Mice

[Zzzptm]

Sorry to hear about your new roommates, Thel. Similar to Charger, we get a dozen or so mice every year. Field mice, as we're surrounded by acres of woods and fields.

We have two cats.

Never had to buy a trap, because those cats have never failed to catch the mice. They'll set them by one side of my desk, and line them up if there's more than one.

Good luck!

Thanks Vyn - I wish my cat Garfield was still around - he would have gone after them in a flash. I actually thought about asking a neighbor if I could use her cat to come in and hopefully either catch em or kill em.
For some reason they are not going after the peanut butter traps, I do not know why, and I do not know what is keeping them around as there is no food left out and I took the garbage to the bin.

Little bastards 

I've got 3 cats, that keeps the other mammals outside.

It's perhaps time to bring another cat into your life. Let Jethro Tull do the advertising:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgzAmZhTN-Q

[Charger]

The thing is....as I've noticed anyways is that in time the cat "smell" stops deterring rodents and they'll come anyways. But cats are so much fun otherwise so yeah Thel...go for it! Get a cat!

[BOGBLAST]

Back in about '04 shortly after I bought my co-op, I started noticing this wretched smell. I searched around and when I opened the cabinet under the kitchen sink I nearly passed out from the smell. There was nothing visible so I was forced to pull out the bottom shelf of the cabinet. When I did there was this huge dead rat laying in a nest he had built. Freaked me out. So after I cleaned it all up (a lot of bleach was used) I noticed a good size hole in the floor. It's just a crawl space underneath so I took a large flat patio block and covered the hole until maintenance could crawl under there and fix the hole. Definitely the grossest thing I've ever encountered. Insert vomit emoji here.

[Thelemech]

DAMMIT I have not seen the mice since Christmas eve but I just saw a big sucker run across the kitchen floor and under the stove. FUCK ----I am so sick of this bullshit!! 

[Typhon]

DAMMIT I have not seen the mice since Christmas eve but I just saw a big sucker run across the kitchen floor and under the stove. FUCK ----I am so sick of this bullshit!! 

Did it have a little cone cap on?  Perhaps he was a New Year's mouse!

Sorry Thel, I couldn't resist.

[AnnoMundi]

Thelemech, have you gotten rid of your mouse problem?

[Thelemech]

I am not sure - I have not seen any for a few days. The traps though are not holding any mice, so I have not killed any yet.
I am hoping that they have moved on but that might just be wishful thinking.

[AnnoMundi]

I am not sure - I have not seen any for a few days. The traps though are not holding any mice, so I have not killed any yet.
I am hoping that they have moved on but that might just be wishful thinking.

That sucks, hopefully they’ll move on, I hate rodents and roaches even more.

[Vyn]

<The following commentary is best read whilst Blue Oyster Cult's I Love the Night, followed by their performance of Nosferatu plays in the background.>

The people with knowledge have since passed on (under questionable circumstances I might add). I was once acquainted with two of them. It was too long ago to count the years, but they shared a tiny amount of their knowledge with me:

First, it's the mice. This phase is...gentle. Annoying, of course. Unsanitary? Absolutely. Yet gentle all the same.

Second, it's the rats. You'll question whether the mice are just getting stouter, but you will just be deluding yourself. They're rats, and this phase is decidedly not gentle. Loud chittering, clothing, furniture, walls...perhaps a toe or two. All gnawed, chewed, and defiled. Diseases of unknown properties being spread randomly and regularly. Unsanitary would be considered clean at this point.

Finally, Dracula shows up and EATS YOUR FUCKING SOUL.

You've got to stop the process Thel. The disposition of your eternal soul is at stake, man.



 

[AnnoMundi]

Vyn, I live in a complex so I can’t control the vermin, my place is immaculately clean, how do I rid myself of roaches?

[Vyn]

Elves, sounds like you're doing all you can do. Roach traps may help but won't stop the issue.

Until the entire complex is rid of roaches everyone there is subject to being visited by roaches. There are probably folks who aren't as mindful of their housework as you, and that's helpful. To the roaches.

[AnnoMundi]

Elves, sounds like you're doing all you can do. Roach traps may help but won't stop the issue.

Until the entire complex is rid of roaches everyone there is subject to being visited by roaches. There are probably folks who aren't as mindful of their housework as you, and that's helpful. To the roaches.

I’ve tried everything even boric acid, I can’t control the little buggers, mind you it’s not infested, but I hate the sight of them, they make the hairs on my neck stand.

[Charger]

Roaches are the one thing we here in the cold north don't have to bother with. I don't think I've ever even seen one.

We do have our own little pest bugs though.

[Zzzptm]

Fun fact: Pablo Escobar had so much cash in storage, he would write off about 10% per year due to rat damage and other wear.

But it was mostly rats eating his money.

[AnnoMundi]

Fun fact: Pablo Escobar had so much cash in storage, he would write off about 10% per year due to rat damage and other wear.

But it was mostly rats eating his money.

He must’ve been living in a filthy place to have enough rats eating his money.

Sickening.