I Caught Me A Mouse In My House

“I was just watching the tube while eating a chocolate milkshake with peanuts when this little mouse goes scampering across the floor. Well, of course I had to do something about him. Like get him out of the house before the cats eat him and vomit on the carpet.

So I got a tube of Christmas wrapping paper and a yardstick and went back into the room to find him. Lo and behold he was held up behind the couch. I put the tube behind one end of the couch and got to the other end and coaxed him into the tube. It took a few tries to get him to go inside, but it worked. Took the tube outside and shook him out. Shook him up is more like it. When he landed on the ground he looked at me with these tear-soaked eyes, a sad grin on his face and his little paws near his mouth with fear. Of course I had to let him go. So with some encouragement from the yardstick, he turned and scampered off into the night.

The end.”

“But they love you!!!!!

8)”

“Don't worry, he'll be back.”

“....he'll be back with his friends and family.”

“Yes he will and they will take you over!!!!

Mooohaaaaaaa!!!!!!

8)”

“dude, sometimes being humane is just not the right thing to do.
to the mice, you are now a sucker and they will be back with an army.”

“Where there was one........

there are MORE ....

......to follow.....

Just you wait and see.... and then.....

it'll be too late!”

“Dang! From reading everyone's posts, you'd think every one of you are mice also.”

“This reminds me of the "Runaway Ralph" stories. You should have smashed his lil' brains in, I don't need to be reminded of Beverly Cleary books.”

“I think mice are cute!

8)”

“Especially the dead one laying on the mat on the back porch.”

“Just pretend your in a trail shelter and hang your food from the ceiling.”

“mousetraps...bait them with peanut butter...works like a charm.

At my old place, I got three in one day once....”

“Break out the Red Rider BB Gun”

“That was no mouse!!!!!”

“Last house I lived in in Mi. had a bad mouse prob. /my mom didn't like regular traps so she bought glue ones. The mice would get stuck, scream bloody murder in the wee hours, so I'd have to trot them out to the garage and bash them with a brick. Joy.”

“When I was living in student housing the mice were so good the snap traps didn't work, so had to go to the sticky traps. It wasn't pretty when I found them in the morning still squirming, but they no longer got into my bread for lunch.”

“I hate sticky traps. Let the cat have 'em!!!”

“well, this mouse is obviously part of the axis of evil. it has intentions of building weapons of mass destruction & we must give Buddar unilateral support, ,in th form of sanctions, to nuke the wicked mouse into the dark ages. regime change is the only acceptable answer! BUSH SUCKS!”

“swimg it by it's tail and throw it at the wall.”

“The other evening Lizs and I are talking on Yahoo back and forth, yackin`, `bout this and that and all hell breasks loose in the den.

There`s a crash, the sound of glass breaking and then more stuff banging around, the dog hears this and freaks out and he scares the fool outa me when he lets out a scream and bark too, kinda thingie. I trot off in there to see what coulda caused sucha noise and the picture that was hung over the mantle and the board games have fallen to the harth and off out in middle of the floor, knocking over an oil lanp and some candles too.

There`s marbles scattered all over the place and I go about getting those gathered up and there`s two missing, I find one of `em all the way across the floor and I gather it back and I get to thinking the last one musta come out and still be up on the mantle somehow and I move that fake ivy looking vine mess a bit to look under it and just happen to look up and there three inches from my eyes and one inch from my fingertips is a snake and it`s stickin` it`s tongue out at me.

Well, right then and there I set a new world`s record triple indoor long jump, high jump, broad jump, but got disqualified by the East German judge,... something about a cross wind, or drafting effect from the air/conditioner and fan I had running, but an impressive jump none the less.

It took a bita doin`, but I got my heart to slow down some and I took a good long look around me and took stock of the situation and I decided I had to get that bugger outa the house. Now I`m not even afraid of snakes, but seeing one in a place you don`t expect it kinda un-does you mighty fast like and I started laughing at myself for being such a little girl. Ha, the only thing I didn`t do was scream, or jump up on the couch, or table, but guess I wasn`t thinking to clear, all I could think of was to get outa there.

