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UNINVITED GUESTS!
« on: Sep 19th, 2005, 2:26pm » |
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So I’ve been getting unexpected visitors in my apartment --- Field Mice looking for a warm place for the winter. Crystal is having a nervous breakdown and my dog is sleep deprived waiting for them to appear so she could stomp the shit out of them. I’ve already caught 3. Just saw another one this morning as it ran under the fridge. I thought I heard it snicker at me. 
I’ve been catching them on glue traps after the tunnels didn’t work…tunnels you ask? Little boxes with trapped doors to trap them in. I had two out last week – I very generously spread some peanut butter on the door of the tunnel and the floor of the tunnel. The next day they were licked clean…bastards. I could see them now laughing at me…  .
Anyway, the glue traps worked, but they’re obviously determined to get in my home. I live on a first floor facing a creek. I spoke to landlord and he said to just get mouse traps and that I shouldn’t be so concerned with mice that it’s flies that should gross me out as they land on shit and stuff on the ground – WTF??? Also, my front door needs that little rubber thingy that attaches to the bottom of the door as there’s a 1 inch crack there and he said until he can get time to put that thingy on, I should use a towel. Right, they can eat through a wall, they’ll laugh at a towel.
I just called him to tell him that the mouse I called him about has invited his posse and he needs to put that thingy on right away!
Any suggestions? I would use poison, but can’t with the dog.
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Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
« Reply #1 on: Sep 19th, 2005, 2:36pm » |
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Your landlord sounds like a real winner. LMAO
Aside from traps and making sure that your weather stripping is nice and snug, I don't know what else you can do. Mice are nasty...
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Get a cat! It's not only that a cat will catch them, but mice are very clever and when they smell a kitty, they split! 
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Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
« Reply #3 on: Sep 19th, 2005, 2:50pm » |
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Release the uninvited mice into your landlords apt.  Just don't get caught. Call the city building inspector on him. If there are treated his buildings can be considered condemed, etc. Good luck in what ever you choose to do.
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Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
« Reply #4 on: Sep 19th, 2005, 3:06pm » |
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WE used a piece of saltines, spread the peanut butter on that and shoved it to the back of the tunnels.
Trouble is, you can't sell them to a local pet store,
and need to release them more than one-mile away from where you live, otherwise, within five minutes they are back inside your house.
All I can say is make sure you plenty of tins,
nothing left out and keep checking the wires
to make sure they haven't been bad house guests.
I hope your landlord gets a few minutes,
but the hard-ware stores whould have a "Weather-strip" and it should have have that sticky glue strip....
not hard to do....just time consuming.
Winter..ugh....
with the summer we had, we should have fun
playing in 5 - 6 feet of snow by December.
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Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
« Reply #6 on: Sep 19th, 2005, 3:20pm » |
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Don't kill them!
I know a Chinese restaurant that’ll give you 2 bucks each for them.
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Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
« Reply #7 on: Sep 19th, 2005, 3:22pm » |
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Oh man, i'm gagging... 
Anyway, I don't like cats...but I may just have to get one...
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Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
« Reply #8 on: Sep 19th, 2005, 4:15pm » |
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Poison is cruel. They die a horrible death. I think rodents are cute, but I don't want any in the house. Forget about a cat. Not all of them are mousers. Those live traps are good. Bob just heard that those ultrasonic repellants work on field mice, but not city mice. He heard that from a guy who lives up in the mountains and gets a lot of field mice. Good luck with that...
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Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
« Reply #10 on: Sep 19th, 2005, 4:28pm » |
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BB gun shot gun works too then have land lord fix holes. just tell neighbors to stay down durring hunting season. 
Or get a cat that sprays, for 1 week, and then sell cat to chineese resturant. The other white meat. 
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Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
« Reply #11 on: Sep 19th, 2005, 4:30pm » |
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on Sep 19th, 2005, 4:15pm, nani wrote:
Hantavirus is also cruel.
I say kill the damn rodents and drop the diseased body in the slot at the post office.
Or feed it to that yappie dog next door.
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Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
« Reply #12 on: Sep 19th, 2005, 4:37pm » |
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Field mice , awwww, they're so cute
I remember when we built our first house in a new development that used to be a corn field. I was nine months pregnant and we had these little mice coming in. Found one squeaking because his head was sticking out of my dishwasher door but his body was inside the dishwasher. Called hubby asking "what to do, what to do". He said slam the door! NOT . I let it out. When hubby came home, we were chasing the mouse through the kitchen - hubby with a broom and me bending over and holding open a paper bag. There's something wrong with this picture don't you think?
Also found one in my bread drawer one morning (still preggo), went to grab the bread and noticed a hole in the middle of a package of hamburger buns. Looked a little closer, there was Mickey, looking back at me. Grabbed a paper bag, grabbed the pack of buns, threw it in the bag, had on my bright red robe (that couldn't close over my belly) and white fuzzy slippers, marched out the door, across the neighbors back yard, into the corn field and heaved the bag as far as I could. That was one happy mouse. My neighbors watched me with strange looks as I calmly walked back. We had not met them yet - nice first impression!
This house we have not had one single mouse, and we are out in the country-ish,. But, squirrels - ugh! Had them in the attic, in the walls (one ate a hole into my dining room). I made a lovely treat for them and put it in the attic - peanut butter balls, rolled in sunflower seeds - laced with Decon Rat Poison. Worked like a charm. If you make a nice little treat and place it behind the refrigerator, your dog can't get to it but the mousies can I wouldn't recommend the sunflower seeds though. PB and cheese ought to do the trick.
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I don't know how humane that is but try to put a picture of Jonny by the mouse hole!!!!
