Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
User Journal

Journal FroMan's Journal: Illegal Immigrants 7

Journal by FroMan

It seem like you can't swing a dead cat without hitting someone talking about illegal immigration this last week or two. Personally, I am glad that it is a hot topic, hopefully the congress critters will actually make a plan, something other than amnesty for these lawbreakers.

Today, we had a very real assesment of the problem. We've known that there are a ton of these little buggers running around in our area. But what really surprised us today was we had our own little illegal immigrant in our house.

My wife and I usually walk in our basement for a half hour when we get up for exercise. Well, this morning I heard this scratching noise coming from near the utility room (area) of the basement so I poked around there, finally found the little bugger hiding in the sump crock. Infact, it there were three of them. I suppose they've been living under the house for a while and we didn't even notice. Sure, we've seen signs of them around outside, even in the basement.

Anyways, there will be no amnesty for these little buggers, infact, no social programs, not even a ride to south of the border. I'm just going to kill them and plug the hole. No more illegal immigrants in my basement, period. Sure, I might have to build a fence, I might have to do some inconvient things, spend a little cash to clean up the problem, but it is my home, not theirs.

A mouse trap or two and some peanut butter will take care of these ones. But to keep my family safe it is worth it. My job as the head of the household is to make sure my family is safe, not to be nice to mice.

This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

Illegal Immigrants More

Illegal Immigrants

Comments Filter:
  • Mostly because I have a cat, and if you have a cat, you have cat hair (ALL OVER THE PLACE!!) which smells like cat; meaning the little mice won't even bother going any further than the garage, where there is glue traps and poison set out for them.

    Traps are still empty, and there was a mouse when we moved into the house 5 years ago, but the great black and white hunter Boo took care of that little problem.

    Had a small garden snake somehow get in once... Boo bit it's head off.

    Good kitty....

  • Holy crap do we ever have cat hair! It's all over the place! But the cats are confined upstairs, as the basement is pretty much unfinished and very sawdusty. That means, while our floors will turn gray after too much neglect, the basement stays perfectly cat hair free!

    But, obviously, not mouse free. :(

    This is our third run-in with them since moving in a year and a few months ago. Since we found them swimming around in the sump pump crock, we figure they're actually living under the house via the d
    • What's a basement?

      (I'm kidding, I'm from the North)

      Down in Texas, houses don't have basements because of all the Red Clay. Wreaks havoc on foundations as well, and plants don't grow so well in it.

      I mean, you guys look down at the ground, and the topsoil is usually almost black - good, rich soil. Down here? Rust colored red clay.

      • Actually, on our propery you look at the top 6-8 inches of nice top soil. Then when you try to walk in it you sink up to your waist in clay. When we were building we had a ton of rain after the hole was dug, and had to pump water out constantly. Like every day is wasn't raining from like may 3 - june 25th. Sure, it's not pretty red clay, its mucky boring ol' brown clay.
  • ...to your hate crime, eh? You're just a specist. That's what this is all about. It has nothing to do with invasions, you just hate all mice, don't you! For your crime I hereby sentence you to voluntary reprogr^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsensitivity training that you must attend, whereby you must view no fewer than a dozen episodes of Mighty Mouse, until you learn not to hate mice just because they look different from you.
    ;-)
    • Nah, I like mice. Cute little creatures. Had hamsters when I was younger too. At this point though, mice must live outside though. Or they must atleast apply for visas at the door. This crossing the border nonsense by digging tunnels is just out though. If they want to come in, they have to come in legally.

Slashdot Top Deals

The moon is a planet just like the Earth, only it is even deader.

Close