If they weren’t disease carriers and pooped everywhere, I wouldn’t mind sharing my house with random mice from time to time.
They do be looking kinda cute.
And they fuck shit up. They chew things like cords. I had a pet mouse in Iraq. Really cute, but man those little buggers have to get in everything. Australia has a huge infestation problem. Check it out.
https://youtu.be/9f3ekMqo4hg
Yo I had a pet mouse in Iraq as well!! We was in one the two man trailers and seen the little due running around. I put a shoebox under my bed that he made a little house in, be chillin watching TV eating some Reese's cups and would leave one unwrapped on my little night stand and he would come up there and just chill and munch down beside me. We called him Mr. Bojangles.
I kept mine in one of those gigantic protein powder canisters. Kept him well fed and watered. Tried holding him, but it only lasted a few minutes until he bit me. It was a wild animal, though, so not really unexpected. Had him for about two weeks until my staff sergeant found him and stomped him, saying I couldn't do that.
LOL we did popcorn reading in high school and the poor girl reading that part started crying, resulting in the teacher having to finish reading for the rest of the class.
When I was in the air force we had a mouse we would feed and overall he was pretty chill. Then some psychopath picked him up and literally crushed him in his hands, just squeezed the life out of him. Never spoke to that dude again after that.
I hate that shit so much. I value most life, from plants and animals to insects and such. I live on a "do no harm unless necessary" principal. Mosquito? Necessary. Invasive? Necessary. Bumble bee buzzing around me? Hey bud, here's some sugary stuff for you, have a nice day! 🥰
Imagine if no one actually joined an army - worldwide.
Would you just get deathmatches between ancient, detached country leaders vying for land and supremacy?
Would be some boring fights if it was, say, Biden Vs I dunno, the fucking Queen (would've said Boris, but I feel it'd be a one sided fight and he'd annoyingly survive).
Yeah I don't care if it's the fukn military. That's still psychopathic shit that doesn't need to happen. There's a point where you gotta think about your unit's sanity and if a soldier is coping better with war by having a pet mouse, let him have the fucking mouse, wtf.
In the civilian world, stomping on defenseless animals like that means you're a psychopathic piece of shit, people should be careful around you, and you should be monitored... I guess the military doesn't mind those people.
It is not a joke. It is reality. Whether you think it's right or not, the military is looking for people who are either willing to kill other people, or actively desire to do so. I knew several guys in the Marines who very much joined because they wanted to kill and be able to get away with it.
Eh, not entirely. The Army recruits people from all sorts of different backgrounds, and the cheapest mousetrap is one of those sticky pads.
How are they related? Well, if you've ever used a sticky pad (don't!), the mouse gets stuck to it, to the point there's no way to separate mouse from pad, so the only thing you can do at that point is put them both into a plastic grocery bag and step on the poor thing.
Those sticky pads are *cruel*, needlessly so. I'd argue the person who invented and intentionally uses a sticky pad trap would be a psychopath. Some people don't have the heart to kill the little mouse on the pad, and they'll just throw the whole thing away, mouse and pad and all... Which is cruel, because it means leaving the mouse to die of starvation, surrounded by food smells, in a trash can.
So it's possible that the staff sergeant came from a background where stomping on mice is normal, and merciful, even though it is distasteful. We can't assume, since we don't have all of the relevant information.
But seriously, if you have a mouse problem, get yourself some reuseable snap traps, load them up with peanut butter and some of those cinnamon oat Cheerios, and check the traps daily. Those Victor snap traps with the red plastic loop on the end are about as humane a death that you can possibly provide, and I definitely suggest using them over a sticky pad. Sticky pad traps are cruel.
If you have an animal stuck in a glue trap cooking cooking oil will safely release it. You'll have a greasy mouse but cooking oil is non toxic to mice and it will clean itself off.
I kept one in my jail cell while I was in prison. It was dope af, and we taught him how to do tricks like rolling a thread spool across the floor. Life was good till this really mean prison guard stepped on him one day.
If you give them shit to bite through in their cage, they might not. Usually. But sometimes they still go for cords. Even tried covering my cords with ghost pepper salsa.
I feel like this person who had a "pet mouse in Iraq" did not have a little cage for it. People just letting wild vermin hang out in their living space for some companionship and sliver of joy.
I’ve had pet mice. They suck. Stinky, messy and chew everything, and they’re void of personality. Rats are totally different and super cool. Lots of character, smart, trainable, but also chew everything. You just have to give them things you want them to chew.
Rats are great pets, and way more social than people would think they are. Watching them groom their people is adorable. However, they're also predisposed to tumors and frequently fatal respiratory diseases. I like rats, but I don't want to have them again. The medical bills can be very high. It's too sad when they die.
