MICE - OMG!!!!!

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.

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!

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

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:

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.

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! :lol: ) 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! :lol:

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.

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!! :lol:

Did they save the deer?????

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 :shock:

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.

[quote=Bossy4455]--ugly scene there[/quote]


Ya think?.......

I figured you would get a kick out of that one, Unc :lol:

spatterson - nope, the deer died - from the gunshot wound.

This is also the sister who saves/keeps every stray animal that wanders or is dropped onto her property, or any animal they happen to take a fancy to(they live in the sticks). So far, that has included pigs, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, a pair of emus they hatched from eggs, dogs, one cat (not sure how it's survived the dogs!), fish, frogs, tarantulas (eww!) and a partridge in a pear tree. (Just kidding, that last one was my addition!)

I guess you could say she's kind of the mother earth of the family.