Archive through July 30, 2002
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Archive through July 30, 2002
Nightcrawler | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 02:58 pm     ok we have a mouse in are house. just one we hope? I got home sunday and bookie was at the computer looking at are site. with her feet up on a box.I asked her what she was doing. she said she had seen the mouse again and did not want it to clime on her feet. so heres my ? too all the women ( and men) do mice scare all women (and men) if so why? they are so small!!!!! you could step on them if they came at you i told bookie that, but she said it would make to big of a mess???? do you all call your DH or boyfriend (if you have one) to kill it. or do you kill it your self? just woundering.( we do live on a farm so mice are not new to us.) |
Zachsmom | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 03:00 pm     I see one..I sell the house.. |
Alegria | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 03:03 pm     check into a hotel until it is gone. |
Halfunit | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 03:03 pm     Mice don't bother me. We had one that got stuck on a sticky trap at work, and myself and another girl pulled the little thing off and set him free. Now, years ago when I was alone in my 2nd floor apartment and found a 4 foot snake in my closet - that was another story....
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Alib | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 03:15 pm     Mice don't bother me but don't let me anyhwere near bats or rats. I know that my fear is illogical but it stems from my childhood when I was bitten by a rabid dog and had to go through several weeks of needles. I fear bats and rats as they commonly carry rabies, but I don't fear dogs. Weird thing the human mind!! A few months ago a tiny baby squirrel got into the house. Logically I knew that it was no threat and likely quite terrified of me but when my hubby left for the night shift I feared that it would end up in bed with me. Just the thought of an "invader" kept me awake all night! |
Buttercup | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 03:26 pm      |
Max | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 03:31 pm     Mice are cute! We used to get field mice in the house every year where I grew up. No big deal. I always thought it was mean to use traps, but they do cause damage if you don't get them out. Those little teeth are sharp! I had a pet rat when I was in high school. Had to keep it at a friend's house, though, 'cause mom wouldn't allow it in ours. I had a pair of pet chameleons for a while, too. In college, I trained rats in skinner boxes and mazes for psych class. At the end of the term, students would be so attached to their rats that they would want to keep them (also, the next stop on the psych lab rotation for them was getting electrodes implanted in their little brains). Usually, as soon as the landlord found out they were keeping them in their apartments, they had to do something with the little guys. Some kids let them loose on campus. You'd be walking up the 5 flights of stairs to get to one of the buildings and the bushes next to the stairs would rattle. Look over and you'd see a big white rat pulling berries off! The college switched to training chickens instead. No one got attached to them! |
Lobster | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 03:33 pm     Nightcrawler, get a cat! My Lightning caught and killed his first mouse yesterday. He was very proud of himself. I was proud of him, too. I don't have a husband or boyfriend so mouse disposal is up to me. If I had a man, mouse disposal would definitely be up to him! I hate meeses to pieces. |
Zachsmom | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 03:34 pm     but Lobster..doesn't the cat bring you the ahem present? |
Corriecat | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 04:21 pm     I have a mouse story. When I was in my final semester of college I had an old 286 computer and it had a mouse. No not the kind you point and click, the furry, beady-eyed kind. There was a hole in the back of the case where something like a modem had been removed. I'm working on one of the 25 papers I had due that term when a mouse runs out of the hole, across my hand that was holding the computer mouse and disappears behind the desk. A day or two later my computer dies. The mouse had pooped and peed all over the inside of the computer. Thank goodness I had drafts printed of most of the papers and enough money on my credit card to buy a new computer so I could finish everything in time and graduate. |
Max | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 04:25 pm     LOL Corriecat. Great story. Yes, Zachsmom, if you get a cat, they do bring you presents. When I lived in San JOse, there were roof rats in the neighborhood. We had a big cat who loved to hunt and every once in a while you'd hear him meowing really loudly in a "special" voice and then you'd open the door and he'd have a BIG roof rat laid out on the welcome mat. He'd look up and meow as if to say, "Aren't I a good boy?! Look what I brought you!" Of course, he was just being a cat, so you had to congratulate him and then be discreet about disposing of said rat. White rats are cool. Big, brown, ugly roof rats are quite another thing! |
Nightcrawler | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 04:54 pm     ok i guss not all of you have herd about are cats. we live on a farm and at last count we had about 12-18 cats so we have very few mice in the house. the 1 indoor cat we have did catch the mouse but she brought it to Bookie and mewed and the mouse ran away. Bookie just loved that. it's been seen it the bathtub were the cat got it. behind the couch and in it. under the steps.and running around the room. so far. I do have 8 traps out to get it I hope. |
Max | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 04:59 pm     Well, yes, the flip side to a cat that's a hunter is one who doesn't know what to do with stuff it catches. I had another cat who caught a baby kangaroo mouse one day. She didn't know what to do with it. SHe kept putting her paw on it and then letting her paw up and acting very perplexed when it moved again. I managed to get her away from it, but she had scared the poor thing so badly that it wouldn't run away. That cat used to always liked the chase better than the capture. |
