Mouse Attack!

“It's a funny thing because I never pack food in my gear bag. So I was surprised to find a quarter eaten Snickers bar fall out of it when I emptied it. Then to my surprise I found a tiny hole the size of my pointer finger in the bottom of the bag. This is the first time my gear has been attacked by a mouse and the mouse responsible must be caught and held accountable for his actions.”

“I had the same thing happen to me once, Snickers eaten through the stuff sack hanging in the tree. But I suspect it was a chipmunk.”

“Always leave your pack pockets open at night so the mice can get in and out without chewing a hole if they smell something inside.

And then when they get that false sense of security and think they can bloody well come and go as they please,put mouse traps in all the pockets and nail the little bassturds!!!”

“Left a squeeze tube with peanut butter on a log for 2 minutes while adjusting the tent in the wind. The tube was gone. Found it a few feet away with a hole in the tube--squirrel damage. Glad we packed excess food!”

“I now suspect that this culprit lives in my house as he ran across the room behind the TV and then down the stairs. I don't think the attack took place in the woods which is good because I sleep with my pack in my tent. If the attack took place in the woods he would have had to chew through my tent.”

“get a cat”

“Allergic to cats. Gonna get a nice and trusty 85 cent mouse trap.”

“Anybody out there ever heard of D-con.
We have had mice lick peanutbutter off the trap and not get caught.
D-con works every time.”

“yup D-Con gets 'em for sure. Just make sure that you put it where the pets can't get to it.”

“Dub, get VICTOR traps. Don't mess around with anything else.

Bait the VICTOR trap with peanut butter, then set it. If you get the easy-set kind, you can then use a pencil and gently tap the bait pan until it's about to go.

Works every time.”

“Chicago Mice can get the peanut butter off the snappy traps. Sticky traps work better here if you don't mind a small mass of wiggling fur in the morning.”

“If you set a VICTOR EasySet trap in the manner described above, it's like a hair trigger. The bastard sneezes on the thing, and he's off to the Murine Paradise.”

“Oh I have gotton 2 in the past 2 weeks...I have an old house...cheap rent so I figure I will win this battle. I have traps out and in 3 days nothing.”

“A mouse chewed 3 holes in my Mountainsmith pack to get at a food bag when I was hiking the Black Forest Trail. That was the last time I ever left even a small amount of food in my pack overnight.”

“when I was on the AT in VA I put my food bag on the floor of the shelter and in less than an hour a mouse had chewed thru and helped himself to my gorp.......

the mice are in charge there,....”

“Glue sticky traps are the way to go. They are very effective.”

“clem, mice are too smart for traps. they used to come through our garage in TN, so we tried traps...nothing. Then I got sick of it and poisend their butts.

while backpacking: I try to get all the food out. So far I didn't forget anything, but I now it's easy to leave/forget a leftover in the pack.

hee, hee, I remember when this dang mouse chewed through hyway's tent because he had his food in his tent. That was at wilson creek I think...”

“Well traps got the two that are dead, so I say they are dumb mice then. lol”

“It all depends on the trap you get. I've had the cheap traps robbed by mice too. When I finally got some decent traps, it was lights out for the mice.”

“Problem with Dcon. If the mouse eats it then crawls in a hole, you have to live with the smell of a dead mouse!

Problem with sticky strips. The mouse is still alive when it sticks. I had a mouse chew its front leg off to free itself. I followed the trail of blood to a dead mouse with a pool of blood on the carpet!

Stick to the Victor traps.

BTW-I finally have a house where the mice don't get in! WooHoo!”

“When you find a hole that the mice have been getting in through, fill it with some steel wool. The mice can't do anything with it.”

“I always swore by Victor traps, but the old house where my apartment is has suffered major mouse infestations in the past, so I finally resorted to poison. When you're catching mice every night in the Victor traps and getting tired of disposing of the little carcasses, it's time to resort to heavy artillery.

