wife sees mouse, freaks out
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dibbons
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Story Dad used to tell about the club shack out by the duck blind. Found a jacket hanging in the closet that was burned to ashes. The conclusion was there were some old fashioned "strike-anywhere" matches in the jacket pocket, and a mouse started scratching around in there and lit a match.
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So here is the rat bastard sitting on the friggin trap eating a snack of peanut butter! WTH?
Later I crawled back in and adjusted the camera and saw the smaller guy approach the trap from the wrong side, sit on the wire and finally trip the trap. It flung him like a catapult and I have not seen him since....maybe it gave him a fatal heart attack. Here is the tripped shot with better focus and vantage point. Im on the high ground now....must reset it tomorrow. I found a drain pipe leak under there..
Later I crawled back in and adjusted the camera and saw the smaller guy approach the trap from the wrong side, sit on the wire and finally trip the trap. It flung him like a catapult and I have not seen him since....maybe it gave him a fatal heart attack. Here is the tripped shot with better focus and vantage point. Im on the high ground now....must reset it tomorrow. I found a drain pipe leak under there..
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Treblig
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Just wrap the pipe with that super stick tape they sell for rats/mice. They'll have to cross it to get home.
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pishta
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locked and cocked, facing both ways with cheese today. Lets see Ratt be a "Death Alley Driver"...
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it lives....?
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I got the **** a few nights ago! I was under looking at my cast iron pipe mess and I saw a few entry points into the sub floor that the rat was getting up into so I used some expanding foam and sealed up all the holes. Seems I trapped the be-otch under the dishwasher as I heard then saw him under there with my new borescope. So I laid out 2 glue traps and a snapper in a line and blocked all other exit routes so he had to pass over these to get out. At about 11:30 pm I woke up and walked out and sure as ****, the bastard was hung up on one of the glue traps by his hind leg and butt. He was just sitting there looking stupid. I used some long trash tongs to pick him up and it squirmed like a fish out of water. I was asking myself WTH do I do with it now? So I walked it out to the trash can, glue trap still on it and all and my dog was following me the whole way up on 2 legs. I told her "you been sniffing this thing for 6 months...here you go! " and I tossed it just as it kicked free of the glue board. My dog pounced on it, shook it to death, then hauled *** with it into the backyard with me chasing her, hoping she wouldnt take it back into the house! Done deal, no more vermin. all holes plugged.
Treblig
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My brother and I used to shoot rats off the power high wire behind our house with a pellet gun. We'd sit out there until after midnight when the rats would start running here and there from house to house. That's where we both became expert shots hitting rats off a power line at night. But real the rat story happened many years later when I lived in my own house. The house had a detached garage and I had this humungous rat (Norway Rat) living in there. One day I opened the garage door and the big rat was sitting on the wooden shelf (about eye level) at the rear of the garage. I looked around for something to use as a weapon, this sucker was huge!! All I could find (quickly) was a large can of Carb spray, back in the 70s they sold this gooey carb spray that sprayed a nasty sticky toxic fluid. I pointed the can at the rat and started spraying. The gunk immediately blinded the rat as he ran here and there trying to get away but since he couldn't see he just kept running into stuff, squealing loudly. I just kept spraying until his whole body was covered with this nasty sticky toxic crap. Eventually he kinda gave up and just sat there licking the crap off his body and rubbing his eyes, that stuff was poison!!!!. I knew that he would have a slow painful death since he was licking all that crap off his body, it had to be burning him because I remember it burning my skin when I accidentally would get some on me. I started to feel sorry for the guy but kept spraying. The rat must have got really pissed off because all of sudden he leaped off the shelf right at my face. It really caught me off guard because I knew he couldn't see but I guess the rat was taking his last stand. I managed to get out of the way and the rat hit the ground, then I was able to get a shovel and finish him off.
That rat had some guts !!!!!!!
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Then there was time (one of many) when my Dad took me dear hunting. I had been hunting many times and this time I was about 12/13 years old. We live in S. Texas so mostly thick mesquite brush, thorn bushes, rattle snakes and cactus. We had left that morning (before dawn) to get to the dear blinds and my Dad had just picked me up from my blind after a morning of hunting. My Dad had an old pick up truck and always kept the tailgate down. I jumped up on the tail gate, letting my legs hang down (feet almost dragging in the sand). The roads were bad (loose sand, ruts, hills) so my Dad would only drive about 10-15 MPH as we would wind down these narrow roads that had been cut through the brush. As we drove along, and unknown to me, there was a large cactus bush hanging into the road on the right side. I happened to be sitting on the right side of the tailgate. Anyway, the rear tire caught the arm of the cactus and pulled it forward as the truck passed then as my lower legs passed the cactus bush the arm of the cactus that had been pulled forward by the rear tire was released. The cactus slammed into the back of my left calf. I'm sure you all have heard of the "blood curdling scream"?? Well that's what my Dad heard when that cactus slammed into the back of my leg!! I had been caught completely off guard (don't know how I could have been prepared anyway). Luckily (or unluckily) I was wearing cowboy boots. The cactus hit me so hard that the larger thorns (2-3 inches long) penetrated through the boot leather and were embedded in my lower calf. My upper calf (with no boot) got nailed as well (only blue jeans). My Dad immediately stopped to find out why I had screamed so loudly. He checked me out but couldn't do anything because he couldn't pull my boot off (it was nailed to my calf). I couldn't walk because since my legs had been dangling off the tail gate so my boots were hanging loosely so when the thorns entered the leather my feet weren't touching the bottom of the boots. If I put weight on the boot it would slide up and put pressure on the thorns stuck in my leg and buried in the leather. I had to lay in the truck bed (in pain) all the back to the hunting shack where my Dad found a pair of pliers and started pulling the thorns out of the back of the boot (and out of my calf). It was very, very painful because you can't just pull a thorn through thick leather, it take some work (twisting, pulling). The thorns are very hard but also kind of brittle, if you start bending and twisting them they will break. If he pulled too hard the thorn would break off leaving the rest in my leg and in the boot. Needless to say (as a young kid) I screamed quite a bit. My Dad eventually got all the larger thorns out of the boot, pulled the boot off (plenty of blood) then proceeded to pull all the rest of the thorns out of the upper part of my calf (blue jean area), that was much easier but still very painful. I don't know if everyone is familiar with cactus thorns but they come equipped with a black (poison) tip. Once you pull the thorn out it leaves the poison behind which causes pain and some infection. I had a swollen, painful calf for about 3 weeks.
Moral of the story....don't let you legs dangle off the tail gate of a pick up truck when your driving through cactus filled brush!!
Treblig
Moral of the story....don't let you legs dangle off the tail gate of a pick up truck when your driving through cactus filled brush!!
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