Rats are everywhere, no matter in the city or in the countryside, they are annoying everywhere.
When I was a child, I didn't think mice were hateful, but I thought they loved to steal food. In the 1970s and 1980s, rural areas were all houses with earthen walls and tiled roofs, and the harvested grain was dried and stored in attics built with wooden boards. For mice, they can go in and out of attics extending in all directions at will. At night, mice are often heard chirping upstairs to steal food. In order to prevent mice from stealing food, the best way is to keep a cat. At that time, cats loved to catch mice, so mice were particularly afraid of cats. Our cat is very hardworking. During the day, it sleeps curled up by the fire. At night, it goes to the attic to be on duty. Mom said that our cat has a fishy smell (meaning that it has a murderous look at mice without anger and arrogance, right? ), as long as it lies in the attic without making any noise, the mouse will never come to the attic. It is said that the dog looks after the house, and there is also a food cat in our house.
When I was a child, on the 16th day of the first month every year, I always heard rats chirping and crawling around on the roof in groups. Strangely, the cat slept soundly at the mouth of the stove that night. I asked my mother why. Mother said that the 16th day of the first month of every year is the day when mice marry their daughters. They are seeing their relatives off. I see. At the moment, cats also have a warm side. Be tolerant of mice tonight.
In addition to stealing food from home, mice also like to dig sweet potatoes in the fields to eat. In order to catch mice in the fields, rural people have a stupid way, dirt. They find a flat stone with a size of 30-40 cm, support one end of the stone with a wooden stick, make the stone, the wooden stick and the ground form a triangle with a small angle, and then put some millet or corn food under the stone to lure greedy mice. As long as the mouse gets under the stone to eat, it is possible for it to touch the stick. If the stick is tilted, the stone will fall and press the mouse under it. In fact, the success rate of this method of catching mice is not high. I've used it before. I go to the fields with great expectation every morning to see if I catch any mice. However, every day is a whim and disappointment. The grain was eaten up, and it was put again and again, but the stone remained there. Rats are not stupid. They must have seen through people's tricks and ate their food carefully, never touching the deadly stick.
When my daughter was a child, she went back to her grandmother's house. At night, she heard mice chirping and running around on the eaves, so she was too scared to sleep. She always asked the mice if they would climb into bed. I asked my mother why she didn't have a cat. Mom says it's no use raising them. Now cats don't catch mice, so at night, mice run around unscrupulously. In the past few months, I was poor and couldn't eat a meal of meat. I fed the cat vegetable soup and soaked rice. Without oil and water, cats can only catch mice to satisfy their hunger. Now that life is good, rural people can eat meat every day. The cat eats the bones under the table every day. It is fat and strong. Who wants to catch mice in the middle of the night? How comfortable it is to sleep.
The mice downstairs are much bigger than the rural mice I have seen before. They are all very fat, and the biggest estimate is that they will weigh half a catty. Leftovers in trash cans and sewers downstairs are their food sources. They don't worry about eating and drinking, and their lives are quite moist. So they never touch the poisoned millet, and the rat poison is put again and again, but no mouse will be killed by the medicine. Rats have long known that things like that can't be touched. Isn't there any other way for humans to deal with mice?
I just wonder, in today's highly developed science, why doesn't human beings have a good way to deal with a mouse? Then I searched the internet and said that the intelligence of mice is beyond our imagination, and the intelligence maturity seems to be comparable to ours. They are very clever and mysterious, almost similar to humans. No wonder it is not easy to deal with a species of equal intelligence. It seems that human beings still have a long way to go on the road of killing rats!