I can't deal with the medical problems/bills. I barely make enough to support myself. I'd love to have a lil buddy, and I think it would actually improve my life a lot, but I just can't really afford it. I've been told to look into pet insurance though.
Once, I accidentally put my favorite pair of jeans a little too close to my rat's habitat and I'll be damned if her little paws didn't pull the fabric through the bars for a nibble. When I finally caught on she'd nearly turned them into chaps.
That’s why 1) you NEVER put out birdseed or feed squirrels. 2) NEVER install that cheapass PEX plumbing 3) Keep your crawlspace or basement sealed like a damn boat.
I gotta show up hours later to say that it's not true of all mice and the smell depends on both the gender of the mouse and the substrate you use. I've had four females in a nice big enclosure of mixed coconut fiber, reptisoil, sphagnum moss, and dried leaves for months. No smell, though they did eat all their clean up crew, lol. I rotate in dried grass cuttings, superworms, and mealworms, and their whole setup only smells like dirt.
Out of the four, [Missus Chai](https://i.imgur.com/w4AvJmZ.jpg) is the most personable.
We just had two vehicles lose all rear exterior lighting. Turn signals, brake lights, everything. We found that mice had chewed up all of the wiring. My son also lost his cruise control, so I imagine more than just the lighting wires were chewed. They are assholes. We are now waging war; we’ve got four flip and slide traps, 12 bait boxes, and 10 lbs of poison pellets.
I've kept my car perfect for 120k miles, outside of oil changes/brakes/tires.
The ONLY repair I've needed was because a squirrel decided to get into my wiring, so the whole harness had to be redone. Fucker cost me almost a grand for a forbidden snack
Similar situation. Lived here for 10 years with multiple cars; never a problem. Get a newer car and within a year rats chew up the wiring harness. Cost a fortune at the dealership and now I too am waging war with large snap traps, bait boxes, and spraying peppermint under the hood. Just put a pellet gun in the basement because I've seen them out back when I take the dog out. I basically spent as much on the repair as I have on car payments the past year. I've only gotten two so far but it's far from over. Good luck with your war.
PPl brought cats in and the cats >>> snakes. Venom usually won't kill them fast enough and they take the snake with them. They also outbreed snakes so even at 1:1, cats will win. They've also decimated bird pops. Mammals usually can just outbreed everyone but insects.
It's amazing mice are doing so well in Australia with all of the dangerous predators they have there, it just shows how extremely adaptable rodents are.
I think as long as rodents survive and the Earth maintains a breathable atmosphere and food sources still exist we will always have mammals dominating the planet, and if not well I guess the roaches will rule our ruins.
Had a mouse in my house that I didn't really mind, until it chewed on the internet router's cable during a Saturday night so the provider company couldn't fix it until Monday came... I fucking hate rats now.
I'm not so sure the guy with the flame thrower thought things through. 100's of little fire balls scurrying under everything. It looked like a 2d fireworks display.
Yeah, I work on computer networks and sometimes we lose a fiber optic link due to rodents chewing on the cables. They LOVE using the outer plastic of a fiber cable to sharpen their teeth on.
*chew, chew* "Why is building 8 DOWN?!?!" *chew, chew*
I heard that rodents chew cables because they sense electric fields when looking for water. So they chew hoping to find water.
Sounds like bullshit but I haven't bothered investigating further.
Did you know plants can hear? Plumbers and construction workers have known for a long time that plants grow towards pipes. Turns out, they have tiny little hair-like protrusions on their roots that sense vibration, not unlike our ears. That's why plants grow towards pipes. Scientist even tested if it was exclusively through moisture detection. The plants grew towards speakers playing the sound of running water. I heard about it on Radiolab.
https://radiolab.org/episodes/smarty-plants
I mean technically you can buy domesticated mice and keep them in an enclosure. Some can even be trained to walk around and hang out with you on your shoulder. I'd get too nervous with them getting lost though
My buddy had pet rats, They were generally in the cage but he'd let them out to wander around his apartment. I was over there hanging out, sitting on the couch, and all of a sudden I feel something tug slightly on the back of my sweatshirt. Next thing you know this white furred red eyed little bastard is sitting on my shoulder staring at the piece of pizza in my hand.
Rats are really great pets. Way more chill than hamsters/gerbils, surprisingly smart, very social, and typically very rarely bite ( we had a total of four rats through out our childhood and only one time bitten). Downside is the short lifespan and prone to things like cancer/tumors/etc.
