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(Message started by: Langa on Sep 19th, 2005, 2:26pm)

Title: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Langa on Sep 19th, 2005, 2:26pm
So I’ve been getting unexpected visitors in my apartment --- Field Mice looking for a warm place for the winter.  Crystal is having a nervous breakdown and my dog is sleep deprived waiting for them to appear so she could stomp the shit out of them.  I’ve already caught 3.  Just saw another one this morning as it ran under the fridge.  I thought I heard it snicker at me.   >:(

I’ve been catching them on glue traps after the tunnels didn’t work…tunnels you ask?  Little boxes with trapped doors to trap them in.  I had two out last week – I very generously spread some peanut butter on the door of the tunnel and the floor of the tunnel.  The next day they were licked clean…bastards.  I could see them now laughing at me… :-[.

Anyway, the glue traps worked, but they’re obviously determined to get in my home. I live on a first floor facing a creek.  I spoke to landlord and he said to just get mouse traps and that I shouldn’t be so concerned with mice that it’s flies that should gross me out as they land on shit and stuff on the ground – WTF???  Also, my front door needs that little rubber thingy that attaches to the bottom of the door as there’s a 1 inch crack there and he said until he can get time to put that thingy on, I should use a towel.  Right, they can eat through a wall, they’ll laugh at a towel.  

I just called him to tell him that the mouse I called him about has invited his posse and he needs to put that thingy on right away!

Any suggestions?  I would use poison, but can’t with the dog.  

Langa  :-/ [smiley=hurl.gif] :P

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Frank_W on Sep 19th, 2005, 2:36pm
Your landlord sounds like a real winner. LMAO

Aside from traps and making sure that your weather stripping is nice and snug, I don't know what else you can do.  :-/ Mice are nasty...

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by rextangle on Sep 19th, 2005, 2:40pm
Get a cat! It's not only that a cat will catch them, but mice are very clever and when they smell a kitty, they split! ;)

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Karla on Sep 19th, 2005, 2:50pm
Release the uninvited mice into your landlords apt.  ;;D  Just don't get caught.  Call the city building inspector on him.  If there are treated his buildings can be considered condemed, etc.  Good luck in what ever you choose to do.

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by yikes-another-one on Sep 19th, 2005, 3:06pm
:)
WE used a piece of saltines, spread the peanut butter on that and shoved it to the back of the tunnels.

Trouble is, you can't sell them to a local pet store,
and need to release them more than one-mile away from where you live, otherwise, within five minutes they are back inside your house.

All I can say is make sure you plenty of tins,
nothing left out and keep checking the wires
to make sure they haven't been bad house guests.

I hope your landlord gets a few minutes,
but the hard-ware stores whould have a "Weather-strip" and it should have have that sticky glue strip....
not hard to do....just time consuming.

Winter..ugh....
with the summer we had, we should have fun
playing in 5 - 6 feet of snow by December.


Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Melissa on Sep 19th, 2005, 3:14pm
Grab the salt and pepper Langa!

;;D


Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by BobG on Sep 19th, 2005, 3:20pm
Don't kill them!

I know a Chinese restaurant that’ll give you 2 bucks each for them.

“Chicken Chow Mien may not be as described on the menu”
;)

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Langa on Sep 19th, 2005, 3:22pm
Oh man, i'm gagging... [smiley=eek5.gif]

Anyway, I don't like cats...but I may just have to get one... :-/

Langa

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by nani on Sep 19th, 2005, 4:15pm
Poison is cruel. They die a horrible death. I think rodents are cute, but I don't want any in the house. Forget about a cat. Not all of them are mousers. Those live traps are good. Bob just heard that those ultrasonic repellants work on field mice, but not city mice. He heard that from a guy who lives up in the mountains and gets a lot of field mice. Good luck with that... :-/
hugs, nani

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by don on Sep 19th, 2005, 4:18pm
Python.

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by ghost62 on Sep 19th, 2005, 4:28pm
BB gun shot gun works too then have land lord fix holes. just tell neighbors to stay down durring hunting season. [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif]
Or get a cat that sprays, for 1 week, and then sell cat to chineese resturant. The other white meat. :o

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by BobG on Sep 19th, 2005, 4:30pm

on 09/19/05 at 16:15:55, nani wrote:
Poison is cruel.


