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Kstme

Monday, October 14, 2002 - 03:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Excuse me, WAR!

We had mice at my parent's summer home, it was a farm and we just let the cats have a good time. But now, with the Hatavarus (sp?) Virus, there are a whole new set of issues with these furry brown/gray critters! I don't want them around!

I'm glad the health dept. did something! Hope they had the landlord pay for your niece's clothes too!

Wargod

Monday, October 14, 2002 - 03:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I wish they would Kstme, since I helped pay for those clothes, LOL!

Have to agree about the nasties mice can carry. My biggest thing to freak about here is that my son prefers to sleep on the floor (don't ask, LOL) and the thought of him down on the floor with mice had me panicking! That was the main reason we took such an active stance on getting rid of them. Ok, ok, I hate them too....they scare me, I can't stand to see them scurry through my house, can't stand to think of the places where they might have been, LOL!

Gail

Monday, October 14, 2002 - 03:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My dogs (cairn terriers) are excellent mousers. Out where I live, I know there are plenty of mice, but I have never had one in my house. I've seen a lot dead ones in my neighbors window wells so I know they are around. I also know they are out in the back yard occasionally judging by the way my dogs camp out around the lawn mower.

I think most terriers are good at catching mice.

Kstme

Monday, October 14, 2002 - 04:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gail, you're so right! I have a friend in Seattle who has Cairn's and hers have always caught mice and garden snakes. Lovely, really! LOL

I'm not too sure about the pups...I can't get them to eat half the time so I doubt they'd be interested!

Gail

Monday, October 14, 2002 - 05:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kstme, the first time Maddie caught a snake I swear I lost 5 years off my life. She was so proud of herself! I think she was just one year old when it happened. I saw her in the back yard leaping and bounding across the grass with something hanging out her mouth.

I think the most unusual thing she ever caught was a mole. My housemates and I had no idea what it was. Maddie had left it as a gift up on the back porch (very catlike of her) and we stared at it for a long time trying to guess what it was.

Kstme

Monday, October 14, 2002 - 09:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gail...I truly think Cairns believe they are cats! My friend has way too many cats and her dogs act just like them, sans using the kitty box! I can just picture yours with the snake! ROFL!

Sia

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 04:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
This is for all the rodent-haters out there, LOL: Rats

Wargod

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 09:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
hehehehe

Suitsmefine

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 09:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sia.....you are sooooo funny!!!!!! Since we moved into our new home 8 years ago , we haven't had any mice yet, KNOCK ON WOOD!!!! BUT Christy and Tiger Lily drug one up on the porch this morning and were playing a form of "kitty-tennis" with it!!! ewwww!!! I cannot stand those little fur balls!!! So the kitties are now sitting on the couch giving me the evil-kitty eye for taking it away!!! What do ya' do? I'm considering grounding them from going outside LOL!!!!! As for the raccoons,OMG, We have a birdfeeder on the back deck and we have a mother and her 4 babies who think it is their own private diner ....I no longer try to run them off, since the mother hissed and growled at me and proceeded to GRAB the broom handle out of my hands!!!!They are wretched little creatures!!!

Jagger

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 10:04 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Last winter I had an entire community of mice move into my house, I trapped over 50 of the little bassets, than they got smart and avoided all the traps and the stickies I put down. Needed to resort to D-Con before I finally got rid of them all. Still haven't figured out how they got in the house so I will need to see if they come back this winter.

Wargod

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 10:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Jagger....they come in all over the place! They chew through walls! They squeeze into the tiniest places! It's absolutely maddening!

Question....was D-Con the stuff that dehydrated them so that they didn't smell when they die somewhere inconvienient...like in a wall? LOL, the last time we did the poisin, we only had it places like under the stove and in the garage where the kids couldn't get to it. Unfortunately, the mice would take the poisin, and run....the die and boy oh boy the smell when the house is closed up all day and it was 115 degrees outside...let me just say we spent the rest of that afternoon and part of the night sitting on the porch, LOL. Was not fun.

