Non CR EEK!

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bucket2

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Just venting. For the 3rd time in seven years, I have a mouse in the house. This time, the critter has even ventured to the second floor (bathroom). [I should note that I am NOT an animal person in any way, shape or form. As I tell most of the parents whose kids I watch, "I don't do feathers or fur. in fact, I'm not too far away from being scared of most."]

My first mouse enjoyed dining on crackers throughout my lower cupboards and drawers. It then escaped the trap (wounded - white linoleum) and convelesed on my futon for the day until I could get the neighbor kid to remove it, after watching the morning news with me (not kidding - it was sitting up on the arm of the futon, watching the TV).

Mouse #2 (about a year later) was quick and easy - fatal cervical spine injury.

Now, "mouse #3." He's eaten fruit that was ripening on the counter and wandered through the misc. that is under the bathroom sink (upstairs, within feet of my BED :eek: ). I set the trap yesterday and this morning, it's GONE! No trap (and it was one of the plastic "clip" kind - no small item) although there are the usual signs that the mouse was in the area. I'm totally weirded out by this. Do I have a mouse on steroids or some kind of work group or what? When the hour is closer to human, I'm calling the landlord (yet another reason I continue to rent - I don't have to deal with. . .)
 
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Patriot201

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Yikes. I don't envy you!

I do like animals, but I don't want any mice, rats, insects, or other animals in my house if I have not chosen to put them there. ;) While I think that mice in a cage are adorable, there is something really creepy about a wild mouse running around your house, eating your food, etc. Yuck.

Good luck with your de-mousing! :p
 

Michi

Member
Yeah - they can drag those things all over.
We had voles in our yard (basically short, fat mice w/ a really short tail) and we set a lot of traps.
The traps didn't kill them ,and they dragged them all over the place.
Most died getting stuck trying to go back down in their hole in the ground
(only they wouldn't fit because of the trap) and they froze to death overnight. Ick!
We only had a mouse in the house once, and my DH saw it, threw a box over it, and then took it outside and set it free in a field down the street.
 
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bucket2

Guest
jenny03 said:
That's lovely, it's probably walking around with the trap attached to his hiney... LOL


I wish! He was moving just fine as I watched him run around the outside edge of the living room this morning. :( Or - HORRORS - he has a sibling! :eek:
 

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