Until the existence of ROUS is proven, I’d rather get rid of snakes. Anacondas can swallow a man whole. Pythons just strangle and crush your ribs. There’s also the classic venom.
Snakes in general avoid you though. Rats, not so much. Little bastards will gnaw your toes off at night.
You’ve obviously never been on a plane with them.
Timex
3020
My thought when it comes to things like snakes (or predatory insects), is that things like rodents will fuck my house up.
Snakes and predatory insects will generally just eat the things that want to fuck my house up, so they’re like natural pesticide.
RichVR
3021
Rats find the insulation on wires to be very tasty. Wouldn’t want one on my plane.
According to this article (A plumber found envolopes of cash and checks behind a loose toilet in Joel Osteen's Houston mega-church - CNN), the stash was part of a 2014 theft at the church. $600,000 worth of cash and checks from two days worth of donations. It’s crazy how much the church must rake in on an annual basis.
When it was starting to get really cold a few weeks back, I went down to my basement and found a medium-sized little black snake hanging out on the carpet. My initial thought was that it must be a rubber snake prank my wife pulled or something but then it started slithering across the room. This was a surprising and unwelcome development.
(Please forgive the dust-bunny clump of dog hair. I have since vacuumed.)
It didn’t occur to me to smoke him out or set my house on fire. Instead, I put on some gloves and easily picked him up inside a paper towel. Then I carried him out near the mailbox and dropped him in the bushes. Hopefully he’s still out there somewhere living his best snake life.
LOL! Hey, he’s gotta figure out that mother nature shit on his own, what can I say??
Well, when you look at the man’s house, it seems like chump change:
No doubt living the life of a humble servant of God.
In my lifetime I might be able to afford this much of that house:
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."
Upbringing’s funny thing. Tedious and stodgy, socially regressive, yes. Ontologically insufficient - absolutely. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland is a lot of things, and one of those is 100% not being for me.
But show me a white evangelical mega-church, and swiftly as:
I’ll go: “that’s heresy”
I know the thing I rejected, and this is not it - I mean, I don’t like it, but at least I respected it enough to explicitly reject it.
Don’t you, like, have cats in that continent? Although one of my neighbor cats (sic) is just as likely to leave me birds as to leave me mice. Poor birds.
RichVR
3030
I believe that he did. Your basement was his choice. Warm and perhaps enough to eat. And you threw him out into the cold. I’m calling PETA. :D
Timex
3031
Yeah, cats do that job too, although snakes can get ones the cats can’t.
KevinC
3033
Given the view of the mountains, the mink guy must not live terribly far from me. Good to know if I ever have a thousand rats that need removal!
As much as it was about the mink, the dogs were responsible for the vast majority of the rats. It was interesting to see how the small terrier killed them by shaking and breaking the necks while the Lab and Rottweiler killed by just crushing them in their jaws.
My Dad has a small Schnauzer mix, and this is his squeaky toy behavior: gripping the squeaky toy and shaking it violently while it screams.
I have two terriers (Border Terrier-ish mutt and a Jack Russel-ish mutt) and they both love to do that shaking thing whenever they can get someone to play tug of war with them. Watching that video it was obvious why they do it. Kinda cool!
