We have a mouse.

[Masterman]

Haha, ime being serious here. We was cleaning up last week and found mouse droppings in are house, they were behind the couch's mostly, and some behind other bit and bobs. Then the same night my girlfriend seen one in the kitchen, and then 2 days later I seen one in the bedroom :(. We have actually been staying with her parents for the past 5 nights, sounds stupid but ime terrified of them. Anyway, I have just came home and had a look around. I set 5 traps which have caught nothing. An exterminator has came out and placed poison around are home aswell. Anyway there are no new droppings anywhere. I've looked everywhere and can't find any, do you think it's gone???.

[Sexy Celebrity]

They're probably gone -- Miss Vicky probably came and got them.

[Nausicaä]

Be glad it's not a rat in your house! had a mouse in a previous house once when I was younger and it found its way into the oven and well... I was very upset at the time. :(

We use to have a rat in our garden of that house, had its home under the shed and it lived there for a while fine and dandy, I came out and found it dying on the grass in our back garden because some arse somewhere else had poisoned it. So dying rat, waiting for it to die and then I had to get rid of the body! More upset. :(

[Tacitus]

Most houses have mice, I reckon.

I remember once one running across my face while I was in bed. The little bugger wasn't a mouse for very long afterwards.

[Masterman]

Most houses have mice, I reckon.

I remember once one running across my face while I was in bed. The little bugger wasn't a mouse for very long afterwards.

Thanks for that, now I won't sleep tonight :(.

[Mr Minio]

I had mice running in my kitchen and later found out they got there through a hole from the basement. After the hole has been filled, no more mice have been seen inside my house, but sometimes there are rats and mice running around outside. Some of them very big.

[Godoggo]

They may be gone, but if you have a food supply in your house, they will be back. Put everything you have in cardboard boxes in airtight containers and refrigerate bread, so that you don't have anything for mice to munch on.

I knew this woman who spent a fortune on exterminators, but the mice kept coming back. The reason being that the kids used under their beds as a place to store half eaten food and half drank soda.

Not to suggest you're messy, mice come to the cleanest of homes, but I'd highly suggest containers. Or, how do you feel about cats?

[Austruck]

We used those poison pellets (good for mice and rats) in the little dishes. Assuming you don't have other pets or kids to worry about getting into the little dishes, I can honestly say they work wonders. They apparently make the animals thirsty, so they end up heading outside for a water source, and then pass away out there.

At our old house, we had mice that showed up in the kitchen (as Godoggo mentioned, it was due to half-opened boxes of crackers, etc., in the pantry). Put a little tray of those pellets right near the pantry door, and within a day or so, no more mice or droppings.

So, because we didn't have little kids or loose pets, we made sure to have those little trays of pellets also in the basement (where they were likely getting in). If we saw that the pellets had been disturbed or eaten at all, we knew mice had come in. But within a day or so again, the pellets would stay as they were.

When we moved here, we put those trays down in the basement and up on the third floor/attic area right away, not knowing the issues this old Victorian house would have. We've never seen any of the pellets disturbed, never seen evidence of a mouse or other critter anywhere (well, except for the two BATS that showed up that first summer, but we managed to coax them out the front door)... so I've decided I like those pellets as a preventative measure.

[The Rodent]

You have to watch those mice... they lay eggs in your ear when you're asleep.

[earlsmoviepicks]

This might sound a bit odd, but I use a combination of cats and a blowgun. My cats usually trap a mouse in a corner somewhere, and when the kids start yelling, I grab my blowgun, skewer the little fellow with a 10" bamboo dart, knock him on the head for a quick humane kill, and pick up the dart w mouse still attached and chuck the whole thing the garbage.

This is very effective and avoids the problem of an injured mouse crawling into the ductwork and stinking up the place.

[BlueLion]

My dog has them for lunch.

[Godoggo]

My dog has them for lunch.

