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[kphoger]

glue traps ... My most absent minded dog got her foot stuck in one.

I've probably gotten my own foot stuck on a glue trap as many times as I've caught an actual mouse in one.

I've had to use a BB gun and/or shovel to aid in my disposals. 

A friend of mine once lay in wait with a BB gun inside their house waiting for the mouse to scurry across the floor.  And he succeeded!

[Max Rockatansky]

glue traps ... My most absent minded dog got her foot stuck in one.

I've probably gotten my own foot stuck on a glue trap as many times as I've caught an actual mouse in one.

I've had to use a BB gun and/or shovel to aid in my disposals. 

A friend of mine once lay in wait with a BB gun inside their house waiting for the mouse to scurry across the floor.  And he succeeded!

Regarding the glue traps I get my hands stuck in them at work fairly regularly while moving cameras.  A lot of the traps get placed out of view and where I need to run line. 

The last rat I got with the BB gun required some precision from me.  It was getting loose from a trap and I had to shoot from about twenty feet away in the dark.  I managed to aim steady and got him center mass.  Came in with my shovel right after and made sure the kill was assured. 

[1995hoo]

I'm just happy to have moved on up to a mouse-free residence.

Do you have a touch pad? 

No, he's a die-hard DOS holdout.

[kphoger]

No, he's a die-hard DOS holdout.

I still search for filenames by doing...

Win-R
cmd.exe
dir/s {search string} | more

[Rothman]

No, he's a die-hard DOS holdout.

I still search for filenames by doing...

Win-R
cmd.exe
dir/s {search string} | more

Luddite.

[Scott5114]

I'm too squeamish to do anything with mice. (Stomping on them and watching their brains fly out? Yuck!) My wife used to work for a vet, so that was always her job. Fortunately, we've had cats for the last five years, and once we got the cats the mice apparently all moved out voluntarily. (I only saw one of our cats with a mouse once, and she had merely wounded it. I guess that mouse went back home and told its family that the neighborhood had gone to shit.)

Of course, that was in Oklahoma. I'm not sure if mice are a thing in Las Vegas or not. Now our primary household pest concern is scorpions. Yay?

[Max Rockatansky]

I'm too squeamish to do anything with mice. (Stomping on them and watching their brains fly out? Yuck!) My wife used to work for a vet, so that was always her job. Fortunately, we've had cats for the last five years, and once we got the cats the mice apparently all moved out voluntarily. (I only saw one of our cats with a mouse once, and she had merely wounded it. I guess that mouse went back home and told its family that the neighborhood had gone to shit.)

Of course, that was in Oklahoma. I'm not sure if mice are a thing in Las Vegas or not. Now our primary household pest concern is scorpions. Yay?

Usually they stay intact with a quick tap of the shovel.  Not exactly my bag either but my wife is terrified of vermin and won't do the disposal. 

[kphoger]

Of course, that was in Oklahoma. I'm not sure if mice are a thing in Las Vegas or not. Now our primary household pest concern is scorpions. Yay?

When our family went camping in the northern part of Guadalupe Mountains NP a few years ago, we got to watch a scorpion and a black widow spider have a fight in the women's bathroom.  It's a different world out there than here, that's for sure.

[SEWIGuy]

I'm too squeamish to do anything with mice. (Stomping on them and watching their brains fly out? Yuck!) My wife used to work for a vet, so that was always her job. Fortunately, we've had cats for the last five years, and once we got the cats the mice apparently all moved out voluntarily. (I only saw one of our cats with a mouse once, and she had merely wounded it. I guess that mouse went back home and told its family that the neighborhood had gone to shit.)

Of course, that was in Oklahoma. I'm not sure if mice are a thing in Las Vegas or not. Now our primary household pest concern is scorpions. Yay?

Usually they stay intact with a quick tap of the shovel.  Not exactly my bag either but my wife is terrified of vermin and won't do the disposal. 

I just catch them in the old fashioned traps and throw the whole thing away. Only once or twice did that just capture, but not kill the mouse. So I put it in a plastic bag and used a hammer.

[Max Rockatansky]

I'm too squeamish to do anything with mice. (Stomping on them and watching their brains fly out? Yuck!) My wife used to work for a vet, so that was always her job. Fortunately, we've had cats for the last five years, and once we got the cats the mice apparently all moved out voluntarily. (I only saw one of our cats with a mouse once, and she had merely wounded it. I guess that mouse went back home and told its family that the neighborhood had gone to shit.)

