THERE IS A MOUSE IN THE HOUSE!!!
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Sia | Thursday, October 24, 2002 - 04:34 pm     Good one, Draheid! Now, tell me, who couldn't love this?  |
Sia | Friday, October 25, 2002 - 01:08 am     Draheid, here's another way to rid one's house of a mouse:  |
Hippyt | Friday, October 25, 2002 - 07:48 pm     My DARLING KITTY has brought me another friend!!!! And,it just ran by my feet! About an hour ago,I'm sitting here all by myself,happy watching Josie and the Pussycats!(How punny is that?) The cat brings another mouse in the house,of course the mouse is uninjured.She loses track of it as I'm running around with my Swiffer sweeper trying to direct the thing out of the house! The cat loses interest,I toss her towards the mouse about 10 times,she stolls away. I'm still waiting for hubby to get home. I have ALL the lights on,and all the doors open! The mouse decided to go home a minute ago,came out from under the couch and looked at me! He's back in the couch now. The cat is asleep. |
Hippyt | Friday, October 25, 2002 - 07:56 pm     OKay,my new friend went home! Just after I hit post he appeared again,and ran all the way across the living room out the front door! |
Whit4you | Friday, October 25, 2002 - 08:36 pm     I'm expecting PETA to show up in this thread any day now... |
Bookworm | Saturday, October 26, 2002 - 02:51 pm     Hippyt glad he decided to go home and not invite his friends in. We had a mouse at work (Head Start located in a daycare center by the way) the other day. We only had 6 kids left as our school day was over. I had my back to the room when I hear my male assistant (who knows of my fear of mice) say 'look out!'. I turn around to see him nudging kids out of the way. My female assistant tells me there is a mouse in the room and male assistant is trying to stomp it. Male assistant insists he was trying to hold it under his foot so he could pick it up. Regardless the critter spent a couple of minutes darting from corner to corner of the room with male assistant close behind. I stayed on the other side of the room with a long shelf between me and the critter. The kids also stayed away and watched male assistant chase the critter. Two of the little boys said they hated that mouse, though were very interested in what male assistant was doing. Male assistant put out the mouse traps again, but we didn't catch anything. I heard that on the other end of the building a rodent has chewed a hole in the ceiling tiles. There is talk that this is not a mouse but a RAT!! I hope it stays on that end of the building. This is a brand new building and there is an exterminater looking into things, but geesh! All I can say is if I am there some evening or weekend by myself and I see a RAT I will probably drop dead on the spot. |
Hippyt | Saturday, October 26, 2002 - 05:10 pm     Whit4You,I actually used to be a member of PETA,but they got more radical,and I mellowed a bit. Lol,Bookworm,you're right,being ALONE with a rodent isn't much fun! |
Beruthiel | Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 12:27 am     Every fall, when the temperature drops, the mice get into my basement, and we keep mousetraps dotted around in places, with sunflower seeds arming them, and we always catch the little boogers, in pairs. My husband has the task of disposing of the bodies. We got four the other night, when it got colder than usual, and none since, but there'll be more as the winter sets in, snarl! I check the traps every day, and last winter, a mouse turned and looked at me-I screeched naturally, and it turned out to have been caught by the tip of its tail. It was freed outside, and funnily enough, we had no more intrusions for the rest of the cold weather-it must have warned its buddies. A couple of years ago, we had a bad local infestation, with mice coming up through the snow to munch on the spilled bird seed under the bird feeder, and in the spring, everyone had mouse trails eaten through their lawns when the snow was all gone. The traps weren't enough, that year, or there were too many, or they got smarter, and I could hear them while I sat at the computer but couldn't find them. Turns out that when my kids had put fibreglass insulation batts between the joists under the family room floor to stop the TV sound coming into the basement, they'd provided a mouse haven. We got rid of them finally, but that was a nightmare...and I contribute to quite a few animal and conservation charities, and am definitely an animal lover, but hantavirus and critter poop and pee in my house I don't need! The dog and the budgie are the only critters with carte blanche! My husband once stepped into a pair of rubber boots he'd left on the back step, and screeched and fell over, because there was one in a boot-we howled with laughter, lol! Another time, there was a bang and sparks shot out from under the fridge, and then out came a mouse so fast that we hardly saw it before it shot under the basement door, and disappeared down there. I might add that we have a field outside our back fence, so there is always a fresh supply of mice, alas. I think I'll get a cat when our old doggie goes to doggie heaven. (By the way, Peta is already here...I send THEM money too, but I eat meat and wear leather, so relax. ;-}) |
Misslibra | Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 01:05 am     I Never had any mouse problems since becoming a Cat lover. MEOW  |
Sia | Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 10:10 pm     <=="I'm just as cute as I can be!" |
Wargod | Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 10:26 pm     Won't tell ya'll what I found in the middle of my living room floor this afternoon, courtesy of my loving dog. |
Sia | Monday, October 28, 2002 - 09:50 pm     Was it a dead mouse, Wargod? |
Wargod | Monday, October 28, 2002 - 09:59 pm     Yes! Dang dog found one, played with it and left it there!!!!! |
Sia | Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 03:59 am     Well, at least it was a DEAD mouse, Wargod!! One of my outdoor cats killed a beautiful female Cardinal yesterday; I just hate when that happens. Cardinals are so pretty. Boy, the birds are really devouring the sunflower seeds and bird seed I've been putting out for them; it makes me wonder what they would eat if I didn't put anything out for them! What will they do when it's REALLY cold? I can't imagine how the poor things survive.
