OT/old news/mice/ lavender

[John Formsma]

On 10/1/07, paul bruesch <paul at bruesch.net> wrote:
> So, HOW in the world do mice get so smart about getting bait off the trap??
> It certainly isn't from experience. Do they see their little friends get
> deadimicated? But how do they know, even then, to ever-so-gently take the
> bait off the trigger?? I don't remember this phenomenon happening 40-50
> years ago.

That was before the "caring" of political correctness had firmly set
in and the mice traps were made less effective.  You may remember,
"...we need to have safer guns and safer bullets."  (Jocelyn Elder,
the former Surgeon General under Pres. Clinton)  Wasn't she the same
one who suggested making buckets with holes so the water would drain
out before kids could go drown themselves in them?  And now, we have
lawnmowers with instructions not to stop the blade with one's hands.
Anyway, sorry to chase that mouse trail, but the point is we used to
have better traps.  I remember when I was a kid (30 years ago) how
little pressure it took to release the spring.  The last trap I baited
I almost wasn't afraid to put my own finger in it.

> Also on this topic (which of course is Off Topic) I tried those
> sticky-bottom traps once. It was appalling to see a mouse that had begun to
> literally crawl out of its skin before it got too exhausted to continue. It
> was still squirming when I discovered it.

Yeah, it's pretty gross.  But I don't like having little critters in
the house either. Particularly when they have the whole world to find
a home in. :-)

>From a non-politically correct white guy who wants to henceforth be
classified as a Dutch-German-25% unspecified ethnic group-red-headed
Caucasian-American, who is that way due to no fault or effort of his
own.  <G>

-- 
JF

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