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Smart cat, you should always wash your food before eating. 
Another weekend, another rat sent to heaven by Bix. He eats the mice, but I guess the rats are not so tasty.
If you don't have that screen, you can cheat with steel wool and foam...spray some foam in hole, add some steel wool and work into the goopy foam, then spray in more foam. Would only do this if I didn't have good way to screw in a screen or the hole was in some awkward position.
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Classic reference. Watched that movie when I was around 5 or 6, and still lived in the city. Gave me nightmares for weeks. My mom still makes fun of me about it
It’s called C.H.U.D
Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers
1984
Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers
1984
i bought a house w/coons in the walls. Set a kill tap w/tuna and woke up to find
i had offed the neighbors' cat. 300lb biker dude who lived w/his mommy asks me
if i've seen his cat....nope....
i had offed the neighbors' cat. 300lb biker dude who lived w/his mommy asks me
if i've seen his cat....nope....
Been using snap traps for rats and mice for many years, it's really the best way. You know for sure you got 'em...For sure tie them down to something, I use masonry twine and make a big loop on the free end then put the trap around something and through the loop. We also modify the traps by bending the spring back a little ways down the bale so it's stronger. Then mess with the 'trigger' so it's more sensitive. It's amazing that those fookers can lick peanut butter off of those without tripping it. For bait I'll make a little bacon and peanut butter 'burrito' with a little piece of tortilla and stick it on the pointy part of the trigger. Nobody can resist bacon, amirite? Then put the traps out there but don't set them, let the critters get used to the trap without getting killed. Watch the traps and make sure the bait is disappearing then a couple days later--whammo! This Golden Retriever was very proud of her catch!
I had a couple little bitty grey jobs, slow enough for me to hit one with a board and kick it out the front door. I put traps out, and they cleaned the chunky Skippy off. Bought some cashews, super-glued them to the bait thingy, covered in peanut butter, and had to suffer the indignity of a cashew-shaped, licked-clean hard glob of glue on the bait thing once. The second time though, death.
Our sons' pup finally got her first rat from underneath my shaping shed. I heard her barking in the afternoon, which is kind of weird, so went out back and she was "playing" with this soggy rat (probably from her drool). I made her leave it and go inside, but she ran back out to play with it. Finally locked her inside, went out back, and it was already dead. Threw it away, and as soon as I let her out, she ran back to my shed and looked for her dead toy, but to no avail. She's a natural hunter (GSPxWeim). Loves to track birds, rabbits, etc.
Twofer from a few years ago...
and the remains of a rat that I found in the front yard last week presumably left behind from a raptor.
and the remains of a rat that I found in the front yard last week presumably left behind from a raptor.
Lots of owls dying here bc of rat poison. Please try other methods!
Almonds soaked in h20 half hour then dried and stored for rat traps in plastic or glass container. Always set traps to snap against wall etc and better odds using a least 3 in each corner. If you place in crawl space under house use leash and anchor to 2x4 etc.
Yesterday, the new stray cat that adopted us and has been trained to come in through the cat door, caught and ate a rat.
Well, decapitated a rat, removed the tail, ate much of it, but left the aforementioned parts and gut pile behind on the foyer carpet by the front door.
I found out when I stepped in the gut pile remains at approximately 6:00 AM.
Thankfully made only one more step with that bare foot onto the wood floor (whew, only ground it into the carpet in one spot).
So I avoided the happy cat prancing around me, hopped to the bathroom, cleaned up the goop, then fed the cat its breakfast, er, fed the cat its morning after midnight dinner meal, cleaned the foyer carpet, picked up the head and tail, and thought, "How many more years of this?"
Well, decapitated a rat, removed the tail, ate much of it, but left the aforementioned parts and gut pile behind on the foyer carpet by the front door.
I found out when I stepped in the gut pile remains at approximately 6:00 AM.
Thankfully made only one more step with that bare foot onto the wood floor (whew, only ground it into the carpet in one spot).
So I avoided the happy cat prancing around me, hopped to the bathroom, cleaned up the goop, then fed the cat its breakfast, er, fed the cat its morning after midnight dinner meal, cleaned the foyer carpet, picked up the head and tail, and thought, "How many more years of this?"
