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  • When we had mice I didn’t want to have the hassle of poisoning, or the stench of rotting carcass.

    So I built a DIY bucket trap, I got the basics from a yt channel. It’s pretty easy, it’s basically just a tunnel with some peanut butter at the end of it to entice them, and it’s got a long’ish trap door that’s activated by the weight of the mouse, and it’s got a tall’ish bucket underneath it.
    The bucket is tall to stop the mice from jumping back out of it.
    Once we caught the mice we would drive a few miles away and let them go. They can find their way back if you release them too close.

    After our third mice invasion I bought a cheap solar powered security camera that activates with motion. I put the camera on the ground where I thought the mice were travelling and getting in… and waited.
    Then moved it periodically to find their trails and fine tuned it to find exactly where they were getting in.
    Which was through an old outbuilding, then up a timber frame and through a hole in the soffit and fascia.
    I sealed up that hole inside and out and never had an issue since.

    If you just kill the mice (and it is mice, not mouse. There’s pretty much always more than one) then the next lot will just kept on coming in. It’ll just be mouse carcass on mouse carcass up there.
    Blocking their way in is much better than killing them once they are in.


  • Disagree. And I disagree wholeheartedly.

    I heard/read quite a few of those type of excuses (and they are excuses, not reasons) when Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered and I was asking why no fucker was doing anything about it.

    I have since lost hope, so much so that I have now pretty much stopped complaining about the us population being lazy, or complicit/evil, or complacent.
    I got sick of, well, complacency.

    Christ, I have had the “america is a large country. It’s impossible to (insert excuse here)…”, on three different occasions by three different commenters about three different Donvict Drumpf based issues.

    So, yeah, I see very little of that type of comment now… but only because I can’t be arsed anymore. I now just call the fat orange imbecile a paedo and move on.