I live a bachelor lifestyle, so I have no food in here. Just alcohol. I hope the mouse figures that out and goes away. I should get some traps in case it doesn’t. I hate killing animals but there’s no practical alternative.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    21 month ago

    That sounds a lot like what my coworker does with chipmunks. Except, it isn’t a box, it’s a bucket. And it isn’t a forever home, it’s 8" of water.

    • @[email protected]OP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      21 month ago

      Why would he kill chipmunks? I used to live somewhere where they were all over the place, but they only ever made annoying noises and taunted my dog. I never had one even try to come into my house.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        11 month ago

        He had a ton of them, they’d chew at stuff around his house and ruin his landscaping. I think he said he got 18 in one day before.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        11 month ago

        They will chew the living fuck out of your house. You have to get them out of your house. Killing them is just one way.

        • @[email protected]OP
          link
          fedilink
          English
          1
          edit-2
          1 month ago

          Either I had weird chipmunks or other people do, because even bees did more damage by chewing up my house than chipmunks did.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            21 month ago

            Chipmunks gnawed through our basement casement windows and wrecked holy hell on our house. They can’t easily be trapped. I got them out by borrowing ferrets from one friend and the last one out by borrowing another friend’s house cat.

            • @[email protected]OP
              link
              fedilink
              English
              1
              edit-2
              1 month ago

              Your friend’s ferrets would hunt? Mine refused even to try eating anything except their pellets.

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                21 month ago

                Our friend’s ferrets got all but one chipmunck. We had to borrow another friend’s cat to get that last one