stay armed with a fork at all times, you never know when the opportunity to fork the bastard may come up..

Zombie and Pandy at both of you!

And I love that eye-twitch emoticon!

scandalousalan said:

stay armed with a fork at all times, you never know when the opportunity to fork the bastard may come up..

They are a pain in the ass. They used to nest up under my mother's house. I set all

kind of bait to get rid of them. Knock on wood. Hadn't seen any activity under there

in a few months or so.

PurpleJedi said:

ZombieKitten said:

for every one you see, it's how many unseen????

I certainly hope not.

If little baby mice start appearing, I'm setting the house on fire.

Totally my idea of rodent extermination.

You are right....D.E.V.I.L.

PurpleJedi said:

ZombieKitten said:

for every one you see, it's how many unseen????

I certainly hope not.

If little baby mice start appearing, I'm setting the house on fire.

ZombieKitten said:

PANDURITO said:

PurpleJedi. You don't need a cat.

You need ZombieKitten

...and her 2 bricks!

XxAxX said:

I certainly hope you didn't startle Zombiekitten with this pic and she inadvertantly smashed her screen between two bricks!

You could try loading the mousetrap with a piece of fire-burned sausage. Always seems to work for us.

abigail05 said:

You could try loading the mousetrap with a piece of fire-burned sausage. Always seems to work for us.

You mean, take a piece of sausage and burn it over an open fire?

PurpleJedi said:

abigail05 said:

You could try loading the mousetrap with a piece of fire-burned sausage. Always seems to work for us.

You mean, take a piece of sausage and burn it over an open fire?

Without burning the house down

PurpleJedi said:

XxAxX said:

I certainly hope you didn't startle Zombiekitten with this pic and she inadvertantly smashed her screen between two bricks!

i can't bear to kill mice

angel345 said:

PurpleJedi said:

You mean, take a piece of sausage and burn it over an open fire?

Without burning the house down

Yep, without burning the house down, blacken it a bit with a match or lighter.

Give it a try, see if it does anything.

For every 1 mouse you see....there are 7 that you don't see. That's just the way it is. They travel in packs of 8 then they turn into 24 to 64 depending on the male to female ratio.

You're just gonna have to burn your house down.

abigail05 said:

angel345 said:

Without burning the house down

Yep, without burning the house down, blacken it a bit with a match or lighter.

Give it a try, see if it does anything.

Rodents! And it ain't just mice and rats either!

We stay in a top-floor apartment and there had been a family of pigeons living in a hole in the eave of our building. They were awesome -- they'd coo through the day (which was pleasant) and even would hatch a brood of chicks in late spring.

So this past spring, we noticed a couple eggs had fallen and broken in our driveway. Then, earlier this autumn, I noticed our balcony is raided daily by a family of 5-6 baby black squirrels. I startled them one day and, sure enough, they retreated into the eave where the pigeons once lived! They're cute, no doubt, but in addition to having displacing the pigeons, they nip at my flowers and they devoured some pumpkins I sat out for the season. I try to be nice, but those little demons have got to go!

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paintedlady said:

Are you sure it's only A mouse?

For sure, it's not.

DesireeNevermind said:

For every 1 mouse you see....there are 7 that you don't see. That's just the way it is. They travel in packs of 8 then they turn into 24 to 64 depending on the male to female ratio.

You're just gonna have to burn your house down.

abigail05 said:

angel345 said:

Without burning the house down

Yep, without burning the house down, blacken it a bit with a match or lighter.

Give it a try, see if it does anything.

I was just kidding

DesireeNevermind said:

For every 1 mouse you see....there are 7 that you don't see. That's just the way it is. They travel in packs of 8 then they turn into 24 to 64 depending on the male to female ratio.

You're just gonna have to burn your house down.

Don't even go there!

You know, about 6 years ago we had a mice get in the house. There were 3 of them. Brown-ish gray ones that I believe are "field" mice endemic to the area (there was an open field nearby that a few years back was turned into condos, so the field mice living there were running rampart all over the area). We laid out traps and within a week they were dead.

This one is black. I've seen it scurrying past. I googled "black mouse" and I believe it's a legitimate "house mouse". It probably came in from next door (new neighbors are renters, and there's like 3 families living in the one house), and is probably too "city-smart" to fall for the traps.

I'll try the burned sausage. If that don't work, I'm getting a cat.

PurpleJedi said:

DesireeNevermind said:

For every 1 mouse you see....there are 7 that you don't see. That's just the way it is. They travel in packs of 8 then they turn into 24 to 64 depending on the male to female ratio.

You're just gonna have to burn your house down.

Don't even go there!

You know, about 6 years ago we had a mice get in the house. There were 3 of them. Brown-ish gray ones that I believe are "field" mice endemic to the area (there was an open field nearby that a few years back was turned into condos, so the field mice living there were running rampart all over the area). We laid out traps and within a week they were dead.

This one is black. I've seen it scurrying past. I googled "black mouse" and I believe it's a legitimate "house mouse". It probably came in from next door (new neighbors are renters, and there's like 3 families living in the one house), and is probably too "city-smart" to fall for the traps.

I'll try the burned sausage. If that don't work, I'm getting a cat.

