Anonymous
06/16/2025 18:14
Subject: Home Depot aka “Mouse Depot” - (Westlake) Bethesda, MD
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Aren’t the garden sections of home improvement stores outside, or basically outside/right by the entrances? It’s no surprise there’s mice. They need to get a few cats!
A terrier dog or even a snake would be preferrable to a dirty diseased cat. Toxoplasmosis.
You are deranged.
Cats are infinitely cleaner than dogs. And most mice avoid areas with cats, based on scent alone. The hunting is just bonus w/ cats.
There's a reason why Bodega cats are a thing - it's function, not just cuteness. Lots of stores need to have a couple of work-cats on hand.
That's ummmmmm really not true. Perhaps the toxoplasmosis talking there?
I've never seen a cat eat its own poop, or another cat's poop, or any random shiit you find outside.
Anonymous
06/16/2025 18:09
Subject: Home Depot aka “Mouse Depot” - (Westlake) Bethesda, MD
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Aren’t the garden sections of home improvement stores outside, or basically outside/right by the entrances? It’s no surprise there’s mice. They need to get a few cats!
A terrier dog or even a snake would be preferrable to a dirty diseased cat. Toxoplasmosis.
You are deranged.
Cats are infinitely cleaner than dogs. And most mice avoid areas with cats, based on scent alone. The hunting is just bonus w/ cats.
There's a reason why Bodega cats are a thing - it's function, not just cuteness. Lots of stores need to have a couple of work-cats on hand.
That's ummmmmm really not true. Perhaps the toxoplasmosis talking there?
Anonymous
06/16/2025 17:59
Subject: Home Depot aka “Mouse Depot” - (Westlake) Bethesda, MD
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Aren’t the garden sections of home improvement stores outside, or basically outside/right by the entrances? It’s no surprise there’s mice. They need to get a few cats!
A terrier dog or even a snake would be preferrable to a dirty diseased cat. Toxoplasmosis.
You are deranged.
Cats are infinitely cleaner than dogs. And most mice avoid areas with cats, based on scent alone. The hunting is just bonus w/ cats.
There's a reason why Bodega cats are a thing - it's function, not just cuteness. Lots of stores need to have a couple of work-cats on hand.
Anonymous
06/16/2025 16:03
Subject: Home Depot aka “Mouse Depot” - (Westlake) Bethesda, MD
It's home Depot, they are probably attracted to the outdoor birdseed. Doesn't bother me that much, as long as they are trying to do something to control the population.
Anonymous
06/16/2025 15:59
Subject: Home Depot aka “Mouse Depot” - (Westlake) Bethesda, MD
Anonymous
06/16/2025 15:57
Subject: Re:Home Depot aka “Mouse Depot” - (Westlake) Bethesda, MD
Anonymous wrote:Our cat was born at Home Depot. Apparently the mom cat lived there and the employees cared for her.
This was not the Bethesda Westlake location.
There is a county program where businesses can foster/adopt cats that aren’t suitable as inside only family pets. My local garden center has 4. The business creates a suitable home for them (shelter, litter, food) and the cats earn their keep by managing the rodents.
Perhaps suggest this to the manager there.
Anonymous
06/16/2025 15:44
Subject: Home Depot aka “Mouse Depot” - (Westlake) Bethesda, MD
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Eg, I wouldn’t flip over this. It’s Home Depot not a restaurant. Also dc worked in retail awhile few years ago, and because of people flipping out about toxicity and chemicals, it seems that it’s become harder for retail businesses to use remedies that actually kill pests in places where consumers shop. That’s the irony. People get hysterical over pests, but also hysterical over things needed to kill them.
Which do you want?
People do forget that bed bugs were essentially eradicated in the US up until sometime in the early 2000s. Now they’re everywhere because of chemophobic attitudes.
Right. Like acc to my dc, they couldn’t use anything but sticky fly paper and water and vinegar traps to kill flies, even if the food was put away/covered while bombing or whatever they could have used.
But then people flip if they see pests.
Anonymous
06/16/2025 15:37
Subject: Home Depot aka “Mouse Depot” - (Westlake) Bethesda, MD
Anonymous wrote:I had mice recently in my house. What a frigging disaster. For my 2500 square foot house, I must have about 15 position stations inside and 6 outside. Got rid of them. They could do it at Home Depot too but it would take a ton of poison.
The poison dehydrates their brains and they start running like crazy looking for water. They eventually die dried out and turn to dust. So there isn't much smell or lingering dead bodies.
Can you tell me what you used?
Anonymous
06/16/2025 12:26
Subject: Home Depot aka “Mouse Depot” - (Westlake) Bethesda, MD
It’s the grass seed. Rats and mice live all over every home depot location. Birds are inside of the mall as well. Birds fly around inside of grocery stores.
Anonymous
06/16/2025 10:48
Subject: Home Depot aka “Mouse Depot” - (Westlake) Bethesda, MD
I saw a rat at Safeway in Kensington. Yuk.
Anonymous
06/16/2025 10:47
Subject: Re:Home Depot aka “Mouse Depot” - (Westlake) Bethesda, MD
Our cat was born at Home Depot. Apparently the mom cat lived there and the employees cared for her.
This was not the Bethesda Westlake location.
This was not the Bethesda Westlake location.
Anonymous
06/16/2025 10:41
Subject: Home Depot aka “Mouse Depot” - (Westlake) Bethesda, MD
I had mice recently in my house. What a frigging disaster. For my 2500 square foot house, I must have about 15 position stations inside and 6 outside. Got rid of them. They could do it at Home Depot too but it would take a ton of poison.
The poison dehydrates their brains and they start running like crazy looking for water. They eventually die dried out and turn to dust. So there isn't much smell or lingering dead bodies.
The poison dehydrates their brains and they start running like crazy looking for water. They eventually die dried out and turn to dust. So there isn't much smell or lingering dead bodies.
Anonymous
06/16/2025 08:22
Subject: Home Depot aka “Mouse Depot” - (Westlake) Bethesda, MD
Anonymous wrote:Eg, I wouldn’t flip over this. It’s Home Depot not a restaurant. Also dc worked in retail awhile few years ago, and because of people flipping out about toxicity and chemicals, it seems that it’s become harder for retail businesses to use remedies that actually kill pests in places where consumers shop. That’s the irony. People get hysterical over pests, but also hysterical over things needed to kill them.
Which do you want?
People do forget that bed bugs were essentially eradicated in the US up until sometime in the early 2000s. Now they’re everywhere because of chemophobic attitudes.
Anonymous
06/16/2025 05:06
Subject: Home Depot aka “Mouse Depot” - (Westlake) Bethesda, MD
Eg, I wouldn’t flip over this. It’s Home Depot not a restaurant. Also dc worked in retail awhile few years ago, and because of people flipping out about toxicity and chemicals, it seems that it’s become harder for retail businesses to use remedies that actually kill pests in places where consumers shop. That’s the irony. People get hysterical over pests, but also hysterical over things needed to kill them.
Which do you want?
Which do you want?
Anonymous
06/16/2025 04:21
Subject: Home Depot aka “Mouse Depot” - (Westlake) Bethesda, MD
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Aren’t the garden sections of home improvement stores outside, or basically outside/right by the entrances? It’s no surprise there’s mice. They need to get a few cats!
A terrier dog or even a snake would be preferrable to a dirty diseased cat. Toxoplasmosis.
Great advice. Let about 5 Pit Bulls & about 10 of those Florida pythons loose in every Home Depot. Mouse problem would disappear quickly, & most customers would be happy.
I am going to suggest just snakes. Dogs are considered dirty by some, so we want to create a welcoming environment.