Wargod | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 05:15 pm     Out here in the desert we have plenty of mice. Let me just say yuck! I hate them, I hate them, I hate them! We have a wash behind our neighborhood. Now years ago, his was used to run off excess water from our dam, but that hasn't flooded in about 30 years. Anyways, we get weeds and such to grow, so every summer the city comes out to bulldoze it all down (fire hazard). And everytime they do this the little mice come running straight to our neighborhood. We bought our house in the winter...no bulldozing, no mice. That first summer here, I near had a heart attack. Everytime I turned around I was watching them run across the room. We tried poisin (once again....desert, in temps that get to 120 during heat waves...poisin is not the best thing.) Takes care of the mice, but they start to stink if they die in a wall somewhere. We went on to those little snap traps..almost as bad. Half the time the poor little mice would end up not dying. Now we stick to the little sticky traps. (BTW, no cats here, since we're a bit allergic to them.) Anyways, after that first shock of realizing we had mice, I invested in a bunch of plastic bowls and bins with tight lids. Now all food is kept in these to keep the mice out. I clean the cabinets with bleach, keep closets clean, and don't keep any trash cans in the house. Everything is taken straight out to the big can on the curb. I still hate them, lol. I remarked to a neighbor that if I had been aware of this "little" problem before we bought the house, we would have kept looking! My neighbor just laughed. Of course they've been here 20 years, so they're pretty used to it. I don't blame Bookie! During the summer, I never sit with my feet on the floor, LOL! |
Juju2bigdog | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 05:39 pm     NC, to answer your question, yes, that is one of the reasons you have men, to take care of things like that. It is your job; it will always be your job until one of the kids gets old enough to take it over. Just be manly about it and get rid of the mouse. I will thank you in advance on Bookie's behalf. Thank you.
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Zachsmom | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 05:50 pm     LOL..Well said Juju!!!!
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Nightcrawler | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 05:57 pm     Juju i don't mind doing the yucky stuff. I just thing it's funny that a little mouse can make so many people crazy  |
Bookworm | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 06:22 pm     Okay, I don't really mind mice if they aren't in my house. I don't like the fact that they scurry around so quickly. I don't like the visualization of them crawling on my counter, in the cupboard and drawers, of nibbling any of our food. And I DON'T want it crawling on me!!! By the way, there was a mouse in the trap this afternoon and there have been no further mouse sitings since then. (I saw this mouse/mice 5 times yesterday...eww!) |
Sunshinemiss | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 06:28 pm     Mice are ok, outside. Inside, no. But I will do the catch-and release thing. Can't have cats, allergic (boo-hoo no kitties). Now BUGS are another thing entirely. EEEEEK! <sunshinemiss hopes her little boy grows up in a hurry to take care of all the yucky stuff...but not TOO much of a hurry, lol> |
Sia | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 07:43 pm     I LOVE mice!! When DH and I met I had about 40 domestic mice in two aquariums in the house I owned. He "allowed" me to bring only six mice with me when I moved in with him before we got married, so I brought three males and three females and kept them in the garage at some distance from the house. My three males ended up cannibalizing each other, but the three females lived for almost a year and were very dear pets. The mice peacefully co-existed with my housecats and were never a problem when we lived alone. Fast-forward over seven years and we have two wonderful kiddies who naturally gravitate to the MICE CAGES at the local pet shop, whose owner just laughs, since she's known my husband and me for all these years. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree! |
Lobster | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 08:43 pm     Max, Tiger always liked chasing better than the kill. He'd get upset when the mouse died. I also think he felt bad that he wasn't the one to kill the mouse yesterday. He used to love to bring me presents. I had a not so small mouse family living with me. He caught at least 8 mice in a month. Then no mice for over a year and a half. Now someone is building three houses on the lot behind my house. Digging deep foundations. Ripping out brush. Suddenly, I have a mouse. Coincidence? I think not. LOL |
Meme9 | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 08:58 pm     I hate them!!! If I see one I will have nightmares for a week! Boy, do I have some funny stories to tell but...I'm not telling them this close to bedtime! Yep, that is how bad that they affect me!!! |
Riviere | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 10:36 pm     LOL at mouse tales, my nickname is 'Mouse'.. We trapped mice in the attic but none here the past year, if I captured 1 alive I'd walk it out to a field and set it free. My cat is useless about mousing (or anything else). If she got one she played with it and invariably let it escape in the kitchen! I used to hear a trap spring overhead but we let the bodies stay a few days, which yeah, it's gross, but effective message. Now this is really gross, but my husband used to have a pet skunk and the best mouser ever! They would see mouse heads left all over the places their mice frequented and before long, no mice. Gee, get a skunk instead of a cat if you need a mouse assassin? |
Ocean_Islands | Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 06:16 am     Roof rats, black widows, brown recluses, scorpions ... thank god I don't live in California! Mice on the other hand are cute except unsanitary. |
Mammyyokum | Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 07:12 am     I have absolutely no problem with dealing with the mice at our shop. They're lab mice and they're clean and very social. But when it comes to disease-carrying wild mice in our house, that's Pappy's job. |
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