We had a friend who lived in an old farmhouse, we called the place the "carrot farm" as they (the owners) tried to grow carrots there at one time. He lived alone and wasn't home very often, so guess what? The mice moved in. He had a name for all of them - "Pixie" and "Dixie" from the cartoons. His dad came to visit one time, set a bunch of traps in the kitchen, grabbed a beer and went to sit in the livingroom and heard "snap" "snap" "snap" "snap" so all of his traps were full and so he started all over. Still didn't make much headway over the Pixies and the Dixies of the world.
We were at the Carrot farm one Sunday afternoon, drinking beer, and our friend who lived there with Pixie and Dixie had kitchen drain problems. He decided to try M-80's to clear out his kitchen drain. He put some water in the sink, lit and held an M-80 till the fuse was short, dropped it down the drain, we turned our backs and ran. It WORKED!!!
Also remember the year we had chipmunks. They were everywhere, running across the top rails of the fences, and we thought they were so cute. Welllllll, went to move bales out of the field, air conditioning didn't work and the fan hardly blew and the air smelled like mold. Started investigating and the little "cute" buggers had stashed all the whole corn they possible could (came out of our grain bin) in the space where the fan was. Cleaned it out, next day they did it again. Not only that, the holes in the posts where the gate latches fit into the posts were filled with whole corn. They had it stashed everywhere!! Son decided to catch one, put it in a cage, wifey was not happy about keeping the darn thing in the house as she just purchased a brand new sectional couch. Welllllll, one morning wifey hears "chang" "chang" "chang" "chang" (the noise of chipmunks) sitting on the windowsill. Wellll, wifey was very unhappy as she proceeded to tell us that chipmunks are burrowing animals and if that little bugger made a hole in her new couch.... wellll, guess what? He made himself right at home in that nice, brand new couch. That's how we caught it. I felt bad so I sewed the hole shut myself.
