Theres a mouse in my house!!!!

[Wagamama]

somebody please come and get him out!!! I think he's playing hiding and seek in the living room. This is the last thing i need right now...my aunt and her family and my uncle and his family are coming to visit tomorrow....please get him OUT!!!!!!!!!

 

[Serena]

Von, sweety, he won't eat much.

Just set out a few traps.

 

[Tartan Tigger]

We had a mouse last week, we fed him some mouse poison and now he has gone.

 

[Steve H.]

Originally posted by Tartan Tigger
We had a mouse last week, we fed him some mouse poison and now he has gone.

You might want to check any area that has some water out (e.g. dehumidifiers) -- those rat poisons work by dehydrating the rodent and they seek out water (and normally die there).

 

[EROS]

Can you rent a cat from a friend?????

 

[Wagamama]

i think he's a baby mouse....that means theres a mommy and daddy mouse somewhere... i called my dad and he came home from work....he's at home depot right now buying some mouse traps....

 

[Deb in IA]

Maybe it is MICKEY . . .

 

[Wagamama]

if thats mickey then i'm never going to wdw!!!!!!!

 

[tc]

We had a mouse this weekend backstage at church. Someone said that she puts out potato flakes in a small lid. The mouse eats it, gets thirsty, drinks water, and blows up and dies. She said it works great.

We had mice this fall. I am so terrified. It was quite an ordeal. We set traps. I bought all kinds. The ones that worked best are the traditional traps, but they have some plastic on them. They can can set more sensitive than the all metal traps.

Good luck on extinquishing you uninvited guest. Hope he's the only one, we had about 6.

 

[browneyes]

I used to play with snakes when I was growing up (I grew out of that!). But I've never been able to stand mice. Mouses are nice, like Mickey & Minnie and my favorite childhood book character, Pippa Mouse, but I can't stand mices of any other kind.

 

[newmousecateer]

He just stopped in to wish you a Merry Christmas. Doe he have a little Santa hat on?

 

[ILUVDXL]

I've gone from 1 to 5. Unfortunately they will be going to mouse heaven soon (sigh)

 

[tiggerlover]

I'd be happy to loan you my kitty, he is an expert mouse detective/killer.

 

[Snow White]

Good luck, I know I hate having mice, its just soooo annoying!

 

[Kteacher]

we got those little electronic devices you plug into the wall. They emit some kind of high pitched signal through the walls. DH got them at a hardware store. I was skeptical, but they seem to be working

 

[catsrule]

Get the peanut butter and a no-kill trap. Mousie will walk right into it and it will shut, then let it go outside.

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

I would use a professional. YOU can bet you have more than 1 mouse and the pro's bait is way fresher than what you can buy at the store. They should also have a year warranty.

 

[Wagamama]

Originally posted by catsrule
Get the peanut butter and a no-kill trap. Mousie will walk right into it and it will shut, then let it go outside.

thats what my dad bought and used up all the peanut butter! but thats a different story. Its kind of funny now that i think about it. When i saw him/her/it? this morning I screamed like a lunatic and jumped onto our coffee table. My sister was asleep and woke up and when i told her what i had seen she gave me a

look, told me to grow up and went back to bed. of course then i told her i had seen it go into her room

 

[Kallison]

If it is a baby you have more than one mouse. They reproduce like crazy:

Life expectancy: 1-3 years (varies according to background, "strain")
Sexually mature: 4-7 weeks (both males and females)
Cycle of heats: 4-5 days, continuing all year round
Gestation period: 19-21 days
Size of litter: 4-14 (even more), average 12 babies
Breeding in Practice

I would put out sticky traps, poison or traditional mouse traps. Peanut butter works great. Try and find out where they are getting in, you can plug up the holes with steel wool. Can you tell I have experience with this!!

 

[Kallison]

oh and if you trap it and let it outside close to the house, it will just turn around and run back in again. I did that once and watched the mouse run across the snow over the corn field and head right back to my warm house! Catsrule is so sweet!