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Hello all. I’ve enjoyed a shaky peace with the small family of mice in my walls for the past year or so. They don’t come out and I ignore their nightly scurrying but recently they’ve grown more cavalier and I saw one do a weird dance the other day. I had to board up the hole in my kitchen and now they seem pissed. Yesterday I saw an obese squirrel and it made me wonder if the different rodent families share information with each other
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May 4, 2021 06:50
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They aren't trapped right?
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May 4, 2021 06:52
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Don't be too concerned OP, the alliance between the rodents is a shaky one at best.
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May 4, 2021 07:13
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Gerbils greet one another by rubbing noses.
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May 4, 2021 08:05
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I like rodents. It's unfair they're compared to humans.
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May 4, 2021 08:23
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Whatever you do. Don't use rat glue.
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May 4, 2021 08:33
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I had a live and let live attitude towards mice until one of them decided to live inside my arcade cabinet and it ate the entire wiring harness Now I am the mouse terminator, my house has more traps than the entire Saw movie series 
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May 4, 2021 08:37
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Only thing mice are good for is lab work.
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May 4, 2021 08:43
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Only thing mice are good for is lab work. Also creating a multimedia empire worth trillions of dollars.
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May 4, 2021 08:45
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Rats are good and chill pets imo. They have very distinctive personalities, and they peep happily at you when fed Blueberries
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May 4, 2021 08:47
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I had a pet gerbil as a teenager, and kept it in my bedroom as that would force me to clean the cage out regularly. Little bastard used to open his cage on a near nightly basis and explore my room though. Woke up once with him sat on my chest staring at me, freaked me the gently caress out.
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May 4, 2021 09:26
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I have two rats they're lovely ladies
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May 4, 2021 09:28
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hello
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May 4, 2021 09:58
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r u ready to WALK posted:I had a live and let live attitude towards mice until one of them decided to live inside my arcade cabinet and it ate the entire wiring harness Do you have some kind of smart mouse trap?
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May 4, 2021 10:42
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r u ready to WALK posted:I had a live and let live attitude towards mice until one of them decided to live inside my arcade cabinet and it ate the entire wiring harness stop leaving food out
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May 4, 2021 10:53
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beer gas canister posted:Rats are good and chill pets imo. They have very distinctive personalities, and they peep happily at you when fed Blueberries Plus you can get them to hunt mice.
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May 4, 2021 10:59
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Les Os posted:Hello all. I’ve enjoyed a shaky peace with the small family of mice in my walls for the past year or so. They don’t come out and I ignore their nightly scurrying but recently they’ve grown more cavalier and I saw one do a weird dance the other day. I had to board up the hole in my kitchen and now they seem pissed. Yesterday I saw an obese squirrel and it made me wonder if the different rodent families share information with each other They'll eat the insulation off the wires in your walls and your home will burn down. You'd better get real beefy with them.
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May 4, 2021 11:10
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Dell_Zincht posted:I had a pet gerbil as a teenager, and kept it in my bedroom as that would force me to clean the cage out regularly. Little bastard used to open his cage on a near nightly basis and explore my room though. Woke up once with him sat on my chest staring at me, freaked me the gently caress out. That gerbil fucks
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May 4, 2021 11:12
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I was invaded by rats last month. I think they were displaced by construction across the way. I trapped 8 and my dogs caught 2 and now I haven't seen any rats in a few nights so I think they got the message
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May 4, 2021 11:52
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You should have had two gerbils, they get lonely. Also sometimes murderous. We bought three once and by the second day one was dead with tooth marks in its skull.
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May 4, 2021 13:13
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There's an interesting series of books on this subject that this rodent expert called Brian Jacques wrote. Check it out OP edit: Hey OP is yr user name based off the unicorns song? kntfkr fucked around with this message at 14:09 on May 4, 2021 |
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May 4, 2021 13:22
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The mythos of Large Squirrel grows ever larger
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May 4, 2021 15:05
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I also used to enjoy rodents, and I still technically think they are cute, but I bought a house years ago and gently caress rodents. I've had to exterminate like 20something norwegian rats since we moved in (it was all in the first two years, they are mostly dead now and they never got inside). Some of them were big enough that I had to use a live trap, then throw them in a huge drum of water. I felt bad but they left me no choice, those things carry the fuckin' plague. I rented a house in college where there were huge holes in the eaves and squirrels just took over the whole attic. One of them stole about an inch of my motorcycle's wiring harness so I had to painstakingly solder a patch in for each wire. gently caress that squirrel.
