YIKES! I have a MOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!

[eh24fan]

Ok...so my 8yr old thought he saw a mouse run across the dining room on Thursday. I told him he was NUTS and to get over it. (He has his Mama's mouse issue) Well, this morning DBf/DFi wakes me up to tell me he thinks he saw a mouse run under the couch. I'm FREAKING here!! I'm terrified of the nasty little buggers and horrified that there is at LEAST one in my house. We have all the holes plugged up (we thought!) and can't think of where in the world the thing got in. Anyway, I went to the store this morning and spent $27 on poison and 4 traps. That thing WILL die and it had better be today! I'm trying not to look around too much, I'm afraid I might see it. I'm afraid to walk around with no shoes on (???) If I could, I'd stay upstairs until that thing was gone. But I can't. I HATE this and I'm not a happy camper.

 

[MushyMushy]

I hear you! You know, I'm not typically afraid of rodents or other critters, but when one gets loose in the house, I'm like the cartoon housewife, jumping up on a chair, screaming my fool head off.

Thankfully, I have a good mouser in one of my dogs. We haven't had a mouse since we moved into this house over a year ago *knock on wood* so she might be out of practice a bit.

ETA: Oh wait! We did get a bird in the house a couple of weeks ago. I still haven't figured out how it got in, but you'd think if a bird could get in, so could a mouse.

 

[LakeAriel]

What did you name it?

 

[Luv Bunnies]

I feel your pain! We've dealt with those disgusting little things a few times in the past. A couple of years ago, my big brown bunny hopped by the couch and this disgusting mouse came darting out. Bunny must have scared it! I grabbed the bunny and ran.

When setting your traps, remember that mice run along walls. We've always had luck putting one right between the wall and the back of the couch. Peanut butter makes good bait since it has a strong smell and they can't just grab it and run. They have to sit there and lick it and then WHAM!

We think mice have come in around the pipes at the back of the kitchen sink. We plugged the holes with steel wool which mice can't bite through. We also put a tray of D-Con way in the back under the sink in case any do slip through. We also stuffed steel wool around the frame of the dishwasher.

Good luck getting rid of your mouse before Christmas!

 

[camustard]

If you can figure out where it nests then place a sticky trap next to the entrance. Worked tons of times for me.

 

[Mickey527]

I would rather have a live mouse in my house than the dead mice my cats catch. They eat the heads and leave the body for me to clean up. They go outside and bring one onto the porch at least every day. They say these are gifts to their master, thank you but give to someone else.
Yuck,how can they do that to Mickey???
the only creature that scared me was the bat. I have no idea where he came from but one summer night I went into my bedroom, shut off the lights and he decided to circle me like a vulture. I screamed, left the room and left the catching to my sons, who caught the little bugger and tossed him outside.
I have lived in this house for 30 years and in that time I have had numerous field mice, 1 rat(the cats were afraid of that one, I left it to the exterminator) 2 bats, a bird, and a neighbors cat. That cat did more damage to my house than any of the rodents did.

 

[N&B'smom]

Awwww, you have a new pet!!!

I think mice are adorable.

Shelby

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Bleech...we have gotten 2 of them in our garage last month.

 

[amyhughes]

Does anyone else find the irony in this on a Disney message board?

 

[koolaidmoms]

You are braver than I am. We had a field mouse in our house once and I immediately called the exterminator. They came our inspected the house for where they got in, set the traps and came back 1 week later to check them and or rebait them. They had this chemical in them that would dehydrate them down to nothing. UGH! But, I did not have to deal with it!

 

[eh24fan]

Well, no sightings so far and no snapping traps. I also bought some spackle so that tomorrow when the "man of the house" who thinks I'm a baby helps me clear out the bottom cabinets and the bottom of the dining room closet, I can spackle any itty, bitty, teeny, tiny hole I might find. My mom did all of that when the got this house but there has to be a breech somewhere. HAHAHA

 

[kirbydog48]

We had two last year. I think they were hanging out behind the stove and came out to dine on food on the kitchen counters at night. My husband caught them in those humane traps, and then drove about 2 miles away at 6 AM to release them into woods away from our house. He came back into the house singing "Born Free". Needless to say, I scrubbed my counters several times with bleach and nothing is left out anymore. I found out they like chocolate chip cookies!

 

[wvdisluv2]

We had two last year. I think they were hanging out behind the stove and came out to dine on food on the kitchen counters at night. My husband caught them in those humane traps, and then drove about 2 miles away at 6 AM to release them into woods away from our house. He came back into the house singing "Born Free". Needless to say, I scrubbed my counters several times with bleach and nothing is left out anymore. I found out they like chocolate chip cookies!

