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Posted: 11/30/2008 7:01:10 AM | | Well,I made a boo-boo this fall and forgot to plug up a hole in my basement wall. As a result we are overrun with mice. The problem is slowly being rectified-there are spring traps and sticky traps all over the house. Unfortunately I'm away at work and my girlfriend is left alone to deal with them,and she has a terrible fear of mice. I'm reminded of my mother who is deathly afraid of both mice and heights so if there's a mouse in the house she can't stand on a chair. How is everyone else doing with mice this fall,and does anyone have a terrible,irrational fear of the wee rodents? | |
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Posted: 11/30/2008 7:08:31 AM | | I am four houses from the river so you would think we would have a mouse problem. Mind you there are five cats in the immediate neighborhood. There is a flaky woman on the next street that does not like them running loose, everyone else does not mind. We have no mouse problem. | |
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Posted: 11/30/2008 7:47:59 AM | | I have quite a few mice at my house. Most of them are optical. | |
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Posted: 11/30/2008 8:10:00 AM |  I have a cat...and she has Playmates...She just plays with them...I chase her everywhere with those little legs hanging out of her mouth!!! " Ahhh! Let him go!!!!"
Do not like to think of her as a Serial Killer...Wasn't there a Story about a Great Plague and all the Cats were killed..thinking they were infecting everyone??? but it was mice or Rats, so after killing all the cats...there was noone to kill the mice?????? | |
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Posted: 11/30/2008 8:11:56 AM | my goodness i found a dead overchewed mouse bside my computer 2 days ago...my landlord drilled a test hole to put in new funace air intake vent........grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
going to the store to bye expanding foam.....but my cats are very happy...they don't have to be c0ld to play mouse trap....................... tappping foot......i however am not that amused.........grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. my cats are leashed outside but they still catch mice outsside cuz i am 4 blocks from river.
I had a juvinile racoon last week to...on my steps
i am not baby and scared but MICE simply pizz me off. makes me a lil angry cuz i don't like sharing my people food nor house with them kind of critters...but oh well they will be gone soon...my cats are wicked hunters...they will not last long indeed....even the cat needs something to do right.
hope you have a cat................. fish. | |
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Posted: 11/30/2008 5:24:06 PM | Go to Poulin's Pest Control Services on 24 Poulin Drive and ask for mice poison. Thy will give you instructions on how and where to put it. Problem solved. I spotted a mouse close to my house and immediately went there, bought the poison and mice were gone within a week. I was afraid of a home invasion and had to get rid of it ASAP.
The poison attracts mice and as they eat it, they dry out (literally) within the next few days. You can not see mummified mice or any carcasses.
Good luck. | |
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Posted: 11/30/2008 8:27:07 PM | [A dead overchewed mouse beside my computer]
That is Too!!! funny...Did your Cats get a Shock????
Guess you need a new mouse???
Sorry... | |
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Posted: 11/30/2008 8:39:19 PM | | Ugh, mice!!! Enough to give me the heebie jeebies! I prefer traps but depending on the amount of mice, poison would be the way to go. I have heard too many horror stories about the sticky tape that they step on and are stuck...at least with poison they have had a last meal. | |
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Posted: 11/30/2008 9:30:09 PM | | The best stuff I've ever used for baiting traps is Nutella. I tried for weeks with the usual traps and bits of cheese or meat or peanut butter, but none of it worked. Then I tried a bit of Nutella and caught a half dozen in two days. | |
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Posted: 11/30/2008 11:43:51 PM | I'm not a big fan of those glue traps.... the poor little mouse is stuck to it and waiting to die.... and your girlfriend won't enjoy the noises coming from a distressed mouse.....
there's this thing that you can plug into your outlets that sends a signal through the walls that annoys the heck out of bugs and rodents. It works really well, especially if you are not allowed to have a cat. Me, I have cats.... nothing is allowed to live here without their permission. A mouse wouldn't dream of entering my house. | |
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Posted: 12/1/2008 6:24:07 AM | ^^^ what an awesome and humane idea Argylesocky! I despise those sticky traps, they are so cruel because the rodent suffers for so long. I once moved into a place by the river of course only to find out a short time later that it was infested with mice and those things freak me out as well.
