There is something in my kitchen that sounds larger than a mouse 😱
@Thumprhare
I'm gonna dig out the baby monitor to get a view tomorrow night.
Ok, it's a mouse, but it's overly noisy because it's unsuccessfully attempting to jump the entire height of a tall kitchen trash can.
(When I was younger, the mice could have climbed up the side of a scratched-up 30 year old plastic kitchen trash can. Apparently today's mice are going soft.)
@AlphaCentauri mice today, lazy weak sods!
LOL
I am surprised it couldn’t climb either, perhaps you are watching Darwinism in action??
@Thumprhare
Perhaps so. The one that did make it into the trash can couldn't make it out, and he took a trip to a Fairmount Park to commune with the picnic trash and the red tail hawks.
@AlphaCentauri the hawks may appreciate a winter buffet
@Thumprhare
Mouse has been caught. Jumped and managed to get into the trash can -- AFTER the trash had gone out and the bag had been changed. So he's in the empty bag in a container until he can go to the park tomorrow. Hope he's the last one for the season.
@AlphaCentauri hope so too….
We keep waves of stink bugs and I am not in the physical or mental state to be patient with them.
So far no more than one at a time, here, thankfully. If they were breeding in the house I would lose my mind.
@AlphaCentauri you talking stink bugs? I keep finding small waves of between 10-20….I swear I wish I could find the entry point(s)
If talking mice—yeh, that too….
I tend to identify the stink bugs when there is only one. I'm very sensitive to the odor (#neverCOVID). And the scritchy noise is so distinctive. So far, never two present at once to breed.
Mice, on the other hand, have found their own highway into our house. They show up under the sink every fall, and then we have to catch them all until the cold stops the influx.
@AlphaCentauri @Thumprhare Mice try to enter this house…don’t make it very far 🤣
@AlphaCentauri wanna hear something scary? Our stink bug population is evolving…we have quiet ones now. You hear them land…or knock into things…but they fly silent. It’s less than 50% but increasss the gross factor. I am thinking about calling the University to see if anyone wants some bc it’s weird