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    Have you ever had a mouse in your house?

    My daughter called me today. She suspects she has a mouse, mice, squirrels, raccoons or RATS in her home. She was so freaked  out, she whispered. She called me while she was waiting for the exterminator. I don't know the answer yet.


    I had a mouse once. My husband was working the night shift. I was all alone and I spent the night on top of the table watching whatever came on the tv. I wasn't in contact with the remonte. It's funny now. 

    +7  Views: 1378 Answers: 9 Posted: 10 years ago
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    lindilou

    eeeeeeeeeeeeeks! ;D
    itsmee

    eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeks : D is right.
    mycatsmom

    get a cat or two

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    There were mice in the schools where I sub taught. You could see them real early while it was still a little dark out. I walked into a dimly lit music room and a mice was scurring across the floor. Scared me to death.!  The teachers said the custodians can't use mouse killing baits or traps, b/c it's a hazard to the kids. Seems like they could use them by hiding them under the teacher's desk, or in the closet.

     

    My grandfather baited a mouse trap on the kitchen counter next to his loaf of bread because something kept eating through the bag.  When he heard the trap trip he was surprised to find only the leg of a cockroach.

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    Ducky

    Moderator
    Did he bake it? Tastes like chicken, "they" say.
    country bumpkin

    Moderator

    Nope, he wrapped it in a piece of warm bread with melted butter!
    Ducky

    Moderator
    Garlic butter I hope.
    itsmee

    My sides shake. My husband came to see what the hay was sooo funny. I said, "Well, it really isn't funny. Only kind of." : D kik
    country bumpkin

    Moderator

    That Roach leg was HUGE Itsmee...Freakin' Scary!
    itsmee

    Here I shake again ...
    mycatsmom

    eewwww. I hate those things.! They were in some of the nursing homes where I worked.
    Bob/PKB

    ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK
    Ducky

    Moderator
    Don't like crunchy snacks Bob?
    Bob/PKB

    Potato chips are one thing. Cockroaches quite another. I repeat: ICK
    bustieone

    A roach on "roids" by the looks...

    Was feeding the property cat when I heard a disturbance in the kitchen, the cat came out with a mouse in his mouth. Never knew it was around, what a shock!

    itsmee

    I'll bet that cat looked really stupid with a mouse mouth. Bless the cat, huh?
    jhharlan

    That cat (deceased now) was known for going in various apartments and catching mice……...
    itsmee

    Oh my. What a helpful cat (deceased now) I should not have said he/she looked stupid with a mouse in his mouth.
    jhharlan

    He lacked a real ego, Moose was just Moose and a cat’s cat. He is sorely missed……...

    During the drought we had here a couple of years ago everyone had a mouse problem.I installed a "Pestrol" electronic Rodent deterrent.The one you just plug into a power outlet.We haven't seen a mouse since.

    itsmee

    I'm afraid to ask what happens to the mousy -- makes no difference.
    Tommyh

    They just leave.It doesn't harm them.They just can't stand being in the house with all the changes being made in the electrical field.
    itsmee

    Lovely ... sensitive little beasties ain't they?
    mycatsmom

    It makes you wonder what all the electrical fields around US are doing to OUR brains and nervous system
    chelleanne

    So, those rodent deterrent really works? Do it matters which kind? A few years ago my friend said hers didn't work.
    Tommyh

    Yep they do work Chelleanne.Google pestrol. They have a website.You can buy them online.They are a reputable company.

    Yup, used a have-a-heart mouse trap to catch it and then took it a few miles away and released it into a wooded area. I did "adopted" one once that I found on my back porch because he had no feet. They had fallen off from frost bite plus he was blind in one eye. Got him a cute little mouse maze house to live in and called him Little Dude. He lived for 5 years. 

    melandrupert

    Wow Colleen you are a true Earth Angel I love mice had a pet one once they are sooooo intelligent just love them they normally only live for around to years that's amazing 5 yrs bless him thank you for making a home for him xxx
    Colleen

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    Well Little Dude was a house mouse, the little grey kind, not the larger white ones. I think the smaller ones may live longer (?)
    itsmee

    That is the sweetest story. Really. It brought tears to my eyes. I will be sharing your story with my family. : ) You are a true hero.
    My daughter had rats or mice years ago. Her man took the animal about 4 blocks away and let HER loose in a field. After being dumped in the field the rat made a bee-line back to my daughter's place so she could save the babies she just gave birth to. (I cannot tell the rest of the story. Too awful. I can say my daughter was totally traumatized That's what her problem is now.
    When I was taking Early Education classes I had a white rat that I let the children hold. They loved him and it made my class settle down. I was ok with the rat for the most part. However, I was slightly squeemish about the long long tail. I survived it though for the sake of the kids. If he was running loose in my house it would have been a different story.
    Colleen

