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The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: 2005 Mar. ~ 2005 May: HELP!!! I have a MOUSE in my apartment!!!!: Archive through February 13, 2005 users admin

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Reader234
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08-13-2000

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 1:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
jujumouse?

mouse

and dd is sitting next to me looking at jujumouse, and she said... be careful with that poor mouse, you know its part of the rodent family, so its related to my guinea pigs! (just what I need a sympathetic 8yr old, I hope I never encounter one in my house!)

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 3:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You hope you never encounter a sympathetic 8-year old?!!

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 3:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
No, earlier in the thread, I said I would NOT call it jujmouse, because I may bring harm to it, and I didn't want it to be an effigy of juju.

It's name is Dubyamouse. It isn't touching the traps. Mind you, I only have two. Perhaps I should buy more, and just line the entire wall with them.



Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 3:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It appears that Dubyamouse is smarter than you think!

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 3:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here Kitty Kitty!

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 4:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Julieboo.....I would SOOOOO love to have a kitty, but I'm not an equal opportunity pet lover. If I had a dog (a puggly wuggly), I would tame my lifestyle for it, not got away to Victoria ever, etc. But a cat...while I'd like to have one when I'm AROUND, I wouldn't want to stay home for a cat. But I don't really have any friends who live in town, so I couldn't find anyone to feed it and clean up after it whenever I went away.

But I LOVE cats. Just not enough to have one of my own, and treat it the way a pet deserves to be treated.

What I NEED, is someone who will let ME watch THEIR cats for the weekend every so often. Like...a joint custody pet. That would work. lol.

Rslover
Member

11-19-2002

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 4:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
EL,
Dubyamouse - Perfect! Nah, that dumb critter will show his true colors soon enough. He's just not that hungry yet. LOL. Two traps doesn't sound like enough. What about those huge butterfly nets? Just scoop it up. (I'm not kidding). You seem to get close enough to snap photos.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 5:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
And you can try duct tape, too, if you're brave enough to slap at him that way.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 6:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dubya is an excellent name for a mousie who may not be long for this world.

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 6:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Vee what would I do with duct tape? Just have it lie there upside-down?

Graceunderfyre
Member

01-21-2004

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 8:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hey why don't you try borrowing a cat from someone? Maybe a shelter or something??? I wonder if they do that. . .

You know the easiest thing to do is go out and buy Dcon then you don't have to see the dead mouse and you can easily tell if it gets at the pellets.

great pics by the way!

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 8:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I thought about poison, but the thought of the mouse dying somewhere OTHER than the place I put the stuff is a bit yucky to me. With my luck, the Dubyamouse would go under my fridge or in a wall to die. Then I would deal with a smell...blegh!!

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 8:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That's what I happened to our mouse and it really was NOT pleasant. Yes, you can place it along the walls, but you can fashion a mouse swatter with it, too, if you should get him cornered. Almost caught our mouse that way.

Rslover
Member

11-19-2002

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 9:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
How about the Rat Zapper?

VIDEO

Graceunderfyre
Member

01-21-2004

Thursday, February 03, 2005 - 10:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
How's your roomie Eeyore?

Karen
Member

09-07-2004

Thursday, February 03, 2005 - 11:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Aw, Eeyore, I haven't been around for a while, that sucks that your little friend is back -- though i LOVE the fact that you've named him Dubya. (Stupid rat. Just go away, already.) I wish I could lend you one of my girls, but they'd leave me if I tried to take 'em outside. They're strictly indoor cats, unfortunately.

Nancy
Member

08-01-2000

Friday, February 04, 2005 - 7:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i've got a mouse in my house now too! my kitten tried to catch it but of course the mouse is smarter--but i have a feeling marble will catch it eventually :-)

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Friday, February 04, 2005 - 9:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Nancy you are so lucky!! At least you have a kitten that will eventually outsmart it!! Actually, maybe it's just something psychological, but I think that I am PROTECTED from the mouse if I have a cat. hahaha. Like, if I saw the mouse scurry across the room, but I had a cat, I wouldn't care, because I knew I HAD the cat. LOL. Weird how the mind works!!

My update: There has been no sign of Dubyamouse since that last evening when I posted the pictures. I put a trap on each end of the baseboard, with a bit of peanut butter on it, and NOTHING!! No dead mouse, no live mouse.

I've slipped back into my blissfully ignorant state, where if I don't see it, I don't care about it. LOL. I keep checking my food bags and boxes, but there are no marks on ANY of them, and I partly think it's because all my food is up high, and in cupboards. But everyone in here will disagree. But at least the food hasn't been touched so far.

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Friday, February 11, 2005 - 10:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The mouse story ended tonight. Someone up-thread said I had better hope that I'm not home when the snap happens. Well, I was home and lying down when the snap happened. I feel terrible. I can't even bring myself to go into the kitchen where the mouse trap is. I've just spent the last 20 minutes crying to my mother on the phone. My only comfort is that it was an effigy of Dubya.

I feel horrible. sad

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Friday, February 11, 2005 - 11:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Eh,that does suck. Can you come remove the dead bird my cat dragged in?

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Friday, February 11, 2005 - 11:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL. I tried to convince my boyfriend to take a 6 hour ferry ride over here tomorrow to dump it for me. He said no. I might just have to reconsider his suitability as a boyfriend now. Isn't that what they are FOR?

Colordeagua
Member

10-25-2003

Saturday, February 12, 2005 - 3:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
A mouse story. Many years ago my parents and I were visiting my mom's parents in their big ol' house in Iowa. My grandparents were now too old to be able to climb stairs to second floor. I went upstairs with our beagle to sleep in my usual bedroom. Beagle dog sniffed and sniffed and sniffed under the bed. I looked. Dead mouse !!! I yell downstairs, "Dad, there's a dead mouse under my bed." My father wouldn't.... My mother had to come up and take it away!!

Nino
Member

09-20-2004

Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 3:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Farewell to Dubyamouse!! How did you finally get the mouse removed, Kali!! Shame on the bf for not coming to your rescue! LOL!

In my opinion, Dubyamouse had the run of your apartment quite long enough! He wore out his welcome on night 1! Ha!



Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 7:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
R.I.P., Dubyamouse. Too soon you departed this vale of tears but you went out with a bang, errrr ... a snap.



Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 9:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The disgust and knowledge that he was just LYING THERE in my kitchen was a stronger force than the fear of picking up the trap. I couldn't just have him lie there. Blech!! Now he's in the trap, which is in a Ziplock bag sealed, which is in a couple of grocery bags tied up, in my garbage.

I can definitely rest easier knowing this critter isn't frolicking in the shadows, and that's a stronger feeling than the remorse I feel for bringing him to his death. Don't get me wrong, I feel a lot of remorse...but the wondering what the mousie was up to at all times was awful too.