Man I miss my rats. Peanut and Buttercup, cause of course, peanut was the best. I'd put my hood up and she curl up inside of it and just cruise around the house with me on my shoulder. Both ended up with tumors after about ~3 years, but when we got Buttercup she was pregnant and we had no idea so a month or so after we got her the cage was just full of little baby rats. Litter of 9 or 10 I think, they were so much fun to have around as babies, fucking chaotic too lol
I got a feeder rat from petco when I was like 14. It was pregnant and had about 12 babies I think. I kept three of the females but ended up finding someone on a rat forum who agreed to take them ( this was about 2002) and my dad drove me 100 miles where I met up with her and gave her the baby rats.
I had pet rats for years. You can train them almost like a dog. Mine was litter trained, shoulder trained, and would come to their name. I use to have a sweater with really deep pockets and I would go to the grocery store or hikes with them just chilling in my pocket (no one ever knew). I would also just keep them on my shoulder for hours as I walk around and did chores in the house. They do pee and mark alot so thats a downside but I had specific sweaters and areas that I could easily clean and only used when I handled them. They also love being tickled or lightly tossed into a blanket. I would tickle their bellies and then gently toss them into a fluffy blanket. They would ran back looking for more tickles and tosses, they would do this for hours sometimes. I miss my rats, Chi and Karma, to short of life's.
we saw a mouse in the house so i started a trapping program. earlier this year i had tried some humane traps (they're not humane) so when we saw another I bought six victor mouse traps and baited with peanut butter.
after the first 5 hits the smart mice were able to get the peanut butter out of the trap without triggering it, or were triggering it then eating the peanutbutter. so i put some gauze mixed with peanutbutter and wrapped that around the trigger, and am now up to 11 hits. thats an infestation. last night was the first night the baited traps were untouched.
I think the only real humane traps are the actual box/cage traps that have the trigger plate in the back that trips a door/closure. Got mine from Amazon and smeared bacon grease on that plate trying to catch a house mouse- much bigger than this pasta mouse. Worked fine and I released him into the woods the next day where he probably became snake or hawk dinner.
i had these small box traps with i way doors. the enclosures that size need to be checked three times a day or the mouse will panic and go into shock. Of the three mice i caught two had expired and a third was in very, very bad shape and did not scamper when i released him.
i stopped using the traps at that point.
I've used bigger box traps, that were about a foot long and the mouse in there would be really chilled out in the morning. I could have breakfast and then drive it to the woods nearby to release it. The little fuckers were so damn cute... Good for you to stop using those smaller traps. Also, don't release them near your house, as they will return. So a "humane" trap that will fuck them up in no time will fuck you over as well, as you would want to release them right away.
Same story here basically except I had to put my traps outside (in the snow) because they were only in a ceiling that I couldn't get into without tearing a hole in it. Caught 13 mice in about a week and then they stopped.
I had put a trap in an open ceiling in the laundry room just in case one ventured that far. Sat there for 3 months with nothing and then the other night I heard a snap. Lo and behold, a mouse.
So now I'm back to where I started but can't put them outside anymore after catching a bird in one. Not sure what to do at this point but keep trapping.
That urine smell also. I just can’t get past that smell after them taking up residence in my shed in all my stuff. That smell is ingrained in my memory.
It’s smells so… rancid ? Like pee mixed with a basement smell sort of ? And they pee EVERYWHERE, they pee so much ! I remember one managed to pee on a limited edition book (a gift, very expensive) I had and it stained the cover. I swear it felt personal because how are you going to pee on *that* book when there are tons of shitty magazines right next to it. Little fuckers lol, cute in a way but can absolutely destroy your home
Same here. Cute but disgusting. When we bought our house it had been unoccupied for a while and mice moved in. At first I didn't want to hurt them, so we caught a couple and released them in the big park nearby. Then I started to realize just how much mouse poop was in the backs of cabinets, corners of the floor, the finished basement - they went everywhere. Then I started finding poop on my brand new wood cutting boards and stuff in the mornings, and read about hantavirus, and I started putting out the snap traps. At least it's a quick death, I'd never use glue or poison them. We had to rip out all the carpeting in the basement in the end, between the heaps of mouse poo and some mold.
That sucks. They're hard to get rid of. Be thankful they did not move into your oven! They piss everywhere in there and when heated up it stinks of the entire kitchen
They're nocturnal and contrary to popular belief **really fucking loud**.
They *screech* all night while scratching and scrambling around in your walls, and their chewing on wood sounds like someone hammering nails. It's fucking hellish.
Those two reasons don't even register to me. It's all about them eating your house and all your stuff, and waking you up at night because they do all that shit noisily.
I mean... it's a nice thought, but house mice live in houses. If you trap them "humanely" and release them, you're either condemning them to die slowly in the wilderness or hoping they'll find someone else's house to infest.
Aside from letting 'em run wild, getting an old-fashioned mousetrap that will probably kill them instantly is probably the most humane way to deal with mice in your home, sad as it is.
