Post by youp50 on Jul 16, 2023 12:06:46 GMT -5
Time has a thread about catching a mouse in a tumbler.
What vermin do you remove and what vermin do you deal with?
Every mouse that steps foot into my garage/shop is invited to help themselves to a nice peanut butter/chocolate delight. I don't think mice have a spirit or soul, but if they do it is a heavenly delight. The local crows and ravens check the road in front of my home for their corpse, a completion of the Lion King's circle of life. Of a note; I seldom catch a mature male mouse inside, just Mama and offspring.
Northern Jumping Mice. I haven't figured out a good way to send them to a possible after-life. They will be bad again this year, a riparian species that eats the bottom of tomatoes. I feel bad for them, they are terribly thirsty. The tomatoes are still my guarded property...
Chipmunks are not welcome either, the addition of brush piles has perfected the weasel habitat. I haven't seen nor heard a chipmunk this summer. Another circle of life thing, I guess.
Ever wonder why a circle of life involves a death?
Red squirrels. I live rural. Reds are shot on sight.
Racoons are removed from the gene pool also.
Skunks are tolerated. We use an electric fencer to discourage racoons from entering out buildings etc, and deer from the vegetable garden. The garden also has a lower wire for the wild turkeys, its a dry year here and they want to make a dust bowl in the cabbage patch. Works well for the deer and turkeys, skunks spray upon contact with the wire.
Black bears are an enigmatic pain. They are responsible for two actions here. The first, bird feeders are brought in at dusk. The second, use cheap feeders, bear may come by in the daylight hours. Bear are very hard on the structual integrity of any feeder they can reach.
Mosquitoes and ticks are grudgingly fed, and killed on discovery.
No sharks here... fish are cool.
What vermin do you remove and what vermin do you deal with?
Every mouse that steps foot into my garage/shop is invited to help themselves to a nice peanut butter/chocolate delight. I don't think mice have a spirit or soul, but if they do it is a heavenly delight. The local crows and ravens check the road in front of my home for their corpse, a completion of the Lion King's circle of life. Of a note; I seldom catch a mature male mouse inside, just Mama and offspring.
Northern Jumping Mice. I haven't figured out a good way to send them to a possible after-life. They will be bad again this year, a riparian species that eats the bottom of tomatoes. I feel bad for them, they are terribly thirsty. The tomatoes are still my guarded property...
Chipmunks are not welcome either, the addition of brush piles has perfected the weasel habitat. I haven't seen nor heard a chipmunk this summer. Another circle of life thing, I guess.
Ever wonder why a circle of life involves a death?
Red squirrels. I live rural. Reds are shot on sight.
Racoons are removed from the gene pool also.
Skunks are tolerated. We use an electric fencer to discourage racoons from entering out buildings etc, and deer from the vegetable garden. The garden also has a lower wire for the wild turkeys, its a dry year here and they want to make a dust bowl in the cabbage patch. Works well for the deer and turkeys, skunks spray upon contact with the wire.
Black bears are an enigmatic pain. They are responsible for two actions here. The first, bird feeders are brought in at dusk. The second, use cheap feeders, bear may come by in the daylight hours. Bear are very hard on the structual integrity of any feeder they can reach.
Mosquitoes and ticks are grudgingly fed, and killed on discovery.
No sharks here... fish are cool.