basement
Posted By: not exactly on 2008-12-02
In Reply to: Does anyone not have an office? - jss
Corner of the basement next to the gas fireplace. No one is allowed in the basement when I am working. I am pretty spoiled, but I upgraded from the closet.
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In the basement.
I keep a large rug under it now and a shop vac near by for easy clean up. I used to keep it in my laundry room too and had a large cardboard box with 1 side cut out and taller than the box to catch, as my kitty is messy too. WHen she was little I used a ferret box that has the back side higher than the front and the sides taper down. That worked really well, but I decided to get an automatic scooper.
in the basement
They are both the covered kind, which helps with the mess, but litter still gets tracked out on their feet. But the floor is concrete, so it's easily swept up.
We have a barrel of bird seed that we keep in the basement.
A few years ago, when the contents got low, we found a 3-legged mouse trapped in there. The seed was low enough that he could not jump back out. Well, having had kept mice in the past (pet store varities) I put thick gloves on, caught him and set him up in a nice cage with all the stuff mice like. I would hold him every day and sign Micky, Micky Bo Bicky, banana fana fo ficky....and so on. Every day. But after two weeks I realized that he was not enjoying it. So, 3 legs and all, I took him out to our bottom field and let him loose. He ran and skipped to the closest tree and climbed that tree up about 15 feet. He then sat an a branch and gave me the evil eye. Didn't know he could do all that with just 3 legs.
Well, a few weeks later, guess who was back in the barrel? I got the heavy gloves out and went to reach for him, he FLEW up my hand, arm, jumped 15' across the room and ran under the door to freedom. Guess he really did have enough of my singing. Never saw him again. (was definitely him cause you can't miss noticing a 3-legged mouse). Oh well...
I used Raid foggers in my attic and in my basement. sm
But not in my living area, just above and below. They magically disappeared. I also used them above my false ceilings cause I saw the little buggers coming of a teeny tiny little space in the ceiling tile where the light sits. Haven't had any problems since.
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