Yesterday's success

[slo]

I finally caught the mouse that set up residence in my mini van.

Yes you read that right - I had a mouse in my vehicle

Where's the weirdest place you've found a mouse??


ETA......the mouse was in the car because it was in a bag chair that we stored in the shed. I put the chair in the car for for 4th of July fireworks and it chewed through the bag and then had free run of the car. When DH wanted to get into the car the other night it was sitting on my dashboard. I haven't heard him get startled like that in a really long time. As much as I wasn't happy about the mouse in my car, seeing his reaction was pretty hysterical

 

[Kogo Shuko]

My story is gross...

I was helping clean out my great aunt's house - she had been a pack rat her entire life and in her 70s married another pack rat. So as you can imagine, her home was FILLED with stuff. But she's 95 now, so the house was also pretty dirty because she couldn't keep it clean either. She's in a home now, so recently we had to remove everything from her house.

I was going through the cupboards in the kitchen as I'm the one in the family who can tell good china from regular dishes (and she had a LOT of good china). I was near the top of the shelves, removing SEVEN teapots (one from the 60s that's worth a pretty penny even!), when I spotted a mouse trap. And inside the mousetrap was a MUMMIFIED MOUSE. Ugh. I have no idea how long it was up there, but it had to be a long time, considering the condition it was in.

Blech.

That house was so dirty.

 

[sharona]

We were travelling to Cape Cod and had taken our golf clubs out of storage that morning and put them in the trunk. There must have been a mouse in one of the golf bags. It managed to get from the trunk up to the front of the car on the floor on the passenger side (my side!!!!). I was freaking out but in retrospect it was good that it wasn't on the drivers side. We were in the middle of the Sagamore bridge so couldn't pull right over. Finally pulled over and boyfriend searched the car and found him in the golf bag. He managed to get him out of the bag and it took off into the grass beside the road. To this day, at least 20 years and 3 houses later, I keep my golf clubs inside the house instead of the shed.

 

[TLSnell1981]

The weirdest place was my bed, while I was in it! We have a pet door and one of my babies brought me a gift. It was alive and uninjured. I think, I jumped at least 5 feet!

 

[Meriweather]

Having lived on acreage in rural area for over 20 years.....I have found mice about everywhere you can think.
Inside my washed laundry was pretty gross.....flat and soggy
Dead and hanging inside a heat register.
We had to have an electrician come out because our heat was smelly.....yep, dead mouse in the element.
Cats didn't help.
One brought a live one onto the bed in the middle of the night.....I could tell how she was bouncing around what she had
Also a lot in the walls making scratching noises. Nesting around the car engine where it was warm.
I will say whole ones are much better than pieces!

 

[weeniecat2442]

aside from the occasional dead mouse left in the kitchen from my lovely cats, I had one surprise mouse experience.

a few years ago I was driving to work in the morning. It was one of the first nice, sunny days we had had after a long winter. Our house is in the woods and I would drive about 10 minutes of back roads before getting to the highway.
I made it on the highway, had the windows down and music up. I was quickly reaching about 65-70mphs.
I glance over to the right side of the windshield and let out a shriek.
This poor little mouse had its tail caught under the wiper blade! His little cheeks and face were being blown by the wind. I didn't want to pull over too quickly because I knew he'd go flying. I slowed down at a decent rate and pulled over in the hopes I could rescue him (he was awfully cute!). By the time I had the car pulled over he was gone- I like to think he had a soft landing and scurried back home to his family!

 

[aprilchem]

When we got home from our vacation just a few weeks ago there was a TERRIBLE smell in my house - my DH has no sense of smell (he had a head injury as a baby) so only I could smell it. It was driving me INSANE, because I could pinpoint it to a certain room (the kitchen) but couldn't find anything making the smell.

After a couple of days of tearing everything apart, I finally convinced myself that it was coming from the back of the stove. My DH thought I was crazy, but we painstakingly removed all the screws off the back and took the stove apart and found - a dead mouse! I have NO idea how he got in there (it wasn't reachable from the front, and the whole back was pretty solid, but he was 100% dead and 100% GROSS. YUCK!

