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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 3:54 pm Subject: MICE - OMG!!!!!

OK - I am by any means a neat freak but I do keep my house clean. The other day while in my laundry room (which is where we keep our dog food) I had a mouse run out across my hand. OMG!!!!!!!

So, we get some traps, set them and lo and behold the next morning we have a mouse. YEAH!!! The nightmare is over.

OH NO - the saga continues. Night falls and everyone is getting ready for bed. But wait, what is that noise. Another mouse Mad

Now, six mice later - I believe we got the majority of them. Only time will tell. Yes, you read it right, six mice.

I am devasted. I feel like I am a dirty person and that I don't keep my house clean. I know they come in when it is cold. And it gets cold up here. And of course, they were in heaven with the dog food - it is very expensive dog food. But someone tell me how the heck we ended up with so many of them.

Only time and poo will tell if we have gotten them all. My daughter is telling me there is at least one left. Well at least they are only in the laundry room and not in my kitchen.

Thanks for letting me share my mouse story. I feel better all ready.[/img]

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 4:00 pm Subject:

don't feel bad, where I live, i have lots of mice.. i WILL NOT go underneath the house so the landlord sets out food every so often to kill them off. I also have the sugar ants and they are the PITS!!!!!!I had grown some Glads last year and picked a few and brought them into the house. Next thing i knew, I had ants all over the place..ended up mixing up borax and powdered sugar and spread it all over my garden and that seems to do the trick.

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 5:03 pm Subject:

Mice can show up anywhere. No need to feel dirty.
Borrow a friends cat for a couple days,His/Her scent will keep the mice away. The cat will also enjoy chasing them!

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 5:05 pm Subject:

Not my cat!!!she likes to bring them home and put them on the front porch.

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:29 pm Subject:

You can usually be assured where there's one mouse, there's usually many more! They're not solitary creatures.

Same with bats, darn it. Evil or Very Mad

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:30 pm Subject:

I thought about borrowing a cat. I never had an issue with mice. I had to put my cat down about 4 years ago. But, I have 4 very large and loud dogs so I would not want to do that to a poor cat.

Lets hope this is the end. Only the poo will tell.

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:43 pm Subject:

spatterson -

maybe this will help brighten your evening...

My sister lives in a very large old stone farmhouse out in the country, with a massive fireplace in the kitchen. I mean, you could almost lay down in this fireplace, and the kitchen itself is almost as big as my entire lower floor in my house!

Their first winter in the house, they had mice, because the house hadn't been lived in for quite some time before they bought it. My sister hates those snap traps, so she bought glue traps instead, and set them around where the mice had left their "evidence".

Within 2 hours, she came across a glue trap flipped upside down. She turned it over, and there was her first mouse, all four feet stuck to the trap, and his face as well, and not moving at all. She figured he had suffocated in the glue, and tossed the glue trap, mouse and all, into the roaring fire that was blazing in the fireplace. (Don't ask me why she did that, I haven't a clue! Laughing

) Well...unbeknownst to her, the trap didn't fall into the flames, but landed behind them in the large fireplace. The heat where it landed was apparently sufficient enough to almost instantly melt the glue on the trap, but not enough to kill the mouse instantly (who apparently wasn't dead yet!). The mouse came scurrying out of the fireplace, fur smoking, and ran all over the kitchen until she bludgeoned it to death with a broom!

So...be thankful for small favors - at least you don't have a smoking mouse dashing around the kitchen! Laughing

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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:34 pm Subject:

OMG that is too funny. I have heard that when you use those glue traps the mice will chew their own feet off.

I can't bare to see anything suffer, even a mouse. But I also can't have them living in my laundry room.

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:39 pm Subject:

spatterson - you're not the only softie when it comes to animals - I'm the same way, but I think my sister takes the cake.

She's also the one who went out hunting with her husband, shot a very young deer by mistake, only wounded it, and it ran off and fell into a creek, and couldn't get out. She started yelling at her husband to go get it out, so it wouldn't drown!! Laughing

Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 6:17 am Subject:

Did they save the deer?????

Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 9:50 am Subject:

SueBee-that is too funny!!

We too have mice come and go- we live by some woods and we get all sorts of animals. I had to put our dog food in a can with a tight lid, and our bird food outside in a can.

The bad thing is when they have babies, then you can't hadly catch them in a trap.

I knew this one lady who got a glue trap also. She got one and took it to a field to let it go., I gues she didn't think about it being glued down and tried to take it off the trap--ugly scene there Shocked

Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:02 pm Subject:

received email this morning about brown recluse spider and what happens when someone gets bit by one. Had pictures which are pretty gross. now iam really CREEPED out...Will call bug man and have him come Nuke the place.. Thing is i am the one that scoops up the spiders and puts them outside.