Dog Food Thief

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Saw something out the corner of my eye 3 nights ago in the dark kitchen. We have our dogs food and water in there. So I settle in for some observation and sure as **** I see a mouse run across the floor from under the dishwasher to the stove area where the water dish is, about a 5 foot dash. I tell my son to get the camera and I get the pump BB gun. He sets the camera up on the table and starts recording and I get the rifle up on the chair pointing to the side where his hole is. 3:30 later the little bastard makes a 2 second dash for his hole but I got that **** covered and I take a single shot. Mind you that this is a fast mouse (or worse) and I'm 20 feet away and he's only got to cover 5 feet. I positioned the shot to ricochet into a white bag of recycle bottles. The guy makes it into his hole without missing a step and I was sure I missed but I knew it had to be close. Well....today I get a call and my wife sees a 'rat' in the front yard wiggling around in the grass, she notices the thing is wounded, says there is a hole in his rear leg muscle! Yeah buddie, I hit that thing 2 nights ago! So she tries to put a bucket on top of it so I can dispose of it when I get home but she cant because the thing can still jump 3 feet off the ground! I come home and find it in the neighbors yard...birds finished it off. Not my problem any longer.
 
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terrible screen grab but Jerry is gone.....
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I had a mouse stealing dog food and stashing it inside my gas oven. Naturally, I found out only after preheating the oven, and the smell of burnt dog food filled the house.
 
We had a mouse up in our oven too a few years ago. Wife smelled something so I took the top off and in the insulation was a borrowed tunnel up the side and right between all the burners. That was a warm little mouse in there! Pulled all the tainted rock wool out and replaced it with high heat rated fiberglass (kiln rated) insulation. Then I sealed all the holes in that stove with 1/4" mesh screen. All my neighbors have fruit trees and they all complain about the rats in their trees...how about your rats in my house! A little Karma....my annoying neighbor (mows lawn at 9PM with a headlamp on) got some coons in his attic.
 
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RustyRatRod said:
That's what good cats are for. I walked out the back door a few days ago and I see a mouse head......some guts.....and a mouse *** and tail all about a foot or so apart each and Sarah, our Siamese and the only in and out cat is sittin on the patio bathing. lol Cats are nature's perfect killers.
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I bet you don't see many mice in your house.

diymirage said:
i made some ramen noodles for the kids the other day
they didnt finish it all so what was left went in the potty

i figured, next time i pee, ill flush it (no sense wasting good water)

so i get up the next morning and go to pee, only to find a dead mouse in the potty
he musta gone in for the soup and drowned in it
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Thanks for putting that image in my head. You should have taken a picture. Great pictures like that is why @pittsburghracer is so famous.
 
RussellSullivan said:
I had a mouse stealing dog food and stashing it inside my gas oven. Naturally, I found out only after preheating the oven, and the smell of burnt dog food filled the house.
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It could have been worse. You could have had the smell of burnt mouse in the house.
 
I opened up the BBQ one spring and either a chipmonk or squirrel had put a peanut still in it's casing right on the grill. No cooking instructions though
 
As young adults we’d go to the local dump about 20 miles from town. With 4 or 5 vehicles, used to buy shot shells for 4 bucks a box from Maclouds. Loadi up cars with guy’s, shotguns, ammunition. Circled the cars around garbage heap with enough room to allow one person to stand in between front fenders, plugs out of shotguns, turn headlights off wait till you heard garbage moving then whip on lights and world war 3 would happen. Rats flying everywhere. Cops would come once in a while but they just checked for safety and beer. They left us alone because we were getting rid of the rats. Lots of fun. Today they hire an exterminator not nearly as much fun
 
harrisonm said:
Thanks for putting that image in my head. You should have taken a picture. Great pictures like that is why @pittsburghracer is so famous.
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i dont think ive ever seen @pittsburghracer post pics of mice
hippos and heifers are more his thing

Ahoey said:
As young adults we’d go to the local dump about 20 miles from town. With 4 or 5 vehicles, used to buy shot shells for 4 bucks a box from Maclouds. Loadi up cars with guy’s, shotguns, ammunition. Circled the cars around garbage heap with enough room to allow one person to stand in between front fenders, plugs out of shotguns, turn headlights off wait till you heard garbage moving then whip on lights and world war 3 would happen. Rats flying everywhere. Cops would come once in a while but they just checked for safety and beer. They left us alone because we were getting rid of the rats. Lots of fun. Today they hire an exterminator not nearly as much fun
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sounds like a nice change of pace from duckhunting?
 
Ahoey said:
As young adults we’d go to the local dump about 20 miles from town. With 4 or 5 vehicles, used to buy shot shells for 4 bucks a box from Maclouds. Loadi up cars with guy’s, shotguns, ammunition. Circled the cars around garbage heap with enough room to allow one person to stand in between front fenders, plugs out of shotguns, turn headlights off wait till you heard garbage moving then whip on lights and world war 3 would happen. Rats flying everywhere. Cops would come once in a while but they just checked for safety and beer. They left us alone because we were getting rid of the rats. Lots of fun. Today they hire an exterminator not nearly as much fun
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What a hilarious story!
 
Brooks James said:
Rats were the reason for the Bubonic Plague, which killed millions. In Europe, they carried fleas that were infected with the virus, stowed away in ships, got off in a new place.
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Bubonic plaque is caused by Y. pestis, which is a bacterium. A meaningful distinction.
 
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