Mouse: 1; Me: Minus a Toaster

Apr 13, 2024 13:25


   Yesterday I got home from Ye Old Factory after an overnight shift, at 11:30am. I proceeded to take a nap on the couch ( Read more... )

mice, pests

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mer_agitee April 13 2024, 06:06:40 UTC

Reading your entry made me panic twice. First for the mouse and then towards the end of the entry for you! Humans have simply taken up all the space and my worries for the other animals keep growing. Anyway, you need to find to someone (who cares) to get the mouse or mice out and then seal the openings. Sad for the mouse to lose his home but also, your life is at risk with the contamination, you have got to stay safe!

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lookfar April 14 2024, 00:30:35 UTC
Oh heavens! I would, were I you, wipe the toaster down, shake it out, spray it with rubbing alcohol and consider it sanitized.

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emo_snal April 14 2024, 02:18:41 UTC

I sprayed its insides with a hose until it looked as lean as I could get it, but I didn't think of rubbin alcohol, that's a good idea. ... just definitel need to make sure to wait until it all dissipates before activating the toaster! Otherwise I may have a fireball machine!

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lookfar April 14 2024, 11:20:37 UTC
Yeh, I'd definitely use it outside the first time!

BTW, if you are going to put them in the trash inside the trap, why not use snap traps? In the end, better for them to die right away than suffocate, right?

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emo_snal April 14 2024, 11:31:53 UTC

Oh I don't throw them in in the trap, the trap has airholes and I dump them out of it into the bin. The bin is something like 150 liters, I fully anticipate that should be enough air to last them ages, especially with me opening the lid at least every few days. And, this is kind of funny really but, when I tossed it in last night (I forget, did I mention I caught it?), I couldn't see what was in the bin but I went to check this morning specifically because I wanted to make sure it had food, and there were a number of rotting fruit and even some old sausages I had thrown out, I'm assuming this is all good foor for a mouse, plus the bugs that live on it. And even then I found myself wondering if I should throw something out just to feed it ahaha.

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chocolate_frapp April 14 2024, 16:35:59 UTC

I hate the little fuckers. I have traps in my kitchen but they never go in them. Night before last one of them was making even more annoying scrabbly sounds than usual so I thought it might have gone in a trap but it didn't. I found it in a bag of flour and it wasn't moving at all so for a minute I thought maybe it had died so I tried to pick it up but it ran away too fast.

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