Waaaaa!!!! The mouse is back & DH is gone!!!!!

[Beth76]

My cat was chasing a mouse in our room last night and she didn't get it. I just found it in the bathroom and my DH is at the gym!!!! The cat couldn't care less about right now. Ewwwww!!!!! I hate this feeling. Do cats only hunt at night? She caught another one a few weeks ago in the middle of the night.

 

[Pin Wizard]

I don't know, but tonight my 1.5 year old pup brought in an insect of some sort from outside. He's too good at disguising it!! Then he dropped it on the carpet and it scooted around. Yuck! Lucky me had to get it out! Kind of looked like a cricket...I think. Kind of didn't.

 

[Purrrrfecta]

I do not know, but I found mouse droppings under my kitchen sink, and now I have to call someone to come in my house. We have field mice because the neighbor has been doing construction outside, and he has left the dirt dug up etc.etc. I am so ticked off with this as well.

Over the summer we found mouse flesh on out porch stairs YUCK, and a ball of what looked lke mouse hairs on my door mat near my kitchen porch door.

 

[LMC]

It maybe the the mice like to come out at night when the house is quite and still. When we had mice, it seemed that they would come out at night. Get an old-fashioned trap and put just a small dab of pnut butter on it and hopefully you will catch it. Make sure it's behind the stove or fridge so that kitty doesn't get in it.
Then you need to search for all holes and put steel wool in them to keep the critters from coming back. They can come in a hold small enough for cable tv wire to fit in. look around your incoming water pipes, phone/tv cables, dryer vent and if your oven vent goes through the floor or wall check it too.

 

[LoraJ]

I was infested with mice at an apartement I once lived in due to construction all around the building.

I would use the d-Con covered mouse traps. They are snap traps, but all you see is the tail so you don't have to deal wth picking up a messy trap.

Just don't get glue traps. Those things are horrible. All you hear is the mouse crying and ewww...

 

[The Duchess]

We had this same problem! I had two older cats who had on interest in catching mice at all. They were coming up under my stove! So, we tried to be nice and use Have-a-hart traps, and DH would drive the mice down to the state forest and let them go.

My older cat passed last November and we adoped Simon, who was about 6 months old. Well, he kept the mice out of the house and caught two of them. What a fiasco.

Eventually, though, we had to resort to using poison, which I hated. We have eaves, so we put it in there, b/c there was no way for the cats to get in there. Also in the basement, which is 1/2 finished, so the cats could not get to the poison on the unfinished side. I was worried about the cats actually finding and eating an actual poisoned mouse, but I guess my cats are too fat and happy because we found a couple, untouched dead mice in the house.
YUCK!!!!

 

[monarchsfan16]

Mice like it better when it's dark. Which would be the reason they had their babies in my dresser drawer
Turn on the lights in the house. Yes, it uses electricity but at least it'll send the mouse into hiding. Also, if you don't have a trap, get one. The best kind is the one where it's like a cage that gets tripped. Put a little peanut butter on some foil in there, the mouse will go in and trip the trap and be stuck in there. Then (so I don't get in trouble for animal cruelty), bring the trap somewhere a few miles from home (5 or 6 is good) and let the thing go. From there it probably won't come back.
My dad's house has been infested lately. It's partially open since one end was essentially destroyed over the winter by a bursting pipe and it won't be better until October or November And now is peak mice season.

 

[gr8tpanther]

I used to keep them as pets.

 

[Chicago526]

Yes, cats hunt at night.

I do have a funny story. Many years ago, my parents had mice in their house. My dad had set traps, one of which was behind the dresser in their bedroom. They had just gone to bed when a few minutes later they heard a *SNAP!* They layed there for a few minutes when my mom said "Well, aren't you going to go get it?"

My dad said back "Why, he's not going anywhere!"

 

[2MuchOhana]

Sorry you have a little furry visitator! Hoping it is the only one, too!

We had a problam a coupple years ago; because of all the construction going on in our subdivision. Our cats enjoyed the hunt regardless of what time of day! We must have some stupid or rather smart mice as they would come out during the day while dh was at work! Of course the cats always let them get away after playing with them! Dh would come home and catch them and throw them out into the wooded area across the street! I named the two I knew we had Elvis and Houdini. We did get rid of them eventually. We found where they managed to get it and took care of that problem. Haven't seen once in our house since! Knock on wood!

Jodi

 

[got2lovedisney]

My cat Smokey Puss (RIP) had a habit of jumping into the living room through a hole in the screen of the window. Well...one day he jumped INTO the house with a mouse and let it go. He then looked at me with that "Hey I brought you a gift...aren't you going to thank me?" look. Arg!

 

[DISshopkeeper]

Originally posted by Chicago526
Yes, cats hunt at night.

I do have a funny story. Many years ago, my parents had mice in their house. My dad had set traps, one of which was behind the dresser in their bedroom. They had just gone to bed when a few minutes later they heard a *SNAP!* They layed there for a few minutes when my mom said "Well, aren't you going to go get it?"

My dad said back "Why, he's not going anywhere!"

LOL!