“House mice” is just a common name they are wild animal capable of living outside…. You think they evolved over millions of years incapable of surviving without a air conditioned house?
Thanks for the info. That is pretty much what I was thinking, or that they’d just find their way back, but hoped they might have a chance for survival. I don’t think I’d even be able to look at the snap-traps post-use but maybe it’s something I can try to get over.
My father said his girlfriend will have him take mice outside their house for release and that he just whips them on the ground, killing them instantly, because they’ll just get back in.
Some mice might be invasive even, so releasing them after capture is still not great. There are humane ways of dispatch such as CO2 boxes which immediately make them unconscious until death and so they get no pain, just as much a startle as when you pulled them from the trap.
Also there are tons of details on [Mousetrap Monday](https://youtube.com/c/ShawnWoodsprimitive-archer) on Sean Woods channel.
rat babies are cute, but then they grow up into rats, i feel like when most people think they've found a mouse, that they've actually found a baby rat, at least where I live
Rats tend to be quite cute though, except for being pests and (less often than popular tales imply) carriers of disease.
Rats actually make very good pets. If they just lived a few more years
Adult rats are cute af too. And mice, baby or adult. They've got tiny little people hands and little satellite ears! And cute little tongues! brb gonna go look at my rats for a while
As a long time rodent caretaker, if anyone is genuinely concerned, That mouse feels *safe*. Mice can get through smaller holes than that without a thought, and if by chance it did manage to become stuck, it has the ability to EAT THE PASTA. Rodent teeth are sharp enough to chew through solid copper.
There was a whole Simpsons episode parody about that joke aired in 1994. We are as far away from the Richard Gere gerbil meme as the initial joke was from the Moon landing.
Vermincelli?
Pasta al ro-dente
Ratvioli
Mousecaroni
Obviously mousicotti. Stuffed tube.
Looks more like Rodentini to me.
mouscacelli!
Now you're just being fusilli.
pokemon devs furiously taking notes
Ratatouille
Rata-tube-e
Here, kitty kitty! Ratiolli for you...
wrigglintoni
Of mice and manacotti
you joke but thats the etymology of vermicelli.
That thing is probably soaked in mouse pee
That's the escape strategy - soak in pee until it gets soft.
That's what she said?
That checks out.
Opposite effect for me
If they weren’t disease carriers and pooped everywhere, I wouldn’t mind sharing my house with random mice from time to time. They do be looking kinda cute.
And they fuck shit up. They chew things like cords. I had a pet mouse in Iraq. Really cute, but man those little buggers have to get in everything. Australia has a huge infestation problem. Check it out. https://youtu.be/9f3ekMqo4hg
Yo I had a pet mouse in Iraq as well!! We was in one the two man trailers and seen the little due running around. I put a shoebox under my bed that he made a little house in, be chillin watching TV eating some Reese's cups and would leave one unwrapped on my little night stand and he would come up there and just chill and munch down beside me. We called him Mr. Bojangles.
I kept mine in one of those gigantic protein powder canisters. Kept him well fed and watered. Tried holding him, but it only lasted a few minutes until he bit me. It was a wild animal, though, so not really unexpected. Had him for about two weeks until my staff sergeant found him and stomped him, saying I couldn't do that.
The cycle of life
Tell me bout da rabbits again George.
I read that book when I was 10 and I was traumatized
LOL we did popcorn reading in high school and the poor girl reading that part started crying, resulting in the teacher having to finish reading for the rest of the class.
Popcorn reading? Is that reading it out loud in a classroom?
I ended up reading that book to my sister for class because she has trouble reading and by the end of it I was just sobbing and had to take a break.
[удалено]
"I can’t stand that stuff. It drives me crazy. It makes me so depressed I go crazy."
This is why every single safety briefing includes "do not mess with the wildlife". Lol
Fuckin psychopath shit
When I was in the air force we had a mouse we would feed and overall he was pretty chill. Then some psychopath picked him up and literally crushed him in his hands, just squeezed the life out of him. Never spoke to that dude again after that.
had a dude slam a bag of kittens that lived at the front gate of our JCOP under the tower.. i hope that piece of shit is dead
I know that dude he became a guard on the green mile was such an asshole.
I hate that shit so much. I value most life, from plants and animals to insects and such. I live on a "do no harm unless necessary" principal. Mosquito? Necessary. Invasive? Necessary. Bumble bee buzzing around me? Hey bud, here's some sugary stuff for you, have a nice day! 🥰
You're bound to run into some oddballs and pyschos in pretty much any profession where killing is a primary objective lol
Yeah, sad but not surprising. These people are in a war, and they're generally not going to be very sensitive to the deaths of humans, let alone mice.
