It seems we had a little premonition here the other day…. There’s a FRIKKIN MOUSE in my HOUSE!
Exhibit 1 (hole in garbage! eeeewwwwwwwwwwwwww!):
(I have kindly spared you from the horrors of Exhibits 2 and 3. You’re welcome.)
I have to say, I debated whether or not to tell you this, Gorgeouses. Because it makes me feel so, um, DIRTY….
But, Gorgeouses, I ASK YOU, HOW HOW HOWWWWWWWW could I possibly have a MOUSE in my HOUSE? I have THREE FREAKING CATS:
Exhibit 4:
Exhibit 5:
Exhibit 6:
Well, as you can see from exhibits 4 through 6, I really only have ONE cat (Exhibit 6). Ahem. The other two would more accurately be described as “lappahs.” COOUUUUGH.
Anyway, Minden’s on the case. He’s been staking out the spot where I found the most, *gag*, evidence (Exhibits 2 and 3)….
Exhibit 7:
(Whad’ya know, Minden might ACTUALLY be a CAT!)
Anyway, I’m THOROUGHLY grossed out right now.
please look like Remy please look like Remy PLEASE LOOK LIKE REMY!!!
please look like Remy please look like Remy PLEASE LOOK LIKE REMY!!!
And, I can’t seem to wash my hands enough. All I can say is…THANK UNIVERSE I’M NOT PREGNANT RIGHT NOW. Or, I’d be sending myself to emergency for extreme psychiatric intervention. Trust me.
Mouse better be gone now. He’s REEEEEALLY STUPID if he’s not….
Exhibit 8:
SIC ‘EM!!!!! Uhhhhhmmm yeah.
ali said, January 30th, 2008 at 12:01 am
that’s so funny…my first thought when reading the story was “it’s sooo good she’s not pregnant!” great minds, i guess! hahaha!
i think mice are pretty typical in older houses…i have a few friends who live not far from you and have had mice before.
ha. think remy!
oh, also…i tagged you, miss!
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Renee said, January 30th, 2008 at 12:06 am
LOL! I hope your kitties get the mouse or it realizes it’s huge mistake and leaves right away. Usually mice can smell the cats and won’t bother to come in.
I’m hoping that it’s my rabbits that are keeping mice out of my house. One day DD found a dead one in our basement…right out on the floor. We have no idea where it got in and we’ve never seen any evidence of any more of them. We have found them in the garden and our dog found one running in the back yard. We put out a trap and caught one, but all the bait was gone, so we know his buddies finished off the bait after he snapped the trap. ewwwe! I put out some poison and it was polished off in the back yard, but not touched in the garage. Weird.
Course you don’t want to poison yours since the cats may eat the poisoned mouse. Time to make them earn their living… no more lappah kitties…time to work!
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Multi-Tasking Mommy said, January 30th, 2008 at 6:55 am
YIKES!
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SciFi Dad said, January 30th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Yikes… a mouse?
We had mice once in an apartment I lived in back in university. I’ll never forget late one night I was working on a lab at the kitchen table when all of a sudden *SNAP*. Then I had to listen to it suffer because I was too much of a softie to deal with it.
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Beck said, January 30th, 2008 at 7:18 am
Ah, mice. I think you know how much I love them. I make my husband take “care” of them – and if you’re more kind-hearted then us, you can set some live traps.
But yes, cats. We have them too, and I often suspect they’re too well-fed to care about the mice scampering around.
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Steph said, January 30th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Oh no! Truth be told you probably don’t want Minden to catch Mr. Mouse (that would be a not so delightful exhibit number 9). Good luck!
Nadine said, January 30th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Yuck mice!! Good luck with that!!
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LD said, January 30th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Mice freak me out.
It may help to know, though, that it has nothing to do with your house being messy or anything, but has more to do with them staying out of the cold.
But, I really really hate mice.
Let me know if you’d like me to send my cat to help out. She’s tiny but feisty – and she’s exceptionally good at catching flies (who knows, she may help with mice).
Are you sure one of your cats didn’t bite the garbage bag? Mine do.
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Anne Green said, January 30th, 2008 at 8:28 am
I’m in RI with my mom but have to answer. I had the same problem this fall. Ellie the Airedale was of no use. Airedales are bred to go after vermin…she was NOT interested.
Go to the hardware store and get yourself the nastiest trap you can find…I beleive it is called the predator. It is black plastic. Spend the money on the more expensive one. Fill the cup with peanut butter. I caught mine in 20 minutes.
I knew it was living under the stairs in the laundry room. I had been attempting to catch it humanly. Then one night I was sitting on the toilet in my upstairs master bath and it CAME IN! That beastie just crossed the line! It meant WAR!
The cheap wooden traps don’t work. Get the fancy plastic one.
Somehow you will have to keep it away from the cats. You’ll have to lock those lazy butts away for the evening. Remember they are nocturnal so your best bet is to catch them in the early evening when they are most active.
Also…the black plastic predator will kill the mouse instantly so no worries about what to do with the half dead mouse. The trap is very strong..watch your fingers.
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JMC said, January 30th, 2008 at 8:42 am
I agree with LD – mess doesn’t have anything to do with it. It’s them getting out of the cold. And I’m not just saying that because we always end up with a few in our basement and garage every winter.
