Yep, we're at that point at the Compound, we've become TRAPPERS. No small thing, and it involves heavy duty Victors and a 5 gallon bucket, call it a stairway to heaven if you like. Right on, but logistics are key. That in mind, a trip to the best hardware store in this part of Texas was in order, TrueValue in West.
TrueValue is awesome, you get a warm greeting at the door, all kinds of handy hardware and that includes rifles, pistols and ammo. I picked up some .38 Special, .308, .5.56, 45 ACP and counted myself a lucky man, albeit bankrupt. Some people, dear readers, in the Anglosphere aren't allowed to buy ammo, much less guns. Why? Because Commie full state tyranny.
You see, free men can defend themselves, rainbow slaves cannot. 2A enthusiasm notwithstanding, we drove back down I35 to this small, beat up farming community we call home. It was prosperous once, before the asset-strippers got to the place and shut it down. Who knows, maybe we'll onshore all our jobs and become prosperous again.
In the meanwhile, we're busy catching rats. Tally so far? A sturdy six. Not shabby, but let's see what another night of Victors and a bucket trap produces. My feeling, and I'm not a betting man, is this: We've broken, literally, the neck of the rat insurrection. Let's see what tomorrow brings.
Make of this short parable what you will.
Your Pal,
LSP
Been fighting the pestilence here at the Beans Apartment. Traps, bait, more traps, sticky traps, snap traps, electric shock-to-kill traps. Gotten over 40 juveniles and 4 adults and the scampering and running and pushing books and videos off of shelves has stopped, temporarily.
ReplyDeleteWe will continue to set and bait traps and throw death-bait around (in places the dog can't get to) until we have 2 months of no sounds and no animals captured.
Meanwhile we have had to bin up all the potentially edible foods, grains, plastic-encased foods (like applesauce and bottles of oils and soda) and moved all of the canned goods down and all the non-canned goods not in bins up in the upper cabinets.
Spent almost $300 on traps and baits and such. Probably another $200 on bins and containers. And lost probably $500 in foodstuffs.
Curiously, no rats until the new neighbors moved in. Very curious. Grrr....
You'll seldom find a rodent in a house with a cat. Just sayin'.
ReplyDeletePresumably you also got a sack full of kolaches at the Czech Stop or that bakery downtown (the name escapes me at the moment). I've found it impossible to pass thru West without getting an overload at one or the other.