Grumpy Old Man
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@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
Fucker likes to eat them in the bedroom while I'm asleep [crunch - crunch]
One of ours likes bats.....
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@Victor-Meldrew COVID
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@dogmeat bloody wasps!
We've been lucky with them, I see the odd little paperwasp nest and I destroy it.
Have had a couple of bigger ones when I lived in town, got stung several times, but I won in the end!
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@dogmeat Almost identical stories. Cat does the same. The sound of a cat crunching on rats ain't cool. Amazing how surgical he is, eats the whole thing except a small little pile of entrails of some description. I haven't bothered to analyse what he doesn't eat.
Same story with the wasps - had a massive german wasp nest in the ceiling of the bach. Looked like something alien:
I was actually really lucky that the wife heard them in the morning (quite loud) as I was going up into the ceiling to install insulation that day and the access is difficult. Being in a confined space with thousands of those aggresive bastards still creeps me out. Would probably have been fatal. I could have doid some might say.
Neighbour set the hillside on fire a while back dealing to an in ground wasp nest. The panic was actually pretty funny.
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@taniwharugby I reroofed my place 20 years ago. Got two shocks when I lifted the iron. Most worryingly there was a gap of about 600 mm in the middle of the main apex roof beam with a pile of charcoal on the ceiling in between two charred stump ends.
Impressively there was also a 4 sq metre paper wasp nest (abandoned) Bastards had built it right to the roof to the extent that the top of it had the contours of the corrugated iron.
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@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
I see the odd little paperwasp nest and I destroy it.
Gotta do that in the evening apparently when they are actually in there, otherwise they just start again. Pricks.
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@Snowy said in Grumpy Old Man:
eats the whole thing except a small little pile of entrails of some description. I haven't bothered to analyse what he doesn't eat.
Think its liver and intestine ....
I'm always surprised fat Mac can a) move fast enough to catch anything and b) can get them through the cat flap. I already had a cat flap when he joined the household but he destroyed it. Had to replace it with one for a small dog.
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@Snowy said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
We had that a few years back too. Our then cat - lethal little bastard - sorted them out one evening.
We barely have to feed our cat:
Not actually him (but identical). Rats, mice, and rabbits are too scared to come anywhere near our place with him around. So he goes and finds them and kindly brings them in to show off. Known as Mark Dennis (as in Dark Menace).
Rats are sorted -now I could start on fucking wasps...
That's got me started on cats, or more specifically my cat or more specifically the cat I got as a package deal when my girlfriend moved in. Now I'm generally a cat person. Like them much more than dogs. But this ginger cünt is driving me insane.
I don't know whether he has abandonment issues or is just the cat version of a goldfish. But every morning at 4am without fail, the ginga prick comes in through his cat flap and starts meowing like a mad man. Why? He has food and we're of course where we always are, i.e. farking sleeping. But he does it every single bloody day. Wakes the dead then jumps on our bed and goes to sleep.
And the cat flap. The stupid båstard looks like he's about to pass through a portal to another dimension. He's been through it hundreds of times, yet he still looks like a terrified version of Kurt Russell in Stargate. And despite being able to come and go at will, most of the time he still meows at the door to be let in. Which I don't.
Stupid ginger cünt.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel Yep. Mark Dennis does the "wake you up at 4am" thing. Usually announcing that he has caught something and is going to munch on it before lying on top of me for a nap and leave some gross innards on the floor next to the bed for me to stand on when I get up in the morning with bare feet.
We had a ginger guy that we had for 18 years (was in Hong Kong with us, then NZ). Was the most obnoxious grumpy animal I have ever met. Just attitude plus. Loved the bugger.
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@Snowy isnt the evening when they are more active?
Anyway, are usually a few and larvae in it when I destroy it, but when I get them only about half a dozen or so of thier little cells.
The big nest I found had a single entrance to the hole of hell (was maybe 1 cubic foot in size underground) so was easy as I just jammed a coke bottle full of petrol down the hole and left it to kill them all.
As for our kittens (18 months old) they get locked in the garage at night (Mrs TR doesnt like them being out at night due to more likely to get in fights or get hit on the road) because if we leave them roaming the house, she be party time!!
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@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
As for our kittens (18 months old) they get locked in the garage at night (Mrs TR doesnt like them being out at night due to more likely to get in fights or get hit on the road or kill local native species like the hate-filled little arseholes they are
Fixed.
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@NTA that too...although one has a bell when she is outside, the other manages to slip it off so we dont bother putting his on.
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@taniwharugby Nah, less active.
*"The best way to get rid of the paper wasp nests was to douse them in fly spray in the evening, when the paper wasps are less active and less likely to sting.
"[It's also] quite possible to just simply put a plastic bag over [the nest], pick it up and put it in the freezer and freeze them.'*
Like the idea of freezing the fluffybunnies though.
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@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA that too...although one has a bell when she is outside, the other manages to slip it off so we dont bother putting his on.
Cat owner once proudly told me their cat learned to stalk silently with a bell.
I called her a fluffybunny.
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
As for our kittens (18 months old) they get locked in the garage at night (Mrs TR doesnt like them being out at night due to more likely to get in fights or get hit on the road or kill local native species like the hate-filled little arseholes they are
Fixed.
Our native rabbits and mice? We do have a native rat. Getting rid of the rodents is generally beneficial to bird populations. Got to have the right cat though.
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@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew COVID
Cats. Hate the fuckers.
Good to see that the consent for a new subdivision in Hamilton included that property sales must include a caveat that banned cats. (this was because it was a bat colony area. One cat can easily kill 100 bats a night)