I picked up a claw-hammer and decided it was time to do that snake in so, I ease up there and peek over the top of the mantle board and sure enough, there`s mr. snake wonderin` why I took off in such a hurry and what am I up to now, looks like his eyes are still big about the whole mess, he couldn`t believe what he just saw either.

Of course you know what happened, I missed him and the snake set a new indoor long jump record of his own, I`m guesssin` and about now he`s tellin` his friends all about it too and he`s wondering how to get me outa his home,...yup, that`s what I`m betting.LOL”

“This reminds of when my daughter was in first or second grade a mouse got inside her school backpack one night and the next morning when she got to school and unzipped her backpack the mouse came running out and started running all around the classroom, which caused a big commotion among the other kids, finally the teacher got the custodian to come and catch it.”

“BEN......”

“I was reading about this women who used a mouse to seduce the delivery boy. Delivery boy came in and she yelled from upstairs bedroom to PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSEE”

“I was reading about this women who used a mouse to seduce the delivery boy. Delivery boy came in and she yelled from upstairs bedroom to PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSEE come upstairs. He got up there and she was standing on the bed in her panties and blouse.

She told him a MOUSE had skittered across the floor while whe was dressing and could he please carry her out of the room so the BIG BAD MOUSE wouldn't rush out at her. Well you get the drift of where it went from there.”

“Screw the little bastard. Next time use this .”

“There was a little mouse at our camp at Bald Knob Lake ('palooza route) scampering around our granite "kitchen" when I was cleaning up. He was rather bold, but we had kept pretty neat and there were no scraps for him. He stopped once so I could get a good look at him - VERY cute. Definitely have a different feeling toward wilderness mice than urban mice.”

“That little dood is on my porch.

Tha'rascal!”

“It's the time of year when they come in for handouts and warm shelter.”

“Lol at Bigfoot. Snakes will scare the cr@p outta me.

No problem with mice. But a 6" rat chewing on me will be a problem.”

“that time of year again. so we put out traps and we caught one the other night. but it seems that was just the begining.

As I was walking past the closet a mouse ran under the door. so I started taking out the blankets and OMG I found the nest.
there were about 7 one inch long babies. :(

then I found the kitten hard food half gone in the kitchen.

so i found the nest and the food source.


sorry but not a happy ending for both :(”

“good thing you found them when you did, or your house would have been infested!”

“The people who bought our old house in Feb...are SURE going to have fun this winter. MUHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!


Omg, One night I turned a light on in the spare bedroom and no less then 15 mice went scurying!!!! You felt them run over you at night. You would put all your food in plastic containers and they would chew through the ketchup bottle!

No matter how many traps you had, there were still too many. Poison had to be avoided, because of the dogs, but we eventually had to poison them when they started eating electrical wires on everything. Its an every year infestation in that house.

Of course we didn't mention that at all when we sold the house....”

“In Tennessee if you fail to disclose hidden defects, you are liable for repairs.

The best way to control mice is to use proofing. In older frame houses, that is near impossible. Use baits on the exterior of the house. Commercial bait stations are available, but you can use poison in a pvc pipe just as well. Use bait that is pressed into blocks as it will not be transported as easily as pellets. The minimum lethal dose necessary to kill 50% of the population is about 6 grams per kilo. Pets need a couple of ounces before they will keel over. Vitamin K1 is the compelte antidote to most rodenticides.

Once the mice are inside the house, traps work the best. Our policy is to trap them continually until the population reaches zero. Mice have a 21 day gestation and whelp 6 to 8 pups. They will breed again before the first litter is weaned in about two weeks. Do the math on that expoential growth and you can see why you don't want a single pregnant mouse in the house.”

“I have a running scoreboard on the kitchen blackboard...12 trapped so far...I have chunks of bar bait in their favorite kitchen drawers, all seriously gnawed; the entire package of bar bait I threw down in the basement is surrounded by mouse turds and almost half gone and I can no longer hear them in the walls...old house, impossible to seal...it's always a major war every fall...our cats don't eat poisoned mice, we've discovered...”

“With the second generation rodenticide and given the relatively low amount a mouse needs to consume before death results, a cat would have to eat a boat load of poisoned mice to have a secondary kill.”