Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:51:06 -0500
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Mystery Mouse
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Oh, watch out for the "death throes." I once moved into a tennessee
farmhouse that had so many mice I had to buy packs of 24 traps to keep them
at bay. Once, in the middle of the night, my wife and I awoke to the snap
of a trap followed by the poor creature dragging and flipping the trap
around for the rest of the night, somewhere in the house or attic. It was
so bad that I later had dreams about being in a client presentation and
hearing that approaching clamor in a faraway conference room. And to tell
you the truth, that turned out to be one of the more benign experiences,
all told. It gets much worse. Ugh.
Jim
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
> Mr. Squirrel, never in all the mouse trapping I have done have I heard any
> "death throes" of the snapped victims. The snap is so sudden and instantly
> fatal that no sound is emitted, in my experience, other than the snap.
> Now, in the van, you would hear that.
>
> My wife once bought "humane" mouse traps, sheets of something like
> tree-tangle foot for insect critters. The directions were to distribute
> where mice frequent, and collect the critters stuck on the stickum by their
> feet and dispose of them in the trash. Anything but humane, as the mice
> live to experience their slow death. They are irrevocably stuck, alive, and
> unceremoniously dumped in the dumpster. Not to be used by this person
> again. Old fashioned snap traps are best.
>
> Another approach is moth balls. They repel mice, too.
>
> mcneely
>
> ---- Vanagon <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > So I'm here on the 5th day of my annual camping trip. One site, a dry
> camp (no facilities, but also no fee and no neighbors) - a sort of Fall
> retreat, when in the middle of the night I was up gewoken by the sound of
> little mousey nibbling. Somewhere in this van a mouse has taken residence
> and is noshing on crumbs. No real food is rodent-accessible, only cans and
> bottles in the cupboards. Kind of wish I had a mouse trap along. But I'm
> not sure the SNAP and sounds of the critter's death throes would be what I
> want to hear in the middle of the night, either. Shoulda brung the cat.
> >
> > Sent from camp.
>
> --
> David McNeely
>
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