re: #18 ckkatz

When faced with outside critters that are visiting areas I would prefer that they do not, my first step is to spread some moth crystals. This has included skunks under a porch and wasps in my mailbox.

I remember working summers at the Boy Scout Camp in Tionesta and watching farmers and locals spend their weekend afternoons shooting the groundhogs digging up their fields and pastures. I would suspect that this is probably not a good plan, though for under somebody’s front porch.

In terms of mice in the house, most recently, out of curiosity, I conducted an experiment by trying one package each of the major mousetrap traps available locally.

At the end of the infestation, multiple different poison bait traps probably accounted for one, Tomcat brand snap traps got the remaining 7. All of the clever and humane traps that I set out got exactly zero.

Tionesta is a nice place. All along that area. The drive from here where I am to Tionesta is a nice ride (in summer, not winter). It is about 60 miles from where I sit to there. You leave here in the foothills and it is steady climbing up and down gradually growing rock walls. My cousins went to Franklin schools, which is about half way from here to Tionesta. My little sisters husband grew up around Warren and we would get away and head up there to party years ago.