Jagger

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 12:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ya Wargod it basically eats them away from the inside so there is nothing left to smell. I never had the smell of the dead ones in the house, but the mess they left in my ceiling tile was terrible, I have taken all the tiles down and tried to clean them but they still stick some what, eventually I will need to replace all them.

I agreed they do come in from all over and once they are in they create even more havoc, they literally dug the concrete and the carpert edge out so they could make a path from one door way to the other, they also were moving piles of dirt from either the walls or under the concrete to under the steps, I ended up moving 7 5 gallon buckets of dirt out from under my stairway.

I did find the little critters laying all over the house afterwards which kind of scared me because I have several dogs running around in the house, luckily neither of the dogs got sick so I'm assuming they didn't eat any of the dead ones.

Kstme

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 01:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Is lunchtime yet?

I always think of mice like cockroaches...can't have just one!

Wargod

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 02:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Kstme.

Dang mice know how to leave a mess don't they?? And if you ever smell that dead mouse smell....you never forget it, LOL.

I have said repeatedly that if I knew this neighborhood had the mouse problem when we were buying the house, I wouldn't have bought it. It's usually much worse than this summer has been. It's kind of funny though. We have a pest control service that comes out once a month, lays traps, checks the ones that are out, leaves me extra traps, and gives advice on how to get them out. Since we started using them the problems haven't been quite as bad. The guy usually comes on Saturday mornings...about 8am. I can have him here, and then he's done and goes on...I will take my daughter to dance, do shopping and errands, come home....and he's still in the neighborhood. He usually does the whole neighborhood on the same day, and spends the entire day in this area...you can sit here and watch him go from house to house carrying his little mouse traps. LOL.

Zachsmom

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 02:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hmmmm War..do you ever see him late at night getting out of his van with a big cage filled with something..and then later return to the van with an empty cage?

Wargod

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 02:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL...haven't seen that Zmom! I have had horrible nightmares about the dang things though! I'm in the desert, and theres more housing tracts than desert these days. But, If you go a few miles outside of the city, you come to miles and miles of undeveloped land. And if you happen to be out there at night...it's frightening. The roads look like there rolling, and that's from the mice (snakes, frogs, creepy crawlies, LOL) crossing the street....street will be covered in mice! Anyways, I've had nightmares, and I see the bullozers out in the wash behind the house mowing down all the bushes, plants, and tumbleweeds...then see thousands of mice running into the neighborhood....wake up shaking everytime, lol! I know it's not that bad....but sometimes it sure seems like it is!

Zachsmom

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 02:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
well..if you ever see this little guy..keep him..

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but I can imagine your nightmares!!!! We had a possum who lived in our backyard..and that thing was HUGE!!!!

Sia

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 02:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
subliminalcatmouse
"Did someone say it was lunchtime?"

Kstme

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 04:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ROFLMAO! Too cute Zachsmom and Sia! War...don't know what we're going to do with you!? I think you need some "happy" thoughts before bedtime!

Sia

Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 11:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You people force me to come to this thread and post pictures which prove how loving and adorable rodents are, you know that? Here's further proof: mousesitting

Wargod

Monday, October 21, 2002 - 08:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, yesterday I was sitting here, and I looked over and guess what? Little mouse sitting in the middle of the floor, just staring at me....sigh. I love my warm weather, but I'm so ready for the dang mice to go away that each morning I hope it stays cold into the afternoon and evening! Oh, and none of my little guys are that cute! LOL.

Draheid

Monday, October 21, 2002 - 10:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't want to scare anyone, but I think the little rodents are getting smarter and more bold! Look...

ExtremeMouse

Wargod

Monday, October 21, 2002 - 11:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Dra, we don't even bother with cheese anymore. We've started using gummy worms....cut them in half they stick to the trap. They were stealing the cheese and peanut butter right off the traps. Smart little critters.

Sia

Monday, October 21, 2002 - 09:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Whate a cute photo, Draheid!! I love it!

Here's what else the mice are doing in your home when you're in bed: mouseatcomputer

Draheid

Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 08:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh, Sia, I have another angle of that shot :O :
MouseControl