Satellite Question

[TDub]

don't use antifreeze, why not load up the bucket with salt? big chunky salt.....salt pellets for a water softening system work well.

Not a bad idea but it gets below 10-15 degrees here regularly ( 14 last night ).
I'd imagine it'd still freeze.

Next week looks all above 20 for lows though...

yea salt water would freeze....but what about putting in some ice melt? Like the stuff they throw on sidewalks etc
that stuff (I think it'd a combo of sodium chloride and magnesium chloride?) is supposedly freeze proof to -6F

[Shirley]

I have a bucket trap that ain't caught shit in the basement.
I'll probably move that thing outside around the area where I'm guessing they are coming in.
Why not?

Issue is, i'd put water in the bucket to drown em but now it's so cold out the water will freeze.
And I don't want to have to dispose of antifreeze with dead mice in it in the winter.
I could do the 'humane' thing and drive em out ( if I catch em ) to the park a few miles away.
Or...I could just let em chill in there? Is that bad? That's bad right.

don't use antifreeze, why not load up the bucket with salt? big chunky salt.....salt pellets for a water softening system work well. If it's not for animals to drink then load it up with salt and it makes it way more resistant to freezing.

The other option, not a great one maybe...., get one a little trough heater and drop in the bucket. You can get the small ones for like $10.

They also make heaters for bird baths to keep them from freezing.

[pdub]

Just something about buying a heater for something I am already trying to kill with snap traps seems contradictory.

[TDub]

Just something about buying a heater for something I am already trying to kill with snap traps seems contradictory.

you're not heating up the mouse....youre heating up the water to kill the mouse.

Heater can be used later to keep cats water from freezing too.




Or, use the ice melt salt.

[ChalkRocker]

I'm sorry. Late to the party. Yet again.

Why not mouse traps? They've yet to invent better.

Amirite?

[pdub]

I have mouse traps in the basement in areas where my cat can't get to.
I have a bucket trap outside, no water at the moment, not sure what I'd do if I caught it.
It's still in our walls, I heard it last night.

Traps ain't catching shit.

I might need to find a pro. I thought I could get this fucker ( or fuckers ) on my own.

[jhawks99]

[pdub]

Did that eventually work for Al?

[jhawks99]

They caught it and Bud made a pet out of it.

[pdub]

Cat caught a chonker of a mouse and left it on the patio this morning.

Hope it’s the freeloader.

[TDub]

my cats are 99% outdoor cays. But they've been wandering into the fields and catching mice and birds like crazy. They don't leave them around though, they actually eat it, every last bit.

[TDub]

on a related but not note

found a fresh deer carcass yesterday morning that wasn't there the night before. About a 1/4 mile from my house up a hill. Caught, killed, consumed, and stripped down to nothing, not alsingle bit of flesh or organ left. Just gone in one night. Full grown deer. Messy site, fur everywhere gotta be coyotes. But...thats also gotta be, what? 6-10 dogs to eat and strip that all in a single night.

[KUTradition]

why does it have to be just coyotes?

bears, cougars, wolves, and badgers all scavenge when the opportunity presents itself (not to mention various birds)

i assume you’re outside of wolverine range, right?

[TDub]

why does it have to be just coyotes?

bears, cougars, wolves, and badgers all scavenge when the opportunity presents itself (not to mention various birds)

i assume you’re outside of wolverine range, right?

wolverines are spotted Herr and there but pretty rare.

And you're right about it being a menagerie of things. But either way it happened quick, I'm assuming the initial killer(s) did most of the consumption. Nothing there as of 7:30ish pm, carcass completely stripped of all meat, organs gone, stomach contents dumped but stomach eaten, jawbones split and stripped but upper head gone....by 6:30am the next day

[TDub]

I should say wolverine sightings at rare. I dont actually believe there are any here, but people claim they've seen them. I would bet against it.

[ousdahl]

Was it under a tree?

Maybe a kitty had it stashed up there

But yea, I imagine hungry canines could make quick work of it too.

And aren’t you not far from the Wallowas? These folks were documenting this, tho they haven’t updated in like over a year

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf7QyaNv1wA ... BiNWFlZA==

[pdub]

At a holiday party last night, this topic came up.
Do you think the Wet Bandits would have killed Kevin McCallister had old man Marley not have come to the rescue?

[DCHawk1]

You idiots. Kevin McCallister's dead. He's locked in my basement.

[TDub]

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[ousdahl]

sooo


Who’s the “global moderators” here?

Whose name appears in italicized green.

Guessing it’s Illuminati? Some deep state shit?