Benefit of Getting Old

[ChickSoonerFan]

One of the benefits I have discovered of getting older is slower reflexes. How is this a benefit you may ask?

Well, in my younger days, had there been a mouse in my house, I would have heard him scurrying through my house long before I saw him and once I did see him, every detail of his body from the tips of his whiskers, to his little beady eyes, to his scrawny claws, hairy body and slinky tail, would have been embedded in my mind. I would scream horribly and knock everything off the kitchen counter as I leaped up on it from the floor, waking the children and making a huge mess. I would not be able to sleep that night because I would lay in bed thinking about it all night long, listening for more evidence and waking at the slightest sound.

But NOW, now that I am OLD, and my reflexes are not what they used to be, IF there is a mouse that runs by me in the kitchen, all I see is a shadow of something that COULD have been a mouse. And I am not sure, so I stand there quietly as something runs past me, glance in the direction he COULD have gone, and stand there wondering, "what was that? " There are no screams waking the children, no broken dishes on the floor and no haunting thoughts as I lay in bed sleeping that night.

I am completely able to convince myself that it was just my imagination.

THANK GOODNESS FOR OLD AGE!!!

I still think I will put out some more poison.

[IB4OU2]

So what will happen if a real old mouse crutches himself across your floor huh?

[ChickSoonerFan]

I will never know it!!

See, I think it was a real mouse, but I just am not positive, and I am ok with that.

ignorance is bliss...right?

[NormanPride]

I have never understood why people fear mice.

[Howzit]

One of the benefits I have discovered of getting older is slower reflexes. How is this a benefit you may ask?

Well, in my younger days, had there been a mouse in my house, I would have heard him scurrying through my house long before I saw him and once I did see him, every detail of his body from the tips of his whiskers, to his little beady eyes, to his scrawny claws, hairy body and slinky tail, would have been embedded in my mind. I would scream horribly and knock everything off the kitchen counter as I leaped up on it from the floor, waking the children and making a huge mess. I would not be able to sleep that night because I would lay in bed thinking about it all night long, listening for more evidence and waking at the slightest sound.

But NOW, now that I am OLD, and my reflexes are not what they used to be, IF there is a mouse that runs by me in the kitchen, all I see is a shadow of something that COULD have been a mouse. And I am not sure, so I stand there quietly as something runs past me, glance in the direction he COULD have gone, and stand there wondering, "what was that? " There are no screams waking the children, no broken dishes on the floor and no haunting thoughts as I lay in bed sleeping that night.

I am completely able to convince myself that it was just my imagination.

THANK GOODNESS FOR OLD AGE!!!

I still think I will put out some more poison.


Somebody's stoned.

[royalfan5]

I have never understood why people fear mice.
vast conspiracy orchestrated by the cats to make themselves useful.

[ChickSoonerFan]

Somebody's stoned.

AT WORK?!?!? On a WEDNESDAY!?!?

who?


This is a true story by the way, pretty much. Happened again, late the other night. In my kitchen.

[GottaHavePride]

Mice are cute. Until they crap all over everything and give you hantavirus.

If you want to kill it, tie a small piece of bacon to the trigger on a mousetrap. Killz mice ded. Better than peanut butter.

[ChickSoonerFan]

Bacon?

What about cheese?

I am using poison.

I know how he got in, I have sealed of his point of entry.

[IB4OU2]

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Cheese works.

[GottaHavePride]

Well, maybe you have the retarded gullible mice at your house. The mice I've dealt with have been tiny little supervillians, stealing cheese and peanut butter from mousetraps without triggering their tiny furry deaths. Bacon, though, was their undoing.

[Sooner Born Sooner Bred]

if you put cheese on a trap, use that kind that you squeeze on crackers. They can't get it off the trap as easily.

Don't use the glue traps. Those are nasty.

[IB4OU2]

Well, maybe you have the retarded gullible mice at your house. The mice I've dealt with have been tiny little supervillians, stealing cheese and peanut butter from mousetraps without triggering their tiny furry deaths. Bacon, though, was their undoing.

Mine are aggie mice, straight from the country.

[ChickSoonerFan]

I don't want to have to retrieve the trap once the mouse it in it.

Poison is sounding better and better.