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Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
« Reply #14 on: Sep 19th, 2005, 5:36pm » |
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Meeses in the house sucks......cute or not there not healthy to be in close quarters. That virus is shed from mouse dust.....so there definetly on my things to kill list. And they have fleas......seen a zillion bail off a dead mouse onea the outside cats got when it's body cooled off !! They chew into your food and eat it.....and poop all over your stuff. Don't be suprised if ya wake up and find mouse turds across yer bedspread......ick !!!!! My cats used to catch em and chew there legs off and drown em in there big water'r......sheesh.....mouse poison was probly more humane. Toy mice I buy them to play with have no legs so they must think real ones shouldn't. Cats don't always kill them either.....they will chase and hunt and wound them till bored. I've found alot of mangled ones that died behind stuff.....close by food ain't cool !!!! There is rat and mouse bait called 'just one bite' and few others if ya can set it around the aprt outside where dogs and cats wouldn't bother it or be able to get near it. But when the rodents die you will SMELL them in the walls and behind stuff. I set out rat bait cuz some field rats were diggin under my deck (they will move in and take over if ya let em)......musta killed a bunch and now I gotta smell em under the porch and deck. Gagging me too.....blech. I've been killin mice here for 30 years and they KEEP COMEING. The cats love playin with em.....ever once in a while they catch one and let it go on the bed or under the covers !!!!! I hate meeses to pieces Pam
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Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
« Reply #15 on: Sep 19th, 2005, 6:24pm » |
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on Sep 19th, 2005, 2:26pm, Langa wrote:
I spoke to landlord and he said to just get mouse traps and that I shouldn’t be so concerned with mice that it’s flies that should gross me out as they land on shit and stuff on the ground – WTF???
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Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
« Reply #16 on: Sep 19th, 2005, 9:46pm » |
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Langa,
had field mice in my house in Florida-they ate my hammock! they ate my food! I tried the sticky traps-they chewed their legs off to escape. tried bait and poison. Finally had to resort to the old fashioned mouse trap. Took awhile but we finally got 'em. You can put that weatherstripping on yourself-send the bill to you obtuse landlord.
good luck hon
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Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
« Reply #17 on: Sep 19th, 2005, 9:56pm » |
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My sister, Ellen, works at a landfill so of course there are the little nasty-a$$ed creatures running amok. They take caramels and stick them down into the hole on the mousetrap and it gets them everytime! Guaranteed to work. Good luck. I say kill 'em! They are just as bad as spiders in my book.... *shiver*
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« Reply #18 on: Sep 19th, 2005, 10:18pm » |
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Ghost has a good idea. Sally's mom had the world's horniest Siamise that had the nickname "Doctor Irving and his black bag." Never saw such a sprayer. Never saw a mouse there either.
Anyway. No fair being nice to mice. Step on them, shoot them, too many of them anyway. Mean huh..but they can transmit some nasty shit. 
Take heart, my goofy cousin carries spiders out the front door rather than kill them.. We members of AARP don't do stuff like that though.
We never had them in the house but of course the camp was full of them. Since Dad emptied a six pack of Flit and waited outside for an hour, I doubt rodents survived either. Lotta dead stuff in there.
Good luck kid, so far so good and I like letting some go int his flat. 
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Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
« Reply #19 on: Sep 19th, 2005, 11:28pm » |
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on Sep 19th, 2005, 4:18pm, don wrote:
Had a bit of a mouse problem in the shop of late, chewing little holes in the flour bags. Damnable things to fix becuse the sticky tape won't stick, of course.
I've now got a little python living under the soft-drinks fridge and he's fixing matters nicely, thank you. Knocks the occasional jar off the shelves at night but it's a small price to pay.
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Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
« Reply #20 on: Sep 19th, 2005, 11:37pm » |
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Maria,
Try steel wool wherever you think they'll be trying to get in - if they try to chew through it, its all over for them.
I successfully stopped up a couple of spaces in the baseboards, bathroom and under the kitchen sink that was letting them get through. Doesn't look pretty but who cares, better than a mouse/mice in the house. Just make sure you disinfect with plenty of Lysol, bleach or your favorite heavy duty germ disinfector/destroyer.
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Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
« Reply #21 on: Sep 19th, 2005, 11:59pm » |
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Kathy, you have to be joking. The mice chewed its own leg off to get out of the sticky stuff?
Holy crap
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Re: UNINVITED GUESTS!
« Reply #22 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 12:01am » |
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Oh hey......I heard they won't chew thru foil either.....guess theres lots of uses for FOIL. But there are so many ways for them to come inside....they can run up a wall. Used to corner em in the cupboard and they'd GROWL at me. Kinda gave me the creeps......rabid mouser Pam
Mice are creepy............cute in an aquarium till one gets out. Found a few mummified mise and hamsters of my daugthers thru the years. She never told me they were missing till I found BODIES in the closets.
PS: They'll chew thru your legs or arms if they could do it.....nasty suckers. I have watched em turn on each other.......used to raise em to sell to pet stores MANY years ago. Some ate there own babies.......yum yum......dug into my profits tho.
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Langa, I'll trade you: your mice for my spiders. It seems the storage locker I had all of my stuff in was infested with several breeds of spider, including some big black ones, and some brown recluse. I've been prepared though, since some boxes I've opened, spiders would just jump out! Talk about creepy as hell, not to mention know about brown recluse firsthand since my father had been bit twice.. once in the leg (which left a half inch deep, inch round hole) and in the webbing of his hand which avoided serious scarring since that time he went to the ER (and my dad avoided Dr.s and hospitals at any cost - which is also one reason he died young too.)
I've been shaking out bedclothes before lying down, and shaking clothes before putting them on. Brown recluses love fabric.
Sprayed this place down with some Raid, aired it out and am burning Nag Champa incense to get rid of the smell.
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dug into my profits tho.
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