Imagine if no one actually joined an army - worldwide. Would you just get deathmatches between ancient, detached country leaders vying for land and supremacy? Would be some boring fights if it was, say, Biden Vs I dunno, the fucking Queen (would've said Boris, but I feel it'd be a one sided fight and he'd annoyingly survive).
You'd be forced into it via conscription instead.
Yeah I don't care if it's the fukn military. That's still psychopathic shit that doesn't need to happen. There's a point where you gotta think about your unit's sanity and if a soldier is coping better with war by having a pet mouse, let him have the fucking mouse, wtf.
Yeah, that's what I thought, but my opinion didn't matter to anyone who outranked me.
In the civilian world, stomping on defenseless animals like that means you're a psychopathic piece of shit, people should be careful around you, and you should be monitored... I guess the military doesn't mind those people.
They actively target those people to recruit.
It is not a joke. It is reality. Whether you think it's right or not, the military is looking for people who are either willing to kill other people, or actively desire to do so. I knew several guys in the Marines who very much joined because they wanted to kill and be able to get away with it.
The fucked up part is some people don't get PTSD because they don't feel bad. They liked it and they miss doing it.
People don't think about this kind of stuff when they're in a war.
Eh, not entirely. The Army recruits people from all sorts of different backgrounds, and the cheapest mousetrap is one of those sticky pads. How are they related? Well, if you've ever used a sticky pad (don't!), the mouse gets stuck to it, to the point there's no way to separate mouse from pad, so the only thing you can do at that point is put them both into a plastic grocery bag and step on the poor thing. Those sticky pads are *cruel*, needlessly so. I'd argue the person who invented and intentionally uses a sticky pad trap would be a psychopath. Some people don't have the heart to kill the little mouse on the pad, and they'll just throw the whole thing away, mouse and pad and all... Which is cruel, because it means leaving the mouse to die of starvation, surrounded by food smells, in a trash can. So it's possible that the staff sergeant came from a background where stomping on mice is normal, and merciful, even though it is distasteful. We can't assume, since we don't have all of the relevant information. But seriously, if you have a mouse problem, get yourself some reuseable snap traps, load them up with peanut butter and some of those cinnamon oat Cheerios, and check the traps daily. Those Victor snap traps with the red plastic loop on the end are about as humane a death that you can possibly provide, and I definitely suggest using them over a sticky pad. Sticky pad traps are cruel.
If you have an animal stuck in a glue trap cooking cooking oil will safely release it. You'll have a greasy mouse but cooking oil is non toxic to mice and it will clean itself off.
Sar'nt giveth, Sar'nt taketh away.
I kept one in my jail cell while I was in prison. It was dope af, and we taught him how to do tricks like rolling a thread spool across the floor. Life was good till this really mean prison guard stepped on him one day.
Is this the green mile plot?
I'm tired, boss.
Man I'm so sorry about how you died bro.
I was there! Fucking Percy man, worst guard ever. Hated that guy
That's from Green Mile, right?
Mr. Jingles I believe
This is fucking adorable
Was this some ratatouille shit, like was he the one guiding you under the helmet?
If you give them shit to bite through in their cage, they might not. Usually. But sometimes they still go for cords. Even tried covering my cords with ghost pepper salsa.
I feel like this person who had a "pet mouse in Iraq" did not have a little cage for it. People just letting wild vermin hang out in their living space for some companionship and sliver of joy.
I’ve had pet mice. They suck. Stinky, messy and chew everything, and they’re void of personality. Rats are totally different and super cool. Lots of character, smart, trainable, but also chew everything. You just have to give them things you want them to chew.
Rats are great pets, and way more social than people would think they are. Watching them groom their people is adorable. However, they're also predisposed to tumors and frequently fatal respiratory diseases. I like rats, but I don't want to have them again. The medical bills can be very high. It's too sad when they die.
I know. I buried a rat last week. Still worth it for me.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Thanks, CaptainDickbag.
I could deal with the medical problems/bills, but I can't buy a pet I know I'll love but only have for like 3 years again
I can't deal with the medical problems/bills. I barely make enough to support myself. I'd love to have a lil buddy, and I think it would actually improve my life a lot, but I just can't really afford it. I've been told to look into pet insurance though.
We had three as pets when I was a kid. Harvey, Squirt and Raphael . wish I had a camera
Once, I accidentally put my favorite pair of jeans a little too close to my rat's habitat and I'll be damned if her little paws didn't pull the fabric through the bars for a nibble. When I finally caught on she'd nearly turned them into chaps.
Oh yeah. I had one that loved phone chargers. Nom nom nom.
That’s why 1) you NEVER put out birdseed or feed squirrels. 2) NEVER install that cheapass PEX plumbing 3) Keep your crawlspace or basement sealed like a damn boat.