 

[JustCallMeMommy]

I might have to sell the van. My fear of mice was inherited from my mom.

We have a field out behind our house (over the property line), and mice get in occasionally - just one or two a year. I'm hoping the scent of the new kittens keeps them away this year. I made my dad come deal with the last one.

When DD was in 1st grade, we went to a "First Camp" - basically a short mom/daughter camp for the grades too young to go to camp alone so that they are experienced campers by the time they are left alone. I packed a few snacks in my suitcase. They were actually well wrapped - a sealed box inside a ziplock in a sealed section of the suitcase. A little mouse got into my suitcase and ate a hole into the snack area. I made SURE I didn't bring him home.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

We had s dead rat in the warehouse a couple months ago. Not a huge deal, but I ran it over with the forklift and it was still squishy inside. The smell was horrendous.

 

[nene0182]

A few months ago my husband found three baby mice in the storage compartment under his motorcycle seat. They weren't brand new but not very old. So I am sure they had a few nice rides around town before being discovered.

 

[momtosam]

I opened the grill for the first time the other spring, fired it up, and a mother and babies came running out! I didn't want them in my grill, but I'm also glad they got away unburned .

 

[Kitty 34]

Years ago (before 3 cats) we literally had a mouse run past me and up the 4 ft speakers we had in the living room. He sat there for quite awhile........I didn't!!!

 

[Diznotyzed]

We've had our share of mouse encounters at the family beach house we've had for 50 years, but the funniest was when my sister put on a hooded jacket out of the closet and ended up with a mouse on her head from the hood.

 

[Gorechick]

I had a mouse in my car. I found some shredded tissue and tiny poop. I put 2 mouse baits and saw that one had been eaten. No more mouse after that.

 

[Tiggeroo]

I once kept smelling a really bad smell in our living room. We kept looking everywhere for it. The room was spotless. For some reason my dh lifted up the sofa bed. There was a dead mouse squished under the sofa bed and a stuffed animal. The smell from this tiny thing was unbelievable. In spite of numerous attempts to clean it the sofa still stunk. I put it out in the trash even though it looked very nice. Some poor soul picked it up out of the trash almost immediately.

 

[Sabeking]

I read your post twice.....I must be tired because both times I read "moose"

 

[manning]

Up my pant leg sorta. I trapped one in the pantry. I put a barrier across the entrance and tried to kill it. It went to it went to it's safest spot.. Up my pant leg.

Lesson learned...don't wear long pants when going after a mouse.

 

[indygirl99]

When I was about 10 grandma sent me to get the "brick of cheese" out of the pantry refrigerator. Opened the door and there was a mouse eating the said brick of cheese.

Was at a ski resort teaching a weeklong class. My coworkers had a card/wine night. One of them who usually is pretty clueless about cards won a hand. She picked up the accent pillow from the couch to throw it in the air in celebration and a mouse flew through the air with the pillow. She screamed, the rest of us laughed for hours. She was laughing with us after the first few minutes of indignation ended.

Went to visit my sister and found a strange small tank on her bathroom counter that had wiggling tiny pink lumps. She called them pinkies. She raised her own mice to feed her snakes. Um yeah mice in the bathroom, snakes and lizards in the bedroom, and spiders in the kitchen. Nope did not stay there, got a hotel room and still did not sleep well.

 

[fly girl]

Oh my word, these stories make me realize my mouse encounters (although very frightening to me) are tame. The worst one I had was it was in my heat register. I had to follow the sound around the house to figure out what register to lure him to. I was lucky because I got the lil' sucker.

And trying to save them? Wow, so much nicer than me. I know, I am horrible. But I'm sorry if you made it into my house and I find out, you aren't making it out alive. I leave your demise to the traps to capture you. Then Dh will dispose of them. I can't do it.

 

[parrothead365]

I always see a mouse in front of a castle