Originally Posted by senior citizen
(Post 692569)
Very cute. Actually, I've put it all into perspective , especially when I think back to our own huge groundhog invasion......and they are bigger than any roof rat, citrus rat, palm rat or Norwegian rat out there.......
Groundhogs are in the rodent family and just "move in to the neighborhood" building apartment house burrows underground......
The would come up to sun themselves on our patio, etc..........huge guys.
They were also ornery....especially the females when they got caught in the have a heart traps........
We would catch them with tomatoes, lettuce and even chocolate chip cookies when we ran out of carrots and such........
But one thing, groundhogs do not seem to want to come into the house.....
Ditto for our squirrels and chipmunks, also in the rodent family.......but chipmunks are diggers......and who knows where they might tunnel into.
When we returned from THE VILLAGES after our month+ visit, it was the month of December.......and apparently some mice had gotten in while we were gone........probably when our power went off during that northeastern October snowstorm........and our neighbors both came over to check on our oil furnace, etc...........somehow two distinct types of mice got in.........I found one shriveled up greyish brownish dead field mouse and after hubby set a trap, we got one newly deceased white bellied really big mouse.......which our newspaper said were on the increase due to the warmer weather???? It was part light grey and underbelly was WHITE.
Creepy to me. We've always kept all entries closed and sealed up....but we were gone.
I found traces under my kitchen sink and in my kitchen cabinets.........
Maybe it's a woman thing, but I just find them creepy.......and they are only mice.
The last time we had mice was in our other house in Vermont when the builders were adding on a large back of the house addition and had set up a tarp across for most of the summer, before they put the glass doors in...........well, apparently they got in and set up house......plus a "mole" too........the mice I found sitting on my tray of garlic bread on the kitchen countertop, fresh from the oven.
In this house, this past winter, hubby heard scratching in the wall by his recliner........we listened for a few mornings.......all the traps were set in the strategic places and we couldn't figure out where they were getting in.
Finally, I told him to just put the D-con I had purchased into the wall socket, which he did.........next day no noise......however, within a day there was a foul odor which eventually dissipated. So, I have a mouse skeleton in there someplace..........
He has crawled around the perimeter of the house and found no entry points.........but, we are not the only ones. Luckily, they are few and far between.......... I've also wondered if they can come in via the fireplace?
It has an exterior brick chimney. I've also wondered if they can get in via the plumbing....like in back of the kitchen sink or in the laundry room????
He has traps set in the garage as that would be the flattest easiest point of entry. None this winter at all.........
"Rat" just has a nasty reputation........just the word alone. Field mice are creepy, but tolerable.
Oh, we use chocolate bars and peanut butter to catch our Vermont field mice.
Interesting thread.
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