debodun
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- way upstate in New York, USA
For almost a week, I was playing peek-a-boo with a house spider that had taken up residence in the kitchen sink.
I have a double sink and it was in the left basin that I don't use much only to store bottles of dish detergent, liquid hand soap and scouring powder. Whenever I peeked over the sink, I'd see it and it would scurry back down the drain.
I put a clear pint-sized container over the drain hoping it would climb up in and then I could take it outside where it belonged. No luck with that method. People I told about it thought I was crazy to care about a spider, but hey, I believe every living thing has it's place in the environment (except maybe house flies and mosquitoes). Everyone said they would have just filled the sink with water and "bye bye" spider. Yesterday I was determined to help it out, so I removed the plastic container and ran water in the right sink. Up popped the spider (the drains are connected underneath) and I quickly placed the container over it when it wasn't near the drain hole and waited a few minutes. Sure enough, it had climbed up in the container and had even started making a little web. I escorted it outside and shook it out in the bushes. Now it can go about its spidery business.
Earlier in the week, I had seen "evidence" of a mouse in the kitchen (good thing I keep everything but canned food in the fridge). I set my tilt trap, but the first night didn't catch it using cheese for bait. The next night I used peanut butter and in the morning there was a fat mouse in the trash can.
I took the can with the mouse in it out to the car and took it for a ride out in the country. I put the can down and tipped it down. Usually when I do, the mouse scoots out so quickly that it's just a blur. No mouse came out. I looked in the can to make sure it hadn't jumped out. It was there all right, so I tipped the can down again. No mouse, so I just up-ended the can. The mouse flopped out and didn't move. It was dead. I am still trying to figure this out. I've captured other mice in my self-designed humane trap and none had died. Could the car ride have traumatized it that much?
I have a double sink and it was in the left basin that I don't use much only to store bottles of dish detergent, liquid hand soap and scouring powder. Whenever I peeked over the sink, I'd see it and it would scurry back down the drain.
I put a clear pint-sized container over the drain hoping it would climb up in and then I could take it outside where it belonged. No luck with that method. People I told about it thought I was crazy to care about a spider, but hey, I believe every living thing has it's place in the environment (except maybe house flies and mosquitoes). Everyone said they would have just filled the sink with water and "bye bye" spider. Yesterday I was determined to help it out, so I removed the plastic container and ran water in the right sink. Up popped the spider (the drains are connected underneath) and I quickly placed the container over it when it wasn't near the drain hole and waited a few minutes. Sure enough, it had climbed up in the container and had even started making a little web. I escorted it outside and shook it out in the bushes. Now it can go about its spidery business.
Earlier in the week, I had seen "evidence" of a mouse in the kitchen (good thing I keep everything but canned food in the fridge). I set my tilt trap, but the first night didn't catch it using cheese for bait. The next night I used peanut butter and in the morning there was a fat mouse in the trash can.
I took the can with the mouse in it out to the car and took it for a ride out in the country. I put the can down and tipped it down. Usually when I do, the mouse scoots out so quickly that it's just a blur. No mouse came out. I looked in the can to make sure it hadn't jumped out. It was there all right, so I tipped the can down again. No mouse, so I just up-ended the can. The mouse flopped out and didn't move. It was dead. I am still trying to figure this out. I've captured other mice in my self-designed humane trap and none had died. Could the car ride have traumatized it that much?
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