Hantavirus is also cruel.
I say kill the damn rodents and drop the diseased body in the slot at the post office.
Or feed it to that yappie dog next door.

8)

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Sandy_C on Sep 19th, 2005, 4:37pm
Field mice ,  awwww, they're so cute ;)

I remember when we built our first house in a new development that used to be a corn field.  I was nine months pregnant and we had these little mice coming in.  Found one squeaking because his head was sticking out of my dishwasher door but his body was inside the dishwasher.  Called hubby asking "what to do, what to do".  He said slam the door!  NOT :o .  I let it out.  When hubby came home, we were chasing the mouse through the kitchen - hubby with a broom and me bending over and holding open a paper bag.  There's something wrong with this picture don't you think?

Also found one in my bread drawer one morning (still preggo), went to grab the bread and noticed a hole in the middle of a package of hamburger buns.  Looked a little closer, there was Mickey, looking back at me.  Grabbed a paper bag, grabbed the pack of buns, threw it in the bag, had on my bright red robe (that couldn't close over my belly) and white fuzzy slippers, marched out the door, across the neighbors back yard, into the corn field and heaved the bag as far as I could.  That was one happy mouse.  My neighbors watched me with strange looks as I calmly walked back.  We had not met them yet - nice first impression!

This house we have not had one single mouse, and we are out in the country-ish,.  But, squirrels - ugh!  Had them in the attic, in the walls (one ate a hole into my dining room).  I made a lovely treat for them and put it in the attic - peanut butter balls, rolled in sunflower seeds - laced with Decon Rat Poison.  Worked like a charm.   If you make a nice little treat and place it behind the refrigerator, your dog can't get to it but the mousies can  ;;D  I wouldn't recommend the sunflower seeds though.  PB and cheese ought to do the trick.

Good luck!

Sandy

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by rextangle on Sep 19th, 2005, 4:44pm
I don't know how humane that is but try to put a picture of Jonny by the mouse hole!!!! ;;D

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by cootie on Sep 19th, 2005, 5:36pm
Meeses in the house sucks......cute or not there not healthy to be in close quarters. That virus is shed from mouse dust.....so there definetly on my things to kill list. And they have fleas......seen a zillion bail off a dead mouse onea the outside cats got when it's body cooled off !! They chew into your food and eat it.....and poop all over your stuff. Don't be suprised if ya wake up and find mouse turds across yer bedspread......ick !!!!! My cats used to catch em and chew there legs off and drown em in there big water'r......sheesh.....mouse poison was probly more humane. Toy mice I buy them to play with have no legs so they must think real ones shouldn't. Cats don't always kill them either.....they will chase and hunt and wound them till bored. I've found alot of mangled ones that died behind stuff.....close by food ain't cool !!!! There is rat and mouse bait called 'just one bite' and few others if ya can set it around the aprt outside where dogs and cats wouldn't bother it or be able to get near it. But when the rodents die you will SMELL them in the walls and behind stuff. I set out rat bait cuz some field rats were diggin under my deck (they will move in and take over if ya let em)......musta killed a bunch and now I gotta smell em under the porch and deck. Gagging me too.....blech. I've been killin mice here for 30 years and they KEEP COMEING. The cats love playin with em.....ever once in a while they catch one and let it go on the bed or under the covers !!!!! I hate meeses to pieces Pam

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Opus on Sep 19th, 2005, 6:24pm

on 09/19/05 at 14:26:10, Langa wrote:
 I spoke to landlord and he said to just get mouse traps and that I shouldn’t be so concerned with mice that it’s flies that should gross me out as they land on shit and stuff on the ground – WTF???