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May 4, 2021 15:10
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May 4, 2021 15:16
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I live next to a corner store (I guess it is called a bodeaga if you live in nyc). But I get mice in my house from them all the time - my one mouser cat catches the and growls at me and the second he releases it I bash it with my Zippo Axe and throw it out into the yard trash. My husband doesn't like me doing it but if I didn't the house would be infested with mice. (Also pet rats are cutie pies and will kill an invading mouse too.)
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May 4, 2021 15:25
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r u ready to WALK posted:I had a live and let live attitude towards mice until one of them decided to live inside my arcade cabinet and it ate the entire wiring harness lol what the gently caress is wrong with you and how you live that you have created an environment where the rodent infestation is so bad that you need a phone app to track it? 
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May 4, 2021 15:25
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ive never had trouble with rats or mice in my home gophers are some bullshit though. ive trapped 6 in the last two months and more just keep showing up to gently caress up my garden, its sisyphean
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May 4, 2021 15:37
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I never realized how good my cats were at keeping vermin out of our house until we moved out of our old house and went back to clean it one day and walked in to find every surface in the house covered, and I mean COVERED in rat and mouse poopies. Good kitties.
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May 4, 2021 15:39
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Nooner posted:lol what the gently caress is wrong with you and how you live that you have created an environment where the rodent infestation is so bad that you need a phone app to track it? Mice frequently get inside urban and extremely rural houses. Rodents aren't nearly as much a problem in the suburbs because of distance to other homes and geography.
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May 4, 2021 15:43
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The goblin king and his minions
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May 4, 2021 15:43
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The most noble beast.
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May 4, 2021 15:47
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I had mice get into my house and start chewing through boxes and bags of food in my pantry. I tried to be reasonable and made every attempt to catch them without hurting them but they would just come back. One day I caught this guy and while I was attempting to slide a piece of cardboard under the container to lift him up, he managed to scurry away and that was the final straw. I bought industrial strength rodent poison and never saw them again. This little fucker ruined it for everyone 
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May 4, 2021 18:08
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May 4, 2021 19:17
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdQzqioqeM0
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May 4, 2021 19:41
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my house had a rat problem a few years ago and i bought three VICTOR brand rat traps and gave them Call Of Duty names. Soap, Roach, and Ghost, and kept tally of their rat kills on the back with sharpie. I think Roach had like 10+ rat kills before i got the basement patched up and the rats stopped coming into the house.
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May 4, 2021 20:07
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also my GF has a snake and keeps the store bought rat cadavers in the freezer and sometimes when im looking for something to cook ill reach for the frozen rat cause its wrapped in like butcher paper and think its sausages. every drat time.
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May 4, 2021 20:08
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Workaday Wizard posted:Whatever you do. Don't use rat glue. Agreed. NO RAT GLUE. It's 100% WRONG. There are far safer and more effective ways. Airplane glue contains toluene, which will get you way more hosed up.
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May 4, 2021 20:23
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Pakistani politics posted:Agreed. NO RAT GLUE. It's 100% WRONG. So is poison. It works by completely blocking vitamin K, which causes the animals' blood to slowly seep out of all of its veins and internal organs. It's a slow and excruciatingly painful death.
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May 4, 2021 21:38
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Bula Vinaka posted:So is poison. It works by completely blocking vitamin K, which causes the animals' blood to slowly seep out of all of its veins and internal organs. It's a slow and excruciatingly painful death. There's only one humane way... *dons pith helmet, bandolier and elephant gun*
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May 4, 2021 22:02
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some mouse poisons are just tons of vitamin d i'm not sure if that's any nicer for them or not. i don't like using it, rather use normal traps if only because an owl might eat the poison mouse. but sometimes there's not another option
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May 4, 2021 22:03
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