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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 264889" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">You may recall we had a mouse problem last Fall. It was bad. We caught about 42 mice total, then figured that many of those mice were probably duplicates because we were using the humane traps and H was just walking down the road a bit and dropping them in the woods....needless to say, they found their way back to OUR home! LOL. Then, as winter and cold hit, I would just place the traps outdoors overnight and the mice would freeze to death. Horrible, I know. But I just got so sick of cleaning out mice carp from my cabinets and drawers. I actually replaced all the liners finally and scrubbed everything down with bleach. To my dismay, they don't mind new or bleach.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">As much as I hate the thought of killing an animal, I have to say, in the case of mice crawling over my flatware and dishes, I have no problem with their untimely deaths. Seriously. Same with the ants, dammit. We had the ant problem, called the exterminator, saw a few demented stragglers, but now they are back. I have to wait one week before I can call the exterminator and make them come back and do it again for FREE. I'm not happy about this. I've gotten so cold hearted that I crush the little ant bodies with my bare fingers. Ugh. How gross.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">Jen, if you can't reason with your landlady, which I believe you will not be able to do, then it's certainly time to move. difficult child will survive it. Really. There comes a time when the majority overrules the minority and this is one of those cases - everyone will be happier not paying through the nose for an apt with partial use of the yard and supplying strangers with heat and hot water, putting up with mice, etc. </span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 264889, member: 2211"] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]You may recall we had a mouse problem last Fall. It was bad. We caught about 42 mice total, then figured that many of those mice were probably duplicates because we were using the humane traps and H was just walking down the road a bit and dropping them in the woods....needless to say, they found their way back to OUR home! LOL. Then, as winter and cold hit, I would just place the traps outdoors overnight and the mice would freeze to death. Horrible, I know. But I just got so sick of cleaning out mice carp from my cabinets and drawers. I actually replaced all the liners finally and scrubbed everything down with bleach. To my dismay, they don't mind new or bleach.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]As much as I hate the thought of killing an animal, I have to say, in the case of mice crawling over my flatware and dishes, I have no problem with their untimely deaths. Seriously. Same with the ants, dammit. We had the ant problem, called the exterminator, saw a few demented stragglers, but now they are back. I have to wait one week before I can call the exterminator and make them come back and do it again for FREE. I'm not happy about this. I've gotten so cold hearted that I crush the little ant bodies with my bare fingers. Ugh. How gross.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]Jen, if you can't reason with your landlady, which I believe you will not be able to do, then it's certainly time to move. difficult child will survive it. Really. There comes a time when the majority overrules the minority and this is one of those cases - everyone will be happier not paying through the nose for an apt with partial use of the yard and supplying strangers with heat and hot water, putting up with mice, etc. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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