the first one I caught I let go
they don't stay gone unless you can block the entrance.
usually they go under the basement door or where there are cut outs for plumbing, like under a sink and behind the stove.
shove steel wool or tin foil in all the holes then cover them with duct tape so you can see if they make a new hole.
They climb power cords so I wrapped duct tape [sticky side out] around the cords.
I used a tall garbage can, let the cord for the iron hang down inside it and baited it with sweet chocolate powder and dry cat food.
Pretty soon, they found it and I sneak in
.. see the cord is moving .. I grab it and fling them off, trapping them in the tall can.
Once I laid newspaper across the open top when
they went for the chocolate powder it gave way and "Plunk" to the bottom he went!
Put a small box or a bottle in the can [they go into the small place for protection]
there was one big mean one who terrorized this small male.
I found the small one dead inside the box & the big one got away to the outside.
now there are five.
they come out and run in the wheel, sometimes 4 at a time!
I think that when I let them go I will have to create a safe place for their wheel
they may prefer not to be caged but I think they will miss the wheel; I'd love to have a web cam on them!
They are very expressive. when the cat was looking in at them, one was huddled with another who looked like it was praying!
I want to release them in a safe place but where?!
I thought I found all the entrance ways but there is still at least one loose in the house.
it is making me want to kill it, rather than have it's shit and piss everywhere.
I had mice, hamsters, rats, a guina pig, snakes, neuts, toads ..
Mom called it "the menagerie"
they didn't get me a dog till I was almost 10.
I craved to be around horses but I only got that a week or two out of the year
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parents .. they can sure be a drag.
I miss mine but not at the cost of my freedom I have now that they are dead.
my mother faught getting a pool too!
some of the best fun I had was with my ten dogs in our own pool.
I am not looking forward to moving back there.
I will be hearing my mother's voice scolding me for the mess.