Better remind the landlord of
Lyme Disease (http://www.amm.co.uk/newamm/files/factsabout/fa_lyme.htm) and Hantavirus (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hanta/hps/)

Opus/Paul

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by kcopelin on Sep 19th, 2005, 9:46pm
Langa,
had field mice in my house in Florida-they ate my hammock! they ate my food! I tried the sticky traps-they chewed their legs off to escape. tried bait and poison.  Finally had to resort to the old fashioned mouse trap.  Took awhile but we finally got 'em.  You can put that weatherstripping on yourself-send the bill to you obtuse landlord.
good luck hon
and PFDAN
kathy

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by blossom on Sep 19th, 2005, 9:56pm
My sister, Ellen, works at a landfill so of course there are the little nasty-a$$ed creatures running amok.  They take caramels and stick them down into the hole on the mousetrap and it gets them everytime!  Guaranteed to work.  Good luck.  I say kill 'em!  They are just as bad as spiders in my book.... *shiver*


:-* -
Karen

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Charlie on Sep 19th, 2005, 10:18pm
Ghost has a good idea. Sally's mom had the world's horniest Siamise that had the nickname "Doctor Irving and his black bag." Never saw such a sprayer. Never saw a mouse there either.  8)

Anyway. No fair being nice to mice. Step on them, shoot them, too many of them anyway. Mean huh..but they can transmit some nasty shit. http://www.smiley-sanctuary.com/smiley/armes%20et%20dangereux/1/cowb.gif?SSImageQuality=Full

Take heart, my goofy cousin carries spiders out the front door rather than kill them.. :o We members of AARP don't do stuff like that though.

We never had them in the house but of course the camp was full of them. Since Dad emptied a six pack of Flit and waited outside for an hour, I doubt rodents survived either. Lotta dead stuff in there.

Good luck kid, so far so good and I like letting some go int his flat.  http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/willy.gif

Charlie http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/victory2.gif

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by AussieBrian on Sep 19th, 2005, 11:28pm

on 09/19/05 at 16:18:49, don wrote:
Python.

Had a bit of a mouse problem in the shop of late, chewing little holes in the flour bags.  Damnable things to fix becuse the sticky tape won't stick, of course.

I've now got a little python living under the soft-drinks fridge and he's fixing matters nicely, thank you.  Knocks the occasional jar off the shelves at night but it's a small price to pay.

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Peppermint on Sep 19th, 2005, 11:37pm
Maria,

Try steel wool wherever you think they'll be trying to get in - if they try to chew through it, its all over for them.

I successfully stopped up a couple of spaces in the baseboards, bathroom and under the kitchen sink that was letting them get through.  Doesn't look pretty but who cares, better than a mouse/mice in the house.  Just make sure you disinfect with plenty of Lysol, bleach or your favorite heavy duty germ disinfector/destroyer.

Germ-paranoid Patty

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by BMoneeTheMoneeMan on Sep 19th, 2005, 11:59pm
Kathy, you have to be joking.  The mice chewed its own leg off to get out of the sticky stuff?
[smiley=hurl.gif]

Holy crap
BMonee

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by cootie on Sep 20th, 2005, 12:01am
Oh hey......I heard they won't chew thru foil either.....guess theres lots of uses for FOIL. But there are so many ways for them to come inside....they can run up a wall. Used to corner em in the cupboard and they'd GROWL at me. Kinda gave me the creeps......rabid mouser Pam

Mice are creepy............cute in an aquarium till one gets out. Found a few mummified mise and hamsters of my daugthers thru the years. She never told me they were missing till I found BODIES in the closets.

PS: They'll chew thru your legs or arms if they could do it.....nasty suckers. I have watched em turn on each other.......used to raise em to sell to pet stores MANY years ago. Some ate there own babies.......yum yum......dug into my profits tho.  :P

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Carl_D on Sep 20th, 2005, 12:07am
Please don;t kill Mr. Jingles. He has talent.

j/k


Langa, I'll trade you: your mice for my spiders. It seems the storage locker I had all of my stuff in was infested with several breeds of spider, including some big black ones, and some brown recluse. I've been prepared though, since some boxes I've opened, spiders would just jump out! Talk about creepy as hell, not to mention know about brown recluse firsthand since my father had been bit twice.. once in the leg (which left a half inch deep, inch round hole) and in the webbing of his hand which avoided serious scarring since that time he went to the ER (and my dad avoided Dr.s and hospitals at any cost - which is also one reason he died young too.)
I've been shaking out bedclothes before lying down, and shaking clothes before putting them on. Brown recluses love fabric.