We had a wonderful mouser dog, but unfortunately she passed not long ago. Of the two dogs I have now one would probably think they were icky and run from them and the other would probably let them sleep in his bed with him. Thank god we don't have mice in this house.

[teeter_g]

I saw a mouse run across our floor in here the other day, first I had seen in this house. I think the cats brought it in to play with.... We have really good cats. There are always dead creatures on our porch. Anyway, my guess is that the exterminator probably took care of it with the spray. My suggestion would be to get a cat.

[teeter_g]

You have to watch those mice... they lay eggs in your ear when you're asleep.

Mouse eggs. LOL!

[Miss Vicky]

They're probably gone -- Miss Vicky probably came and got them.

I don't like mice.

[Sexy Celebrity]

Miss Vicky probably came and killed them.

[Miss Vicky]

:rolleyes:

[christine]

Saw one today too. At a job we were doing in a pub that had a leak in the post mix syrup machine, the syrup had pooled on the floor and a mouse was lying struggling in it. Don't think it was trapped, just OD'd on the sugar content!

You'll prob be ok now Masterman. Just leave the trays of poison in place and inspect them for disturbance. There's mice everywhere like Taccy says. If they don't find much to eat at yours then they'll go elsewhere. They can even go from house to house under the floorboards or in the attic . As mentioned keep food covered. It's not great when you have them but it's not the end of the world. Make sure you disinfect your work surfaces and wherever else you think they've been.
I've caught most of mine in the past with traps with chocolate as bait.

[Sexy Celebrity]

I had a mouse in my place once and I ended up killing it with a broom. It was running around the kitchen and I chased it and swatted it. I'm a good mouse killer.

[The Rodent]

I thought everyone liked Rodents.


I may have to summon more of them so they can sneak up on all of you when you're asleep.

[The Rodent]

http://www.meemes.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/soon-Mouse.jpg%3Fitok%3D7zGp52I2

[The Rodent]

http://sciblogs.co.nz/misc-ience/files/2010/01/deer-mouse-2.jpg

[The Rodent]

Those traps won't work... I've been training my minions.

http://www.graphics99.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/spy-mouse.jpg

[Sexy Celebrity]

Are you gonna post a mouse picture for every time you watched Young Guns today?

[Hit Girl]

http://beerepiphany.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/pinky_brain.jpg

[The Rodent]

Another of my training regimes...

http://gifs.gifbin.com/022010/1266860156_mouse_benchpressing_trap.gif

[Sexy Celebrity]

Another of my training regimes...

http://gifs.gifbin.com/022010/1266860156_mouse_benchpressing_trap.gif

I posted that GIF in the Pretend You're Exercising MoFo Gym.

I think it's sad.

[The Rodent]

It's how I get my Mini-Rodents ready to invade you homes so they can lay their eggs in your ear when you sleep.

[Sexy Celebrity]

I've had worse in my ears.

Well, you would think it's worse.

[Miss Vicky]

Are you gonna post a mouse picture for every time you watched Young Guns today?

The rodent behind the Coke bottle is a hamster.

[Sexy Celebrity]

The rodent behind the Coke bottle is a hamster.

Oh, is it? I was distracted by the Coke.

[The Rodent]

Can anyone turn that weightlifting mouse into an avatar gif?

I've tried but it appears I can't do it.

[Sexy Celebrity]

I'll try. Be on the lookout for it in your profile comments if I can get it to work.

[Sexy Celebrity]

Looks good, Rodent.

[The Rodent]

That's wicked.

Minions, rise!!!

[Voigan]

We have a few mice but they're usually dead by we see them. We have half a dozen cats and most of them insist on bringing their mice carcasses inside before eating them. :sick:

[christine]

I had a mouse in my place once and I ended up killing it with a broom. It was running around the kitchen and I chased it and swatted it. I'm a good mouse killer.

I've done that too! I pinned it against the skirting board then didn't know what to do so kept on leaning on the broom till it got squished

[The Rodent]

Grab them by the tail... most of them have a tough time getting away if you hold them up like that.