Of course, that was in Oklahoma. I'm not sure if mice are a thing in Las Vegas or not. Now our primary household pest concern is scorpions. Yay?

Usually they stay intact with a quick tap of the shovel.  Not exactly my bag either but my wife is terrified of vermin and won't do the disposal. 

I just catch them in the old fashioned traps and throw the whole thing away. Only once or twice did that just capture, but not kill the mouse. So I put it in a plastic bag and used a hammer.

Our dogs will get into the snap traps.  It would be ideal if they just did the job, but alas only one has a taste for it.   

[Rothman]

I'm too squeamish to do anything with mice. (Stomping on them and watching their brains fly out? Yuck!) My wife used to work for a vet, so that was always her job. Fortunately, we've had cats for the last five years, and once we got the cats the mice apparently all moved out voluntarily. (I only saw one of our cats with a mouse once, and she had merely wounded it. I guess that mouse went back home and told its family that the neighborhood had gone to shit.)

Of course, that was in Oklahoma. I'm not sure if mice are a thing in Las Vegas or not. Now our primary household pest concern is scorpions. Yay?

Usually they stay intact with a quick tap of the shovel.  Not exactly my bag either but my wife is terrified of vermin and won't do the disposal. 

I just catch them in the old fashioned traps and throw the whole thing away. Only once or twice did that just capture, but not kill the mouse. So I put it in a plastic bag and used a hammer.

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[kphoger]

The first time I ever caught a mouse, probably sixteen years ago, we didn't have any traps, so I built an elaborate contraption.  I put a kitchen trash can in the middle of the floor and leaned an ironing board or something up against it.  Then I placed Ritz Bits sandwich crackers in a trail up the board.  At the top, I precariously balanced something with another sandwich cracker at the end of it.

Next morning, I was pleased to see that it had worked.  The mouse had fallen into the trash can and couldn't get out.

Great.  Now what?  I had a live mouse in the bottom of a trash can.  I put a trash bag over the top of the can, flipped it over, and quickly got to work trapping the mouse in the bag.  I just ba-a-a-a-arely prevented it from escaping out the top while I was doing so.

I think I used a hammer that time to kill it.

[Rothman]

The first time I ever caught a mouse, probably sixteen years ago, we didn't have any traps, so I built an elaborate contraption.  I put a kitchen trash can in the middle of the floor and leaned an ironing board or something up against it.  Then I placed Ritz Bits sandwich crackers in a trail up the board.  At the top, I precariously balanced something with another sandwich cracker at the end of it.

Next morning, I was pleased to see that it had worked.  The mouse had fallen into the trash can and couldn't get out.

Great.  Now what?  I had a live mouse in the bottom of a trash can.  I put a trash bag over the top of the can, flipped it over, and quickly got to work trapping the mouse in the bag.  I just ba-a-a-a-arely prevented it from escaping out the top while I was doing so.

I think I used a hammer that time to kill it.

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[Scott5114]

The last time we had mice I had one of the live-capture traps set up in addition to the other kinds, with the expectation that if the mouse were caught by the live-capture trap, I would have to handle it. My plan was to put the whole thing in a Tupperware container and drive it to a park in the rich part of town and release it there. I never had to do that, though.

I just don't have it within myself to be smashing mammals with hammers, I guess.

[Max Rockatansky]

I think was more bothered by me bare hand smashing a roach one time versus disposing rodents with garden tools. 

Now if a lizard gets in a the house that's a different story.  I'll at least attempt to get it in a box and take it outside.  They are basically harmless and keeps bugs away in the yard.

[kphoger]

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I don't click on links unless the person has told me why I should care to.

[kphoger]

Now if a lizard gets in a the house that's a different story.  I'll at least attempt to get it in a box and take it outside.  They are basically harmless and keeps bugs away in the yard.

On our honeymoon in coastal Nayarit, we had a gecko that hung out on the bedroom wall at night.  We thought that was pretty cool, and we were happy to have it in there with us.

[hotdogPi]

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I don't click on links unless the person has told me why I should care to.

Eventually, you won't be able to resist, and you will give up and click the link, and it will let you down.

[Rothman]

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I don't click on links unless the person has told me why I should care to.

You live a deprived life.