I have a house mouse

[seismic wonder2]

Two problems.
1. If you SEE one you have TWENTY you don't see.
2. If you HAVE one, soon you will have TWENTY.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

I have approximately eleventy billion house mice that I can send you. I have been fighting this battle for YEARS. I finally resorted to poison at the top of summer and even that is hardly making a dent in the population. I hate the nasty little poopers!!!

 

[silkiechicken]

That newspaper litter works great to asorb odors! That is what is used for the lab mice too, however, it can only do so much when one room contains 800-1000 adults with 30+ litters. The only worse smell is the "dirty cage room" after the daily cage changes. The most disgusting part of it all, is that over time, you don't really smell them very much because you get desensitized... but if you take a week off or come back from x-mas break, the stench is unbearable! I can't smell it but always know that if I go to the store after work... everybody probably smells me. Yuck!

 

[debilorrah]

We do plan on catching it when we get paid, with a humane trap. I have never seen a wild mouse just hang out on a bookshelf while my daughter talks to it. It fell asleep up there!!!!

 

[woodmort]

FYI

The summer after I graduated from high school I worked on a mouse farm--yes, they have them that's where lab mice come from--and I can tell you that mice pee. Raise thousands of them and the combine ammonia will burn your eyes, nose and throat--my dad used to make me undress in the garage when I came home. Also one female mouse will produce several dozen offspring within several weeks which will produce several dozen offspring within weeks which will produce--well you get the idea. All those mice will wander through your foodstuffs tracking bacteria and whatever, contaminating what they don't eat.

Now if you wish to get rid of them, we have a 2-year old cat whose favorite game is to catch them around 2 am and bring them up on our bed to play with. I would be glad to loan her to you except she's my DW's favorite cat so I'd probably be in trouble.

 

[kathyinmo]

A MOUSE????

They scare me to death! A snake, a spider, a bug .... OK .... BUT rodents???

 

[debilorrah]

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HAHAHA!!! I am just the opposite. Snakes, spiders and large insects (larger than 1/2 inch) give me the hebbie jebbies. BIG TIME!

 

[chicknduck]

As much as they creep me out. I felt bad for the tiny tiny baby that my kitten brought me up from the woods into our backyard at my feet. It was only an inch and a half long . I felt so bad for it. The lttle ones I guess arent so creepy.

 

[tobin123]

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I agree the mouse must go.Trap it before it's to late.

 

[Frosty]

I have a timer for my chicken house lights, and one day the lights didn't come on. I replaced the bulbs, still no lights. Checked the circuit breaker, it was tripped. I reset it, but when the lights came on they tripped the breaker again. I dropped the ceiling panels in the hen house and found that there were sections of the wiring where all of the insulation was chewed off and one section had a dead mouse on it. I am lucky that the building didn't burn down!

There are traps that you can make, even as simple as getting something like an empty plastic bottle (soda, water, etc...) and putting a bit of peanut butter in the bottom. Tie a string around the top and attach it to something, then put the bottle on the edge of a shelf or table or something with at least half sticking out from the edge. Mouse goes in for the peanut butter, gets to the part of the bottle hanging out, tips the bottle off and the string keeps it from falling all of the way down. There are different varieties of mice in the wild, they don't all look like common field mice. Mice are actually curious.

What creeped me out was going in to take care of my turkeys (the only building I have that the cats can't get into) and having about a dozen rats staring at me. Many late nights there with a flashlight and a pellet gun... DH and DS never went out, maybe they are scared of rats? Between me, the cats, and the weather that flooded the building (had to move the turkeys out), I think they are gone... ugh!