Then you can fling them like bola and even play conkers with them.

[Sexy Celebrity]

What the hell is Conkers?

[Sexy Celebrity]

And what the hell is bola?

[The Rodent]

:facepalm:

[Miss Vicky]

I've not heard of either of those terms either, Rodent. Whatever the hell they are, either they aren't an American thing at all or we have a different name for them.

[The Rodent]

Bola... weights on the end of a rope that are thrown at enemies.


Conkers. Horse chestnut on a piece of string used as a pastime by kids. Outlawed in Britain recently due to health and safety gone mad.

[Sexy Celebrity]

I've heard of the Ebola virus.

[honeykid]

Bola... weights on the end of a rope that are thrown at enemies.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Boleadoras.gif/170px-Boleadoras.gif

Conkers. Horse chestnut on a piece of string used as a pastime by kids. Outlawed in Britain recently due to health and safety gone mad.
No it hasn't. Stop reading the Daily Mail.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_j4BtYGufY

[Sexy Celebrity]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Boleadoras.gif/170px-Boleadoras.gif


Looks like the inside of a scrotum with three testicles.

[Godoggo]

I thought everyone liked Rodents.


I may have to summon more of them so they can sneak up on all of you when you're asleep.

I love rodents. All kinds. But I don't want them living in my house unless invited.

There are far too many owls on my property for me to have a rodent problem though.

[Nausicaä]

I loveddddddddddd conkers when I was little. Think it's a British thing. And yes, it's not banned in Britain... just a few idiotic schools not allowing the children to play conkers at school.

Ah memories of climbing trees trying to get conkers and collecting them off the ground with friends after school. :D

Do children even do this nowadays?!

[Sexy Celebrity]

Conkers looks lame. My idea of fun was the swing set, a large slide, monkey bars, and a big metal dome to climb on. Oh, and the SEESAW. Loved that thing. Although people used to torture me on it (leaving me up in the air) and I would fall off it and hurt myself.

[Miss Vicky]

Yeah, I'm not seeing the appeal of conkers.

[Sexy Celebrity]

I really miss the monkey bars. I want an adult monkey bars set.

[The Rodent]

I really miss the monkey bars. I want an adult monkey bars set.

It's called a gym.

[Sexy Celebrity]

It's called a gym.

I don't know of a gym that has a monkey bars set....

[The Rodent]

Just buy yourself several pull up bars and put them in a line...

[Sexy Celebrity]

Monkey bars were awesome, especially if you went across a high one that was scary, because there was always the threat of falling and hurting yourself. I remember they always made going across the monkey bars a competition in P.E.

You could watch people you hated go across the monkey bars and fall and hurt themselves and need to go to the nurse's station. It would always brighten up a dull day.

[honeykid]

Conkers looks lame.
Yeah, I'm not seeing the appeal of conkers.
I completely understand this, it looks ridiculous. However, honestly, for some reason when you're actually doing it, it works. It's fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cQ-eZOWgvI

[Tacitus]

Is now a good time to tell the story of when a rat ran up my grandad's trouser leg? Thought so.

All I can remember is him grasping the lower part of his thigh with both hands and furiously shaking his leg. Out popped a sizeable (but not massive, I've seen them the size of otters. Honest :p) rat, which got swiftly dispatched by my uncle with a grain shovel.

They went straight back to work.

[Godoggo]

This thread made me dream about mice last night. I swear. Strange dream too.

[earlsmoviepicks]

I completely understand this, it looks ridiculous. However, honestly, for some reason when you're actually doing it, it works. It's fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cQ-eZOWgvI

OMG, I had no idea. :eek:

[honeykid]

About what? The game or the cheating?

[earlsmoviepicks]

The game-- never even heard of it before!

[honeykid]

I don't know if it's played anywhere else, but I have heard of Brits introducing it elsewhere, so maybe there are pockets of Conker players in foreign climes.