You need a strong and clever cat though. When I was in college we had mice in the apartment. Our cat didn't do shit. The mice were too smart. Those fuckers worked together to get food out of the traps and they dodged shoes and paint guns. The cat could never catch them because they were either too fast or he was just too content with cat food and lounging on his pillow. They climb high too because they dig their litte claws into the wood panels and they can get up to the top cabinet. It wasn't until we moved out that we found turds and pieces of newspaper on the top shelf of our kitchen cabinets. That's over 6 feet in height. A FUCKIN' MOUSE GATHERING NEWSPAPER!

DesireeNevermind said:

PurpleJedi said:

Don't even go there!

You know, about 6 years ago we had a mice get in the house. There were 3 of them. Brown-ish gray ones that I believe are "field" mice endemic to the area (there was an open field nearby that a few years back was turned into condos, so the field mice living there were running rampart all over the area). We laid out traps and within a week they were dead.

This one is black. I've seen it scurrying past. I googled "black mouse" and I believe it's a legitimate "house mouse". It probably came in from next door (new neighbors are renters, and there's like 3 families living in the one house), and is probably too "city-smart" to fall for the traps.

I'll try the burned sausage. If that don't work, I'm getting a cat.

You need a strong and clever cat though. When I was in college we had mice in the apartment. Our cat didn't do shit. The mice were too smart. Those fuckers worked together to get food out of the traps and they dodged shoes and paint guns. The cat could never catch them because they were either too fast or he was just too content with cat food and lounging on his pillow. They climb high too because they dig their litte claws into the wood panels and they can get up to the top cabinet. It wasn't until we moved out that we found turds and pieces of newspaper on the top shelf of our kitchen cabinets. That's over 6 feet in height. A FUCKIN' MOUSE GATHERING NEWSPAPER!

SHUT. UP.

All the while we're thinking the kitchen counters are "too high" for them.

PurpleJedi said:

DesireeNevermind said:

You need a strong and clever cat though. When I was in college we had mice in the apartment. Our cat didn't do shit. The mice were too smart. Those fuckers worked together to get food out of the traps and they dodged shoes and paint guns. The cat could never catch them because they were either too fast or he was just too content with cat food and lounging on his pillow. They climb high too because they dig their litte claws into the wood panels and they can get up to the top cabinet. It wasn't until we moved out that we found turds and pieces of newspaper on the top shelf of our kitchen cabinets. That's over 6 feet in height. A FUCKIN' MOUSE GATHERING NEWSPAPER!

SHUT. UP.

All the while we're thinking the kitchen counters are "too high" for them.

NOOOO honey....nothing to high for those critters. Have you seen those fuckers jump? It's like some cirque du soleil shit for mice. All gazelle like they are. Yep...landlord told us that they are skillfull climbers and wherever they smell food they will find a way to get there. I remember him saying they probably climbed to the top to stay warm as we didn't have a fireplace. Heat rises to the top. Once we found a mousey in the dryer. I was mortified and bought all new clothes.

Another thing I hate about mice is they're so damned flexible and pliable and shit. I'm wondering if these fuckers have bones because they can sqeeze in and out of the tightest spots and never get stuck. They're like containers of toothpaste....they can get very flat and still function.

Yeah its that time of yr where its too cold to stay outside so the buggers are coming into the house..i hear them in the walls, can hear the drywall plaster fall sometimes

My cat is awsome, she will sit for hours & stare at the wall, last month she caught a mouse in the kitchen but when she let it drop it scurried away. she was pissed!

abigail05 said:

You could try loading the mousetrap with a piece of fire-burned sausage. Always seems to work for us.

They are also attracted to pet food. I hear hamburger meat works too.

I always used peanut butter.

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They started out as 8 mice!!!!

DesireeNevermind said:

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They started out as 8 mice!!!!

Set.That.House.On.Fire.

All I will say is this....

My moms house had mice... so I noticed a little mouse at night running in and out the stove (burner) onto the counter.

So a friend had tons of snap traps and he gave them to us... over 30 traps. He told us to set them all at once. We did, all over the kitchen, because that one mouse was on the counter and you couldn't tell where it would go. So to be sure we set all 30 traps here and there, and baited all with bits of meat (bacon bits).

In the morning we caught the mouse.... and 28 others!

We thought we had one. We emptied the traps and reset them the next night.... all were full the next day.

So I was like and got an electronic-emitter shocker thingy to ward off mice.

Something interesting happened.... since my mom had wall-to-wall carpeting, static electricity was built up with those mouse zappers and electrocuted the mice.

We had a dog, and the mice were eating the Lamb&Rice dog food, so those mice were fed expensive dog food and had shiny coats and pretty brown fur and looked CLEAN.

We killed over 400 mice in ONE month with the zappers. Dead mice were EVERYWHERE :skincrawling: Especially in the basement.

YEAH...... they were getting in from the basement, and they were also eating bird seeds from the bird feeders. Now I know why red-tailed hawks nested in my mom's back yard. The hawks had tons of mice to eat.

I since moved out, and we knocked out the population.. although she still continues to do the pest control, but we thought we had ONE or two.... good luck.