DEAD MOUSE on floor ... I screamed like a banshee.

[Caradana]

Granted, he was only the size of a ping pong ball, and granted, he had cute little round ears, but one look at the DEAD MOUSE on the floor of my apartment last night and I SCREAMED LIKE A BANSHEE. I then stood on the center of my bed and called Jean-Paul for advice.
JP: "Hello."
Dana: "MOUSE IN APARTMENT." (gulp, gasp for air, shudder, air, gulp.) "Dead mouse. Not rat, mouse. Scared! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
JP: "D, are you OK? Is it foaming? Did you kill it?"
Dana: "MOUSE IN APARTMENT." (at this point, all mental functioning has ceased.)
JP: "Be right over"

He came over and he and the doorman used the broomy thing to sweep up the dead mouse. He also brought me a cold Diet Coke to soothe me. (JP - deserves medal.) Despite a year in NYC, this is the first rodent I've ever seen indoors, excluding the subway. I am a little embarrassed by my performance. I thought I'd be braver. NOT SO MUCH.

I now have little dishies of rat poison under key strategic furniture in my apt. JP handled this. I am still afraid to look under the furniture because I think a mouse will run out, climb up my arm, look at me accusingly with his beady red eyes, and bite me on the face.

I wonder, what killed him? He was lying at the right angle to have fallen off the shelf in my closet and swandived to his death, but I don't think that sounds likely. Maybe he ate someone else's poison? Old age?

If a rat family appears, I am moving to Jersey. I swear this.

 

[SherryNC]

Do not sit on the couch with your feet on the floor.

 

[snoopy]

Is it foaming??? WTH does that mean????? I don't know that I want to know.

I can certainly sympathize. We had a family of mice living in my house last winter, and I was one step away from packing up my things and checking into a motel. Can't do rodents, no thanks!! Thank GOD for DH, he took care of the problem.

 

[mtblujeans]

Hmmmm.....I have not heard the scream of a banshee since I last watched 'Darby O'Gill and The Little People'! Would you be able to record the next banchee episode if a rat family appears, of course, and attach it to your updated post?? Thanks!!

 

[NMAmy]

Oh, you poor thing. I think I'd have to move immediately.

I'm fine with bugs and scorpions and tarantulas, I'm fine with snakes...I think it just has something to do with the way mice...scamper...that freaks me out. I'm shuddering just thinking about it.

That is weird that he died right in the middle of the floor like that. At least he was a considerate mouse. I hope his extended family is just as considerate.

 

[CEDmom]

I was thinking at least it wasn't one of NYC's famous rats. I remember the 1st time I saw one of those - it was the size of a cat.

 

[monkeyboy]

In NYC you are lucky it wasn't something bigger than a mouse

 

[Firedog]

But, didn't it all start with a mouse...

 

[jennyl772003]

This weekend, I was walking up the stairs to my apartment (outdoor stairs) My DS was at the top of the stairs, I was at the landing, My DH was at the bottom of the stairs.

I turned the corner at the landing and... Something is staring at me right at face level. It starts scampering for freedom. First it goes up, sees DS, goes down, sees me, passes me, sees DH, comes back up. The thing contemplates just jumping for it between the stairs (no risers). I am trying to get out of it's way so it can just run down. Finally it gets down the stairs where my hubby shoos it into the bushes.

The darn chipmunk then has the nerve to YELL at my DH. No kidding, it came back out from under the bush and squeeked at him (in a menacing way. well, menacing for a chipmunk)

I feel your pain

ETA: I screemed like a wuss when I saw the darn thing.

 

[mtblujeans]

....The darn chipmunk then has the nerve to YELL at my DH. No kidding, it came back out from under the bush and squeeked at him (in a menacing way. well, menacing for a chipmunk)....

 

[Caradana]

Snoopy, Japes was thinking rabies with the foaming. I was screaming so loud that he was convinced I'd been bitten. ha.

 

[mtblujeans]

I am sooooo sorry....I mean no disrespect.....but this is the funniest thread I have seen all week! I have been laughing so hard.....and my lungs can use the exercise!! I just wish the Tag Fairies were around right now!

 

[mulgar]

I think i would be glad it wasn't a live mouse.

Just kidding I hope you have not had too bad a scare

 

[DVCLiz]

Oh, the shame...

You'll be glad to know that I found a half-eaten mouse the other day. Actually, DD11 found it wedged behind a 12-pack of Diet Coke. "Ewwww, Mom, there's a dead mouse!" she shrieked. I looked around for DH, remembered he was now married to someone else, and SET AN EXAMPLE by picking up the mouse head (literally - only a face and one eyeball, the other eyeball curiously...missing) and throwing it outside. Where I got the courage to do this I do not know. Probably the same way I captured and disposed of two live mice earlier in the winter. And the way I dealt with the squirrel stupid enough to drown itself in my rain bucket (drain the bucket and empty it on the side of the house closest to the male neighbor who spends the most time outdoors so he will feel sorry for me and deal with it himself).

Mice are disgusting and it totally creeps me out that they are in my new house, apparently scampering through the walls and occasionally coming in to the house to see if I've left anything tasty around (like my FACE). Gross, gross, gross.....

 

[Deb in IA]

Hey, Dana, ever think about getting a cat?

Not only will they kill your mice for you, but they'll EAT THEM too . . .

 

[meandtheguys2]

Hey, Dana, ever think about getting a cat?

Not only will they kill your mice for you, but they'll EAT THEM too . . .

At least they eat most of it...I think I'd rather have a whole dead mouse than the entrails! Glad you survived. Have you checked the bedroom...?

 

[jel0511]

Hey, Dana, ever think about getting a cat?

Not only will they kill your mice for you, but they'll EAT THEM too . . .

Not my cat!!!! My cat would make friends with it, and invite it over for tea!!!!!

Dana - we had a mouse in my house, first one in almost 6 years here, and I IMMEDIATELY flipped out and sealed the basement door, where he ran after being discovered on the main floor. I called an exterminator and wouldn't let anyone in the basement until it was found and killed. I now have a complete mouse treatment thing going on, and no more mousies for me. I completely understand your reaction.

 

[ryanpatricksmom]

That reminds me of the day that my former DH found me lying in the fetal position on our kitchen floor. He was quite certain that I'd had a stroke due to the horrible grunting/moaning sounds that I was making. As he approached, looking quite concerned I might add (despite the fact that he was probably spending the insurance money in his head), he saw me point to the ceiling and moan, "bat".

 

[DisMN]

Meanwhile, under Dana's bed................

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

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