Sprayed this place down with some Raid, aired it out and am burning Nag Champa incense to get rid of the smell.

Peace & Meece,
Carl D

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by forgetfulnot on Sep 20th, 2005, 12:57am
dug into my profits tho.  

;;D


Lee

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by burnt-toast on Sep 20th, 2005, 3:17am
Finding out how they're getting in is the 1st challenge and permenently keeping them out is the 2nd.

Check the entire outside of the house and make note of any openings even very small ones.  If you have a porch hopefully someone can crawl under to check it out.  Fill all holes with spray foam and trim it when it sets up.  They won't eat through the foam and it will provide insulation benefits by keeping drafts down.

Be sure to check places where they may be able to get under siding or trimwork and seal these places as well.  Little buggers have nothing but time and use it to find any point of entry.  

If you have, high grass, wood piles or a lot of stuff piled up outside get rid of them or move them away from the house, these naturally attract the little critters.  

Weed block with the wood topping also attracts em' because they can move freely under it and through it.  Landscape over weed block with stone instead and it will cut the mouse population.

If I let our fields grow a little long (only takes grass to get about 6" high) I get to play Tractor/mower pack man and the numbers of mice that invade the grass from the woods is unbelieveable.  

Go over the inside of the house particularly the basement and seal openings with foam as well.  The weather strip/trim at the bottom of your door should be repaired no matter what.  Its a good point of entry for mice, other critters and drafts.          

If they're already in you've got to kill em all before they find places to breed - and breed they will.  But killiing them inside is a waste of time if you have a constant supply arriving on a regular basis.
 
Tom




   

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by E-Double on Sep 20th, 2005, 6:52am
Don't kill them......Train them ;)

Eric aka Skinner ;;D

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Langa on Sep 20th, 2005, 8:02am

Quote:
I tried the sticky traps-they chewed their legs off to escape.


Excuse me while I throw up!   :-[

Cootie your stories gave me the creeps...oh man...My mom and brother cornered a rat once when I was a kid.  The thing looked like it weighed as much as my dog.  When it felt cornerned it got up on it's hinds legs, growled and bared it's teeth...I almost fainted, while my brother ran out the door...my hero.  :-/  To this day I have nightmares of that....

Thanks for the advice guys.  The Landlord is coming by this weekend to put the weatherstripping on and try and figure out they're entry way.

I'm also thinking of borrowing my friend's cat for a few days.

I really hope they haven't started breeding in my couch or something... [smiley=hurl.gif]

Nauseaous Langa

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by ghost62 on Sep 20th, 2005, 8:27am

on 09/20/05 at 08:02:52, Langa wrote:
Excuse me while I throw up!   :-[

Cootie your stories gave me the creeps...oh man...My mom and brother cornered a rat once when I was a kid.  The thing looked like it weighed as much as my dog.  When it felt cornerned it got up on it's hinds legs, growled and bared it's teeth...I almost fainted, while my brother ran out the door...my hero.  :-/  To this day I have nightmares of that....

Thanks for the advice guys.  The Landlord is coming by this weekend to put the weatherstripping on and try and figure out they're entry way.

I'm also thinking of borrowing my friend's cat for a few days.

I really hope they haven't started breeding in my couch or something...
[smiley=hurl.gif]

Nauseaous Langa

Ok the cat part good idea and just thing after the cat eats so can you. ;)

Now the breeding in the couch part I thought a VW back seat was tough :o :o :o ;;D

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by nani on Sep 20th, 2005, 8:31am
They probably aren't breeding right now. They do that in the Spring. What they are doing is looking for a cozy place to spend the Fall and Winter.
BTW:
only deer mice carry Hantavirus, and it seems to be localized in my part of the country. Fleas from field mice here also carry Bubonic Plague.  :o  It's pretty treatable if caught in time.
Still, mice cannot be potty trained, so they should not live in houses. Eric, do you know how to potty train them?  ;)
Can you get pics of Peanut and the visiting cat?

