[scraphappen]

Tonight I had some errands to run so Off I went. An hour later I get a text" you won't believe what just happened your going to go crazy!" So I call him. Thinking the kids did some fantastic thing that I missed again because I'm running around instead of spending time with them.
Well I guess he wanted to cuddle our youngest in bed before her bedtime and I guess when he pulled back the sheets! Yup there was a mouse and it ran away. Luckily we have three cats. He brought the Youngest and newest member to the bedroom. ( he's only 8 month's old we think) Well he caught the mouse in a second according the my husband!! eowwww yuck!!! I have changed our sheets vacummed and even put napkins with peppermint oil in corners of the bedroom. I heard mice don't like the smell of peppermint. really hope that is true!! I don't see any holes so I have no idea how he got into the bedroom besides the door. How it got into the house? dunno

if you have any ideas besides poison ( remember I have three cats) or traps ( one is still a kitten I can see him getting into it)
I will take any advice. This is just so gross I don't feel like going to bed tonight!! I wonder why??? Jeesh

[mimes1]

We recently bought some electronic rat traps that run on batteries. You bait the trap as any other, turn on the switch, and if a rodent goes into, they are quickly killed with current. We caught 2 rats in our garage the first night. We picked ours up for like $40 at Lowes or Home Depot. Much cleaner and neater than those snap traps.

[A-M]

Do your cats happen to like the taste of peanut butter? It is a great thing to put on mouse traps. Place your traps in narrow places that cats would not go.

[Sara Arell]

Oooooh-ooooh! I would have flipped out had I seen that mouse - I don't deal very well knowing there's a mouse in my house! We have two cats too though and I have always though they were the reason that we don't have them! Aren't you glad you had your own "mouse catcher" readily on duty!!!! Glad you got rid of that little varmit!

[Becster]

Ugh, I feel your pain! We have mice and it's making me crazy. The dog doesn't care, he just watches them scurry by. We've had success with a trap that's all enclosed and you don't have to see a thing. Ick. I'll be back with a link.

Edit: Here you go. They're pricy, but there are two in a package and if your DH is brave they can be re-used. *shudder* Ortho Home Defense traps

[elibar]

I don't have a suggestion, but I've had a mouse in my bed before. It's funny now, but it wasn't then! I woke up in the wee hours of the morning to the the cat on my pillow gently pawing at my face. I though he just wanted breakfast, but it was to early. When I shooed the cat away, the sensation of movement did not leave. I quickly realized that there was a mouse there, inside of the comforter near my face! There was a tear at the end I'd been meaning to fix, and it must have crawled up inside.

Anyway, I jumped up - I don't think I'd ever moved so fast in my life! I ripped the comforter off the bed (and my sleeping DH) and threw it into the bathtub. I guess I figured the mouse couldn't get out of the bathtub. I ran to the kitchen and grabbed the cast iron skillet off of the stove, ran through the bedroom (imagine my husband watching me do this), back to the bathroom and proceeded to beat the comforter with the skillet.

Normally I'm kind to animals, and we had humane traps and I would release them back outside. But something came over me that day, surprise, disgust, I don't know. We still laugh about it.

[MariJ]

elibar, on 25 April 2012 - 06:03 AM, said:

I don't have a suggestion, but I've had a mouse in my bed before. It's funny now, but it wasn't then! I woke up in the wee hours of the morning to the the cat on my pillow gently pawing at my face. I though he just wanted breakfast, but it was to early. When I shooed the cat away, the sensation of movement did not leave. I quickly realized that there was a mouse there, inside of the comforter near my face! There was a tear at the end I'd been meaning to fix, and it must have crawled up inside.

Anyway, I jumped up - I don't think I'd ever moved so fast in my life! I ripped the comforter off the bed (and my sleeping DH) and threw it into the bathtub. I guess I figured the mouse couldn't get out of the bathtub. I ran to the kitchen and grabbed the cast iron skillet off of the stove, ran through the bedroom (imagine my husband watching me do this), back to the bathroom and proceeded to beat the comforter with the skillet.

Normally I'm kind to animals, and we had humane traps and I would release them back outside. But something came over me that day, surprise, disgust, I don't know. We still laugh about it.

Oh, Elisha! I am laughing here. NOT funny when it happens to you, but it read like a sitcom and gave me a sweet early morning chuckle - BIG one, thanks!

[Belle]

Remember the layout that I did, Nunzia and the Cat, I'm about to do a follow up one, Nunzia and the mouse. Also a funny story.

[Deb C.]

Here's another funny one. My DH built our house on the lake a few years ago. He stayed in a trailer while he was building our house. He usually makes coffee and then puts the coffee pot in the frig and drinks the leftovers the next morning. Well, guess he forgot to put the coffee pot in the frig one night. The next morning, he went to pour it out. He was having a hard time pouring it out because - you guessed it - there was a dead mouse in the coffee pot!! double Yuck!!

