I'm afraid, Dave.
Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it.
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I'm afraid, Dave.
Dave wrote:You should have opened the pod bay doors, Hal.
Two things I will remember from this video (apart from wondering what in the world am I watching - the timelapse of the two guys looked weird...) :
On the bright side, if it's on that channel, it's almost certainly not true.lake_wrangler wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:41 pm I... don't even know what to say...
Here's hoping this never comes true!
Yeah, there's a better video with the same audio. I'd have to find a way to rip it from one of my Sean Kennedy dvds and upload just that segment. The cool thing is that all the folks involved in it, including Sean himself, actually encourage such things, so long as credit is given where it's due and anyone copying and distributing Rant Media's work does so for free.lake_wrangler wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 12:36 amTwo things I will remember from this video (apart from wondering what in the world am I watching - the timelapse of the two guys looked weird...) :
"Don't watch daytime television: it will only make you feel stupid."
And:
"Friends will help you move. Real friends will help you move a body."
Oh? What facts exactly are you disputing?Typeminer wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 8:12 amOn the bright side, if it's on that channel, it's almost certainly not true.lake_wrangler wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:41 pm I... don't even know what to say...
Here's hoping this never comes true!
I never did take time to do the suggested improvements to the mouse traps. I did hear the mouse a few times, underneath the toaster oven, but by the time I would go get my gloves (please refer to the squirrel incident quoted above, for more info), it would disappear again.lake_wrangler wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 6:40 amI have hot had time to make the suggested improvements to my Victor mouse traps (yes, it just so happened they were Victor traps...), and indeed I even stopped baiting and setting them, for a bit, until I had time to do so (why bother baiting and setting, if all I am doing is giving the mouse/mice a free meal, right?)Dave wrote: ↑Thu Oct 08, 2020 9:00 pmSounds as if you have an infestation of Mus ornithoptris (the North American hovering mouse).lake_wrangler wrote: ↑Thu Oct 08, 2020 8:49 pm I came home tonight, to find out that both mouse traps have been licked clean of peanut butter, yet the traps themselves are still untriggered!
One thing you could try, is tying a couple of turns of twine around the trigger/bait platform, before baiting. If the mice chew on (or tug on) the twine to try to get to the bait caught under it, they'll be more likely to trigger the trap. Solid bait tied to the trigger has a similar benefit.
A friend of mine taught me the best way (he says) to make a standard Victor (or similar) rat trap more effective. First thing is to screw it down to a piece of 2x4 - this keeps the trap from flipping when it triggers. Second, put the trap in a narrow box (or wrap metal netting around it) so that there's only one direction that the rat can approach from... the baited end, where the bar will come crashing down.
Both of these tricks make it much harder for a rat to access the trap from a direction where it won't be hit if the trap triggers.
Then last night, while I was at my kitchen table, looking at some YouTube videos on my tablet, the mouse decided to peek out and roam around the kitchen counter and stove top. It did retreat to underneath the toaster oven, when I came by, but did not hide away into the walls. I even lifted the toaster oven twice, and the mouse just cowered there instead of scampering away. So I went and got my work gloves, using them as a physical barrier* (for some reason, I did not think of actually wearing the gloves, which would have probably been easier) and managed to cover the mouse with them. I puckered up the glove, with the mouse in it, and went outside, throwing the mouse into my backyard. (Not very far from the house, though... maybe I should have gone to the back of the yard to leave the mouse... I don't know.)
Now, I'll bait and set the traps again, to see if there are other mice, or if that was an isolated case, however unlikely that may be.
*The last time I tried to catch a rodent with my bare hands was back in 85, when I was working at a summer camp... there was a squirrel that was running around the storage room in the back of the kitchen. The head of maintenance guy was going after it with a hammer, but kept hitting where the squirrel had been... At one point, the squirrel started running up a set of shelves, and I reached out, with my hand, ahead of the squirrel, so that by the time I had reached the shelf, the squirrel had reached that spot. I caught the squirrel, which promptly bit me! (I know, right? The nerve of that squirrel...) As a reflex to it biting me, my hand squeezed... So much for the squirrel... it won't ever run around kitchen back rooms again... and I had to get a tetanus shot, just in case, because I couldn't remember when my last one had been.