What do you depise AT THIS MOMENT, literally....

[Necromancer]

House centipedes bother me the most.  Too damn many long, looooong legs and the little bastards are fast.

[MrBroadway]

removed

[Necromancer]

Stack 'em up princess and the pea style for the party.   Problem solved.

[xelement5x]

New mattress came on today, but the delivery crew wouldn't take the old one. So now we're stuck with a mattress until Wednesday when we can put it out for trash pickup. Oh, yeah, there's a Halloween party here on Saturday. 

Lol, at least your trash takes them.  I have a box spring that has been sitting in my basement for like 3 years

[NightWolve]

As I went to get some bread in the kitchen a few days ago, I startled the mouse in the house to where he bolted out of the corner he was hiding at and crashed into my left foot/slipper, stunning himself for a second, before taking off to the laundry area...

The traditional trap with peanut butter and poison pellets hasn't caught him yet and last night I bought a new poison feed which I hope works better. Because I'm lazy I don't immediately take care of shit like this, and then I'll have all the shit pellets wherever it's dumping them to clean up later! Last time it was under the refrigerator, and shit got nasty... But anyway, peanut butter is better bait than cheese I long ago learned, but the slap traps don't always go off when they're eating it.

[MrBroadway]

Use less peanut butter on the trap.

[NightWolve]

solution b: move hailing into your house. He is an excellent mouser- no small rodent escapes him.

Hahahahaha! Didn't see a great zinger like this coming from my mouse troubles!

[BigusSchmuck]

solution b: move hailing into your house. He is an excellent mouser- no small rodent escapes him.

Hahahahaha! Didn't see a great zinger like this coming from my mouse troubles!

You can have one of my wife's many cats. They all catch mice and birds and all sorts of stuff. One of them caught a bat about 2 months ago and that was the fat lazy Persian!

[NightWolve]

Can anybody vouch for those electronic sonar devices actually repelling mice with unpleasant sound only they pick up and hate ?? Is that just scammer consumer crap the industry gets away with or is there some effectiveness to them ?

[Desh]

Can anybody vouch for those electronic sonar devices actually repelling mice with unpleasant sound only they pick up and hate ?? Is that just scammer consumer crap the industry gets away with or is there some effectiveness to them ?

In an old house I used to live in after high school, we'd get mice every winter.  I never tried one although we sold them at a retail store I worked in at the time.  I personally loved the satisfaction of knowing I took some of the MFER'S out. 

One time we had one that would lick the traps clean without setting them off.  This bastard was bold enough to be chilling on our couch when my roommate and I would get home from work at 3 a.m.  One night we chased it into the kitchen under the refrigerator then set up like 10 different traps in each exit around the refrigerator.  We then scared the mouse out.  He avoided the first few but eventually got snagged.  It was glorious!  We then drank beers in celebration of our greatness.  To be young again....

[HailingTheThings]

solution b: move hailing into your house. He is an excellent mouser- no small rodent escapes him.

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[shawnji]

House centipedes bother me the most.  Too damn many long, looooong legs and the little bastards are fast.

Oh my God, they are SO fast.  They way they move and how they look is just a perfect example of nature evolving an animal to clearly send out a message of, "Don't you dare **** with me."

I've never been bitten / stung / eaten (whatever heinous thing they do to you), so I don't know how much it hurts; but the damn things scare the hell out of me.  At least millipedes move slow and make a crunching sound to let you know how dead they are.

I'm probably going to have someone come out and spray, but failing that, I suppose burning the house down would work too...

[MNKyDeth]

Sonic Sound thingies to scare animals away is a farce, imo. Best way to kill mice....

Old school trap and then push peanut butter into any crevice on the lever of the trap. Mice hate cheese, they love peanut butter.

Or, get a 5 gallon bucket. Fill it 1/4 to 1/2 of water. Make two ramps up to the top. With wood or cardboard or anything a mouse and climb on. Then take out the handle that you would use to carry the bucket. Then put a metal rod through those holes and make sure the ramps up to the top of the bucket are right next to it so the mice will climb out onto the rod. Put a straw or several or something similar over the rod. Then put peanut butter on it toward the center.

Mice will smell it, climb up the platforms and try to get the peanut butter only to fall into a watery doom and drown. My youngest bro bought a house with a dirt basement and he had mice because of it. He did this bucket trick and would catch like 5 mice a night till they were gone. To my knowledge he no longer has a mouse problem but he keeps the bucket trap up in his basement always.

[xelement5x]

Sonic Sound thingies to scare animals away is a farce, imo. Best way to kill mice....

Old school trap and then push peanut butter into any crevice on the lever of the trap. Mice hate cheese, they love peanut butter.

Or, get a 5 gallon bucket. Fill it 1/4 to 1/2 of water. Make two ramps up to the top. With wood or cardboard or anything a mouse and climb on. Then take out the handle that you would use to carry the bucket. Then put a metal rod through those holes and make sure the ramps up to the top of the bucket are right next to it so the mice will climb out onto the rod. Put a straw or several or something similar over the rod. Then put peanut butter on it toward the center.

Mice will smell it, climb up the platforms and try to get the peanut butter only to fall into a watery doom and drown. My youngest bro bought a house with a dirt basement and he had mice because of it. He did this bucket trick and would catch like 5 mice a night till they were gone. To my knowledge he no longer has a mouse problem but he keeps the bucket trap up in his basement always.

Wow, that sounds just like end of the prestige

[NightWolve]

That bucket idea is an interesting one! As first thought, I wouldn't trust the bastards not to be able to climb back out, but it could work.