Re: [FRIAM] keep getting mice.

2023-01-03 Thread Gillian Densmore
LOL yes it is! Isn't santa fe (well NM)'s government fixing to go to just daylight savings? lol all these are better than what one of GFs fam would do. Something about cast iron skillets and chasing the mice with a rolling pin. I didn't want to know if that was to be the end of the mice, or just

Re: [FRIAM] keep getting mice.

2023-01-03 Thread Gillian Densmore
I think my aunts friend had one for a while. Aunt couldn't go to the house after sometime because they're infamous for a musky, and generally strange BO. My cat was awful about playing with what ever he was hunting! Turned out he was a birder more so than a mouse cat. Partiall proven because he'd

Re: [FRIAM] keep getting mice.

2023-01-03 Thread Steve Smith
On 1/3/23 2:47 PM, cody dooderson wrote: My parents use sticky traps. You need a cold heart to kill them when you find them stuck to the trap. It's hard to do when they are looking at you with their tiny sad eyes and all you can imagine is their nest of tiny younglings hidden somewhere in

Re: [FRIAM] keep getting mice.

2023-01-03 Thread Steve Smith
Gil - Ferrets can be very unpleasant to smell...  I had a stepdaughter who kept two (along with a half-dozen cats and gawd knows what other pet-hoarding my mind has blanked on over 30 years ago). They also are totally nocturnal and will romp *all night*, especially if there are more than one

Re: [FRIAM] keep getting mice.

2023-01-03 Thread Gillian Densmore
I had tried the live catch ones and taking them to the park. Oh just yeet them back outside I thought they'll go scamper. problem is they'd try to get back in. lol a bullsnake? woudn't it find a hot water pipe and go: really dude you expect me to hunt mice in freezing winter? Food for thought

Re: [FRIAM] keep getting mice.

2023-01-03 Thread cody dooderson
My parents use sticky traps. You need a cold heart to kill them when you find them stuck to the trap. It's hard to do when they are looking at you with their tiny sad eyes and all you can imagine is their nest of tiny younglings hidden somewhere in your wall. Also, sticky traps will catch other

Re: [FRIAM] keep getting mice.

2023-01-03 Thread Gillian Densmore
Steve, those are all great tips. I'll run a fine tooth come through the house. Their's this area by the coffee maker at the front they try to hide in as well as I think somehow behind a rubermaid recycle bin. lol a ferret? not a bad idea. Kim swears by his pet cat for keeping mice out. LOL one of

Re: [FRIAM] keep getting mice.

2023-01-03 Thread Steve Smith
Gil -  To misquote Leonard Cohen: "There is a crack in everything, that is how the mice get in". I have lived with mouse-flux all of my time in my current (rural)property 20 years).  The mice (and ground squirrels and packrats) in the environs require that I remain vigilant to keep them

Re: [FRIAM] keep getting mice.

2023-01-03 Thread Tom Johnson
Yeah, I buy traps from Amazon a couple dozen at a time. === Tom Johnson Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, New Mexico 505-577-6482 === On Mon, Jan 2, 2023, 10:45 AM Gillian Densmore wrote: > Another surge of mice Q: For all of Dismember i've had

[FRIAM] keep getting mice.

2023-01-02 Thread Gillian Densmore
Another surge of mice Q: For all of Dismember i've had nothing but an ongoing trickle of mice. what the is going on here? Is anyone else having mice issues as well? -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St.