Mouse Trap
As I mentioned in a recent comment, we have a mouse problem at the Crap Shack Boston Chapter.
I'm wondering, had I name our blog the Carp Shack, would I been able to avoid a fate of super-intelligent mice and their uncanny ability to snatch pieces of chicken and cheese out of mouse traps without setting that thing off. The trap moved, so I knew they were there. And I can't believe that thing didn't snap because I managed to flip that little bugger on my fingers multiple times when I tried to set that thing.
Hopefully, they choked on that piece of chicken. Actually, I take that back. The one thing that's more disguisting than vermins running rampant in our apartment would be a dead mouse decaying underneath the floor boards. In fact, I smelled something funky by the couch that other day. (And by funky, I don't meant the pot smoke that's been wafting around the neighbourhood since the day I moved in.) Either the mouse died—gluttony is a cross-species sin—or one of my roommates have wedged a piece of salmon underneath the couch. OR, the boys next door fucked up and the smell is from their side of the balcony. I can't figure it out! And it still stinks after I moped the whole place and Lysol the shit out of the couch.
I can't stress how creeped out I am of the rats. I'm vacuum-sealing all my food from now on. Maybe even my sweaters and shoes, too. I read something about the plague on the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report last week. Also, I just wrote a story on toxoplasmosis. So ... TOTALLY FREAKING OUT HERE!!!
(Carps on the other hand, are docile and are not likely to rummage through your garbage at night. Therefore, less creepy.)
posted by Tonka Time @ 11:01 PM
8 Comments:
Use peanut butter. Or Cheeze Whiz. That way, they can't just grab it and run, they have to sit around and munch on it. That should increase your kill rate.
Very wise. I was going to suggest getting those sticky pads that trap the disgusting vermin on the spot. Then you have to deal with them when they're still alive, though.
Or what if you set up the mouse trap game board with cheese or peanut butter as bait? This way it will make noise when it tries to escape.
Or maybe, some terrific combination of all three. A mouse trap loaded with peanut butter, with a sticky pad at the base, all set up underneath the cage in a game of Mouse Trap. Let's see the little fuckers get away from that!
No, seriously, I want to see that set-up, and watch a mouse try to get away from it.
I'll try to see if I can set up some kind of night-vision cam and watch this in action. Maybe I can borrow the school's camera for this! We can shoot it in high definition!
You're all really creepy.
Mouse problem update:
Called management and they sent and"exterminator"—ie a guy with a bucketful of sticky rat papers. He didn't do much beyond setting those little cardboard squares all over the place. He also told me that the traps smell like peanut butter and apparently, just like Dave said, rats dig that. So that's sorta a solution between what Dave and Chris suggested.
Then he looked at the sticky cardboard box in the corner of the livingroom, which was left behind from the previous tenant and he told me that it actually caught something. I didn't quite believe him, since that clump of grey fuzz looks more like a dust bunny than a mouse. But then a decaying mouse trapped in that corner does explain why that corner stinked so bad ...
PS: Chris, Everyday Osama has to get back into production again. Send ideas!
Ugh, god damn, that's sick! I'm doing up an Osama email for you RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!111!34242!!!!!1.
....!!!!@!!
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