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The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: 2005 Mar. ~ 2005 May: HELP!!! I have a MOUSE in my apartment!!!!: Archive through January 29, 2005 users admin

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Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 7:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Eeyore, my ds used to hate dogs, but then Basil came along! Now I'm sure that you could love a cat, too.

Julieboo, I love that little poem. Mice belong outdoors not in.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 8:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Eeyore, check this out... (click on each name then, to read more....)

http://www.petfinder.com/pet.cgi?action=1&pet.Shelterid=BC16&preview=1

(I don't know how to do the cool/clean way to post a link. If someone want s to give me directions in my folder, that would be great!)

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 8:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OOOPS! I didn't see the rats for adoption at the bottom! YIKES! That's not what I was talking about--only the kitties at the top....

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 8:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here, try this one. It's a much larger variety...

http://www.petfinder.com/pet.cgi

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 8:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL Julie! I love petfinder, its how we adopted our two guinea pigs! (we adopted one, but the nice lady mentioned her sister,a nd for a month dd couldnt help but worry about the sister!! She's such a nice lady to resuce guinea pigs! I cant imagine what her house is, I may become a foster pig helper, but I'm afraid dd... hey off topic....)

Ok Eeyore, I hate that we are giving you a false impression about mice... I'm sure every one here knows that mice can get up to those high cabinets. My icky mouse story... I had a bottle of vegetable oil, and I thought the lid was on it, honest... who would put away oil without screwing down the darn lid?! I wish I had taken a pic to prove this... when I went to grab the oil the next day, a horrid black thing was floating,,, you wanna talk SCREAM?! it was a MOUSE - IN MY OIL! it was NOT funny! (still shuddering to think! ewwwwwwwww)

My grandfather had guinea hens, they were his (I kid you not!) WATCH HENS!! They alerted him when a predator animal was prowling the hen house! I never thought they looked like turkeys!! LOL!

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 8:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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Graceunderfyre
Member

01-21-2004

Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 10:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ha ha ha. . .you know I used to have pet mice - they were no bigger than the top half of your thumb - so cute.

Yeah, I'm not sure how, but mice can get just about anywhere they want. One of the kids I used to tutor back in PA told me they can squeeze to the size of a pencil - I didn't believe him then, but after getting the ferrets, I believe anything about large rodents squeezing into small spaces. Those back bones are very soft.

DCON!!!! That's the stuff we used to put out. I know we all want to be humane, but it's really the only thing you can do with pests. You gotta kill them and not think of them as cute and furry. Unless you are willing to move. Also, I'm not sure that a dog will scare away a mouse. We had mice in our last place when we first moved in and there was a dog that pretty much lived with us or stayed on the floor below. Until we got the ferrets, they stuck around and I believe they stayed away from the office downstairs as well. I'm not reccommending ferrets because they are A LOT of work and if you issues with cat smells, the lovely ferret musk is prob. not for you either. But I am just saying there are other natural predators to mice and dogs aren't one of them. And the trick too is you have to let them walk around on the ground so the mice can smell them.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 11:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
oops!

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 12:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Too bad you don't like snakes. A snake would take care of the mice for you :-)

As far as cats.. feh!

I was sitting in my condo in Santa Ana one night and Critter was all excited and I looked up and thought.. huh! I thought she ate the tail off of her mink mouse.. then the (not mink) mouse moved! Well this was when hantavirus was a scare so I quickly shooed the cat out of the room and trapped the not very active mouse in a box.. took it outside and it was SO cute, I just let it go.

Later I thought I had mice in the garage.. could see the poops and one was gnawing on the handle of the rubbermaid trashcan that held dry dog food. But finally it knawed into that container so I got some mouse traps.. then one day when I backed my truck out of the garage, a huge RAT went flying out from under the truck!!

I laughed at my little trap, which was smaller than the rat, dumped all the poison, the blue stuff, into the now abandonned rubbermaid trash can and ALL of the bait disappeared in one night and the rat never returned. I found that he'd been dining on escargot.. left tons of snail shells behind and since I don't like snails, the rat wasn't all bad.

I got a metal trash can with a tight lid for the dog food.

Living in Modjeska Canyon for years we just learned to live with mice, snakes, spiders (including a tarantula now and then), flies, termites, fleas (those we had to fight), coyotes, roadrunners (so cute), etc.. peacocks are the hardest.. they scream at night, sounds like someone is being murdered!

