#42

My actual worst nightmare

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#43

This thread has put the fear into me. Rats and mice can do one. Goes back to when I was a child and I put my hand in a hole in a wall to retrieve a tennis ball and I pulled out a dead mouse. My fingers in its rotting carcass.

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#44

Keeping going, don’t stop.

#46

Fleas when I first rescued the cat but as a pretty quick fix (although did have to do a second round after they reappeared about 3 months later - only a few and got rid of them sharpish though, permanently.

Other than that the things I get the most of are spiders. Hardly in infestation though, and they stop flies etc anyway so I try and keep the odd one around until B notices them and makes me get rid.

#47

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#48

One of the highlights of every summer in my house is dealing with ant infestations. We have a routine down now but the first summer we had them was properly grim. My housemate and I had accidentally broken a hole into a cavity wall in the winter when moving appliances and we thought nothing of it.

Cut to July and the kitchen is swarming with ants. No idea where they were coming from until one day I had a brainwave and pulled out the fridge. Thousands of ants behind the fridge and kitchen units. Pushed the fridge back in, went to our local DIY store and spent big on ant spray. Got masks and disposable overalls, threw on some Black Flag and got to work along with my housemate fucking the bastards up. A satisfying but horrible job.

Had a bit of trouble with them in summer 2017 but we’re old hands at it now. The hole still isn’t sealed but the landlord is doing work next month and he’ll be fixing it, meaning that the problem will be over!

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#49

Yep, we’ve only ever seen one mouse in the house and it was when I spotted Toccata killing it. Good kitty.

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#50

Where I grew up, we used to have loads of voles (similar to field mice) in the surrounding fields, which proved great sport for our cats. One of the cats decided to start storing them in the shoes which we kept in our back porch, meaning that if you forgot to check your shoes before putting them on you were liable to thrust your foot straight into a rotting vole. One wintertime I pulled on my snowboots, having probably not worn them for the previous 9 months, and felt some fairly serious resistance. Turning my boot upside down saw about 15 desicated vole carcasses come tumbling out. Proper Indiana Jones film type stuff. Thanks Sooty, you feline killing machine :+1:

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#51

liking this but I don’t like it really, not at all

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#52

Brilliant stuff.

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#53

When my brother lived at home he used to leave his shoes in the hall and the cat used to put cat toys in them. One day he got bitten by a live (obviously) mouse that the cat had decided to store in the shoe he was putting on

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