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I dealt with a soul crushing issue with them about a year ago. The key is you have to realize how small they can squeeze through. I woke up one morning to one in my parakeet cage. Those bars are what, 3/8" across? That's when it clicked that I HAVE to not just seal EVERY ENTRANCE OUTSIDE EVEN REMOTELY POSSIBLE, but think like the mouse...up to three feet above the ground, porches, vents, you name it. They can come over on trees and cables that are over or onto the house. They can dig holes and tunnel for an insane distance and come up through your floor or air vents. I trapped so many I didn't think it possible for that many to exist...but those trails of scent they form become a highway to draw in every mouse for a mile. If you don't stop them from entering, you will never stop them...all the bait and traps in the world will just destroy your sanity. They are coming in foremost for food, but will also come in for shelter. They don't like being seen, so if you can clear up the floor areas in any way possible, that will help, also, you may have to lock up your food or look at your food habits like food left out after dinner. Hell, they can even jump a few inches upwards. They also largely follow walls and things with sides because it helps guide them because of poor eyesight. Best to put traps not too far from corners along ways, preferrably close to the door.
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As someone with a low voice volume, I did a voice test with a local speech pathology program. They had a program that did analysis via mic/computer and it had some interesting ways to analyze the voice. Have you ever used anything like that?
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Real cameraman here. One time on a live shot at a county fair I had the misfortune of being next to a sheep that was laying down...with a prolapsed rectum. I was between broadcasts, but still broadcasting back to the station...so I zoomed in to an extreme closeup of the pink sock and left it there for a good twenty minutes. We were all young and immature, so it was in good fun. I figured if I had to see it in real life, seeing it on a screen wasn't nearly as bad.
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I graduated in 99, and when the cops came to school, you knew someone had seriously fucked up. I can't help but feel that admin and teachers purposefully just kept pushing off responsibility and fearing liability enough that, boom, cops were the answer in school.
Except, I don't feel they are. If you as an adult can't take care of a kid, like thousands of other teachers did before, you should find new work. Hell, the idea of a cop being around all the time just seems like it would weird me out...as a normal person you deal with the cops maybe once a year, and see them maybe daily as they pass by on the road. It's not how life works, and not how I feel it should be. My dad is a cop, and I have a degree in CJ and I just can't wrap my head around this change over the past twenty years.
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How do you feel Little Caesars prepared you for handling the deceased?
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