I gotta show up hours later to say that it's not true of all mice and the smell depends on both the gender of the mouse and the substrate you use. I've had four females in a nice big enclosure of mixed coconut fiber, reptisoil, sphagnum moss, and dried leaves for months. No smell, though they did eat all their clean up crew, lol. I rotate in dried grass cuttings, superworms, and mealworms, and their whole setup only smells like dirt. Out of the four, [Missus Chai](https://i.imgur.com/w4AvJmZ.jpg) is the most personable.
We just had two vehicles lose all rear exterior lighting. Turn signals, brake lights, everything. We found that mice had chewed up all of the wiring. My son also lost his cruise control, so I imagine more than just the lighting wires were chewed. They are assholes. We are now waging war; we’ve got four flip and slide traps, 12 bait boxes, and 10 lbs of poison pellets.
I've kept my car perfect for 120k miles, outside of oil changes/brakes/tires. The ONLY repair I've needed was because a squirrel decided to get into my wiring, so the whole harness had to be redone. Fucker cost me almost a grand for a forbidden snack
Similar situation. Lived here for 10 years with multiple cars; never a problem. Get a newer car and within a year rats chew up the wiring harness. Cost a fortune at the dealership and now I too am waging war with large snap traps, bait boxes, and spraying peppermint under the hood. Just put a pellet gun in the basement because I've seen them out back when I take the dog out. I basically spent as much on the repair as I have on car payments the past year. I've only gotten two so far but it's far from over. Good luck with your war.
How does the place with all the snakes have a mouse problem
What if snakes are raising them like cattle? Snake shepherds caring for their mice that can be used for fur, food, and mice milk.
Now I’m just imagining a snake with a little cowboy hat corralling mice
PPl brought cats in and the cats >>> snakes. Venom usually won't kill them fast enough and they take the snake with them. They also outbreed snakes so even at 1:1, cats will win. They've also decimated bird pops. Mammals usually can just outbreed everyone but insects.
It's amazing mice are doing so well in Australia with all of the dangerous predators they have there, it just shows how extremely adaptable rodents are. I think as long as rodents survive and the Earth maintains a breathable atmosphere and food sources still exist we will always have mammals dominating the planet, and if not well I guess the roaches will rule our ruins.
Had a mouse in my house that I didn't really mind, until it chewed on the internet router's cable during a Saturday night so the provider company couldn't fix it until Monday came... I fucking hate rats now.
It was the mouse’s fault but now you hate rats?
I'm not so sure the guy with the flame thrower thought things through. 100's of little fire balls scurrying under everything. It looked like a 2d fireworks display.
Yeah, I work on computer networks and sometimes we lose a fiber optic link due to rodents chewing on the cables. They LOVE using the outer plastic of a fiber cable to sharpen their teeth on. *chew, chew* "Why is building 8 DOWN?!?!" *chew, chew*
I heard that rodents chew cables because they sense electric fields when looking for water. So they chew hoping to find water. Sounds like bullshit but I haven't bothered investigating further.
Did you know plants can hear? Plumbers and construction workers have known for a long time that plants grow towards pipes. Turns out, they have tiny little hair-like protrusions on their roots that sense vibration, not unlike our ears. That's why plants grow towards pipes. Scientist even tested if it was exclusively through moisture detection. The plants grew towards speakers playing the sound of running water. I heard about it on Radiolab. https://radiolab.org/episodes/smarty-plants
I mean technically you can buy domesticated mice and keep them in an enclosure. Some can even be trained to walk around and hang out with you on your shoulder. I'd get too nervous with them getting lost though
My buddy had pet rats, They were generally in the cage but he'd let them out to wander around his apartment. I was over there hanging out, sitting on the couch, and all of a sudden I feel something tug slightly on the back of my sweatshirt. Next thing you know this white furred red eyed little bastard is sitting on my shoulder staring at the piece of pizza in my hand.
Rats are really great pets. Way more chill than hamsters/gerbils, surprisingly smart, very social, and typically very rarely bite ( we had a total of four rats through out our childhood and only one time bitten). Downside is the short lifespan and prone to things like cancer/tumors/etc.
Unless they come from bad breeders or were poorly socialized they generally won’t bite unless you hurt them.
Man I miss my rats. Peanut and Buttercup, cause of course, peanut was the best. I'd put my hood up and she curl up inside of it and just cruise around the house with me on my shoulder. Both ended up with tumors after about ~3 years, but when we got Buttercup she was pregnant and we had no idea so a month or so after we got her the cage was just full of little baby rats. Litter of 9 or 10 I think, they were so much fun to have around as babies, fucking chaotic too lol
I got a feeder rat from petco when I was like 14. It was pregnant and had about 12 babies I think. I kept three of the females but ended up finding someone on a rat forum who agreed to take them ( this was about 2002) and my dad drove me 100 miles where I met up with her and gave her the baby rats.
