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Minerva

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Where it was caughtMinutes ago my brother started running around exclaiming this. Ok so what did it catch?

He said he saw the mouse run across the floor and couldn't find it and noticed the green light on the trap flashing. Remember from the thread here.

Well here he is!

One dead mouse

Cute little mouse, but you know these things are destructive! I had to really look to make sure it was not breathing. Very clean kill compared to other methods.

We definitely don't want these (mice) crawling around servers! :Q

I think we would've caught it sooner if (my brother) wasn't playing around with that damn trap so much.


 
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Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Why in God's name do you have a rat problem in a server room?
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She shouldn't have built that rack out of gingerbread and licorice.
 
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Minerva

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It's a mouse not a rat. Big difference there. If there are ever rats I'm going to live on boat. (at least in the summer)

There's a boiler and machinery room below and they've been re-working stuff. They were running wires and left holes in the floor and wall and that's how the little (mouse) bastard got in the room. :|
 
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Originally posted by: RossMAN
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Why in God's name do you have a rat problem in a server room?
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The irony :Q
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How is that ironic? I'm thinking that his "server room" is an actual work place rather than home. If it's a home "server room" then disregard my comment. A mouse popped out of my home air conditioner and not my actual working place. I think it would be extremely weird to have a mouse problem at a business. Home sure, business that deals with IT stuff, kind of weird. No irony here.
 
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StormRider

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I caught a mouse in my house once with one of those humane live traps. I released it at my work parking lot near some woods. After that I began researching mice and then rats and I found out that rats make good pets. Because of that mouse, I've been thinking of getting some pet rats in the future...
 
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Minerva

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Canon Power Shot G3.

Yeah it's cute but it's a pest and definitely cannot be running around in a room with expensive hardware.

Pet rats and mice are totally different. :)

Rats make good pets but they poop on you when you hold them. :Q

Oh and the statement about businesses not having pests is absurd. Never been around the food industry I take it. These places have huge contracts with Terminix, Orkin, etc. just to keep the mice, rats, roaches, etc. to acceptable levels. But they're always there.

Kind of hard to keep them out of the building when you have a loading dock with dozens of 12' high overhead doors open 12 hours/day six days a week.
 
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I waited several hours to shoot a mouse with my BB gun once as a kid. Apparently they have tougher hides than you'd think because the BB bounced right off. The mouse twitched a little and ran off. Playing with a trap probably would have been much safer than having BBs ricochet around...
 
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Shadowknight

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The reverse of someone a lady at the cat adoption center told me about; she got permission to put a cat trap on a neighbor's land, so she could catch a feral/stray pregnant cat.

The neighbors deliberately trip the trap. :|

The say they want to see the kittens! She's told them over and over that once they're born, she'll let them see them. By being out in the wild, it's going to be harder to catch both the mom and the whole litter (however many that may be), there's a greater chance of one or more getting sick, getting run over by a car, eaten by a predator, etc. Also, if they're stupid enough to touch the newborns (and they probably will be) the smell of humans on her babies will probably make her abandon her kittens; that's usually what happens when people are stupid enough to touch them :| It's gotten to the point where she's trying to teach them how to set the trap (very easy, as I've done it multiple times when trapping cats on my porch), but if they're trying to prevent the cat from being trapped in the first place, there's not much of a point.

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I waited several hours to shoot a mouse with my BB gun once as a kid. Apparently they have tougher hides than you'd think because the BB bounced right off. The mouse twitched a little and ran off. Playing with a trap probably would have been much safer than having BBs ricochet around...
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It could be worse; I mean, a double-barrelled shotgun through the wall can't even kill a sentient, evil hand.
 
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montypythizzle

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Your sick. You take pictures of a mouse that you murdered. You also posted it on an internet forum where other members may be offended.
Please take your fetishes elsewhere.
 
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imported_Lothar

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Originally posted by: montypythizzle
Your sick. You take pictures of a mouse that you murdered. You also posted it on an internet forum where other members may be offended.
Please take your fetishes elsewhere.
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Troll much?
 
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dannybek

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ahh, brings back old memories of me squashing a mouse and seeing its guts shoot several feet away.
 
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Originally posted by: Minerva
Canon Power Shot G3.

Yeah it's cute but it's a pest and definitely cannot be running around in a room with expensive hardware.

Pet rats and mice are totally different. :)

Rats make good pets but they poop on you when you hold them. :Q

Oh and the statement about businesses not having pests is absurd. Never been around the food industry I take it. These places have huge contracts with Terminix, Orkin, etc. just to keep the mice, rats, roaches, etc. to acceptable levels. But they're always there.

Kind of hard to keep them out of the building when you have a loading dock with dozens of 12' high overhead doors open 12 hours/day six days a week.
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Oh I know all about food businesses with rat problems but an IT office or somewhere that deals specifically with IT stuff? I haven't heard of that until today. I'm just making an assumption based off of what I read in this thread. For all I know it's just an IT office AT a food business which in that case, it makes complete sense.
 
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Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Originally posted by: Minerva
Canon Power Shot G3.

Yeah it's cute but it's a pest and definitely cannot be running around in a room with expensive hardware.

Pet rats and mice are totally different. :)

Rats make good pets but they poop on you when you hold them. :Q

Oh and the statement about businesses not having pests is absurd. Never been around the food industry I take it. These places have huge contracts with Terminix, Orkin, etc. just to keep the mice, rats, roaches, etc. to acceptable levels. But they're always there.

Kind of hard to keep them out of the building when you have a loading dock with dozens of 12' high overhead doors open 12 hours/day six days a week.
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Oh I know all about food businesses with rat problems but an IT office or somewhere that deals specifically with IT stuff? I haven't heard of that until today. I'm just making an assumption based off of what I read in this thread. For all I know it's just an IT office AT a food business which in that case, it makes complete sense.
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Ever bring your lunch to work? Think you really never drop any crumbs on your desk/floor? Co-workers keep candy or other treats in their desks?

We've had mice at work. They'll show up anywhere that has food.
 
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