"El Ffurgo" <ffurgy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Another incredibly impolite gratuitous post...WTF...
>
Assuming you weren't talking about me, it must have come from someone in
my killfile, as I didn't see them.
......
>
> I put very tight trim on the fornt door. That stopped
> that....
>
My garage floor is on the same level as my family room so they can come in
via the garage door as easy as they please, I'm afraid. I could try a
metal wainscot I suppose.
> Sorta...cause the were coming in under the wall...
> when I tore the wall down to add rooms I found out
> how...a little diagonal piece of the 2x4 in the floor
> plate had broken when it was put in...they were
> squeexing through that...'bout 1/2" max....I'd
> blocked them with sheetrock and floor trim, but
> didn't find that tunnel for 5 years...
>
They chew through some of the studs here so they can go from the family
room ot the kitchen via a little pantry we have. So far they stick to the
garage, family room, the pantry, and kitchen. As far as I can see nothing
will stop them but metal and death.
................
>
> Forget the cat. Remember the toxoplasmosis...there
> is evidence that toxoplasmosis may contribute to
> things like schizophrenia....and with the war with
> shrews, ya'll become schizophrenic, or at least
> very paranoid w/o the help of cat ****, spray, and
> destruction of your furniture....cats belong outside...
> in the food chain....coyotes like them, as to cougars...
> ...like screechy little hors' dourves......
>
I didn't know about the psycho stuff and had forgotten about the clawing.
Forget the cat, I agree.
Thanks for the info, even if it's to say I'll just have to figure out how
to kill them as fast as they come one. I bought one of those small green
round room type traps but they've never set foot in it. Perhaps they've
learned not to eat cheese. I'm thinking about making my own trap. A box
or cage with spring loaded doors and a laser beam trip mechanism. Even
though they no longer touch the cheese in the mouse trap they'll eat
crackers. Something easier than a laser might be a levered plate that
trips the doors when the shrew steps on it to get to the cracker. Or
maybe a webcam with motion sensing software.
I've just begun to fight!
Robert
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