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i can't win out against the mice
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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 271972" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">Okay, this is really going to come off as horrible torture...me being 'mostly' a vegetarian and humanitarian and all - LOL. I laugh.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">Anyway, when we had our mouse problem last fall into the winter, we caught upwards of about 42 mice total over the course of a couple of weeks. No lie. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">Except something strange happened. When H became bored with walking up the road or driving a few miles away to release the recently caught mice (in a 'humane' live trap using peanut butter as bait), and it became too cold for my lazy hiney to do the same, what did I do? I put the trap with the mouse in it outside on our doorstep overnight. It froze to death. H then threw the body into the woods behind our house, I cleaned the trap and set it again. After about 6 freakin mice, we were done with our mouse problem. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">Which leads us to believe that MANY of the 42 mice we were catching were one and the same. Which means that dumping them within 5 miles from the house enables them to find their way 'home' - to OUR house. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">Jen, there is no easy way to say this: KILL THEM. Any way you deem yourself capable of doing so, just kill them. We later found out that the mice we were trapping were the same mice that can often carry Lymes Disease and the bubonic plague - this last part, as unbelievable as it sounds, from my sister who is a raptor rehabilitator and KNOWS. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">Just kill them. </span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 271972, member: 2211"] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]Okay, this is really going to come off as horrible torture...me being 'mostly' a vegetarian and humanitarian and all - LOL. I laugh.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]Anyway, when we had our mouse problem last fall into the winter, we caught upwards of about 42 mice total over the course of a couple of weeks. No lie. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]Except something strange happened. When H became bored with walking up the road or driving a few miles away to release the recently caught mice (in a 'humane' live trap using peanut butter as bait), and it became too cold for my lazy hiney to do the same, what did I do? I put the trap with the mouse in it outside on our doorstep overnight. It froze to death. H then threw the body into the woods behind our house, I cleaned the trap and set it again. After about 6 freakin mice, we were done with our mouse problem. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]Which leads us to believe that MANY of the 42 mice we were catching were one and the same. Which means that dumping them within 5 miles from the house enables them to find their way 'home' - to OUR house. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]Jen, there is no easy way to say this: KILL THEM. Any way you deem yourself capable of doing so, just kill them. We later found out that the mice we were trapping were the same mice that can often carry Lymes Disease and the bubonic plague - this last part, as unbelievable as it sounds, from my sister who is a raptor rehabilitator and KNOWS. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]Just kill them. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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