Post by nightmist on Nov 12, 2014 18:16:03 GMT -5
OK, so post-Halloween sale at the Dollar store.
My DH went in. This is the man who once brought home two shopping bags full of Easter grass because the packages had been reduced to a nickel, So I Had Fear.
True to form he got a bunch of stuff that I had no clue as to what we were supposed to do with.
Included in this apparent anti-treasure trove were a pair of plastic rats. He proudly showed them to me explaining that they had been going at 2 for one and he had gotten the last two. Oh thrill me some more why don't you.
Then he told me the Very Best Part, the rats are motion sensitive and squeak when they detect movement. This is when I start thinking "just kill me now so as to avoid the argument when I throw the things out".
Of course when they come out of the package and their tapes are pulled one of them doesn't work, but hey, he fixed it. So two cheap ass squeaking plastic rats are given pride of place in the middle of the kitchen table. I manage to get the rest of the stuff relegated to the boxes marked "Holiday Stuff" down in the basement, and life goes on.
These rats are ANNOYING. Their motion detectors are really over sensitive. Suppers are accompanied by a choir of squeaks, any time you do anything in the kitchen they go off.
Then DD3 had a stroke of genius. She tucked the rats off in corners, one on the counter, and one in the pantry, and told her father that she put them there to scare off the mice. We have been having a mouse problem the last few months (hence not scrimping on making sure the cats get their annual vet worming). The cats have been working overtime, but the mousies just keep coming.
Darned if those stupid plastic rats don't work a treat! I saw, actually saw, a mouse on the counter and when it got close enough to set off the rat it ran for the hills!
Now DH is scouring all the Dollar Stores to see if he can find some more. Every dark cloud has a silver lining, with a great lump of lead in the middle.
I'm just saying, Victor traps are not all that pricey, and DD3 does taxidermy. Have you ever seen what a taxidermy mouse in doll clothes sells for?
You want to talk silver lining!