My dad fought battles with critters over his dichondra lawn.. he'd get these traps from animal control and they'd come and take the animals away. He kept detailed stats and clearly the possums were the dumbest.. they were caught in droves.. in all the years only one raccoon was trapped, a few skunks and one rabbitt that belonged to a neighbor across two streets.. the same rabbit kept making its way across the streets, down the side of the house and to the dichondra lawn and then got caught. There are several areas in Orange County where rabbits are running amok, destroying gardens and lawns and people want to do away with them but aren't allowed. sigh.

A friend of mine who lived in Albany NY, discovered she had bats living in her walls!! One got into the apt.. she was freaked!




Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 5:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
rat

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 6:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    


Lucy
Member

10-08-2002

Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 6:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think you need a treadmill...mouse

Graceunderfyre
Member

01-21-2004

Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 8:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
seamonkey if I lived where you live, I'd move. I wouldn't be able to deal with it. . .

on one of our first roadtrips, DH and I went and visited his aunt in Venice, FL before we were married (may have been engaged but can't remember) and I remember waking up in the middle of the night because something was scurrying around. I flipped on the light next to me and there were all these lizards on the walls. . .

Then there was the time we were in India just before getting married. DH woke up a couple of nights because of strange noises in his room and my cousin and I ran downstairs to see what was goign on - he kept saying there is a mouse or something that is going through cuz' desk. So on the third night, cuz slept on the couch just outside his room so he could go in and get the sucker. DH screamed the death scream and woke us all up because the mouse had run across the bed right next to his head (yes it got under the mosquito netting) and then hopped to the ground. Cuz turned on the light and I had the camera ready (tho I can't find the pic to show you) and the mouse was really a rat whose tail (and I kid you not on this) his tail was as high as cuz's knee - cuz is 6ft 3inches. It was HUGE, I swear it was more of a skinny groundhog or maybe even a small dog with beady little eyes.

And finally there was our honeymoon. We went camping all over the southeastern states - one of the stops was Cumberland Island which is GA territory but in FL waters. It's one of those places that you have to take a ferry to get on and if you want a bike you have to charter a boat - no cars are allowed except for the rangers and there is a hotel on the other end of the island that has a few (I think that's were Caroline & JFK, Jr got married). So every night we'd be sleeping and of course our supplies were tied up in bags suspended from trees and we'd hear all sorts of rustling about outside the tent. We'd look out and see these rocks that weren't there during the day. The second night we realized it was armadillos. How they got on the island, I don't know - but that place is overrun with them. The good thing is they are super scared of you, so other than being annoying and will try to get at food, you can pretty much ignore them.

So those are my pest stories.

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 9:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
mouise

Konamouse
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, January 24, 2005 - 4:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm staying out of this one.

'squeek' mouse

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Monday, January 24, 2005 - 4:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Monday, January 24, 2005 - 8:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kona, you are the ONLY good mouse out there. Oh and if Jujumouse existed, it would be OK too.

squeek!

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 1:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
IT'S BACK!!! And once again, I get it with my camera!! I thought it had just gone away!! Well, I have to say, the traps are now out, with peanut butter. Two of them. Sorry, they aren't even nice traps. I'm just playing I'm not around for the SNAP!!

eeek!!


1
Under my dining room cabinet.

2
Under my couch.

3
Still under my couch.


I barely ever use my living room. I wonder if the fact that I haven't been in there to SEE the little bugger running around could be the reason why I thought it was gone.

Grrr. The traps are out.

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 6:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I haven't had time to read the entire thread, but whatI hope the peanut butter works for you..I have had good success with this in the past and now this year they have ignored it.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 6:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just a reminder about the peanut butter—just a teeny bit is all that it takes. If you put a whole dab on, the mouse will be able to eat to its heart's content without tripping the trap. If you put just a tiny bit on, the mouse have to work to get the peanut butter and the trap will go off. Good luck!

Rslover
Member

11-19-2002

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 9:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good point. Don't give it a all you can eat buffet! Nice traps?? Just get the sucker already. I'd keep a box nearby to put over it too asap so you don't have to look at it in the trap.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 9:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here kitty kitty...

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 9:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
A trap will get one. A cat will keep them ALL away!

Rslover
Member

11-19-2002

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 10:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    


Karuuna
Member

08-31-2000

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 1:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm thinking with so many nice photos, we ought to name the cute little mousie and call it a pet.