Haven’t used the gas blower yet this year, been using the electric one. This one had been left in the shed and I brought it into the garage to see if it would start up but wasn’t planning on getting to it for a day or two. Someone (not me!) left gas in it.
Well. I’m minding my own business putting up some shelves in the garage and I start hearing a noise. I’ve had issues with wildlife getting trapped in the garage when I close it for the night a couple times recently, so I start moving and tapping on things and muttering to myself about no nature being allowed in the garage without prior permission. Finally I figure out the sound is coming from the leaf blower, and also that it smells a little like mammal excrement.
Set it in the driveway for a little while and lo and behold a lil field mouse popped out of it. Wasn’t fast enough to get a pic of the perpetrator. It has subsequently gone back in when I wasn’t looking!
I’m taking a poll. Do I:
- put it straight back in the shed and ignore it for another year
- post it for free on Craigslist without backstory
- tear it down, clean it up, put it back into service
- just fire it up and let ‘er rip (I wouldn’t)
- leave it in the driveway for a few days and see if the problem conveniently solves itself
My fellow dull dudes, what do?
A less dull but still pretty dull would be to get a no kill trap and put it squarely at the end of the blower in the garage on the floor.
Something like: https://a.co/d/01IjNrTD
I have one in the garage for the same reason. Of course my wife makes me drive down the road to a cow pasture to let him go. She figures he’d just get right back in the garage again. She’s likely right.
She is. You're probably not taking them far enough.
I let one of the little shitting fuckers go from a no kill about a block down the street. It was back in about a half an hour. Not a fan of the diseased little fuckers.
They're mice, not rats.
Fleas carried the plague and I don't think they discriminate between the two