[tiza126]

ew ew ew I don't like mice! Right now I just keep dealing with roaches in my apartment, which isn't much better. Especially since my cat is too prissy to kill them. She likes to herd them down the hallway into the bedroom and then wake me up so I can kill it. What a sweet girl. NOT!

[healthyscraps]

Peanut butter worked a treat for us a few years back. Poor little thing and it was caught on my DH birthday too. Luckily we had already bought him a present! Hope you don't find anymore of this 'cute' little creatures in your house.

[Syndee]

Eeeeek! Wishing you the best of luck getting rid of the little critter!

[lorac]

My cat, Leo, caught a mouse last year in our old apartment. I put Leo in the bathroom and tried to get the little baby 'dead by now' mouse out of his mouth. Leo was not happy with me. He growled at me, but I got the mouse, took the mouse outside and buried him in the yard. I will always try to save a mouse. Rats and roaches are another story all together. My sister had a problem with roaches when she first moved in to the other apartment. She bought those Combat roach thingies that you place around the house. Goodbye roaches. I've never had a problem with rats, and hope never to have one.

I remember years ago, I had bought a new white Nehru jacket for Spring. I was ironing it when all of a sudden I noticed this brown spot appear. You got it, it was a now very dead and ironed roach. Threw the jacket out. I couldn't imagine wearing it without getting the heebie jeebies. Yuck!

I read somewhere that there are over 50 million rats in New York's underground . If that is true, I'd like to know who counted them.....

[scrappinchar]

I'm cringing and laughing. Funny stories.

In a previous house we realized there must be a mouse in the house.
We put a trap behind the refrigerator (so the boys and dog couldn't get to it.) I think we used peanut butter. Two days later...little mouse was caught.

I hope you rid yourself of your little pests.

[Cheri T]

Ew ew ew ew ew!! I'd have probably wanted to go to a hotel, lol (but wouldn't have actually gone). Our boys went through a period of leaving the door to the garage open for minutes on end and we ended up with 2 mice in our house 2 summers ago. We went to the nearest farm store (Theisen's) and bought humane traps. I think Elisha mentioned them. They are larger than a regular mouse trap, and you stick the bait in, the mouse goes clear in the trap and is stuck inside the "jail." Then you have to release the mouse at, say, a wooded park or the country. We caught several in our garage this way, but the 2 in our house would NOT go in the humane traps, so we did eventually give up and set regular traps. Less than 24 hours later we were mouse-free again. One had been in our master closet (I had forgotten a bag of Christmas candy up there in my hiding place) - I spent the next 2 weeks doing COUNTLESS loads of laundry, spending a fortune on dry cleaning, carpet shampooing, etc. Yuck!

Elisha, I don't know if I could have ever slept peacefully ever again if that happened to me! Isn't there a Laura Ingalls Wilder story about a mouse nibbling on Pa's hair in the night? ick ick ick ick!

[goodqueenbee]

tiza126, on 25 April 2012 - 07:30 AM, said:

ew ew ew I don't like mice! Right now I just keep dealing with roaches in my apartment, which isn't much better. Especially since my cat is too prissy to kill them. She likes to herd them down the hallway into the bedroom and then wake me up so I can kill it. What a sweet girl. NOT!

I like her "TEAM EFFORT" tactic!

[CRS]

*Shudder*! We had a mouse in our bedroom once and our previous dog was nice enough to point it out to me. I haven't seen one since then. I hope your cats earn their keep and keep the rest of the mice out!

[scrappinchar]

Bring out the troops!!!


Can these help?

I thought the stomping could help.

[Becster]

scrappinchar, on 25 April 2012 - 09:14 AM, said:

Bring out the troops!!!


Can these help?

I thought the stomping could help.

[AngRoCamp]

eeeeeeeeew!

But I appreciate all the tips in this thread. We have a real mouse problem here

[LaLo1103]

I'm such a sucker that I can't even hurt a mouse. We had one in the house and we bought those safe traps that trap the mouse in, but doesn't harm it. We used peanut butter and caught him the first night we tried. I let it go out by a creek and we have not had one visitor since!

We had two cats at the time and they were both USELESS! Too fat and spoiled to hunt I guess! However, we occasionally get those nasty cave crickets here (they look like spiders but can jump REALLY high) and the cat usually takes care of those. I guess she thinks they're a toy or something!

[AggieB]

Oh, mouse stories!!
In one apartment, I had a mouse come under the inside front door & do laps around the livingroom. I was sitting there with my feet up, having a heart attack. Then it ran into the hall & my gentle Christian roommate grabbed a broom & beat it to death. I wasn't sure which surprised me more.
Mice in the bed - woke up to an odd sounding alarm one night & found my cat playing with a live mouse near my feet. The 'alarm' was the mousie shrieking. The cat was willing to trade the mouse for a piece of steak & I used a plastic baggie to take it outside.