[GottaHavePride]

That explains it. ;)

[GottaHavePride]

I don't want to have to retrieve the trap once the mouse it in it.

Poison is sounding better and better.

Wait, so finding a random dead mouse body and leaving poison around the house is better?

They make little disposable traps that look like giant spring loaded chip-bag clips. You never even have to touch the mouse carcass.

[M]

Ever since I went to the "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" show at Disney World, I have been terrified of a mouse running across my feet. They have this airflow simulation that makes it feel like a swarm of mice is ambushing your legs. :eek:

[SicEmBaylor]

An AARP membership.

[IB4OU2]

I stepped on a live mouse once while he was running between my legs. Squarshed him dead, it was a weird feeling too and kinda of funny at the time 'cause I was barefoot.

True Story.

[M]

I have some relatives that live on a farm. A bunch of mice were hiding down in a hole next to the barn. So my uncle stuck a hose down the hole, let the hole fill with water, the mice got flooded out and started scurrying out of the hole. Then my nephews had the privilege of stomping the mice dead. Who needs cats when you have nephews?

[IB4OU2]

I have some relatives that live on a farm. A bunch of mice were hiding down in a hole next to the barn. So my uncle stuck a hose down the hole, let the hole fill with water, the mice got flooded out and started scurrying out of the hole. Then my nephews had the privilege of stomping the mice dead. Who needs cats when you have nephews?

I'd rather have nephews than cats.

[bri]

I'd rather have nephews than cats.

Yeah, but nephew macros never really caught on.

[ChickSoonerFan]

I used to have a cat, and a hamster...they would snuggle. He would have been no help in this situation.

[soonerbrat]

Don't use poison, it makes them bleed internally, then die slowly and painfully in the wall and stink up the house.

[bri]

I used to have a cat, and a hamster...they would snuggle. He would have been no help in this situation.

:hot:

Dang, cross-species love hasn't gotten me this worked up since I saw a chick making out with a pig's head.

[jk the sooner fan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ZWvwaUE1E

[soonernation]

Mice are cute. Until they crap all over everything and give you hantavirus.

If you want to kill it, tie a small piece of bacon to the trigger on a mousetrap. Killz mice ded. Better than peanut butter.

This is NOT cute.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2LMxhc8WwGU

[OUinFLA]

One of the benefits I have discovered of getting older is slower reflexes. How is this a benefit you may ask?




Simple. It is harder to overreact.

[C&CDean]

Don't use poison, it makes them bleed internally, then die slowly and painfully in the wall and stink up the house.

This girl knows what she's talkin' about.

I don't have any issue at all with them bleeding out internally. They're filthy, vile, nasty little vermin who deserve to bleed out. However, rarely will they run out in the middle of the room and die. No, they'll crawl up somewhere where you can't get to them and expire. Then go to stinking your place up terrible.

Get traps or get a rat terrier. Or both. With the dog, you can get entertained greatly watching them suckers hunt down the meeces. They're relentless and they kill the mice instantly. No playing like a cat, just a quick "crunch" and the little filth goes to rodent hell.

[bri]

Dean raises an interesting question: Is there a rodent heaven? In order to preserve the chimi and the changa of the universe, don't you have to have one in order to have the other?

Discuss.

[C&CDean]

Dean raises an interesting question: Is there a rodent heaven? In order to preserve the chimi and the changa of the universe, don't you have to have one in order to have the other?

Discuss.

Beavers go to heaven.

[soonerbrat]

I hope they go to heaven. I've killed thousands and thousands of innocent little mice.

[KC//CRIMSON]

Sheep go to Heaven, Goats go to Hell.

[Viking Kitten]

I hope they go to heaven. I've killed thousands and thousands of innocent little mice.

Heh. This reminds me of a story. I have a close friend who is a real granola eatin' Birkenstock type. She realized there were voles living in her basement, but she just didn't want to kill any innocent critters, so she bought one of those "humane" rodent traps, the kind that's designed to catch them alive so they can be released back into the harmony of nature.

So she set the trap. Then she forgot she set the trap. Then she went to Europe for three weeks. She came back to discover that the vole she had inadvertently trapped had not only slowly starved to death, but had at some point after being trapped given birth to a whole slew of little baby voles, who had all in turn starved to death as well.

She didn't feel very humane right then.