As for critters in the woods, red squirrels in the Daks are adept at sliding down nylon rope and getting into food larders. But you know it's them, because all they eat is the gorp.

Was once having a digestive problem on a hike and inadertently left a Pepto Bismol tablet unattended in the shelter (in a wrapper). A mouse got to it and ate half. That poor mouse probably died of constipation. Petty larceny can be a capital crime under certain circumstances.

I've met some AT through hikers who do carry mouse traps. You'd think there wouldn't be a mouse left between Springer and Katahdin, but they keep on coming.”

“a dumb mouse is better then a smart mouse.”

“Trapping mice in the wilderness! That's cold. I see that as their turf.”

“Just fix it ASAP. Mice reproduce faster than bunnies. And make sure you have nothing left in your house that they can get at to eat. Eliminate their food sources.”

“I agree with the Victor Traps and peanut butter. In the middle of the night you'll be awakened by a loud 'SNAP'! somewhere in your house. Then you can just smile, roll over and go back to sleep.”

“My friends alway bring mousetraps on AT hikes.

Last December they caught 9 at Mollies Ridage. I'll have to post the "Great White Hunter" photo later.”

“Geo - you got me laughing with a visual of that poor mouse that ate the Pepto...”

“There was also the raccoon that got into somebody's dried potatoes at a shelter in SNP. Imagine what that coon looked like when it drank water to slake it's onset of thirst.”

“A few years ago my daughter opened her backpack in school in the classroom and out ran a mouse. It caused quite stir while it was running around the room. They got the janitor to come in and catch it.”

“Now that would freak me out if a mouse jumped out of my bag at school..my students would tell such stories about me.”

“I was getting ready to post a pic, put don't feel like getting flamed on a Friday!

Happy Friday everyone.”

“Hey post the photo anyway..I could use some good laughs...”

“If you take a baby mouse and put it in a beer bottle, feed it to maturity, bring it back to the brewery, and tell them you found a mouse in your beer, they might give you a free case.”

“oh that's underhanded.. but gross would you do that?”

“No. It was from the Mackenzie brothers.”

“Ah, Strange Brew! It seems so few people remember that movie.”

“How can anyone forget a movie about beer?”

“At my old apartment we'd frequently get mice and never did figure out how they got in. So we bought some of those sticky traps. And one by one we got the mice and then for awhile we had no mice. Then one day we had what we named "Super Mouse" come into the house. He could jump up on the beds and couchs and would frequently do so--not scared to run across your body while you were trying or watch TV. So we hated this mouse and got out a sticky trap. A day later we heard him struggling in the kitchen and behold, Super Mouse was stuck on the trap. We hated this mouse so we were gonna let him stay there all night and then squash him in the morning. Come morning, just like Indiana John's mouse, he had chewed his front leg off and got off the trap...but unlike Indiana John's mouse...Super Mouse didn't die. Nope, he lived and was as crazy as ever. So we thought that any mouse that could chew his own leg off and live was a worthy adversary. We left him some Doritos and chips and stuff frequently and he never ran across our bed or couch anymore. Summer came and he left the house.

You just gotta respect some mice.”

“Looks like you encouraged it to breed more supermice, too. Not very smart. If you liked it so much you should have kept it in a cage.”

“He did look like that lz!!

treebait, we would have if we could have caught him. He was a very respected mouse. Fortuneately he didn't have any other mice to breed with so we never ran into supermice, gen 2.”

“Anybody remember Mr.Jingles the Circus Mouse from The Green Mile?”

“The mouse that lived to be 100.”

“Bad Andy Kaufman flashback.”

“Here I come to save the day!”

“Puh-LEEZE”

“MIGHTY MOUSE IS ON THE WAY! Do they even show that cartoon anymore? I remember watching it as a kid, good times.”

“JIHAD MICE!


OH....er hummm........sorry....


I'm in recovery, gimme a break....i slipped....”

“danger mouse kicks mighty mouse's @$$!!!!!”