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Margi on Sep 20th, 2005, 9:32am
yep, we've got Hantavirus carrying mice here too in Western Canada.  And they really are trying to get inside this time of year.  Lucky for us, our Moxie is still with us and, even though she has Catsheimers now, the mice still know she's here.  They stay out in our shed but don't venture into the house.

Our office became infested a few years ago though and we called in an exterminator.  Langa, I don't mean to freak you out or anything but he told me for every one mouse you see, there are FIFTY more trying to get in.   :o  So you really do need to get on this.

We then adopted a cat from the shelter and installed those ulstrasonic thingies that Nani mentioned.  To my knowledge, the cat never did get a mouse.  But the mice stopped trying to get in once we plugged those things into the walls.  Our shop was 10,000 sq. ft. and we only had to have about six of them at the entry doors.  Worked like a charm.  AND...it's totally humane.  They just go somewhere else to live our their little rodent lives.  


Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Frank_W on Sep 20th, 2005, 9:39am
This is Kiki. She's possessed. She's killed off every animal in the neighborhood, and now she's stalking all of the neighbors' children. Be afraid. Be VERY afraid!!  [smiley=laugh.gif]

http://www.imagecrown.com/images/Jeepgun/kiki666.jpg

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by ghost62 on Sep 20th, 2005, 9:42am
Kiki is cool  ;;D

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Margi on Sep 20th, 2005, 9:48am
that cat ain't right, Frank.  Run for your life!!!  :o

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Frank_W on Sep 20th, 2005, 9:50am
With her around, the mice don't even try. They fork the sign of the Evil Eye at our house as they run by. LOL

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Margi on Sep 20th, 2005, 9:52am
do they cross themselves as they're doing that Frank?  Or sprinkle a lil bit of Holy Water, maybe?

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Frank_W on Sep 20th, 2005, 9:58am
LOL! I don't know... But something certainly makes Kiki smile. She's been sharpening her claws and teeth on tinfoil, and last night, I could have sworn I heard the grinder in the basement get fired up. LOL

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by jimbo on Sep 20th, 2005, 10:13am
Langa,

Put steel wool or fiberglass insulation in any entrance holes you can find. Glue traps work well. They probably travel around the house through the heating or air ducts. Put wire screening over the ducts or vents. Don't leave any food around, Put it in the fridge if necessary or put it in tupperware containers. Mice also love dogfood. Do any of the other people in the apartment building have them? Some people think they are cute, but I'll tell you that they carry alot of diseases around not to mention fleas.

If your landlord doesn't fix the door, call the health dept. on his ass!

Or catch the fleas and put them in his underware ;;D

Seeya,

Jimbo

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by burnt-toast on Sep 20th, 2005, 11:39am

on 09/20/05 at 08:31:51, nani wrote:
They probably aren't breeding right now. They do that in the Spring. What they are doing is looking for a cozy place to spend the Fall and Winter.
BTW:
only deer mice carry Hantavirus, and it seems to be localized in my part of the country. Fleas from field mice here also carry Bubonic Plague.  :o  It's pretty treatable if caught in time.
Still, mice cannot be potty trained, so they should not live in houses. Eric, do you know how to potty train them?  ;)
Can you get pics of Peanut and the visiting cat?


The little buggers will breed year round whenever and wherever they can.  They do not hibernate and typically produce 5 to 6 young every 26 to 29 days.  

Deer/White footed mice also carry the tiny ticks (look like specks of dirt) that transmit Lyme disease - oddly the tick has has to be hosted by both deer and the mice to carry the parasite that transmits Lyme disease.  Deer ticks and Western black legged ticks are the primary carriers.

Hantavirus is an airborn disease and is usually associated with mouse droppings.  If not diagnosed quickly this disease can be fatal.

All reasons to kill current mouse intruders and seal out the rest.  


Tom


Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by E-Double on Sep 20th, 2005, 11:52am

on 09/20/05 at 08:31:51, nani wrote:
Still, mice cannot be potty trained, so they should not live in houses. Eric, do you know how to potty train them?  ;)


I could try ;)
I actually trained my rat in college to do a hokey pokey.
No joke.