<==Did you step on the mouse barefoot, War? Yuk!! |
Wargod | Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 12:59 pm     I actually thought it was one of the kids stuffed toys and stepped over it. Then it kinda struck me that...it didn't look exactly like one of their toys. Thank God my mom was here...I knew darn well I wasn't picking it up, and when I told Caleb to grab the broom and dustpan, he went screaming through the kitchen, LOL. There was no doubt what happened to the mouse, LOL. I'll tell you though..thats the last time I leave the backdoor open while I'm not home!!!!! |
Sia | Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 05:17 am     Here's my major rodent-drama for the week: yesterday my son and I noticed a scrabbling sound next to the wastebaskets and recycling bins and saw the trash can liner moving in our enclosed back porch. Being the brave, take-charge Mom, I sent Myboy for the flashlight and a pair of my SHOES while I started clawing junk out of the corner. DH stood at a distance behind me, arms crossed over his chest, as I pulled out a dented steel thermos bottle, a handful of wire coat hangers that had missed the trash can, a coffee can full of dry beans, a foot-high stack of empty brown paper grocery bags, an ancient electric stick-broom, a Bissell hand-powered sweeper, a half-dozen old dustpans, a box of ceramic tiles, a fry-daddy---you get the picture, right? I'm not the greatest housekeeper; guess I think I'll find a use for EVERYTHING if I keep it long enough!! Anyway, a little ground mole darted out suddenly and I tried, in vain, to step on him and swept at him with my trusty broom, but he escaped. Undaunted, I kept hauling things out of the corner, by now handing things off to DH to set aside. Adrenaline pumping, I finally reached the brick wall, only to find a small mouse-hole in the corner. RATS! Was I foiled again? Again I returned to my task, pulling out the last of the junk, a three-tiered plant stand and a couple of empty coffee cans. OUT shot the ground mole, and I neatly trapped him by the hindquarters with my clog shoe. Unable to lift my foot for fear of letting him loose and unable to fit my left foot in the space between my right shoe and the stair-steps, I appealed to DH for help. He STEPPED in, announcing loudly (where my poor kids could hear), "You have to step on his HEAD!" He finished the job, and he also disposed of the little varmint. My son said, "Mom, it's okay that you got rid of the ground mole. He was going to chew up my new boots!" We later swept the corner clean and finished sorting out the junk, throwing it away--finally. Now that's one way to clean house!
<==not a ground mole, but a rodent, at least! |
Suitsmefine | Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 05:28 am     EWWWWW!!! Sia, those little varmints are soooo ugly!!! Our sweet little kitties have been bringing some of those to the front porch and leaving them for praise!!!  |
Nancy | Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 05:39 am     My cat 'roo' has caught about 6 mice in my house lately..but i think they are all finally gone--(broken window let them in)..and I got a electronic pest control(sonic) to make sure they stay away..so far so good.. my cat is entirely in indoor cat so i thought she wouldn't know what a mouse was let alone have the instinct to catch one..LOL ya right she sure did..and brought it to my bed at 2:30 to show me |
Chiparock | Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 07:12 am     There are some cats who are confused ...  |
Chiparock | Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 07:13 am     Some are REALLY confused ...  |
Juju2bigdog | Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 11:02 am     Uhhhhhh ... Nancy, I don't think those sonic things actually work. |
Sia | Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 12:10 am     Nancy and Chip, you could post this sign in order to rid your homes of mice:
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Jagger | Monday, November 11, 2002 - 05:55 am     These nasty little varmits decided to move back into my home now that the weather is getting colder. I've keep the decon out year round, I found a dead one sitting on my basement steps over the weekend. Hopefully this one was just scoping out my place and when he/she doesn't return home the rest of the gang will move on to someone else's house. |
Beruthiel | Thursday, November 14, 2002 - 11:53 pm     I got one of those electronic signallers too, about three years ago ..... yep, I still get mice! :-) |
Wargod | Friday, November 15, 2002 - 01:44 am     We went on a mad hunt about two weeks ago...for a day or two we were catching them like crazy. Our weather has also cooled down, but its been about a week and a half...I haven't heard one, seen one, found any evidence of any...I'm very hopeful that mouse season is over here for the year. |
Jagger | Friday, November 15, 2002 - 05:37 am     Look what I found when I walked into the office this morning,
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Chiparock | Friday, November 15, 2002 - 08:10 am     Jagger, is that poor li'l thing confused and trying to mate with the computer mouse?
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Misslibra | Friday, November 15, 2002 - 07:53 pm     Chip I say the mouse is trying to go to the TVCH, I refuse to let my mind go in that direction, even though I think your right!LOL |
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