mofo inside and gets outsmarted and loses him). Mouse clearly dead (ie lesson is don't be hunted by a pitbull) and I am happily praising the pitbull who is hated by the rest of the population. Color me prejudice but fuck the cats and love the pits!


~kierae

 

[graceanne]

We had a cat who'd, on occasion, bring a mouse in for us to 'play with'. She'd saunter in, drop it in the living room, then sit back while my mother screamed down the house, and me and miss tried to corner it. If we'd get it cornered she'd go get it, take it back to the middle of the living room, and let it go again. What we learned? Never have a tortoise shell calico - they're too smart for their own good.