[GottaHavePride]

http://tn3-1.deviantart.com/fs11/300W/i/2006/182/9/d/Death_of_Rats_by_HappyHappyCLEM.jpg

SQUEAK.

[soonerbrat]

what is a vole?

[GottaHavePride]

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2004/september22/gifs/Yellowstone_vole.jpg

[ChickSoonerFan]

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2004/september22/gifs/Yellowstone_vole.jpg

Does that thing have webbed feet???

:eek:

[critical_phil]

..........Better than peanut butter.



we're gonna need a ruling from Howzit on this one.

[LilSooner]

This thread makes me sad. But I'm a tree huggin hippey who hates to see anything die.

[LilSooner]

This thread makes me sad. But I'm a tree huggin hippey who hates to see anything die.

[ChickSoonerFan]

Well, this morning, he basically walked right up to me in my kitchen and said good moring. The strolled on by. I think he thinks this is funny.

I screamed, woke up my 6 year old which was a good thing because she needed to wake up. She is very excited that we have a "pet" now. :rolleyes:


Only she keeps calling him a rat, wants to know where the heck the rat went. I can just seeing her telling everyone at school we have a rat in our house.

He is little tiny and brown and furry. And he is on death row.

[sooner_born_1960]

Why didn't you step on him?

[IB4OU2]

Well, this morning, he basically walked right up to me in my kitchen and said good moring. The strolled on by. I think he thinks this is funny.

I screamed, woke up my 6 year old which was a good thing because she needed to wake up. She is very excited that we have a "pet" now. :rolleyes:


Only she keeps calling him a rat, wants to know where the heck the rat went. I can just seeing her telling everyone at school we have a rat in our house.

He is little tiny and brown and furry. And he is on death row.

Why would you kill a little talking mouse? They're quite rare you know.

[Sooner Born Sooner Bred]

You need to feed him a nice tasty breakfast of flour and concrete powder.

[GottaHavePride]

Boy, you people love the methods that leave dead mice in your walls. ;)

[frankensooner]

Bacon works gud so does Pepperoni or other smelly meats, you have to tie it on with some dental floss though. They like the mint kind.

We were at Bricktown Brewery last night and some nimrod 20 something on a date had to make a huge deal about a mouse near his table. It pretty darn near ruined my misses meal. I guess he thought he was being cute, trying to catch it in a glass. gack people.

[ChickSoonerFan]

I can't step on him!! That would be gross.

I have put out posion before and never saw them again. I think they crawl back out to die.

I have had a lot of work done on my detached garage and I think they were flushed out of there and made their way under my house. And then they crawl up the cable lines into my house.

[IB4OU2]

Grease the cable lines with PAM.....problem solved.

[Viking Kitten]

He is little tiny and brown and furry. And he is on death row.

'DEAD MOUSE SCURRYING!'

[VeeJay]

I would scream horribly and knock everything off the kitchen counter as I leaped up on it from the floor,

Are you hawt?

[soonerbrat]

poison bad. trap good.
seriously, they will die in your walls and make your house smell horrible
and remember also..for every mouse you see, there are about 100 in the wall. they start breeding at 6 weeks of age, have a whole bunch of babies (like up to 20) and have a new litter every 21 days.

[toast]

poison bad. trap good.
..for every mouse you see, there are about 100 in the wall. they start breeding at 6 weeks of age, have a whole bunch of babies (like up to 20) and have a new litter every 21 days.


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[IB4OU2]

seriously, they start breeding at 6 weeks of age, have a whole bunch of babies (like up to 20) and have a new litter every 21 days.

in other words they're Arkansas mice.

[soonerbrat]

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i know way more about mice than you ever want to know....and i learned it all while i was awake. it just felt like a bad dream

[Beef]

<<<<<<<<<<<<< Get one of these. In fact, take this one.

[soonerbrat]

is that a min-pin?

I just offered to foster a boxer. I hope i get one that's not too wild.

[Beef]

It's a min-pin. He's psycho.

I also have boxer. Yay you for fostering one. They're all a bit nutty. They stay puppies until they're 3 or older, so hopefully you get an older one.

[soonerbrat]

the one I will be getting is a release from a commercial puppy farm - it will hopefully be an older female, and will probably have been crated all her life :( ...the boxer rescue place should be calling me tonight