Rather a Ferret, actually.
My girlfriend keeps an immaculate home (I don't). Unfortunately she lives next to an open field and has had a mouse invasion. Apparently they're now in their second generation and despite traps and glue boards, she's only taken a portion of these nasty destructive beasts out.
I've seen YouTubes of ferret meets mouse and I suspect these things would get the word out in a big hurry that her place is not safe territory. All I know about ferrets is that I had a criminal class family living across the street about 30+ years ago. Daddy was in prison for murder and mom was shacked up with a usurper. Used to give their three and four year old children ferrets and butane lighters for Christmas. The ferret would run away and crawl into a crack under my entry way. Had to get on my hands and knees and pull it out when it would escape (probably for good reason). Never got bit or scratched.
When I Google rent a ferret, all I get is landlord advice on renting to ferret owners.
If there's any better ideas out there than noise makers, essential oils, Irish Spring, etc. feel free to come up with other out of the box suggestions. Haven't tried the put a dowel coated with peanut butter through a bucket filled with water yet but heard that suggestion. Glue boards do get some action, but those buggers do know how to reproduce rapidly and she doesn't want a third generation popping up.
I'm retired and have no interest in getting back into business, but a rental ferret business is one of my few creative ideas in the past decade. I'm sure there would be regulatory impediments to doing this but I still think I may have come across a rare good idea. Maybe there's a St. Louis ferret club that I could contact.
My girlfriend keeps an immaculate home (I don't). Unfortunately she lives next to an open field and has had a mouse invasion. Apparently they're now in their second generation and despite traps and glue boards, she's only taken a portion of these nasty destructive beasts out.
I've seen YouTubes of ferret meets mouse and I suspect these things would get the word out in a big hurry that her place is not safe territory. All I know about ferrets is that I had a criminal class family living across the street about 30+ years ago. Daddy was in prison for murder and mom was shacked up with a usurper. Used to give their three and four year old children ferrets and butane lighters for Christmas. The ferret would run away and crawl into a crack under my entry way. Had to get on my hands and knees and pull it out when it would escape (probably for good reason). Never got bit or scratched.
When I Google rent a ferret, all I get is landlord advice on renting to ferret owners.
If there's any better ideas out there than noise makers, essential oils, Irish Spring, etc. feel free to come up with other out of the box suggestions. Haven't tried the put a dowel coated with peanut butter through a bucket filled with water yet but heard that suggestion. Glue boards do get some action, but those buggers do know how to reproduce rapidly and she doesn't want a third generation popping up.
I'm retired and have no interest in getting back into business, but a rental ferret business is one of my few creative ideas in the past decade. I'm sure there would be regulatory impediments to doing this but I still think I may have come across a rare good idea. Maybe there's a St. Louis ferret club that I could contact.
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