    Moderator
    Thanks for your story and reply itsmee.
    itsmee

    Yup, I seemed to get really carried away with my mousy stories. : )

    When I was still working at the casino some mice invaded the gaming floor and traps were set inside slot machines.  Casinos change machines and move them often.  When a particular machine was moved to the back of the house a slot tech called our housekeeping department to remove a dead mouse from a trap!  I wouldn't do it! I figure if you caught him you get rid of him!  Makes me wonder what they would do at home if they caught a mouse!

    itsmee

    They would call housekeeping to remove them from the bread box?

    We had one a few years ago which kept getting into the bathroom at night, we kept finding droppings, never saw it but found a tiny hole in the side of the skirting board where it was squeezing through every night, don'y know why because there was no food maybe it liked the soap.  My boy cat bought one home last summer time at about 10pm ,we were just thinking about going to bed, he dropped it in the living room and left it for us, we finished up with all the furniture in the middle of the room, and us trying to catch it. It took me about an hour to catch it in a little tin then I had to walk along the road about 50 yards and release it again. My wife wouldn't go to bed until she had cleaned all the room where it had been, while the cats sat meoing for their supper.

    itsmee

    What a tail! (tale)
    This is hard for me to write or think about.
    Here goes:
    My cat brought half a big lizard into my office. I was on the computer in a chat room. I was terrified.The people I was talking to LAUGHED. Yes, they did. I didn't know if half a lizard could climb up the chair legs and GET me or what. It was so ugly. It moved quite a bit. Fortunately my husband came home and did something with the half. He never found the other half. I looked for it for months.
    Well, I didn't know I was going to write so much. I must change my thinking now.

    We had them several winters ago.  My dog would hold his head to the side listening to them in the wall.  I put a trap tethered on some duct tape (so that I could fish it out) on the drop ceiling.  Snap, one per day for 3 days, problem solved.  Before anyone lectures, I needed to do this, as have a heart traps were too large to be put where they were...  And I did not want to wait till the house was overrun with them!  As for the schools, more common than you would think, as doors are opened more than a home, and kids leave stuff in lockers that attract them.  Once a teacher was doing a fund raiser of selling candy, and they got into that box and there went all of the profits! 

    Bob/PKB

    When I did electrical, one call was to an older couple's home where the living room outlets just weren't working. The problem turned out to be a mouse in the wall. It had bitten one of the wires, shocked himself and shorted the circuit. The dead mouse was still hanging by its mouth on the wire. :D
    bustieone

    He went out like a flash, I am sure... He deserved it, for moving into their home, rather than their shed or barn...
    itsmee

    bustione: Did the mice eat the paper money or the candy?
    bustieone

    Yes the chocolate bars, and they got acne from it, ha, ha...

    NOT in THIS house, where I've been for 3 1/2 years!  BUT, when I lived rurally, once or twice.  My mom and dad had them often, as the mice would leave the vineyards when there was activity there and get under the house and come through drawers they could access because of the way the home was built in 1949.  I opened a drawer once that had papers and a felt hat, among other things, and a mouse had shredded the paper and stuffed the hat with it. Her babies were in the hat.  
    They had rats in the garage, which came from the containers that came from the ports (Oakland, Long Beach, SF, LA). (My dad had a general hauling company) The last time I saw one was about a year ago, when my son and I were bringing boxes down from the rafters in the garage. One box top started to wiggle, and a rat jumped out.  ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK.  

    itsmee

    ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK YUCKKKKK!

    When I was a baby my parents lived by the port of Stockton. They were forced to move (by my mother, I believe) There were " rats as big as cats" she said. I have no way to prove or disprove this. I do not know the size of the cats she spoke of. PS They moved to Angel's Camp. Cute, Huh?

    Bob: How big was YOUR rat?
    Bob/PKB

    ICK! Good for your mom!!! "My" rat wasn't too big....If it hadn't been for the gigantic tail, I'd have just thought it was a big mouse. Many years ago, we visited friends in an upscale neighborhood in Santa Rosa (hour N of SF). We sat in the patio of their beautiful backyard. A huge rat walked along the fence at the back of their lot; seems the city was infested with the varmints.


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