I tried the live trap thing - caught several a nite, would carry the trap - wearing oven mitts to my car and drive them to the outskirts, let them go and then re-set the trap. Did this every nite for several nites but I swear the little buggers were just following my car right back to my house or bumper-shining because they were endless.
I ended up having the landlord take over. He set those poison traps around where they would eat and then go off and die. Much more humane than those dam sticky things. Who developed them - Hitler??? So I like your idea much better!
As much as I don't like rodents, and they freak me out because they run like the freaking wind, I just couldn't bear killing one or, anything for that matter.
And then there's that old saying that they run up your pant legs so I made the kids wear only elastic leg pants in the house until we could get the mice situation remedied ....... !
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Posted: 12/1/2008 8:49:55 PM | Haven't had a mouse in a few years, probably eight or so. Don't mind them except the droppings and the smell ............ but a rat will have me climbing the wall. Had them in several houses when a kid so some bad thoughts there. I get a rat here i'd burn the house down just to get rid of it. Course i'd have to come to again first, i'm sure i'd faint.
Three of us went to get a set of tractor wheels from an elevator and when we lifted the one tire a rat run out from under it. There was the three of us standing on that wheel holding each other so as to not knock one another off. Two of us in our thirties and the other in his twenties dancing around on a wheel panicing like a pack of school girls. None of us liked rats i guess. | |
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Posted: 12/7/2008 7:32:50 AM | | I use one of those plug in devices in my garage as there is a little gap in the bottom of the door and I just wanted to insure that the little guys didnt get in and chew wiring etc. Apparently they don't like the high pitch sound of those devices and it drives them away. Now how to get rid of wasp nests? | |
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Posted: 12/7/2008 9:51:54 AM | Sorry PP but my cats think the posion sucks where is the fun for them in that!!!!
if i see a varmit i punch with my fist or put the boots to it....13 months i lived in the core and had to put all my food into a cooler to keep safe...my cats got some good practice every single day as the slum lord had a 6 in rise on the old floor so the mice had a big old gym to play under the floor...desensitized to mice indeed...and the only good one is a dead one.
the notion of calling an exterminator takes away all the challenge of the hunt so sorry farm raised and born to dominate my own turf...all the rest can stand on the chair...i will hunt...sorry the truth is the truth...roar.
when you talk wasp i call cuz i am allergic to those bad bugs...but crawling to the nest in cold mornings and giving them a raid breakfast is a good start if you have the balls that is...and indeed i do.......... 
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Posted: 12/12/2008 5:32:59 PM | I used to have problem with mice I did the sticky trays, the mouse traps and poison, but they would come back every fall and I would hear them in the basement ceiling tiles. It sounded like they were having some sort of a race up there. Well I went and got a cat from a farm by my bros house in Anola and guess what no mice this year. But now it seems like a lot of people are allergic to cats and get all stuffed up when they come over so I havent got no mice and no visitors but I do have a cat | |
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Posted: 12/12/2008 8:02:52 PM | Wonderinnwpg - before you give the cat back, try this. Many people are allergic to the dander on cats and if you bathe your cat regularily (eventhough they dont normally like it) the dander will be removed or lessened and some people who are allergic to cats may not be. This worked for me as my mom was allergic and the vet recommended this and it worked.
I had 2 cats and one of them liked being clean and one would sit in the bathtub when she felt it was time for another bath. The other one would run and hide when it heard the water running in the bathtub and saw the special towels I used for the cats come out. | |
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Posted: 12/13/2008 6:39:03 AM | AAAwww Miss Luci brings grandma her trophy....
will the sound effect cats?dogs? if they get strange you will know why....
can see her laying on the keyboard belly up .....roar
I love watchin ....the swishy tail draws mr mouse to her...she takes one swing and holds it by the back of the neck ... eye to eye and than the toss....over and over and when it is weak enuff she drops for my ADD kitty to play.
I have a special needs cat who only comes alive when she has a tropy.
Nature is awsome and brutal.......a respect of passage indeed...
who are the freeks that say cats do not own their value reality tv is watching my cat spike dip her paw in a tiny cup with 1/4 teaspoon of coffee mate.......we call that "cocaine kitty". I have a short film of that...it rocks and people alway's laff cuz it is sooooooooooooooooooooooo cute.