I miss being in a lab ;;D

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Frank_W on Sep 20th, 2005, 12:59pm
Anti-personnel mines are usually pretty handy for dealing with mice, although your landlord may not appreciate the way you've redecorated things. LMAO


By the way: It's HIS building. HE'S the one renting it out. If he won't take responsibility and take measures to keep hazardous vermin out of HIS building, then I'd be tempted to place an anonymous call to the Health Department. I'd also sign him up for lots and lots of free raunchy video catalogs. Hrmph...

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by sandie99 on Sep 20th, 2005, 1:29pm
Mice... we used to have a tiny problem with them at our summer cottage. Mum used mice poison these days. But don't worry, the mice stay far away from the cottage now and the poison has been untouched for several years! :)

I do get all sorts of flying creatures here at Jyväskylä. Flies are okay, but the stinging ones... I hate them! and every spring we have ants at our house. Those small, black ones, which are after sugar. They are harmless but annoying. Mum makes ant "poison" which isn't poisonous, but effective. It includes sugar and water and a third ingridient which I can't recall right now.

Sanna

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by lady_bug on Sep 20th, 2005, 1:47pm
I'm with the "kill the bastards" group Maria!  We had an infestation in our garage one fall...I tell ya we went to war!  Randy was working out of town so when I'd see one in a trap I'd call my dad or brother to come and dispose of it...it was every day for I don't know how long!  I wouldn't park in my garage for fear that one would nibble on my toes when I entered or exited the car...it was a nightmare!  

Fast forward to the following summer...I was out golfing, reached into the pocket with the golf balls...you guessed it...NUMEROUS DEAD BABY MICE!!  That was it for me, I didn't even finish golfing...

BTW...Deacon almost killed our Basset Hound Brutus, it's nasty stuff...$2500 later the dog survived.

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Langa on Sep 20th, 2005, 2:09pm
OMG! Sandra you just cracked me up!  Nibble on your toes???   [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif]

And wait, you golf???  Well, I guess you don't anymore! Oh man, dead baby mice...I would've hat a major fit!

Thanks for the laugh girl!

Love ya.
Maria

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by BobG on Sep 20th, 2005, 2:19pm
Raccoons, ground hogs, mice, squirrels, field rats, spiders …………?
What kind of creature ghetto do you people live in? Get a 410 and blow their effin’ heads off.
Or, do like I did when we got a new neighbor. A cat lover. She had nine cats. HAD is the operative word here.
Our animal shelter loans out the spring loaded door type traps. You know, the kind that traps the animal without injuring it.
I just set it each evening, baiting it with cat food. In the mornings I had a cat in a cage. On my way to work (I work 20 miles from town, out in the desert) I would just drive about 15 miles, pull to the side of the road and release the cat.
Yee-haaa! Coyote food.
Nine days – nine cats!

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Langa on Sep 20th, 2005, 2:31pm

Quote:
Raccoons, ground hogs, mice, squirrels, field rats, spiders …………?
What kind of creature ghetto do you people live in? Get a 410 and blow their effin’ heads off.
Or, do like I did when we got a new neighbor. A cat lover. She had nine cats. HAD is the operative word here.
Our animal shelter loans out the spring loaded door type traps. You know, the kind that traps the animal without injuring it.
I just set it each evening, baiting it with cat food. In the mornings I had a cat in a cage. On my way to work (I work 20 miles from town, out in the desert) I would just drive about 15 miles, pull to the side of the road and release the cat.
Yee-haaa! Coyote food.
Nine days – nine cats!


Ooooh you're gonna get in twouble with the cat lovers here!  :-X

Langa


Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by LeLimey on Sep 20th, 2005, 2:34pm
Now if they made those traps man size I could do things with that idea!!

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Frank_W on Sep 20th, 2005, 2:47pm
All I can think, is how lonely and sad your neighbour must have been, Bob. And how must those cats have felt, being dumped in the middle of the desert, without even having any chance to survive? Granted, nine cats is probably a bit much, but since when is that your determination to make? How proud you must feel... I'm disgusted.