I swear he must be my DH's long lost brother!!! He does the same thing...for mice, a black snake once , even spiders

About a month ago, our boxer/lab killed a rat in the bedroom though....GOOD DOG

 

[eh24fan]

I swear he must be my DH's long lost brother!!! He does the same thing...for mice, a black snake once , even spiders

About a month ago, our boxer/lab killed a rat in the bedroom though....GOOD DOG

A rat in the bedroom would have been a good enough reason to move.

 

[SplshMtn99]

FYI: You never have just ONE mouse.

We only use snap traps here. If you've EVER smelled a dead mouse rotting in the walls, you'll never want to live thru that again. (It happened often at work because they used poison. YUCK!!!!)

We used to catch them in the attic, now we've been catching them much sooner in the basement. I still haven't found where they are coming in for the winter, but we have many traps set & they are working well.

I've also picked up the peppermint oil at a health food store, but haven't set it out yet. Steel wool stuffed into the cracks / holes is supposed to work well since they don't like chewing thru it.

We did a sticky trap once. Too cruel for us. Snap traps are quicker.

That cat pictured below is useless when it comes to mice. She's lucky she's cute.

As much as I hate mice in the house, its a fact of life when you live surrounded by woods.

Earlier this year, I discovered they were stealing dry cat food from her plate & storing it under the frig. Then found their home & food storage in the dining room closet. Their bathroom was in a casserole dish in that closet. I WAS REPULSED. I threw out so much from that closet & cleaned & cleaned & cleaned. YUCK!!!!!! Don't just vacuum up anything either. Google on how to clean it. You don't want to be breathing in that stuff. YUCK!!!!

 

[wvdisluv2]

A rat in the bedroom would have been a good enough reason to move.

You would think huh? Actually, we live right on the river and it was the only rat *knocks on wood* in eight years so we've been pretty lucky The snake thing freaks me out A LOT more

 

[Uncle Remus]

Mice don't like livin' in my house with my cat:

 

[kirbydog48]

I swear he must be my DH's long lost brother!!! He does the same thing...for mice, a black snake once , even spiders

About a month ago, our boxer/lab killed a rat in the bedroom though....GOOD DOG

If I found a rat in my bedroom, I would need adult diapers!

 

[pampam]

Slightly off topic. I was sitting on the toilet reading a book, when all of a sudden I heard a gurgle of air bubbling up through water.. "What is wrong with the plumbing" says I while I got up to look. There was an animal in the toilet!!! I freaked! I screamed and ran out into the hallway. My daughter came out to see what the commotion was all about, but I sent her into her room and closed the door. I ran into the bathroom saw this little black animal looking back at me and put the lid down, and flushed. I ran and got a broom, incase he got out of the toilet, and I certainly didn't want a little black wet poopy animal running through the house. I phoned my husband. No answer. It seems that man is never here when I need him. I flushed about 7 times but the thing would not go down. The tank was taking too long to refill, so I started filling up bowls and dumping them down the tank. Then I thought what if this thing gets stuck in the toilet and have to plunge him down!! I phoned my girlfriend. She said to pour bleach into the toilet. It would blind him and make him easy to control. I couldn't find the bleach. Good thing I had just been to Costco. Into the toilet went Fantastic, Shout, and anything else I could think of. This animal was squirreling around the bowl, while I was in panic mode. Eventually my girlfriend came. The thing was not only dead, but his fur was gone by the time I fished him out of the toilet with a pair of pliers and burried him in the back yard. I think he may have been a squirrel. He must have fell down the septic vent, an 18' straight drop down a copper pipe, and couldn't get back up, so he swam the other way. I swear it took years off my life.

Now don't get me wrong. I like wildlife, but if it enters my home it gets killed. This happened about 3 years ago, and it still panics me to think about it. It took some time before I could even sit on the toilet again, and this is someone who has crohnes disease. Needless to say, I had my husband up on the roof with some screening and a clamp that weekend! Now every oriface of our house has some sort of screening on it-even the chimney.

 

[eh24fan]

FYI: You never have just ONE mouse.

We only use snap traps here. If you've EVER smelled a dead mouse rotting in the walls, you'll never want to live thru that again. (It happened often at work because they used poison. YUCK!!!!)

I know...I'm in denial, but I know there are usually a few friends that come join the party. It's driving me NUTS!