TW hug Luci for me...i miss her pretty...... big. | |
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Posted: 12/14/2008 12:18:44 PM | Actually I was referring to my mouse..........a wireless one............just like my wireless keyboard. Miz Luci(that pain in mah butt) is not allowed near the computers because her hair gets into everything. I have to tell you Peek..she's one fuzzy meow........won't eat anything other then IAMs'  | |
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Posted: 12/14/2008 1:31:48 PM | well i know she enjoyed even the dogs bowl when she lived with me...and the other bowls and any crumbs on the floor too....miss luci for the rest of the pond to not be rude...is a beautiful rescue story from being plucked from under a furnace in a party house with poop all around... to me to TW's beautiful family who feeds her iam's....
a rags to richs animal story.......awwwwwwww hugs TW...thanks for being such a beautiful person....loves ya. (if you had mice real ones she will hunt and kill....she did that every day)
living in the core was a kill or be killed statement...even in my kitchen cuz mice where nasty bad there...a camping cooler and fridge where the only safe place for food...mice made me live like a mouse...hidding my food with my cats being the police.
don't worry i punch pretty fast...they bring anger to me not fear. when you have no choice you get over that fear and evolve..
so i evolved from fear of mice...and no pity for the lil shinny nose....just one smack and is over like a bug.
good grief you folks gotta get over the mousy poor critter pile and remember they are responsible for spreading serious lung infections in the poverty range in this city.....no mouse belongs in a dwelling outside of a cage where poop is cleaned...pinch yourselves...the infection is spread threw poop.....no poop is good but theirs is deadly to humans after decomp cuz it becomes dust and aireborne
...pinch that additude of poor mouse and think of the people who do not know the risk and are forced to live under those conditions....think of the people who live here before your poor lil mousy craphole and remember as a citizen of this city your responsible fro those lil vermin to gain ladditude...stick that in your service as a citizen of a city before you yap lil cute nose to me....yes folks is your job to do your part in removing serious health risks...isn't it?????? | |
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Posted: 12/14/2008 3:40:38 PM | HEY.... the animal to human transmission is the open window to a serious lung infection which is the opening for pandemic..cuz of the cute lil nose additude.
Please do not let them fool you nor the significants of rentals and reparing old falling down trashy buildings either..... mice and rats where the reason for the what big event....ding ding ding.....it is the reason the ignoring bad buildings can cost public health and even our safety in the long haul....
if you see poop...mask and clean it.(make sure vacume has proper filter~ or sweep real careful to keep from spreading in air. bad for you......k
goodluck to folks who find mice in your house..... | |
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Posted: 12/14/2008 11:57:37 PM | My parents found a mouse in their house a few days ago, they never head a problem for the last 30 years. Anyway they set a few of the sticky traps and got one today.
IV heard some similar stories from some of my co- workers.
I think it might be the cold weather that is driving them to seek shelter indoors.
They tend to come out at night and stay close to the base boards of your house so that is the best place to set traps. Also along basement walls and corners, closets, crawl spaces and cardboard boxes with old cloths make a nice home for mice. | |
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Posted: 12/15/2008 8:08:14 AM | | I'll add vehicles to the places to watch for signs. A decade or two ago I had my car fixed at a garage in Yorkton. Maybe it was because he was on the edge of a field at harvest. Maybe it was the cold. I dunno, but whatever it was I picked up a passenger I didn't even know about for the next three months - that's about how often it took me to give the car a really good interior cleaning. Not a clue even though I drove it 4-5 hours in both directions every week! | |
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Posted: 12/16/2008 10:09:45 AM |
but a rat will have me climbing the wall.
My rats don't have me climbing the walls, I let them crawl across my kitchen counter and up my arm. They love to sit on my shoulders and help me read my book. I've named them Tika and Nibs.
Don't think I'd be as fond of mice though.  | |
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Posted: 12/17/2008 9:11:57 PM |
My rats don't have me climbing the walls, I let them crawl across my kitchen counter and up my arm
Ugh, they are cute, and the color of your rats are a nice color (not rat colors) but still.....it is the tail that gets me everytime (as I sit here shivering). | |
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...............I came home the other day from school and I found a frigginn' dead mouse by my keyboard! It annoyed me to no end... 
...and no batteries in the house so I had to go drive over to Walmart to get some.
