The $80 mouse...

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Don't you know there's no mice up there in the woods? Those are only in the city. No problems in Milo where you can also get 2.00 gas and there is no anti gun BS or mass shootings ever heard of.
Hmmmmmm....guess Maine has "real" woods .....I don't have time to wait in PA.....unlike Maine now waiting after a firearm purchase to take it home...to the real woods...glad I can just walk in a LGS and walk out with my purchase and take it home to my "fake" woods that breeds mice not so easy to deal with.....:p:ROFLMAO:
 
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Still waiting on powder smoke's remedy for the mice but it appears my sincere ask for his expertise in mice has been overlooked......story of my life....always the bridesmaid and never the bride.....:oops:....maybe I should have made it clear that this was Of Mice and Men? :rolleyes:
 
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I wonder if there were mice at Woodstock? 🤪 You know, where the joints were passed around...
Well that was New York......drugs and free love for all....even mice.....I'm sure a muddy mouse or two were lit up.......and squeaked with joy from the other end.....THAT is how they are "easily dealt with"....smoke.....maybe weed smoke, maybe powder smoke....we will never know until he squeaks....I mean speaks... :ROFLMAO:
 

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Roaches are what's left of a joint when it gets too short to pass around. Save 'em up and stuff 'em in a pipe. ;)

OR..... Break 'em down and... R-o-o-o-l-l-l another one



Not too sure about the mice though.

(Yeah, I grew up in the '60's and '70's. 🫣)
 
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I have heard of mixing cornmeal with baking soda. Rats and mice are supposed to eat it. The moisture in their digestive system reacts with the soda to create CO2. In that the rodents cannot burp, they die. There is no poison present to harm whatver eats the corpse.
This sounds plausible, but I have never tried it and have no idea if it works.
 
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Thanks for that info. Seems like I heard something about this before. Cheap products and safe. I'll try it and let you know if it works. Right now I have one that lives somewhere in the undercarriage of my truck. He stays put even as I drive around town. One day recently I opened my hood to do an oil check, and there he was, sitting on my engine. Looks at me and casually disappears down behind it. So far I have been unable to find his nest. I'd sure love to blow him up.
 
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Get a Manx cat, best mouse repellant we ever had. They are great hunters, she once brought in a rat that had 10" long body. They like to show you what they killed.
This place has a large feral cat population....filthy buggers are the yard often...but not for long if I see them.
I have heard of mixing cornmeal with baking soda. Rats and mice are supposed to eat it. The moisture in their digestive system reacts with the soda to create CO2. In that the rodents cannot burp, they die. There is no poison present to harm whatver eats the corpse.
This sounds plausible, but I have never tried it and have no idea if it works.
Like feeding alka seltzer tablets to seagulls? :oops: :unsure::ROFLMAO:
Thanks for that info. Seems like I heard something about this before. Cheap products and safe. I'll try it and let you know if it works. Right now I have one that lives somewhere in the undercarriage of my truck. He stays put even as I drive around town. One day recently I opened my hood to do an oil check, and there he was, sitting on my engine. Looks at me and casually disappears down behind it. So far I have been unable to find his nest. I'd sure love to blow him up.
I will try anything at this point.......
 
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My ZTR mower engine had been running very poorly & unevenly recently. Now, I'm a decent mechanic, and prefer to do most doable DIY repairs myself...But, I'm by no means an expert small engine mechanic. And, after looking into every single thing that I thought might be causing the problem, and to no avail... I finally broke down and took if to someone who fixes all types of power equipment for a living. Here's what he found!
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He ran a bore scope down inside the fuel tank, and found a very dead, and well preserved little mouse that had found it's way INSIDE and was blocking the gas flow to the engine. Cost me $80, but I guess it could have been much worse...And, I'll be making for dern certain that the gas cap is on good and tight out in the storage shed from now on!
Maybe he had been reading "The Mouse and the Motorcycle. "
 
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