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tiki-jer

Trad climber

fresno/clovis

Jan 5, 2011 - 10:08pm PT

Play Captain and Tanielle at 120db for 1 week, no stop with the speakers touching the wall.

Mr. Milktoast, say it ain't so....not "Muskrat Love".

Mtnmun

Trad climber

Top of the Mountain Mun

Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2011 - 11:41pm PT

I set out a smorgasboard tonight. One Cheese platter and one peanut butter
delight. Come to papa big fat ratski.

G_Gnome

Trad climber

In the mountains... somewhere...

Jan 6, 2011 - 12:37pm PT

Crimpie, both cats are trim and fit because they wrestle each other all day. One is 16 pounds and one is 14 pounds but younger and stronger. He catches rats all the time. I had one he brought into the house escape into the bedroom once. I went and got a stick to poke the rat and my cat to catch the rat. Took about 5 minutes for me to get the rat out from behind the desk and the cat about 2 seconds to catch it. I let him out and he took the rat out the cat door asap. He is an expert hunter!

Ricardo Cabeza

climber

All Over.

Jan 6, 2011 - 12:41pm PT

Ricardo, smoke them out with good herb and see if they fly funny

That would be a waste of resources, I could just as easily use an 1 3/4'' hole saw and vent my shop-vac into their quarters.

Actually, that's an idea that might work, thanks.

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Jan 6, 2011 - 12:50pm PT

True story this - it occurred in Palmdale (about 10 years ago) so you know it is real.

The wife was complaining that she heard something in the attic. Her elderly,
and not-so-sharp-eared, hubby poo-pooed it as long as he could.
Finally, to shut her up, he got the step ladder and climbed up to open the hatch.

Dark and quiet, "See, honey?".

"Well, turn on the light so you can see!"

He takes another step upwards so he can reach the light switch
and a rattler hits him in the neck!

DOA

Pennsylenvy

Gym climber

A dingy corner in your refrigerator

Jan 6, 2011 - 01:14pm PT

You beat me to the rattler story Reilly. I had a friend whom I now call Rattlesnake Bill. Bill and I were working together one fall. We had a real cold night up here in Flagstaff. I was talking to my friend on the phone, and no less than 4 mice start prancing around my tenement. It was like a circus. The next day I go to work. Bill lives south of Flagstaff in Camp Verde where it's warmer BUT he had the same thing happen in his house that night only it was RATS!!!

Not less than a week before Bill was concerned about a very large Western Diamondback living under his house. He was wondering what to do about it. I'll never forget him saying 'Oh well, at least I've got that snake down there'. It spurned an idea I had for the official 'Arizona's most lethal predator under your house contest'.

I hate those sticky traps, poor little bastard sees you coming to off him and screams. I use BACON!!!!! although you run the risk it may just bring em in from the neighborhood I guess.

dogtown

Trad climber

JackAssVille, Wyoming

Jan 6, 2011 - 01:26pm PT

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Jan 6, 2011 - 06:24pm PT

Nice twofer.

PB and a hard set?

Phil_B

Social climber

Hercules, CA

Jan 6, 2011 - 07:00pm PT

Last year, mice got into my car and built a nest right above the cabin air filter. That's the filter for air coming into where you sit.

I had been noticing a worsening smell in the car, but hadn't thought too much of it since there's always stinky gear in the car.

Then, Cleo moved my car while we were in Tuolumne and opened the glove box to put some stuff in there. Two mice jumped out and scared the crap outta her. Luckily for me, she's built of pretty stern stuff and was able to grab the meese with my CD wallet and get them out of the car.

When I got back home, I put a couple of traps in the back seat and caught the remaining two. Took a little while to find the nest though, as I'd never had a car that had a filter like that.

tinker b

climber

the commonwealth

Jan 6, 2011 - 07:08pm PT

i was just at the house i am cleaning out (my uncle's/grandparents') and didn't go into the attack to check the "humane" trap. i know it is not humane if you leave them in there to die, but i was all alone and it was creepy. hopefully my brother will come with me on saturday. whatever is up there is big and i am not looking forward to meeting them. i don't even like cleaning out mouse traps. eewe.

hooblie

climber

from where the anecdotes roam

Jan 6, 2011 - 07:24pm PT

Anastasia

climber

hanging from a crimp and crying for my mama.

Jan 6, 2011 - 07:31pm PT

I highly recommend this baby... We caught a rat with the body size of a cat. I think all the previous traps were just not big enough.

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Jan 6, 2011 - 07:52pm PT

Anastasia, I think that thing only works on illiterate rats,.. (Then again it even has a picture for them)

go into the attack to check the "humane" trap.

Doesn't that defeat the point of a humane trap?

climber

Jan 6, 2011 - 07:53pm PT

Brings back 'fond' memories...yeah, PB is king, however rats usually are too smart for reg rat traps. Tried the useless sticky traps once, only to give me a fkn snowboarding rat jumping around the attic like it was a halfpipe. At 3am, the normal time of engagement, I was faced with listening to that the rest of the night or...grabbing this 2X and bludgeoning it to death with. My wife hated the screams for mercy. I graduated to the bullshit 'humane' catch & release trap. Now, where in the Hell are you gonna give this vermin a new home? This trap sat in the attic set for three years...then at 3am...kerplunk. I knew exactly what it was. I was too tired to deal with it so I took it outside, filled up a trash barrel with the hose and sent it to Davey Jones. Nowadays, cats keep the peace at my place...Never liked using poisons though, just violence...

Mtnmun

Trad climber

Top of the Mountain Mun

Topic Author's Reply - Jan 6, 2011 - 08:57pm PT

Herd a flack, plump plump plump sound last night. Got a nice fat one out of the attic this mornin. Just call me Rat Dundee. Sorry, my camera is broken, but he was a cute Ratski.