We also have a cat. Milo is quite the hunter and we always have little gifts on our front porch, but STILL those damn mice risk life and limb to sleep in our walls when it’s cold outside.
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LAVENDULA said, January 30th, 2008 at 9:57 am
oh haley i so hate mice…we had some because it was raining buckets and rivers and they chewed through our foundation anyhow we caught all the pesky critters and have been mouse free.hopefully minden will be your hero cat and catch the wee nasty critter and they will be gone….and just so you know mice don;t care if your house is clean or dirty they only care about finding a way inside….
Susan Helene Gottfried said, January 30th, 2008 at 11:01 am
It’s not a dirt issue; it’s a cold and food issue.
At any rate, I should NOT tell you this, but I’m going to because I think it’s funny as anything. When my cat catches mice, we stick them in the freezer (once they’re dead, obviously, which happens at about the same moment the cat is done playing with them) and bring them to the Township. One of the women there works with the barn owls in the area, so she feeds the mice to the owls.
One mouse, many uses (especially if you save the owl pellets for the kids to dissect).
Makes them worth that initial flash of terror when they run past. Even when you’re ready for it, you can’t help the yelp.
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Kathryn said, January 30th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Step it up, kitties! Get to work!
Don’t feel dirty. It happens. We had mice in our basement this past summer because we put a bag of birdseed down there are the stinking things found it. Luckily my hubby found the spot where they were getting into the house, closed it off, and caught all the mice. Whew!
Good luck!
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Shoshana said, January 30th, 2008 at 11:31 am
freaky! I’ll probably end up hiding in my room while I get my husband off from work so he can go on a mouse hunt.
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Holly said, January 30th, 2008 at 11:56 am
EWWW! Funny story. This summer, I went to the grocery store and bought a bunch of fresh cut fruit for my son and I. We were eating it, the rest was sitting on the counter. I went back to get more fruit and found a freaking ROACH! Crawling on my fruit. I flipped out and called the store and told them what Id found. They said theyd replace it and checked out what the had there. Umm…guess what?? It was really my apartment that had them! EWWWW!
sarah said, January 30th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
I SO don’t want to eat lunch after reading your comments .. ewwwwww…
Chantal said, January 30th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I can’t stand mice. I was off work for three weeks and when I got back there one had taken up residence in my desk. My freaking desk. I lost it and moved to another office. People laugh at me saying that I can move but it will find me. I don’t care I just needed to get as far away from that drawer as I could!
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Chelle Y. said, January 30th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I have to remember to read your blog when I am having a bad day. I am laughing so hard right now that I can barely type this comment.
I had a mice problem about a year ago. I had about ten in my house. It totally grossed me out! Thankfully, we caught them (in a mouse friendly trap), and let them go in the field. Now, I have a cat, and so far… no mice!
kelly said, January 30th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Don’t laugh, but this is what you do. Get a jar, put a hunk of peanut butter at the bottom, put a stick propped up against the jar. The mouse will smell the peanut, run up stick, fall in jar, munch happily until you either release him in wild, or feed to kitties as tasty snack. The choice will be yours.
Peace
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Redneck Mommy said, January 30th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Oh no! You have a mouse in your house! I too, had a rodent problem but I put off dealing with it so long…er, I mean it was so darn wily it avoided all the traps, that one day I opened up the cupboard and there it was…DEAD from OLD AGE.
Gross eh?
Ya, I have since hired a rodent trapping dude to make sure no more can get inside the house…
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Vanesa said, January 30th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Ha ha ha… I actuallyfind it really funny that you are thinking of Remy. ha ha ha…
I think that mice are quite normal all over the world, and it is inevitable to share a house with them from time to time. :0( The bad news is that I do not think your cats will be of much help. If they have never delt with a mouse before, they will be rather clueless now. But,lets hope that a peacefull and blodless solution will be found and that you will get rid of your unwanted lodger… ha ha ha ha ha
Kisse and hugs… And just relax…
Anne Green said, January 30th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Don’t listen to Kelly…that is one of the humane attempts I made…fat lot of good it did me when I was sitting on the toilet that night!
(No offence Kelly I am sure you mean well and are a delightful person.)
Get the Predator.
Next thing you knw you will find the mouse in a bedroom. THAT will freak you out. I could not sleep that night. Thinking of him maybe crawling up my dust ruffle to say hello.
You have to kill the little bugger.
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SleepyNita said, January 30th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Freaking mice. Sometimes they are a little too smart – and fast.
I am just pleased we don’t have Rats in Alberta because then I would have to move.
Mel said, January 30th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
UMA I think I luv Mindy as much as you. Like how adorable can one puddy be? I think he is human. I used to have pet rats, yep, I did ‘Chuckie’ & ‘Cheese’, and last summer we had a fat field mouse in the BBQ! Needless to say thats gross!
L8tr…squeek
Gudrun said, January 30th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
yeck! We had rats last year and the last straw came when I saw one of them on top of the kitchen cabinets, looking at me. Ack! I made DH call an exterminator right away….
Also, turned out our rats had been having fun in our hall closet, piddling and pooing everywhere. Borax got the smell out of my tablecloths…I only tell you this in case your mousies are doing the same evil crap…..get it, crap
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