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Saw a mouse in my apartment. (sh.itjust.works)
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I live a bachelor lifestyle, so I have no food in here. Just alcohol. I hope the mouse figures that out and goes away. I should get some traps in case it doesn't. I hate killing animals but there's no practical alternative.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Get a snake to take care of the mice (there's basically never just one). Once the snakes get out of hand, get a cat to handle the snake population. Then when the cats get out of hand, get a coyote to eat the cats. And when the coyotes start to take over, introduce mountain lions. If the mountain lion population spikes, well then you're fucked.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

If you get snaptraps, get the cheap wood ones because all those other ones are trash. The wood ones have a hell of a good spring on them and they're dead RFN. And they're more sensitive than any of the plastic ones I've used.

I live in the country, running a mouse trapline is a necessity. Once you've had the dirty little fuckers set up house where you don't notice them for a few months, you will have precisely zero sympathy for their coexistence in your dwelling. I once had to clean a nest out of a breakerbox with several crisped corpses and every breaker covered in piss and shit.

There's a reason we domesticated cats.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Get 2 medium sized boxes for moving.

Cut one of them up to make a ramp into the other box.

Put peanut butter or almond butt on the ramp and in the box.

Goto bed after drinking said alcohol.

Look in your box the next morning and your new friend will be there smiling at you.

Find them a better forever home.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

That sounds a lot like what my coworker does with chipmunks. Except, it isn't a box, it's a bucket. And it isn't a forever home, it's 8" of water.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Why would he kill chipmunks? I used to live somewhere where they were all over the place, but they only ever made annoying noises and taunted my dog. I never had one even try to come into my house.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

They will chew the living fuck out of your house. You have to get them out of your house. Killing them is just one way.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Either I had weird chipmunks or other people do, because even bees did more damage by chewing up my house than chipmunks did.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Chipmunks gnawed through our basement casement windows and wrecked holy hell on our house. They can’t easily be trapped. I got them out by borrowing ferrets from one friend and the last one out by borrowing another friend’s house cat.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Your friend's ferrets would hunt? Mine refused even to try eating anything except their pellets.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Our friend’s ferrets got all but one chipmunck. We had to borrow another friend’s cat to get that last one

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