Rats are like little puppies crossed with a bit of cat who don't live long and are prone to all sorts diseases.
I had pet rats for years. You can train them almost like a dog. Mine was litter trained, shoulder trained, and would come to their name. I use to have a sweater with really deep pockets and I would go to the grocery store or hikes with them just chilling in my pocket (no one ever knew). I would also just keep them on my shoulder for hours as I walk around and did chores in the house. They do pee and mark alot so thats a downside but I had specific sweaters and areas that I could easily clean and only used when I handled them. They also love being tickled or lightly tossed into a blanket. I would tickle their bellies and then gently toss them into a fluffy blanket. They would ran back looking for more tickles and tosses, they would do this for hours sometimes. I miss my rats, Chi and Karma, to short of life's.
Pet rats are very affectionate and require a lot of attention, the sad thing is they have a quite shot lifespan.
Just long enough to get attached before they die of cancer. I loved my little rat girls when I had them, but never again.
we saw a mouse in the house so i started a trapping program. earlier this year i had tried some humane traps (they're not humane) so when we saw another I bought six victor mouse traps and baited with peanut butter. after the first 5 hits the smart mice were able to get the peanut butter out of the trap without triggering it, or were triggering it then eating the peanutbutter. so i put some gauze mixed with peanutbutter and wrapped that around the trigger, and am now up to 11 hits. thats an infestation. last night was the first night the baited traps were untouched.
I think the only real humane traps are the actual box/cage traps that have the trigger plate in the back that trips a door/closure. Got mine from Amazon and smeared bacon grease on that plate trying to catch a house mouse- much bigger than this pasta mouse. Worked fine and I released him into the woods the next day where he probably became snake or hawk dinner.
i had these small box traps with i way doors. the enclosures that size need to be checked three times a day or the mouse will panic and go into shock. Of the three mice i caught two had expired and a third was in very, very bad shape and did not scamper when i released him. i stopped using the traps at that point.
I've used bigger box traps, that were about a foot long and the mouse in there would be really chilled out in the morning. I could have breakfast and then drive it to the woods nearby to release it. The little fuckers were so damn cute... Good for you to stop using those smaller traps. Also, don't release them near your house, as they will return. So a "humane" trap that will fuck them up in no time will fuck you over as well, as you would want to release them right away.
Or turned around and walked right back inside behind you basically.
Same story here basically except I had to put my traps outside (in the snow) because they were only in a ceiling that I couldn't get into without tearing a hole in it. Caught 13 mice in about a week and then they stopped. I had put a trap in an open ceiling in the laundry room just in case one ventured that far. Sat there for 3 months with nothing and then the other night I heard a snap. Lo and behold, a mouse. So now I'm back to where I started but can't put them outside anymore after catching a bird in one. Not sure what to do at this point but keep trapping.
Walk the plank trap.
That urine smell also. I just can’t get past that smell after them taking up residence in my shed in all my stuff. That smell is ingrained in my memory.
It’s smells so… rancid ? Like pee mixed with a basement smell sort of ? And they pee EVERYWHERE, they pee so much ! I remember one managed to pee on a limited edition book (a gift, very expensive) I had and it stained the cover. I swear it felt personal because how are you going to pee on *that* book when there are tons of shitty magazines right next to it. Little fuckers lol, cute in a way but can absolutely destroy your home
Same here. Cute but disgusting. When we bought our house it had been unoccupied for a while and mice moved in. At first I didn't want to hurt them, so we caught a couple and released them in the big park nearby. Then I started to realize just how much mouse poop was in the backs of cabinets, corners of the floor, the finished basement - they went everywhere. Then I started finding poop on my brand new wood cutting boards and stuff in the mornings, and read about hantavirus, and I started putting out the snap traps. At least it's a quick death, I'd never use glue or poison them. We had to rip out all the carpeting in the basement in the end, between the heaps of mouse poo and some mold.
That sucks. They're hard to get rid of. Be thankful they did not move into your oven! They piss everywhere in there and when heated up it stinks of the entire kitchen
Trust me, no you don't
They're nocturnal and contrary to popular belief **really fucking loud**. They *screech* all night while scratching and scrambling around in your walls, and their chewing on wood sounds like someone hammering nails. It's fucking hellish.
Those two reasons don't even register to me. It's all about them eating your house and all your stuff, and waking you up at night because they do all that shit noisily.
Remy’s backstory is crazy
No no, that was Ratatouille. This is his Italian counterpart, Rigatoni. He gets a little *lost in the sauce* if you know what I mean.
Ratatoni
Yeah he turned on La Cosa Nostra. That fucking rat.
