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| jeep's adventures in pest control by jeep 08/10/2004, 9:45pm PDT | ||||
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| 4AM this morning I wake up to this banging sound in the kitchen, walk over and it stops.
4:30AM, again. 5AM, again. This time there was a rustling sound so I look in the little trash bucket and out jumps a tiny mouse, it and two of its friends dive behind the stove, into a crack next to a radiator pipe and under the refrigerator, respectively. In Boston, any rodent smaller than a rottweiler is called a 'rat,' and anything larger is called a 'furry,' but I lived out near a dairy farm once, I know what a fucking mouse looks like. So surprise: the 150 year old, run-down, damp, dusty building I live in has mice. So I run (not walk) up the street to the hardware store and I get one kind of trap I know works and one kind that I don't know about: The glue paper has already caught two in its agonizing clutches. Mice during daytime, while I'm sitting in the next room? These must be the same ones that hang out in Park Street Station dodging trains. Anyway they squeal something terrible as it rips their fur out and tears off their limbs. This will probably also happen at 4AM. The electronic one sits there and makes no noise. I'm worried it will burn the mouse and start a fire, but 4AA batteries isn't exactly house current. If I was a mouse I would go nowhere near this small black box, and none have yet, but we'll see. Chocolate coated in spray cheese is pretty enticing. When I was helping my uncle deal with the mice in his garage, I came up with this trick that works pretty well. An empty pickle jar, washed out of vinegar and dry, with some cracker, cheese, bit of chocolate and drop of vanilla extract (I can't touch peanut butter but I understand it's the best) in the bottom of the jar. You put 1/3rd of the glue trap in there over the food, facing up. Put the jar in the bottom of the trash barrel facing up with the lid off. They can't jump out of the jar and they're already in the trash so you don't have to pick them up later. Catches 2-4. /jeep/ ...I know the mouse traps are inhumane, but it's gonna take some time to cat-proof my apartment before I get one...it's the Circle of Life, Simba. |
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jeep's adventures in pest control by 08/10/2004, 9:45pm PDT  Re: jeep's adventures in pest control by 09/06/2010, 11:02pm PDT Jeep's mousetrap caught fire and burned his house down (he is dead) NT by 09/07/2010, 3:32am PDT (to us) (*points to selves*) NT by 09/07/2010, 4:41am PDT Thanks for bumping this, I never read jeep's post before. by 09/07/2010, 8:43am PDT |
