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xoxoxoBruce 10-05-2010 08:06 AM

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Just remember which side is which. ;)

Pete Zicato 10-05-2010 11:01 AM

I use old fashioned traps. For bait, a bit of peanut butter smeared on a bit of cloth. The mouse tugs on the cloth...

monster 10-05-2010 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 686519)
I always release them near glatt's house.

It's a bit of a drive.

heehee

TheMercenary 10-05-2010 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by freshnesschronic (Post 685936)
I was about to go to sleep and I saw a spider crawl from my sheets onto my laptop screen in this pitch blackness that is my room.

Now I'm freaking paranoid it might be a brown recluse which is a terrible spider and dangerous to bite. I don't remember, it was about 1.5 inches total length, light color brown/grey and didn't seem very fast.

Any home-owners have advice, know where to look/exterminate or...am I overreacting? I know spiders kill a lot of other nasty insects but I don't want any bugs in my room!

I vote overreacting. highly unlikely it is a brown recluse. I am in a constant battle with my family over house spiders. Most just eat the bugs that get in your house. Scoot them off to the corner most will not hurt you. Well unless you live where Ali lives!

TheMercenary 10-05-2010 01:43 PM

We just caught the first mouse in our house last week. He was a beauty, hated to kill him, but the wife was beginning to object to his eating of food in various plastic bags in the pantry.

Grey on top and tan and white on the bottom. Left the traps out for a few more days but none of his friends or family showed up.

skysidhe 10-05-2010 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 686709)
We just caught the first mouse in our house last week. He was a beauty, hated to kill him, but the wife was beginning to object to his eating of food in various plastic bags in the pantry.

Grey on top and tan and white on the bottom. Left the traps out for a few more days but none of his friends or family showed up.

You killed some kids fancy pet shop mouse! :eek: :rolleyes: maybe

footfootfoot 10-05-2010 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 686709)
We just caught the first mouse in our house last week. He was a beauty, hated to kill him, but the wife was beginning to object to his eating of food in various plastic bags in the pantry.

Grey on top and tan and white on the bottom. Left the traps out for a few more days but none of his friends or family showed up.

When my friend hiked the AT he and a bunch of others got into the practice of hunting the chipmunks that inhabited the lean-tos. They skinned them and kept the pelts. At one time there was talk of making a bikini for one of the lady hikers, but I think she was too curvy for the number of pelts they'd accumulated. Maybe a wicked weasel?

TheMercenary 10-06-2010 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 686789)
Maybe a wicked weasel?

My wife has a number of those. Expensive for the amount of material you get but HOT!;)

piercehawkeye45 10-08-2010 09:25 AM

One good thing about Minnesota is that the spiders never really get any bigger than an inch (at least from what I've seen). I did see a centipede in the bathroom this morning. Those are nasty.

Rhianne 10-08-2010 01:05 PM

Centipedes are carniverous too, of course, so it might be a good thing to keep a few of them around the house. I'd hate to be one though, just imagine tying all those shoelaces in the morning!

Shawnee123 10-08-2010 01:07 PM

:vomit:

Lamplighter 10-08-2010 01:45 PM

The plumbing company sent out the 3rd plumber to our place
because the other two were not getting the job done.
It turned out he was also their Supervisor.

He spent most of his time swatting at spider webs, groaning,
and he almost lost it when he actually swatted one of the spiders.
No one has showed up here yet today (noon).
Maybe he just can't face those nasty critters even one more time.

I don't understand it ... a plumber spends a lot of time crawling
in the dark spaces under houses goes "woosey" over a few spiderwebs ???
I suppose that's the reason he was promoted to Supervisor.

Brett's Honey 10-08-2010 02:42 PM

My brother had a brown recluse bite on one finger several years ago. After the bottom half of the finger had rotted away the doctor sewed the finger together to the finger next to it, left them together for three weeks, and then cut them apart, then grafted some skin from his thigh to the bottom of the bitten finger to fill in the gaping hole left behind. Quite an ugly and scary wound!

xoxoxoBruce 10-08-2010 05:15 PM

Fuck cancer AND spiders.:skull:

monster 10-09-2010 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 687322)
Fuck cancer AND spiders.:skull:

We need tumor-biting brown recluses......


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