Ooops. I meant feed.

If M. Bouffant is wrong, and there is someone named Bambi in there, your first impulse might be correct.

Patriots fans still believe that the Super Bowl is their god given right.

(Cleaned up after your awkward strikethrough incident, Todd.)

Anyway, at least this season, Patriots fans believe that the Super Bowl is their right if the Patriots beat every team they play, which I think is slightly more plausible than an appeal to Deity.

I bet that’s a slippery slope too.

I have to say though, one of the mice that was trapped…well, he didn’t, um, die immediately. That was a little freaky at first.

You might try that strobe thing on whatever’s living downstairs from you, they might be squirrelly enough to be driven away. If the bowling ball dispenser doesn’t work that is.

As for Trent, he’s more like a particularly smug kind of nutria. Eroding the levees with his loathsome tunneling.

But the electrocution traps work great. For rats, that is.

We’re surrounded by Coastal Live Oaks, and the acorns this year are amazing – I think there are more acorns this year than any year in the past 10 I’ve been here. Maybe that’s drawing the squirrels.

Speaking of rats, what do you all think of Trent Lott stepping down?

I was beginning to think in terms of poison gas. But I thought I’d better check into it more closely before turning to WMD.

Turns out I live in an upstairs condo and the noises were just my downstairs neighbors. Family of three.

Huh. Whoda thunk?

mikey

Up here in Studio City we’ve had rats (or “fruit rats,” which sounds nicer and less repulsive, but they’re just fucking rats, man). The landlord (who lives next door) had a workman put a bunch of glue traps in the crawl space under our house and in a week they’d caught sixteen (16) of the bastards.

Glue traps are horrific, but they work. Then again, yours sound like some other critter. Call Animal Control, but as someone else has said here, with all the fires it’s no surprise the animals are on the move. You may have to wait in line. Re exterminators, we had good success with Antimite.

I think its squirrels. Makes sense. They don’t act like rats.

I’m going to try mikey’s idea.

That sounds more like squirrels than rats. A strobe light on a motion detector works well to keep them out of attics or cellars. Make it so that when it is triggered it stays on for 30 seconds. Quiet, non-lethal and not real expensive.

Squirrels aren’t easy to trap and have a cartoon-like persistence once they find a place they like. Good luck.

From the Wikipedia: Though now extinct, there once existed even larger capybaras that were eight times the size of modern capybaras (these rodents would have been larger than a grizzly bear).[10][11]

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They were a little late this morning – started running around at 4:30 a.m., not 4.

If they were reliable, I could work with them.

There used to be an eccentric French chef outside of Tikal in Guatemala that did really fine things with capybara, substituting it for rabbit in French cuisine. mmmm.

I bet the feral Burmese pythons love them some feral capybara. We’ve recently had the first reports of those pythons here in south Georgia.

We have at least three species of rats here and the pack rats are the worst. One kept stealing the key to my tool shed from its hiding place and it was the closest I’ve come yet to thinking I had cracked and gone round the bend. I knew I’d put it there and it was gone! I was down to one last key before I figured it out. After I’d trapped out the rats I found one of the nests with a weird assortment of baubles, including two of the keys. Traditional rat traps baited with peanut butter are nearly infallible.