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My Redskins are headed into overtime with the Chargers. Great game so far. 24-24.
excellent on your daughter, frannie.
back to the game...overtime is about to start.
excellent on your daughter, frannie.
back to the game...overtime is about to start.
I had mouse poison in the shed a few years back and the squirrels ate it too. I felt so sad when I found one squirrel outside the shed, stopped mid-crawl into an old pallet in the woods. Then I found another dead squirrel in the shed, curled up in the arm of a jacket. At least that one looked peaceful.
But oh my gosh, this is still haunting me: So, over the summer I dealt with carpenter ants. I did the sugar-water & borax thing and that worked. Problem with that is though that it will dry up after a while and become a hard syrup, and I worried the ants weren't taking back the stuff to their nest as much.
So, I decided to take some old peanuts I found in my car from when I went to this restaurant that has shelled peanuts that you can throw the shells on the floor. I put those in an old tv dinner tray, along with some meat jibbles in another section and the happened to be beet juice in another, and I just poured the sweet borax water over it all. I had read that some ants prefer salty and fatty things over sweet, so I thought perhaps this more rounded meal approach would prove even more successful.
The ants didn't seem to be putting a dent into the sold food matter, but I was amazed at how the borax mix seemed to really preserve the food, since it looked just the same as when I made it like 2 months later. Even so, it wasn't something I wanted to keep hanging around inside in case I stepped on it by accident or something, so I moved this tray out into the garage, and then when it did finally get moldy I put in the shed until I was more motivated to dispose of it better. Anyway, long story short since this is boring....
I discovered mice had been eating the poisoned peanuts. I thought ok, well they'll be in for a bad surprise. But then the other day I was cleaning the garage and found a particular family of mice who I'm pretty sure had died from these peanuts, since there were shells all over the place...and oh my gosh their bodies and faces...and although I want them out of here, I don't want to torture them, no matter how destructive and disease-ridden they may be. And those mice definitely looked tortured to death. Sooooo creeeeppppyyyy.
Aaanyway, I made some bucket traps yesterday. I'll check on them soon to see if they actually worked. If they do, that'll be so excellent not dealing with rotting mice in forgotten mouse traps and poison deaths and whatnot.
Oh gosh, over the summer, I dealt with a toad who got her arm stuck in a mouse trap. I dunno if I narrated the story here in ECF, but it was quite a strenuous experience for all. I found her in the back of the garage, flies buzzing around her. She was trying to get away from the annoying bug flies, but could only manage a few cm at that. Oh how it pained me to find her like that, especially since last summer I made a close friendship with a toad who decided to live in the garage.
I made her a nice home in an old little bucket, all lined with plush moss, and coved her with some ferns. I put lots of worms in there, and other yummy bugs, though I never saw her eat anything. :-( I tried caring for her, cleaning the wound with saline, and knew the limb was useless and getting infected. I tied a string on it in hopes it would fall off, but that wasn't working, and a little less than 2 weeks into her rescue the only way to ensure healing would be to amputate. I thought long and hard abut doing it myself, but since I already had so much difficulty just trying to tie that string, I realized I wouldn't be able to safely perform such drastic operation. And if I were to accidentally stab her or something or end up killing her, I would feel devastated.
So, I arranged to drop her off at this local vet office that offers amphibian care and takes in rescue strays. I'm hoping they actually took this case seriously and tried to help her. I know some might have just emptied the trap and throw her into the woods or something and not care at all. Or they might feel bad for a few seconds but then it wouldn't come across their mind that they could do anything about it. And some just don't care abut toads since they're fat and ugly.
Wowwy this has dragged on for great lengths.
So, also in cleaning the garage and finding those tortured mice corpses under the stairs where we stored fire wood, I also decided to clean behind these piles of timber we had stored against a wall. They had been there since the house was built basically, back in the late 80's. And yes, there was mouse evidence, and a few dead ones, but most were just fur and bones by this point. But I also found a bunch of sawdust, and I thought oh those stupid mice taking all the sawdust. But, again, long story even shorter and skipping some events, I removed the plywood covering to the garage wall to find this:
I am terrified of what I'm going to find in other areas, specially in walls of the actual house...
And none of that was the gross thing I had mentioned earlier. The gross thing was a few years back I found this dead mouse in the middle of the floor in the garage... but maybe it wasn't dead? It appeared to be slightly moving...but definitely looked quite dead. The carcass was ever so slowly moving across the floor, maybe like .5-1"/min. And it looked sorta like this dead mouse was breathing? Zombie mouse that must be the explanation.
But no. It was just a bunch of maggots. Oh how I hate that word, and those things. So gross.
Get 2 of my 20+ year old grand-daughters in the same room with my oldest son and it's a free for all of noise.
Here I am. Overtime is over and my Redskins are victorious... scored a touchdown on their first possession. Yay!
Wow flarg. ?Nice? story... in a way. You're very caring about animals. Bummer about the problems.
But yeah, sometimes they just get where they shouldn't!
Don't store the wood next to the house! Ever! Only thing I know. Fran hauls it from a distance for that reason, I assume.
Oh, and snap traps. They're cheap too. Tried some others...ramps...live traps. They worked sometimes. But sometimes the extra-smart mice just won't go there. So snap.
Ants = chemicals.
That's what I do.
But yeah, sometimes they just get where they shouldn't!
Don't store the wood next to the house! Ever! Only thing I know. Fran hauls it from a distance for that reason, I assume.
Oh, and snap traps. They're cheap too. Tried some others...ramps...live traps. They worked sometimes. But sometimes the extra-smart mice just won't go there. So snap.
Ants = chemicals.
That's what I do.
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lol - i don't think i'll last till 9pm tonight .................
and where's that catt been all day?
and where's that catt been all day?
this is it for me ............ lol
taking my girls out and calling it a day!
goodnight and sweet dreams!
taking my girls out and calling it a day!
goodnight and sweet dreams!
oh my - frannie, do you have a link - i think i need to stop by there before logging off
it'll have to wait then - maybe by morning you'll know if there is a thread here on ecf. if not i'll pm salem.
night, frannie!
night, frannie!
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