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I Know This Is LRH... But What Is The Shortest Distance You Have Taken A Live Target?
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<blockquote data-quote="M77Fan" data-source="post: 3102352" data-attributes="member: 115996"><p>Well, if we are going to get into hand to paw combat, there are stories there too. I have certainly stomped my share of meadow voles bent on raiding my garden. But there was a night when visiting my sister-in-law at her house that was nestled deeply into the woods. The house was based off an old cabin, completely renovated, that still had many entry points for mice. Her cat had gotten old, and had slacked off the mousing duties. </p><p></p><p>For some reason I awoke in the wee hours to small, odd sounds in the bedroom. Investigation revealed that there was a mouse path under a certain point of the bedroom door that provided a travelway between an entry point and the pantry. Grabbing a boot, I was able to get several before they escaped the room. It quieted down for a while, but then more noises. A mama mouse was trucking dependent babies out of the main part of the house to somewhere. The boot was not going to do for that operation. So I selected a nice hardcover book out of the nearby bookcase and set up at the crossing point. This was going to take patience and timing. I knelt quietly, waiting, with the book poised just above the trail under the door, keeping it just high enough above the door bottom that I could detect any movement. When she poked her nose under the door I slammed the vertical book down like a <em>guillotine</em>. Fortunately I didn't get mouse brains on the book. I got seven mice that night before going back to sleep.</p><p></p><p>One of my most satisfying encounters, however, was with a pine squirrel. We lived on a mountainside in a bunch of Douglas fir. Some trees were very close to the house, and the second story windows and doors were treetop level. One morning a stupid pine squirrel started going off at something and just would not quit. The more it barked, the more wound up it got. I think it just worked itself into hysterics. It worked its way to a tree right next to our upper door and just went off nonstop. After carefully prepping the door so I could yank it open, I filled a bucket with cold water. That squirrel was drenched with the whole bucket of ice water from a couple feet! It just froze in place a moment, silent, then retreated shaking itself and individual feet like a wet cat, muttering to itself.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤩" title="Star-struck :star_struck:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f929.png" data-shortname=":star_struck:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="M77Fan, post: 3102352, member: 115996"] Well, if we are going to get into hand to paw combat, there are stories there too. I have certainly stomped my share of meadow voles bent on raiding my garden. But there was a night when visiting my sister-in-law at her house that was nestled deeply into the woods. The house was based off an old cabin, completely renovated, that still had many entry points for mice. Her cat had gotten old, and had slacked off the mousing duties. For some reason I awoke in the wee hours to small, odd sounds in the bedroom. Investigation revealed that there was a mouse path under a certain point of the bedroom door that provided a travelway between an entry point and the pantry. Grabbing a boot, I was able to get several before they escaped the room. It quieted down for a while, but then more noises. A mama mouse was trucking dependent babies out of the main part of the house to somewhere. The boot was not going to do for that operation. So I selected a nice hardcover book out of the nearby bookcase and set up at the crossing point. This was going to take patience and timing. I knelt quietly, waiting, with the book poised just above the trail under the door, keeping it just high enough above the door bottom that I could detect any movement. When she poked her nose under the door I slammed the vertical book down like a [I]guillotine[/I]. Fortunately I didn't get mouse brains on the book. I got seven mice that night before going back to sleep. One of my most satisfying encounters, however, was with a pine squirrel. We lived on a mountainside in a bunch of Douglas fir. Some trees were very close to the house, and the second story windows and doors were treetop level. One morning a stupid pine squirrel started going off at something and just would not quit. The more it barked, the more wound up it got. I think it just worked itself into hysterics. It worked its way to a tree right next to our upper door and just went off nonstop. After carefully prepping the door so I could yank it open, I filled a bucket with cold water. That squirrel was drenched with the whole bucket of ice water from a couple feet! It just froze in place a moment, silent, then retreated shaking itself and individual feet like a wet cat, muttering to itself.😂🤣🤣🤩 [/QUOTE]
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