Five different 
(s) wander by every night, why is this guy here? 
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Why?
- fast
- sneaky
- cute
- paranoid
- if not friend, why friend shaped?
Not friend. Next time I will post about him it will be a photo of the âNot Friend/Petâ taking a permanent nap. 
I like naps!
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After seeing way to many âPetsâ on my Wyze Cams, I decided to provide a place for those âPetsâ to take a permanent Nap:
SJ
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I get one or two a year that usually show up this time of year. I just use a Victor snap trap with almonds as bait. It usually takes a little while but it has always worked,
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I donât hink I will get any pictures of âNot friendâ. He found a rat bait block I had under the front of my 1967 Pontiac and he ate half of it last night. 
I hope he falls dead at home and not in the garage..
That might be worse than letting him live⌠Maybe heâll hide in the walls of your house and decay and bring other fun things into play:)
This video is of my neighborâs cat doing its job
This video not so much.
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Evil little creatures are fast, sneaky and very smart when it comes to survival and evasion . They see like Mr. Magoo but have a excellent sense off smell.
Rodent repellent has had zero effect on them when I tried it.
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The new stuff is not as potent as it used to be, at least here in Ontario. I had a tiny little mouse climbing up the wall in the attic. It took almost two of those blocks to kill it. Brace yourself, he might be back to finish the cake
That has worked surprisingly well for me in the past, especially when using birdseed mixed into bacon grease as bait. Just a small (maybe â âłĂ1Âźâł) strip wrapped around and embedded in the trigger and bait can get stuck in a greedy pestâs teeth and have them tied to the trigger when the little bugger tries to pull away.
Will someone let my cats know that they have âjobsâ please? Also, please clarify that this this doesnât mean bringing âToysâ or âFriendsâ into the house for their buddies to see and play with too.
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Looks like you have overly domesticated your cats. Let them go hungry for couple of days and youâd be surprised what theyâll drag into the house. Iâm just kidding, donât starve your cats to death please 
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Letting them go hungry is too much work.
I seriously just have a big multi-gallon size food dispenser, and I buy a HUGE bag of cat food and just tip it inside of that food dispenser and it just feeds them unlimited food for weeks at a time if not months. None of them overeat or anything because they always know they have unlimited food. Theyâre all healthy weights. I know because I also have an automatic Cat litter robot that weighs them daily and auto-cleans all their litter.
I also have an automatic water bowl that refills itself from house water, so they never run out of water either.
My cats are so low maintenance and NICE loving cats theyâre easy to love. I will never go back to having limited feeding times or amounts that cause them to fight or try to overeat, etc. Too much work anyway.
Actually, all of the above was supposed to be my daughterâs job as an agreement to allow her to have all the catsâŚbut she never did any of it, and it was not good for our relationshipâŚand so rather than me doing all of it all the time, or constantly fighting about it & punishing her nonstop or getting rid of the cats, I just automated the cat care. Much better. Problem solved. Everyoneâs happy. Never going back to the other way.
Mine assigns his own own tasks, like âassistingâ me with folding laundry by holding the clean items down so they donât go anywhere. Apparently this is taxing work that requires frequent naps on sunny window ledges. Poor bastard.
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Humans are the only animals that overeat
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Sometimes makes you wish you are cat
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This is one reason to consider not using poison to go after rats and mice, the neighbors cat will potentially be poisoned if they eat that poisoned rat.
Where I live, domestic catâs rarely are seen, as we have coyoteâs, so it would be the coyoteâs that suffer from the poisoned rats and mice that they consume, when they find the dead vermin.
Watching (on my Wyze Cams) Coyotes suffer from mange due to their immune systems being compromised by the poison they have indirectly consumed, is hard to watch. It is a slow and painful death for them. Not sure of the effect on domestic cats (as compared to what it does to coyotes.)
Thatâs why I prefer the non-poisonous âcatch and releaseâ
Catch:
Release:
Iâm surprised with the multiple cameraâs I have outside (well⌠used to until the WCOâs became useless with the forced 1 minute cooldown), that I have never recorded video of a Coyote actually catching one of these vermin, other than the dead rat I offered up to it like this.
I like this method, because I donât have to touch the mouse in anyway, and the coyote gets a free snack.
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I havenât tried those kinds of traps but several years ago cleaned up a mouse problem over the course of a week or so with the traditional Victor snap traps and the bait with gauze that I mentioned above.
Iâm giving my cat credit for one kill, because I found him in a room in the basement, stretched out on his side, just lounging with a dead mouse on the floor in front of him. I was so proud! Heâd been practicing his hunting skills with toys since he was a kitten, and I know he was agitated by hearing the scurrying feet in the ceiling. I donât know how he managed to snag this one, but Iâm glad he did.
All of the victims (somewhere in the 15-20 range, IIRC) were deposited in the alley behind the house and disappeared in short order. I didnât have any Wyze Cams at the time, so no retrieval was captured. I assumed that the free snacks were attracting neighborhood cats and imagined that the recruitment also helped to reduce the local mice population. Win-win!
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