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DO NOT WANT. We had a couple of rats back in California that set up house in our garage. I thought they were mice at first but couldn't figure out why the traps were sprung but not doing much. Gaaah. At least they weren't the giant sentient alien robot rats like they have in New York.
Oh my gosh - my parents are dealing with this right now. My younger brother set big rat traps out in the backyard - and yesterday my mother told me they have caught three rats in the past three days.
For the first time in her life, my mother is actually thinking of getting a cat!!!
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Oh my gosh - my parents are dealing with this right now. My younger brother set big rat traps out in the backyard - and yesterday my mother told me they have caught three rats in the past three days.
For the first time in her life, my mother is actually thinking of getting a cat!!!
That was Julia's post I messed up on her.
But, I have a dog door which is how these little mice got in because I would find the dry little bites dog food all over under the refrigerator and in the drawers and cupboards - yuck. I had a real expensive luggage set my mother bought me years ago and was going to sell it on ebay and they chewed through it and I was ticked off and when I opened it - full of dog food little bites. LOL
I would put out bird seed for the birds and then throw some on the ground for the chipmunks and squirrels - not realizing they were rodents too and once I stopped doing that the mice took it somewhere else. Dogs would bring in dead squirrels, chipmunks, birds and a woodchuck, but not once did they ever catch a mouse - useless.
But, I have a dog door which is how these little mice got in because I would find the dry little bites dog food all over under the refrigerator and in the drawers and cupboards - yuck. I had a real expensive luggage set my mother bought me years ago and was going to sell it on ebay and they chewed through it and I was ticked off and when I opened it - full of dog food little bites. LOL
I would put out bird seed for the birds and then throw some on the ground for the chipmunks and squirrels - not realizing they were rodents too and once I stopped doing that the mice took it somewhere else. Dogs would bring in dead squirrels, chipmunks, birds and a woodchuck, but not once did they ever catch a mouse - useless.
My middle brother had put an old bowling bag filled with a bowling ball and a pair of bowling shoes on the patio on an old baker's rack. A few days ago my younger brother moved everything to hose and dust off the patio. He happened to look inside the bowling bag - there were pieces of tomato in there (the rats have been eating my father's tomato plants) and rat poop. My younger brother threw the bag and the contents away.
My mother also used to have a bunch of bird feeders raised off the ground to attract different types of birds - but the droppings attracted rats and squirrels would jump off the roof of my parents' house to get to the bird feeders to eat the seeds. So now my parents have only had a finch feeder for about a year. But the rats are coming from somewhere.
My middle brother had put an old bowling bag filled with a bowling ball and a pair of bowling shoes on the patio on an old baker's rack. A few days ago my younger brother moved everything to hose and dust off the patio. He happened to look inside the bowling bag - there were pieces of tomato in there (the rats have been eating my father's tomato plants) and rat poop. My younger brother threw the bag and the contents away.
My mother also used to have a bunch of bird feeders raised off the ground to attract different types of birds - but the droppings attracted rats and squirrels would jump off the roof of my parents' house to get to the bird feeders to eat the seeds. So now my parents have only had a finch feeder for about a year. But the rats are coming from somewhere.
We used to live in a house with a spanish tile roof and raccoons would get up there and rip the tiles off (you could hear them crash on the patio or driveway) looking for birds nests and eggs. On occasion you could hear one of the raccoons lose his grip and slide down the roof by his nails.
My dad was in his bathroom once and said, "do you ever get the feeling someone is watching you," and pointed toward the window. Seems this one raccoon was on the roof, holding on to the eaves trough and would peek in the window at him upside down, but move back up when my dad looked in his direction and kept doing it. It was pretty funny.
Does anyone remember that movie with Michael Douglass, Falling Down. That's gonna be me soon cause I've got this co-worker that is just driving me f ing batty.
Does anyone remember that movie with Michael Douglass, Falling Down. That's gonna be me soon cause I've got this co-worker that is just driving me f ing batty.
Yes, I have. Someone sent me an email just yesterday about "Maxium limit to office stress." It wasn`t purty!
Spiders are good unless in the house. They are natures way of insect control. My grandmother who lived in the country would bop you on the head if you messed with her spider webs around the house. She would actually snag a grasshopper occasionally and feed her spiders that had set up outside to keep them around. She never had bug problems inside her house.
Does anyone remember that movie with Michael Douglass, Falling Down. That's gonna be me soon cause I've got this co-worker that is just driving me f ing batty.
I remember that movie all too well.
If all else fails, get yourself some GABA B-6 supplement from the health food store. It calms your nerves when people are making you want to scream your lungs out. It doesn't make you sleepy or dopey, it's an amino acid supplement.
Anyway, I've taken it at work and it helps, and I'll probably at sometime have to take it again when someone's bugging the heck out of me.
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Someone sent me an email just yesterday about "Maxium limit to office stress." 
