I know a woman who spent decades as an ER nurse elbow-deep in guts and gore, and she will literally run out of a room if she sees a dead mouse. Or, one time, a piece of insulation she mistakenly thought was a dead mouse.
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Join the club.
I had one no bigger than that and I was unable to get near it lol. Threw a book at it and missed. Got the vacuum cleaner out and sucked the fucker up (dropped the pipe as it passed). Closed my eyes a few days later when I emptied it.
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Welp. Time to burn down your house.
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We get mice in our basement and she hates them too. We live in the woods so its basically impossible to prevent them from coming in. So yeah I also get the fun of rounding up all the dead mice too.
Thankfully mouse trap tech has gotten really good. We have a few electrified traps that zap em and them we just dump them out into a trash bag. Not the most fun but more fun than dealing with a bunch of squished ones in traditional mouse traps.
A cat would love you as its lodgers.
I have made the case and been voted down. She wants a second dog and sees a cat as a “not dog”.
The dog doesn’t help with the mice. She is terrified of them and just avoids the basement.
It’s hard to argue with her logic.
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Next door to us live identical twin girls who are in first or second grade. One time I overheard them screaming their dad “Daddy, don’t kill the spider. Spiders are good. They kill mosquitos!!!1!”.
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I do have to say, spiders are pretty benign and I mostly just leave them alone. The mice bug me alot more, rodents carry actual disease that is a problem.
They pack a vicious bite when they’re scared. I picked one up by the tail once that the cat had caught, trying to save its life, and got a sharp nip on the finger as a reward (got a Tetanus jab after). Claret everywhere.
My wife sent me this picture two days ago. Unfortunately I had to burn the house down. I miss my son
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My joke pony got eaten by a gigantic spider
I just try to move spiders outside, but the biggest one I have ever seen in my house was maybe the size of my fingernail. What the fuck are those things?
Mice are truly revolting mammals that nest in their own piss and shit.
They sound prepared for the pandemic.
Ugh. On Sunday afternoon I was driving home and saw one, not quite that large, but still big and crawling across the top of my dashboard. Thankfully there was no one around because I definitely swerved trying to smash it with my hat. I don’t think I ended up getting it either. Time to Breaking Bad and buy a new car IMO now.
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I don’t know where else this belongs so probably here, but I had a double jalapeno vegan cheeseburger last night from Native Foods and it rocked my world.
Honest to god I have had these meatless patties before and been surprised at how real it tastes, but I’d never had the vegan cheese with it, and whatever patty they used tasted so real that I would have sworn to you it was not vegan had I not known. If I were the beef industry I’d be extremely worried about these guys, if they manage to make it for a lot cheaper than beef, we could see it put a real dent in the industry. And that’s great for the planet. I’m never eating a normal burger again, that was fucking amazing and delicious.
This is coming from a huge carnivore fyi.
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Native Foods is fantastic. I ate that same burger a month ago. It is better than a meat burger, hands down. It tastes great and I feel better after eating compared to dropping a half pound of ground beef into my gut.
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We only buy hamburgers if there are no veggie burgers now. As you say, why bother at this point?
Is there any evidence that the meatless guys are on track for a good steak substitute? Seems like a big leap from crumbly ground meat consistently to something that grills like a steak.