10-04-2010, 10:38 AM | #31 |
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I don't kill them if they are in the basement. I figure they might capture one of the many camel crickets down there. But if they are in the living area, they are dead to me.
The crickets I will kill any chance I get, but they are fast. And with my killing off the slow ones, the population just keeps getting faster. We've had far too much wildlife inside our house. Countless mice, a couple birds, a rat, a raccoon, and even a flying squirrel. Not all at once. |
10-04-2010, 10:42 AM | #32 |
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10-04-2010, 11:26 AM | #34 |
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I woke up at like 3am to my wife's screaming, and then something soft and furry was on my face. In my sleepy state, I remember thinking that it felt kind of nice, but it had claws too and it was trying to find traction on my face, which wasn't nice at all, and my wife was screaming so that was bad too. I turned on the light, and my wife ran out of the bedroom. I closed the door to the bedroom so the squirrel was trapped in there with me. I asked my wife to get me a broom, and the bathroom rug. A moment later she passed them to me through the door. I put the rug at the crack under the door, so the squirrel couldn't get out of the room and into the rest of the house. I opened the 2 windows, and then, in my boxers, I chased that squirrel all around the room with the broom until it went out the window.
It was trying to hide under the bed, which I would then have to yank away from the wall so I could smack around under there with the broom. It would climb the curtains and be up on the curtain rods, and then leap at me. It made it up onto both of our dressers at one point. I realized it was attracted to the lights, so I turned the lights off and grabbed the flashlight on my dresser. It kept coming for my flashlight, so I kind of cupped my hand around the flashlight so it couldn't see the light itself, but I shone the light right in front of the thing. I led it with the light spot to the open window, where it slowly crawled out. I had been chasing it around the room for about 5 minutes, and it was completely exhausted. I was kind of wired after that, and didn't fall back to sleep easily. I think we probably changed the pillow cases it had crawled over and then went back to bed. It took me a while of looking at pictures on the internet before I figured out what it was. I had seen flying squirrels around here before, but never so close up. I still have absolutely no idea how it got in. |
10-04-2010, 11:55 AM | #35 |
Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB.
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10-04-2010, 12:28 PM | #37 |
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10-04-2010, 12:35 PM | #38 |
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10-04-2010, 01:02 PM | #39 |
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10-05-2010, 07:46 AM | #40 |
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And we just caught our first mouse of the season after I posted that. It bypassed one of the snap traps, and got stuck in the little glue trap I put out for the crickets.
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10-05-2010, 07:46 AM | #41 |
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glatt that's like a freaking horror movie! I would freak right the hell out!
Glad it happened to you instead.
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10-05-2010, 07:55 AM | #42 |
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We have a mouse in the house that we haven't been able to catch. (We have a catch and release program. Live, I mean.)
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10-05-2010, 08:02 AM | #43 |
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Catch and release, just means he'll come back with his posse.
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10-05-2010, 08:03 AM | #44 |
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I used to feel bad about hurting the mice, but then they just kept coming. Now it's a routine. Especially when it starts to get cold out. I expect to catch another couple in the next week or two, even though there is no evidence that there are any in the house now. Time to freshen up the bait in all the snap traps.
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