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Yeah, I agree, that is barbaric/childish, certainly got his revenge though LOL ! I respect the critters, if they are to be rid of, nice to do it quickly & humanely no matter what it is. I've had trouble with mice in the past, but nothing more than nuisance type issues for years, then they got a little more creative, chewed the phone wires a year ago, made a huge mess in one of my trucks that had been parked for a little while, so I mostly trap them with the old standard traps, nailed 24 of them in and around my vehicles recently, mostly field mice. If I catch a live one, I'll put him in a bucket, leave a dish of water, toss some crumbs of something in there, take him way into the back where he can't come back here and I feel that I did the right thing, I'll get off the tractor and move toads, snakes, turtles etc., whenever I see anything that is in danger and I can do it safely, been doin that since I was a kid, just my way of being fair, no need to be a savage to the critters, unless they are threatening, or dangerous, if so, be humane about it if you have to do what you have to do. I even avoid mowing when the turtles come out to lay their eggs, this year I cordoned off a nest I saw being made, 90 days later I carefully dug it up and I've got 5 wintertime garage dwellers to set free in the spring, little fan club in a fish tank, always glad to see you, they eat like crazy, skunks usually get the eggs, I kinda raise some every year to balance things, nice to have summertime friends in the winter, they go free into a 20 acre pond in the spring, been doin that since a kid too, some people go out of their way to squash them on the road, makes no sense to me. Mice, they move inside late summer/fall, have to keep them in check somehow, there are numerous wild cats around here, besides coyote and this bobcat I see now, all hunters, one domestic/wild cat took a young rabbit outside my window, I almost shot him, sometimes I take in a cottontail and raise it on clover and dandelion, then let it go shortly after, they hang around and are friendly, I find abandoned babies around in the spring, place is loaded with them actually, but that feline was doing his job so although he got my little buddy, nature is nature. Even with these wild cats, the mice population stays consistent. I find the good old traps used in numbers helps quite a bit. My mother used to use that damn D-Con and they took so much of it, stored it hidden away, years and years later, they are still finding it and stumbling out in the open half dead, die in my toolbox, or die in the walls (stinks something terrible) it's nasty worthless stuff, then you toss the poison laden guy out and something else eats it, and gets sick. When I toss the trapped ones out, no worry and shortly something like a crow gets a free meal. It all works out, no poison needed. My dog used to live in the heated cellar with a garage flapper door, a Rhodesian ridgeback, my best buddy for years, she inisted on putting that damn poison out and he got sick that fall, he was 12, but that spring the vet gave him a clean bill of health, 100% but to this day I will never know if he got into the D-con or not, I worked away during the week, and he had some sort of seizure on a Sunday afternoon whenit was time to leave, I had to put him down, had no choice, had him at the vet all week, came home for that weekend, was the worst damn thing I've ever done, and I hate that poison, it's worthless stuff. I've found that eliminating places where they live, keeping clutter away from the house, sealing off entrances they use, really helps. Used to let the field next to the house grow, now I keep it cut, even a clump of grass will provide shelter for them, if they live in a pile of junk nearby, they will be around and not go away, lot of little things help keep them in check around here. More of my worthless babbling, LOL home sick today, damn common cold and sinus nonsense !
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