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Post by Shane for Wax on Nov 22, 2010 6:20:25 GMT -5
D: Poor little mouse. We use mouse traps. I would pitch a fit if my parents tried to use glue traps.
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Post by DarkfireTaimatsu on Nov 22, 2010 8:38:27 GMT -5
At my house, we use cats. =3
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Post by shykid on Nov 22, 2010 12:26:05 GMT -5
My cats are too lazy to hunt and kill things.
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Post by sugarfreejazz on Nov 22, 2010 14:32:32 GMT -5
Our cream puff, wuss cat is a fierce mouser, while our wild rescue just ignores them. She's too good for that activity now, apparently.
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Post by shykid on Nov 22, 2010 15:08:29 GMT -5
That's how mine are.
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Post by Distind on Nov 22, 2010 15:15:20 GMT -5
D: Poor little mouse. We use mouse traps. I would pitch a fit if my parents tried to use glue traps. Once you live with a rodent that's smart enough to avoid the other traps you may well change that tune. I didn't like doing it, and I wouldn't do it again without trying other methods first, but there's only so many rodent traces you can deal with before you stop caring how cute and fuzzy the little bastard may be. I'll note I got the bastard out of it and they did not come back while I still lived there. My other choices involved killing it in the walls, I'll take the glue trap first thanks.
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Post by Thejebusfire on Nov 22, 2010 19:52:41 GMT -5
I worked in a fast food resturant that had a bad cricket problem. I remember finding a few inside the fry grease. Nasty! My manager fixed all the food safe bug controll devices, so we haven't had that problem for a while.
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Post by godlesspanther on Nov 22, 2010 21:15:19 GMT -5
I don't have any mice inside. My cat likes to dig things up. She catches moles and night crawlers. Yes, the cat eats worms. Gross.
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Post by SCarpelan on Nov 23, 2010 1:07:06 GMT -5
Many cats have a nice habit of showing their attachment to the people by bringing their catches to them. That's still OK, my mother's cats used to leave them lying in visible places so they were easy to throw out. It got a bit more annoying when she got the other one as a kitten and the older (male) one started bringing living rodents inside to teach the kitten how to hunt them.
In one amusing case the mouse he had brought in first ran under the couch and when he went there after it the mouse actually stopped, stood on its back paws and started hitting the cat at his face with its front paws like a boxer. The cat didn't know what to do since he apparently didn't want to kill it outright but chase it out for the kitten. He tried hitting it back gently with his paws but the mouse refused to budge. It had to be eventually chased out of there with a broom.
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Nov 23, 2010 1:20:21 GMT -5
My sister had a cat that brought her dead things all the time. A one-winged pigeon, at one point, from the garage.
She finally got sick of it after finding a disemboweled mouse in her shoe. She collected the cat, sat him down on her bed, and told him to please stop bringing her dead animals. The cat stopped bringing her dead animals.
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Post by stormwarden on Nov 23, 2010 1:59:56 GMT -5
I had an incident as a teenager, where one of my cats managed to kill a rabbit bigger than her, rip up a patch we had on a hole in the window, drag it through the hole, through the living room, and into the dining room where she was about to eat it, when my sister found it.
She threw a FIT.
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Nov 23, 2010 3:07:59 GMT -5
My sister was annoyed about cleaning up. She didn't get grossed out or anything like that, it's just not pleasant to have to dispose of a disease-ridden carcass that's spilled in your shoes or all over your pillow.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Nov 23, 2010 4:29:49 GMT -5
D: Poor little mouse. We use mouse traps. I would pitch a fit if my parents tried to use glue traps. Once you live with a rodent that's smart enough to avoid the other traps you may well change that tune. I didn't like doing it, and I wouldn't do it again without trying other methods first, but there's only so many rodent traces you can deal with before you stop caring how cute and fuzzy the little bastard may be. I'll note I got the bastard out of it and they did not come back while I still lived there. My other choices involved killing it in the walls, I'll take the glue trap first thanks. I guess it's different when you've had pet rodents. lol And I've never had to deal with it myself. Humane traps that you can release them far away from the house or mouse traps for me.
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Post by shykid on Nov 23, 2010 14:30:01 GMT -5
I am high-strung and easily ruffled, so regular mousetraps startle the bejeebers out of me when they catch. I hate them for that. Plus, I don't want to kill anything or put it through undue suffering, so I like those humane "mouse house" things.
And glue traps are just wrong except as a last resort.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Nov 23, 2010 20:01:18 GMT -5
I once shoved my foot repeatedly into a mass in my shoe before I realized that Rahja left a dead mouse in it. We don't have Rahja any more. (He passed away many years later. Fortunately, he did not repeat that, & no other cat has since. But I still check! )
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