tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076293789081887442.post3488300078396112534..comments2024-01-04T19:29:46.884-06:00Comments on The Not-Writing Spectacle: Spontaneous GenerationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076293789081887442.post-77281753790314973512017-06-15T07:31:30.162-05:002017-06-15T07:31:30.162-05:00Ugh, I hate when they chew holes. Dirty rotten li...Ugh, I hate when they chew holes. Dirty rotten little bastards. <br /><br />Yay for steel wool.<br /><br />I agree! Rotten mice!B.E. Sandersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04336115135400388268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076293789081887442.post-20821656125449274352017-06-15T07:30:23.258-05:002017-06-15T07:30:23.258-05:00Nope, no rats for me, thank you very much. They&#...Nope, no rats for me, thank you very much. They're too smart. <br /><br />Ugh, I couldn't deal with dogs and possums. I mean, we have possums, but they keep to themselves for the most part. So do the raccoons. We managed to blockade the squirrels. It's just these damn mice. Well, and spiders, bugs, etc.<br /><br />I think they're getting into the walls from some point up under the siding. I don't care about that - I mean, it is what it is - but how they're getting from the walls into the kitchen is my big quandary. I found one last place they might be using and stuffed it with steel wool. Now we wait.<br /><br />LOL, it's not really that big a deal. Good for a blog post and some conversation, though.B.E. Sandersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04336115135400388268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076293789081887442.post-81017503777851367432017-06-15T07:25:45.102-05:002017-06-15T07:25:45.102-05:00Nope. Our ventilation is all on the floor and the...Nope. Our ventilation is all on the floor and the vent holes are too small for mice. <br /><br />Eww, scorpions. We don't get those, thank goodness. (Also, thank goodness the local tarantulas stay down the hill.) No attic doors, just crawl space access panels with no gaps. I'm tellin' ya, Maria - spontaneous generation. ;o)B.E. Sandersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04336115135400388268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076293789081887442.post-56628239866659456502017-06-14T12:44:42.008-05:002017-06-14T12:44:42.008-05:00Mice chewed a big hole around the shower head in t...Mice chewed a big hole around the shower head in the unused back bathroom. A BIG hole. There's only one of me; I never check back there. But when I was infested with mice a while back I checked everything. <br /><br />Right now the hole is stuffed with steel wool, and when I get someone to help me fix it, the wool will stay there as a deterrent.<br /><br />Rotten mice!Deb Salisbury, Magic Seeker and Mantua-Makerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01513482264195697450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076293789081887442.post-66103218963573195182017-06-14T10:34:27.214-05:002017-06-14T10:34:27.214-05:00Mice. I'd almost trade you my rats. They live ...Mice. I'd almost trade you my rats. They live in the concrete block wall out back. We've demolished part of the wall. We've put out traps (they ignore them), and poison, which is sort of iffy because of wild birds, squirrels, and our own dogs.<br /><br />We also have possums. Cooper catches them, they play dead, he brings them to the door all proud. I put on heavy leather work gloves, grab a plastic sack (in cease they aren't playing), and walk them out to the curb. 9 times out of 10, they're gone by morning. You'd think they'd learn.<br /><br />Air vents and the attic is a good idea for entry. Check your soffit vents. Hang in there!Silver Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15606837105470988646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076293789081887442.post-25752006225624859772017-06-14T08:09:50.880-05:002017-06-14T08:09:50.880-05:00Do you have anything on the ceiling that might hav...Do you have anything on the ceiling that might have openings? Our recessed lighting has air vents, maybe not big enough for mice, but big enough for scorpions.<br /><br />We discovered the scorpions were coming in by way of the attic. Check your attic door too in case there's a gap big enough to go under.Maria Zanninihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01604862636922299273noreply@blogger.com