yes, we killed. but would you want that thing running around in your living room? i think not. by the way, there was a total of NINE rats that came to our house.
- Bethany James Leigh Shady
- Novelist, children's book author, freelance writer, and lover of the Shire.
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I have several mousetraps at my house. They are all furry with legs and tails. Yes, the mousetraps. Three are sitting here right now in front of me as I type.
damn it! NINE!?!?
I think Suzie-Q has the right idea....
Yikes! I hope you got them all.
One of our cats caught a mouse in our old apartment. It was awful though because he was running around with it and wouldn't put it down. So gross.
My cat catches the mice in the middle of the night and brings them to the big tub in the ensuite to 'play' with them. They can't get out and she get really pissed when you wake up grumpy and take her 'toy' away.
We had a rat problem once. Turned out they were coming to the bird-feeder and eating the spilled seed. We had a next of about 5 kicking around. We used the traps too. So as a result, we haven't had a bird feeder since :-(
Speaking of traps, when I was a biology student in university I took a mammalogy course. One of our labs was preparing study skins and skulls for labs and museums. To do this we have to first capture our specimens. We were only after the little guys so we used mouse traps. Most common were shrews and field mice. I use to put the traps out in the woods behind the house. I'd check the traps daily but since I only had the lab once a week I'd have to keep the dead rodents in the freezer. At the lab we'd skin the mouse carefully, clean and dry them well with borax and stuff them with a little cotton batting. Then we'd boil the skulls to clean out the brains.
It's all in the name of science. Incidentally, this was one of those things they teach you in school that you NEVER use once you get out!
9 rats... holy smokes!
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