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Langa on Sep 20th, 2005, 2:47pm
[smiley=laugh.gif]  Helen, LMAO!!!  I too got some ideas from Bob's story... :-X

Langa

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by lady_bug on Sep 20th, 2005, 3:47pm
quote "oh wait...you golf?" end of quote
(you know I still can't figure that out)  ;)

I said I was golfing, but didn't say I know how!  I'm a hacker from way back...mostly I just pick up the ball and throw it so I can keep up with everybody else.

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Langa on Sep 20th, 2005, 4:00pm

on 09/20/05 at 14:47:22, Frank_W wrote:
All I can think, is how lonely and sad your neighbour must have been, Bob. And how must those cats have felt, being dumped in the middle of the desert, without even having any chance to survive? Granted, nine cats is probably a bit much, but since when is that your determination to make? How proud you must feel... I'm disgusted.


I would have to agree... :-/

Ladybug, you ain't right girl! But that's why I love ya!

Langa

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by BobG on Sep 20th, 2005, 4:33pm

on 09/20/05 at 14:47:22, Frank_W wrote:
All I can think, is how lonely and sad your neighbour must have been, Bob. And how must those cats have felt, being dumped in the middle of the desert, without even having any chance to survive? Granted, nine cats is probably a bit much, but since when is that your determination to make? How proud you must feel... I'm disgusted.

Lonely and sad my ass. She was a nasty, mean, foul mouthed old bi*tch. I tried to make friends with her when she first moved in but she wouldn't have anything to do with anybody. And she was not a cat lover. All those cats were brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, all inbred. She was told, politely to keep her cats out of my yard.
How the cats felt about being dumped in the desert? Screw 'em. They had no feelings when they dumped on my flowers and lawn. They had no feelings when they left hair all over my lawn chairs. If I could have lured the old women into the trap she may have ended up in the desert too.
My determination? How about the smelly broad that made the determination to allow her cats to fuck up my property.
I am not an animal lover nor an animal hater. I am a hater of irresponsible animal owners.
Those cats and their owner made the free choice to dump in their own yard or dump in mine.
They lost.
And the nasty old women. She died a while back. Yawn.

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Ueli on Sep 20th, 2005, 7:11pm
BobG, until now I thought you were a nice guy.

How one can get deceived!
A neighbor like you would be a reason to buy a shot gun.

;;D

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Jonny on Sep 20th, 2005, 7:29pm

on 09/20/05 at 16:33:05, BobG wrote:
They had no feelings when they dumped on my flowers and lawn.


Hello!....They are cats....they dont think.

Sorry Bob, but I own cats and cry like a baby whenever one dies.

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Sean_C on Sep 20th, 2005, 9:38pm

on 09/20/05 at 19:29:57, Jonny wrote:
Sorry Bob, but I own cats and cry like a baby whenever one dies.


I hear ya brotha  ;;D They definately become part of the family  ;;D

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by sandie99 on Sep 21st, 2005, 1:23am
Langa,

so what will you do? :)

Sanna

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Langa on Sep 21st, 2005, 7:36am

on 09/21/05 at 01:23:08, sandie99 wrote:
Langa,

so what will you do? :)

Sanna


The Landlord is coming by this weekend to try and find out where they're getting in as I think it's not the front door now but the little room next to my kitchen (where all the phone lines are and also where the lines for the water and electrical meters are that lead outside), which leads to a small garden.  So if he finds a hole he’ll fill it somehow or call an exterminator.  We’ll see.

I caught another one last night.  Peanut alerted me to it.  She kept running to the trap to show me it was there.  A real small one, not a baby, but really young…it was still alive on the trap…ugh…I actually felt bad for the little critter.   :-/

My best friend wants to lend me her cat this weekend too.  I’m concerned about how Peanut will react to it though; I guess we'll find out soon enough.  

