07-24-2007, 07:33 PM
A stinking mouse isn't walking around the house, possibly sniffing at you , licking your toes while you sleep.
Or licking between the tines of your forks, or the serations of your knives for tiny tastes the dishwasher left behind.
Leaving behind little black "seed-turds" that slowly decompose and "evaporate" if given enough time.
The smell isn't so bad if you try to imagine what they're otherwise up to all night while you're asleep.
In your food pantry and utensil, bowl and pans drawers. :-)
Maybe I'm lucky. They all die on the middle of the cellar floor. Easy to find and bury, so that nothing else hungry eats them and what's in them.
Poison's not recommended if you can't keep pets away from it, both directly and indirectly.
I do remember the rat traps from my father's farm.
They only caught the rat's appendages.
I quite distinctly remember learning the technique of slicing off a head with a shovel.
(smashing often took several attempts)
Neven, never, ever corner a rat.
Or licking between the tines of your forks, or the serations of your knives for tiny tastes the dishwasher left behind.
Leaving behind little black "seed-turds" that slowly decompose and "evaporate" if given enough time.
The smell isn't so bad if you try to imagine what they're otherwise up to all night while you're asleep.
In your food pantry and utensil, bowl and pans drawers. :-)
Maybe I'm lucky. They all die on the middle of the cellar floor. Easy to find and bury, so that nothing else hungry eats them and what's in them.
Poison's not recommended if you can't keep pets away from it, both directly and indirectly.
I do remember the rat traps from my father's farm.
They only caught the rat's appendages.
I quite distinctly remember learning the technique of slicing off a head with a shovel.
(smashing often took several attempts)
Neven, never, ever corner a rat.