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That big black mouse virtually ran over you to get to the kitchen. C’mon! It’s been stealing food for over a month now! If you don’t get off your lazy asses, I’m going to give it its own bowl—with your food in it. —Tired of foot prints in the butter
This article appears in Jan 6-12, 2011.
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Gross man, set a mousetrap! We have mice in our old place in NB… my lazy cat has no desire for mouse chasing either. but i certainly wouldn’t leave food out!
Cat is a culturally demeaning term ; they prefer Feline-Canadian now. And they are getting quite tired of being forced into stereotypical patterns of behaviour as determined by centuries of colonial oppression instead of being allowed to chart their own course in out multi-cultural society.
Speciesist bastards like you disgust me.
oh man commander, you are smoking up the keyboard this morning http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2400/211153…
Bahahahaha.
And THAT is the exact attitude my D-man takes.
It could be that your cats are pussies, or maybe, they are dealing with Mighty Mouse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX6drW_fOCI…
good one kim reminds me of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqr5upX6-0w…
so, get a big fucking rat trap, and let it kill the little fucker.
This can be a frustrating state of affairs.
Maybe you could rent some videos of cats chasing mice and sit your felines down in front of the TV for some re-education.
“Re-education” – that’s your answer to everything, isn’t it?
http://media.threadless.com/subs/big/83645…
I’ll let you borrow my cat – he got a gun for Christmas and is aching to take out some nasty critters….
Kitteh with a Kalashnikov – if this is wrong I don’t wanna be right. >; )
OP just an FYI…all the mouse traps in the world won’t catch a vole or a mole. So you may be better served by laying down some of those sticky paper traps. They don’t discriminate & will catch mice, voles , & moles if they’re in your home.
I live in the country & every year as winter approaches I notice an increase of them.
Sticky paper? Like the kind that was used to catch flies? What do you do with a live mouse once you catch it? I mean, how to you get it off the paper?
Screech and throw it outside to meet it’s death while slowly starving?? I don’t like the sounds of those sticky things. ick, ick, ick.
my little demon has a bead on a small mouse loitering in the livingroom…it’s hiding under the trunk which has a low clearance. gotta go so will have to deal with it later. the hound could give a shit^^
OB, you can train your cat by putting it in an enclose area with a mouse, it will “play” with the mouse till it learns to kill, or, you can make the worlds best mouse trap.
Get a bucket, put a ring of peanut butter around the inside of the bucket about 6 inches from the top, fill with water to about 1 inch below the peanut butter (at least 4 inches of water). Place the bucket in a corner somewhere, so the mice can climb the bucket, remove mice from bucket daily. End of mouse problem.
Maybe you can smear peanut butter all over paper and put it on the kitchen floor so the mouse gets bogged down on it…this will give the fat cat the time its needs to waddle its big behind over to ‘catch’ it. = )
Kim ns…. no, there are different manufacturers. Some are in little plastic ‘dishes’ that are abut 3 x 4 inches. others are cardboard & can be larger or smaller than that & the animal becomes ensnaired on the stuff & cannot get free.
Are you old enough to remember the story of Brer Rabbit & the Tar Baby ?
As for allowing it to ‘starve to death’ when its caught…perhaps some of you can remember the words to Maxwells Silver hammer…& get a hint on how to proceed, once you’ve caught the little buggers ~;)
LOL….reminds me of a story about a friend who was looking to sublet in North-end Halifax. The tenants said not to use the oven because rats had a habit of nesting within it.
Not sure More, but I believe “Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby” is next in line to be made more culturally sensitive. The new version is called “President Rabbit and the BP Oil Well”
i’m pulling out the stove when i get home…gack
Ivan,
These cats sit around, waited on ‘hand and foot’ or ‘paw and paw’, no doubt well-fed, getting fat and happy without doing a lick of work. I suspect the dog is also getting blamed for all the mischief that the cats get up to, as this bitch attests. It isn’t a dog’s job to catch mice. These fat cats are taking advantage of their human slaves and their canine comrade.
Yes, I think these cats are badly in need of some ‘re-education’.
LOL. I tried to find the Kliban cartoon of the 2 cats in quilted jackets and Chicom hats. One is saying “Mao” and the other, looking at some specks on the floor says “Mousie dung”.
There are handy little sonic devices that one can pick up at home depot and such places. You just need to be able to plug it in. They worked like a charm at work. They are worth a try seeing they are cheap.