Langa

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by nani on Sep 21st, 2005, 7:55am

on 09/21/05 at 07:36:23, Langa wrote:
I actually felt bad for the little critter.   :-/


Good for you, Maria. All God's creatures, great and small. The mice are just doing what they do naturally. It's not a personal mission to creep you out. I always try to remind myself that these critters all lived here long before I did...
hugs, nani the nature lover...  :)

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by LeLimey on Sep 21st, 2005, 7:58am

on 09/21/05 at 07:55:01, nani wrote:
All God's creatures, great and small. The mice are just doing what they do naturally. It's not a personal mission to creep you out. I always try to remind myself that these critters all lived here long before I did...


Well when they pay rent I'll make room for them! LOL Until then they can stay on THEIR side of the fence!
Fairs fair!!  [smiley=laugh.gif]

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by nani on Sep 21st, 2005, 8:19am
Yes, rent would be nice... LMAO.  [smiley=laugh.gif]
Perhaps they want rent from us?
Maria...start leaving your spare change around. Then they can run up to the 7-11 for some munchies.  ;;D

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by BobG on Sep 21st, 2005, 11:51am
For those that feel their precious cats are part of the family all I can say is “Get real!”
Your children are part of your family. Do you allow them to shit in the neighbors yard?
Do you allow them to prowl and howl all night?
We have dove, quail in our yard. The cats attack, injure, torture and finally kill the birds. Do your “family” members do that? We have a humming bird feeder on the patio. Do your “family" members go to your neighbor's yard and piss on the patio furniture, leave hair and attack the humming birds?
If you allow your family to do any of those things then you should not be a parent. And if you allow your cat(s) to do that you should not be a cat owner.
Cats and other pets are just lower links on the food chain. Nothing more, nothing less.
Cats kill and eat the birds, coyotes eat the cats.
It’s “what they do”. Get over it.

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by LeLimey on Sep 21st, 2005, 11:59am

on 09/21/05 at 11:51:33, BobG wrote:
Cats kill and eat the birds, coyotes eat the cats.
It’s “what they do”. Get over it.


Bob, I keep my cat in at night. As a responsible pet owner I don't want anything happening to him. Why aren't your birds caged? I don't want them shitting on my washing (figuratively)
And yes other larger animals will attack and kill cats and yes that is nature. But if some nasty bastard wants to take the cats to where they are defenceless in order to be killd without any chance then that is just twisted and sick.
IF you really had a problem with this woman and you really felt she was an irresponsible pet owner then why didn't you just round up the cats and take them to a shelter?
At least that would have been humane

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Langa on Sep 21st, 2005, 12:32pm
Everybody have a donut!!!  I'm buying!!!

Now let's get back to my plight, after all it's a thread about me and my troubles...by the way, i'm now collecting cash for the mice trap fund... ::)

My paypal is back up.

Much appreciated.

Langa

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by BobG on Sep 21st, 2005, 12:42pm

on 09/21/05 at 11:59:43, LeLimey wrote:
Bob, I keep my cat in at night. As a responsible pet owner I don't want anything happening to him.
Thank you for being a responsible pet owner. Why aren't your birds caged? I don't want them shitting on my washing (figuratively) My birds? I don't want them shitting on my washing either. Or my windshield. But they are not MY birds. Mother Nature put them there.
But if some nasty bastard wants to take the cats to where they are defenceless in order to be killd without any chance then that is just twisted and sick. Defenseless? Cats? There is plenty of food and water in the desert. Cats are hunters. They’ll be OK.
why didn't you just round up the cats and take them to a shelter?
At least that would have been humane Take them to the animal shelter so they can be humanly killed?


Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by rextangle on Sep 21st, 2005, 12:47pm
Maria,

If you don't like cats, get a falcon or an eagle or maybe even an owl.... mice be gone quick.
But if you own any bird of prey you might miss the mice and think that they weren't so bad after all!

Or, as I said before (even though it's not very humane), put a picture of Jonny or the Mule by the mouse hole ;)

Title: Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
Post by Charlie on Sep 21st, 2005, 6:45pm
I like other people's animals. http://subscribe.smileygenerator.us/all/albums/aiwan3//superstition.gif?SSImageQuality=Full

Strange about cats. I'm allergic to dander but if I stay  around cats for a couple days, I get use to it and it doesn't bother me.

Charlie



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