Ethereal Experience

[Mangle]

So I was sitting there watching The Simpsons and writing a music review on the couch in the living room. I had just eaten some Welchers gummies I got at the dollar store and the package was sitting on the cushion next to me. As I watched the familiar episode without a word, I caught some movement out of the corner of my eye. It was a mouse, of which we've been infested with lately but hadn't caught one in some time. It skittered back at the movement of my head, but I kept very still and it regained its courage. It slowly crept out and slid down the divide in the back rest to the gap between the seat and the cushion, when I stood up and pulled the cushion out. It ran back and forth a couple times, then went back over the top. I didn't want to touch it. I'd never been so close to one that wasn't somebody's pet. I gathered my tossed notepads and got a pot and an oversized lid from the kitchen. I couldn't bear just grabbing one and squishing it or throwing it really hard and I'm too afraid it'll bite me if I try to snag its tail. I sat back on the couch in silence after the DVD crapped out (fucking downloads), contemplating just how I was going to scoop it up with the pot if I saw it again. I really didn't want to hurt it -I had looked it squarely in the eye- so I decided I wouldn't slam the lid down if it wasn't stunned, trying to scramble out. What if I caught a leg? It'd be crippled. :266: I sat for what felt like ten minutes -but I'm sure was much less- till I heard a snap from the freshly placed trap behind the speaker. I flinched. Shoulda tried the couch again. The crows out back have another one to eat tomorrow.
FMH

[Leviathan]

funny I had a similiar experience last night around 3:45am. The difference is mine involved a big hairy predator crab in my fish tank that was trying to eat one of my snails. The crab got away before I could catch it :)

[Billy Shears]

Invest in some humane mouse traps. You can usually get em at a dollar store. All they do is trap the mouse, so he just chills there and munches out on the bait before you let him go.

[Mangle]

Originally Posted by Billy Shears

Invest in some humane mouse traps. You can usually get em at a dollar store. All they do is trap the mouse, so he just chills there and munches out on the bait before you let him go.

The only traps at my local dollar store were glue traps. Ew...

[mapleleaf4ever]

Just kill the mofo. For everyone you kill, ten are born.

[esoter1c]

Get a 5 gallon bucket with a lid, take an exacto and slice a star shaped hole of slits in the top, not an ctual hole just slits, put cheese or peanut butter in the bucket, that bucket will be full when ya wake up.

I used to live in a mad shack grow house and we used to trap rats like this.

One time we dumped every kind of chemical household cleaner we could find in the bucket and this fuckin' rat just kept doin laps in the shit like it was club med.

[Sarah...]

Originally Posted by 3507321C

One time we dumped every kind of chemical household cleaner we could find in the bucket and this fuckin' rat just kept doin laps in the shit like it was club med.

thats fucked....

....its kinda like ravers though....
household cleaners=E/meth
doing laps= dancing/flailing

[clevich]

poor mouse.............

http://www.mp3nut.com/weee/newdominostopping.avi

[mojo]

Originally Posted by 3507321C

One time we dumped every kind of chemical household cleaner we could find in the bucket and this fuckin' rat just kept doin laps in the shit like it was club med.

ratty paddle?

[tiedye]

I usually use my kevlar gloves I have from when I was working in a chemical warehouse. Grab em and carry em outside. I hate killing animals you can't eat.

Just invest in some heavy duty work gloves. You don't need $120 heat/flame retardant kevlar. . just $20 work gloves will do. If you grab them by the tail they just flail around and can't do anything. Sometimes the tail comes off though, so don't yank too hard.

[Mangle]

Originally Posted by tiedye

I usually use my kevlar gloves I have from when I was working in a chemical warehouse. Grab em and carry em outside. I hate killing animals you can't eat.

I don't feel too bad because crows come around and eat them within hours of death. I don't know how they see 'em but they do. Better than tearing my garbage can apart.

[tiedye]

Originally Posted by Mangle

I don't feel too bad because crows come around and eat them within hours of death. I don't know how they see 'em but they do. Better than tearing my garbage can apart.

at least they're not ravens like up here.. the things are huge man. I bet they would carry small children away if they're hungry enough.

btw.. I just read Napalm and Silly Putty again on the busride home. That quote in your signature was part of one of the best bits in the book.

[Mangle]

Originally Posted by 3507321C

Get a 5 gallon bucket with a lid, take an exacto and slice a star shaped hole of slits in the top, not an ctual hole just slits, put cheese or peanut butter in the bucket, that bucket will be full when ya wake up.

That's a really wicked idea. I think we're gonna give this a try.

[oxide]

get a cat!

[Mangle]

Originally Posted by oxide

get a cat!

Can't till the beginning of May, when Cassiel moves back. Current roomate's allergic...though he should really take one for the team on this one. He gives the mice most of their food. Yesterday I cleaned out the living room closet. There was mouse poop all in the boxes in there. All I found was an Reece's Peanut Butter Cups wrapper; he's the only one who gets those every other day. Damn yous, mice!!!!