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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, October 18, 2010 - 8:09 pm
Sia, I think it's dcon, but I'm not positive and not sure which specific type it is.
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Sia
Member
03-10-2002
| Monday, October 18, 2010 - 8:18 pm
Thanks. I'll ask the hubby tomorrow if he knows about this; he's the one who buys the mouse traps and bait. We used to always use the wooden snap-traps, but have switched to the plastic snap-traps in recent years. We bait them with peanut butter. Nothing's more aggravating than finding that the mice have eaten the bait and not set off the trap!!
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Monday, October 18, 2010 - 9:15 pm
Dcon does leave bodies. We have put it out in our cabin and what happens is they eat it then die in the cabin- so when we get there we have to search for dead bodies underneath stuff in addition to ones in the middle of the room. It's gross.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, October 18, 2010 - 9:40 pm
Oh yeah, there are bodies, but the stuff we have used leaves no smell. Heh, it's pretty gross to get up in the morning and find a dead mouse in the middle of the den, but I much prefer that to having to search the little buggers out.
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Christy358
Member
07-10-2007
| Monday, October 18, 2010 - 10:24 pm
Where I work they use glue traps. (Can't use poison for some reason) Only thing worse than a dead mouse is a live one stuck on a glue trap.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, October 18, 2010 - 10:51 pm
Have to agree with you there, Christy. At least the poison is quicker. And another maybe dumb q...what would cause a large moth population? We are seeing many, many more moths than usual right now. I had sort of noticed it, but it wasn't until one of the softball moms mentioned walking out her back door one night into a swarm of them that it really sank in how many more we're seeing this year. Then another mom said she had been noticing the same thing. Took my niece home a few nights after that conversation and driving down her alley I couldn't believe how many I saw. Caleb even came home from school one day and told us they'd discussed it in biology...and then he got a phone call and we never got back to the convo to hear what they had decided on. Black widows have been pretty bad this year too, we've killed 13 as of last count, most, thankfully, on the back porch and not in the house. Oh and this summer flies were horrible, though we didn't see too many wasps or spiders. I'm hoping we're not looking at another year like last year, that was a bad one for various critters. Besides the mice (more than usual) and spiders, we had more squirrels (I like them!,) a couple rabbits, moles or gophers in the front yard, and even snakes in the streets of the neighborhood. We live in the desert and a few critters is pretty normal, but last year with all of them and this year with the moths is way more than usual. We live 2 blocks away from several big shopping centers in a 60 year old neighborhood and finding snakes in the middle of the street like last year has never happened in the 12 years we've lived here! In the outskirts of the city, sure, but the neighborhood? What would cause that? And is a bigger moth population a sign we'll be having more critters? And more mice?
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Rissa
Member
03-19-2006
| Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 3:35 am
We use all the above suggestions at our cottage. LOL Sprinkle the dessicating poison in the crawl space and traps inside. I prefer the glue traps just because they work for more than one mouse. The regular snap trap might catch one mouse on day one and then the rest will continue to breed until we get up there to reset it. I don't like the idea of the poor things struggling but what can you do? Our fave solution though is the sonic deterents on the outside of the house. We started using them when we lived on an acreage and they worked fantastic at stopping the mice from coming in in the first place. Wow Wargod, I have never seen a moth swarm, I can just imagine how creepy that would be. I don't think there would be a major connection with mice though, aren't birds their main predator? Do you live in a bat area? We have a couple bat houses near a cottage to help with the bug populations. That's all I can think of, not even close to being an expert on bugs. LOL
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Taysmomcj
Member
03-24-2008
| Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 4:03 am
We had a mouse last week, the first one since moving into our new place. DH went out and bought the traps and set them up with peanut butter. But every couple hours they were licked clean. He finally looked online and someone suggested adding a bit of sugar to the peanut butter. He also sprinkled some underneath the trigger. Within an hour we had our mouse.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 5:50 am
I wonder.... Waaaaay back in the '50s when I was just a li'l kid there was a horrible strong smell in our car at the time. I can remember it to this day. UGH!! Lasted for months. Dad never did figure out what it was. Little dead critter is a possibility.
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Glenn
Member
07-05-2003
| Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 3:01 pm
Wargod, are you alergic to snakes? They do a great job of taking care of mice and don't have all that hair that you have to deal with when using cats for mousing.
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Rissa
Member
03-19-2006
| Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 3:38 pm
Glenn that reminded me of something. When we first moved to our last home (an acreage) dh spotted a mouse in our laundry room. We quickly put our cat in there, shut the door and started getting ready to head out to buy traps. Well you have never heard a cat howl in fear like ours did. I thought she was going to come THROUGH the door the way she was trying to claw her way out. Thank goodness we never had a mouse problem after that because that poor kitty would have given herself a heart attack.
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Chewpito
Member
01-03-2004
| Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 6:43 pm
Im pretty sure that War lives in snake country....I used to live there and I can remember on ocasion having them slither thru the living room floor, my Mom would jump on the table and flip out....what a memory....lol
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 7:10 pm
Nope, Glenn, I'm not allergic to snakes, though I'd probably react like Chew's mom to having one slithering through my house, lol.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, October 25, 2010 - 4:20 pm
QUESTION: Can someone explain what the difference is between a Charter School and Public School? I am not sure I understand why one allegedly works better than the other. TIA.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, October 25, 2010 - 4:46 pm
Dipo, I posted something of a partial answer about this in N&V last week in the education thread (in the context of the film Waiting for "Superman"). Charter schools can be better or worse than public schools, depending upon the charter school and the public school. There are too many variables to account for....and education professionals spend an ungodly amount of time discussing the relative merits of each and how to measure those merits.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, October 25, 2010 - 7:09 pm
Thanks Tishala, that gives me the answer I was looking for, it depends on the school and the area. Just like some public schools are good and some are bad.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, October 25, 2010 - 7:11 pm
Other QUESTION: I keep meaning to ask this, you know those cool computers that they have on NCIS Los Angeles, and I have seen them on other shows -- where they touch the screen and they can enlarge pictures and move stuff around with their fingers. ARE those real or just special effects?
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, October 25, 2010 - 7:30 pm
Totally for real, Dipo. http://www.perceptivepixel.com/
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 5:13 am
Just be ready to grab your pocket book and your heart if you want an interact touch screen monitor. They're anywhere from two to three times the cost of a regular monitor of the same size but they are very cool. I imagine we'll get to see a whole bunch of them a week from now on election night.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 5:28 am
Dipo, I had the same question about those screens. I didn't know what they were called.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 5:43 am
They are called "multi touch screens". That website I posted is the actual company the NCIS ones come from.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 11:29 am
I am so glad they are real, I hate when cool stuff is just special effects. LOL, I am glad I don't want one, I imagine they are really expensive.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 11:46 am
I always think the screens must get really gross unless someone comes along and cleans them every few days.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 11:59 am
That's what floor staff and interns do at TV studios....clean stuff. 
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 12:26 pm
You're telling me NCIS is filmed in a tv studio and isn't real?!? ;)
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