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Post by Lord Newport on Jul 4, 2020 21:54:29 GMT
I’m going to go back on my word and show additional mischief these cute furry things do, to enlighten those that don’t know. Below is a pair of essentially new jeans that I packed away for safe keeping. I’ve had them destroy much more in the past, one complete wool uniform for one. It’s no telling what they will use when deciding to make a nest. Wool uniform???
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Post by pgandy on Jul 4, 2020 22:11:11 GMT
I’m going to go back on my word and show additional mischief these cute furry things do, to enlighten those that don’t know. Below is a pair of essentially new jeans that I packed away for safe keeping. I’ve had them destroy much more in the past, one complete wool uniform for one. It’s no telling what they will use when deciding to make a nest. Wool uniform??? USMC Dress Blues.
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Post by randomnobody on Jul 4, 2020 23:00:46 GMT
My girlfriend's parents have had a terrible run of mice this year. Dozens have been trapped by one or another means. Even at my house, in my own room, I've trapped five or six.
They're destructive as heck. Her parents' house has giant holes in the walls where they've chewed their paths, pulling out insulation with it, doing god-knows-what to any electric wiring they encounter, and just being hazards to the dog and especially the birds. Mouse feces, and the air around them, are toxic to birds. They have four parakeets.
I prefer spring traps, as they tend to be quick, but sometimes they miss and things get uglier. Glue traps are horrible and I won't use them. A buddy at work also has mouse problems in his house and uses no-kill traps, but drives several miles away to release them.
Some at her parents' have thrown themselves into empty bins and been found later, starved too death.
I'd rather it be dead, and as quickly as possible.
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Post by pgandy on Jul 5, 2020 0:40:44 GMT
When I was assigned to pest control we had several means to eliminate the mice. The most used was a metal wind up trap. I never knew the proper name or manufacturer, we identified them just as ‘wind up traps’. They worked great. It consisted of a metal box with a hole at both ends. It got its name from the fact they were spring loaded, hence the winding, the spring was attached to a four bladed paddle wheel. They were placed along walls. When a mouse entered he pressed a trigger that activated the wheel that would rotate 90°, enough to pop the mouse one and drive it through a one way door thus trapping it. Sometimes we would catch two and to my surprise I found out that they are cannibalistic, one would always eat the other. Years later I had a bad mouse problem in my house, field mice would come in. I remembered the wind ups but could not find a source, this was long before the Internet. So I scouted around and found what I thought would be a good substitute. It was of plastic with a hole at each end but instead of a paddle wheel it had a ramp at both ends just behind the holes. The idea was the mouse would walk up the ramp and when walking the walkway that followed would fall through a trap door and be caught. I ordered and put it under the kitchen sink. I watched for maybe a month and after seeing no activity gave up and retrieved the trap. I found that the suckers were using it as a home and built their nest inside. So for that piece of junk.
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Post by randomnobody on Jul 5, 2020 1:07:53 GMT
Oh, yeah, mice are cannibals. They're also necrophiliacs. Mice are weird.
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Post by legacyofthesword on Jul 5, 2020 1:20:43 GMT
Oh, yeah, mice are cannibals. They're also necrophiliacs. Mice are weird. Penguins have the same hobbies, apparently. You'd be hard pressed to find any species that doesn't at some point behave in a way that'd make a depraved serial killer shudder. Nature is brutal, animals simply follow their instincts to whatever end that leads to.
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Post by howler on Jul 5, 2020 2:08:49 GMT
Oh, yeah, mice are cannibals. They're also necrophiliacs. Mice are weird. Penguins have the same hobbies, apparently. You'd be hard pressed to find any species that doesn't at some point behave in a way that'd make a depraved serial killer shudder. Nature is brutal, animals simply follow their instincts to whatever end that leads to. Never trust anyone wearing a tux 24/7.
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Post by randomnobody on Jul 5, 2020 3:25:30 GMT
Nature be crazy. Anything for survival.
sent from my toilet via my smartphone
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Post by paulmuaddib on Jul 5, 2020 14:15:42 GMT
Nature be crazy. Anything for survival. sent from my toilet via my smartphone TMI random, TMI.
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Post by randomnobody on Jul 5, 2020 14:19:25 GMT
Point being, we're spoiled and have forgotten nature's violent and terrible ways. Territory and food are often kill or be killed. We got where we are because we killed more than we were killed.
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Post by paulmuaddib on Jul 5, 2020 15:06:38 GMT
Point being, we're spoiled and have forgotten nature's violent and terrible ways. Territory and food are often kill or be killed. We got where we are because we killed more than we were killed. True that.
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Post by MOK on Jul 5, 2020 20:24:37 GMT
Point being, we're spoiled and have forgotten nature's violent and terrible ways. Territory and food are often kill or be killed. We got where we are because we killed more than we were killed. Actually, with wild animals competition over food or territory is extremely rarely "kill or be killed" (and with carnivorous predation it's more "kill or go hungry" and "flee or be killed").
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Post by randomnobody on Jul 5, 2020 21:10:43 GMT
Perhaps for some prey species in since places.
Rabbits will rip each other apart because they feel like it.
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Post by treeslicer on Jul 6, 2020 5:43:19 GMT
...........it's just off-putting to have a bloody mouse carcass thrown at you unsolicited and without warning. Oh, I've seen that trick cause some mischief before, but nothing like the live rat snake quietly released at the back of the classroom in sixth grade.
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Post by paulmuaddib on Jul 6, 2020 11:29:07 GMT
...........it's just off-putting to have a bloody mouse carcass thrown at you unsolicited and without warning. Oh, I've seen that trick cause some mischief before, but nothing like the live rat snake quietly released at the back of the classroom in sixth grade. If you were the one to release it, you sir are an evil person. I mean that in the nicest possible way of course. 😏
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Post by MOK on Jul 6, 2020 13:14:18 GMT
Perhaps for some prey species in since places. Rabbits will rip each other apart because they feel like it. AIUI, usually that kind of behavior is caused by overcrowding in a captive population (not necessarily captive as in literally caged, but rather kept contained by their environment in whatever way, natural or artificial) - i.e. too many animals in a too small space with nowhere else to go. Under normal conditions, it's in everyone's best interest to just posture and maybe tussle a little before the underdog yields and moves on, rather than fight to death or serious injury. (Which is why General Woundwort is such an unnatural terror in Watership Down, of course, bless his berserk little heart. ) Oh, I've seen that trick cause some mischief before, but nothing like the live rat snake quietly released at the back of the classroom in sixth grade. If you were the one to release it, you sir are an evil person. I mean that in the nicest possible way of course. 😏 Straight to detention with you!
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Post by randomnobody on Jul 6, 2020 15:24:24 GMT
Eh, animals are weird. Nature is weird. Easiest way to remove an unwanted pest is dead, how it gets dead is between available options and their convenience.
Insert joke about electronic music here.
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Post by MOK on Jul 6, 2020 15:35:26 GMT
Eh, animals are weird. Nature is weird. Easiest way to remove an unwanted pest is dead, how it gets dead is between available options and their convenience. Insert joke about electronic music here. Music has charms to scythe the savage pest?
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Post by demented on Jul 7, 2020 0:01:24 GMT
Weed-rat stew sounds delicious
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Post by pgandy on Jul 7, 2020 0:44:12 GMT
Weed-rat stew sounds delicious Should be better than sewer rat stew.
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