Meeces

[poliphilo]

I went in the bathroom last night and a tiny, dark hallucination went streaking across the floor. "Ach, that's what comes of staying up too late staring at the monitor," I thought, but then the hallucination, instead of disappearing, started running round and round in circles and I had time to identify it. A mouse. Finally it quit panicking and ran to the corner and hid. And here's something I didn't know before- mice don't realise they have tails. I located it behind the toilet cleaner and it bolted behind the toilet pedestal and every hiding place it chose it forgot to tuck its tail in. After a while I gave up trying to catch it and just opened the bathroom door and invited it to find its own way out.

I'm torn between "how cute" and "oh drat".

I told Ailz this morning. She proposes getting a batch of these plug-in doodads she's seen advertised that emit a ultra-sound screetch that mice can't abide. A sort of Pied Piper effect in reverse.

P.S. Since I wrote the above, Ailz has been looking on-line and she finds that the screetching doodads also disgust spiders. What, drive out our lucky spiders that catch the flies? No way! So we need to do a rethink. I propose humane traps. Then I can take the meeces out the back and let them loose in the long grass. I absolutely refuse to kill them.

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[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

Very enchanted that you live with spiders. I do, too. Hey, it's Texas and I like to leave the back door open a lot. Spiders are my allies in the fight against flies and mosquitos.

I had a mouse a few years ago. I ended up putting everything edible (flour, etc) in glass jars and he eventually died. I found his little dessicated corpse on the floor of the hall closet one day. Please -- I don't use the hall closet very often.

My father (lifelong seller of pesticides) is appalled that I don't kill household pests, but I have enough bad karma as it is. Oh, except for silverfish. I kill silverfish with glee, because they are my big fear. Go figure. I live in a state where we have three inch roaches. Sometimes they fly. That, I can deal with. Silverfish? GGGGGGAAAAHHHH.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The only insects that bother me are moths. There's something about their fat little bodies and powdery wings that gives me the creeps.

When I was a very little kid I turned round in the bath to find a very big moth floating in the water behind me.

I got out so fast......