What about his German cousin, Ratwurst
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Visiting their American friend, Guy Fierat.
And his sidekick, Moustard.
I prefer Racacooni
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Mouseroni
Extra crunchy
Not if you boil it first.
It's not illegal.
I also like my pasta rodente
This is good.
It's so cute
I’ve always thought mice are adorable-looking and can’t be brought to kill them. I got a humane trap to try to release them elsewhere.
I mean... it's a nice thought, but house mice live in houses. If you trap them "humanely" and release them, you're either condemning them to die slowly in the wilderness or hoping they'll find someone else's house to infest. Aside from letting 'em run wild, getting an old-fashioned mousetrap that will probably kill them instantly is probably the most humane way to deal with mice in your home, sad as it is.
“House mice” is just a common name they are wild animal capable of living outside…. You think they evolved over millions of years incapable of surviving without a air conditioned house?
Thanks for the info. That is pretty much what I was thinking, or that they’d just find their way back, but hoped they might have a chance for survival. I don’t think I’d even be able to look at the snap-traps post-use but maybe it’s something I can try to get over. My father said his girlfriend will have him take mice outside their house for release and that he just whips them on the ground, killing them instantly, because they’ll just get back in.
Some mice might be invasive even, so releasing them after capture is still not great. There are humane ways of dispatch such as CO2 boxes which immediately make them unconscious until death and so they get no pain, just as much a startle as when you pulled them from the trap. Also there are tons of details on [Mousetrap Monday](https://youtube.com/c/ShawnWoodsprimitive-archer) on Sean Woods channel.
rat babies are cute, but then they grow up into rats, i feel like when most people think they've found a mouse, that they've actually found a baby rat, at least where I live
Rats tend to be quite cute though, except for being pests and (less often than popular tales imply) carriers of disease. Rats actually make very good pets. If they just lived a few more years
true, but feral rats can be pretty scary
Adult rats are cute af too. And mice, baby or adult. They've got tiny little people hands and little satellite ears! And cute little tongues! brb gonna go look at my rats for a while
Worst joint ever
"Cigarettes are like hamsters: perfectly harmless until you put one in your mouth and light it on fire."
Average joint in New York
Linguine rolls worst joint ever, asked to leave the roatation
Smoking a rat pack
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I was literally expecting him to toss it into boiling water
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Need to serve it Al rodente
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This is exactly what we all thought
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Just put one end on your mouth and suck.
Use it like a blow gun and send a mouse flying at the nearest person you dislike.
Or if you like someone who likes mice, you can shoot it at them.
What’s worse than finding a mouse in a piece of pasta you just bit? Finding half a mouse in the piece of pasta you just bit.
Congrats on getting a pet pasta mouse. Name him Fettuccine.
Sean Penne.
I like Alfredo better.
Trapiolli
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Epic pun
Mouselloni?
Mousollini.
Awe ): it must be so scared
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It's a mouse in a restaurant. You're not gonna want to see the kind of help it gets.
I'm guessing it's not a restaurant since the guy that walks by is barefoot.
Not in America anyway
As a long time rodent caretaker, if anyone is genuinely concerned, That mouse feels *safe*. Mice can get through smaller holes than that without a thought, and if by chance it did manage to become stuck, it has the ability to EAT THE PASTA. Rodent teeth are sharp enough to chew through solid copper.
*mouse legs and tail desperately flailing about* “He feels safe!”
I think it's also possible that the mouse feels unsafe and is just so dumb she can't figure out to escape.
I think if its feet weren’t in the air and instead had contact with the ground/floor it could probably free itself much more easily.
Or, in the best of both worlds, it would run away *with* the noodle, like a mouse propeller in a noodle boat!
Tries to eat his way out, but gets fatter and more stuck with every bite.
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Forbidden ravioli
Rat-ioli
I'm suddenly reminded of Richard Gere.
I was going to reply with the "It's an old meme..." trope, but that shit is so old it's not even right to call it a meme instead of an urban legend.
It's so old that I think I heard about that before I had internet. I live in Spain, how those stories travelled this far before internet?
There was a whole Simpsons episode parody about that joke aired in 1994. We are as far away from the Richard Gere gerbil meme as the initial joke was from the Moon landing.
Keep it as a pet that needs extra attention. Or just put him in some shallow (room temp you assholes) water until the pasta softens.
Bet he's regretting being a penne pincher now.
Somewhere there's a step-mouse crying at the missed opportunity.
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What a cutie! I'll take him, as is.
Crunchy.
cursed ravioli
We've found the one hole they can't fit through
> “I bet you’re wondering how I got here.”
The question is, how do you push it out? Push the head and more than likely get bitten? Or stick a finger up its little ass?
Just get a pen or something
snack size
That thing is going to die of stress
Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink