EEEK A MOUSE !

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Did I tell this story before?

When I first got my massage therapy license, I set up a room in my house to do some work at home. We rented the first floor of an old house. I was waiting for the very pregnant woman to arrive for her first appointment, by referral, so I'd never met her. I was nervously putting some finishing polish on the bathroom chrome when I stood up, turned around, facing the louvered closet door....and there, at eye level, was a mouse tail hanging out between the louvers.

That meant, for all you sleepy-heads, that there was a mouse attached on the other side of the door.

Pregnant clients need the potty every 20 minutes. Definitely the moment they step in the door. My career was ending before it had barely begun. I imagined screams, crashing and thrashing, injuries, lawsuits.

So I gingerly opened the closet door, armed with a plastic container and a piece of cardboard. The mouse jumped, as did I, and my almost-blind aging kitty did, too. I put the cat out into the living room and closed the door so I could quickly pull everything out of the closet and catch the mouse and put it outside.

It was nowhere to be found, so I cleaned up again like lightening, very nervous now as the client was due to arrive. I went out into the livingroom to wring my hands and watch the driveway, and....you guessed it.....my old cat had the mouse in the middle of the rug!

I scooped up the injured mouse so fast and ran it across the street and tossed it in the empty lot just in the nick of time. Whew.

I no longer would dream of working out of my home. Yikes.

 

[Ldychef2k]

It's not funny any more. I want them gone.

All the orbs of death were gone this morning. All the traps inside and out were nibbled on, the sticky ones were moved a few inchest this way or that. My granddaughter's bed had poop on it, there was none in the kitchen, some in the living room. I jammed towels under all the doors last night,especially to my pantry and office storage.

After school today, granddaughter took a flashlight and started to look around. She said: I think we need to move the couch away from the wall.

Hundreds, literally hundreds of poops. And every single peanut butter and plaster ball. And a corn cob. And a hole in the wall.

I had some spray foam that expands, so I filled the hole. Cleaned like a demon. Decided to open the small garage door. Within 15 minutes there were three cats on my patio, staring into the garage.

I want this to stop. Now.

 

[freemotion]

But...

 

[2dream]

Oh my, you are infested!!!!! Have you seen the movie Willard?

Opps, sorry.

 

[Ldychef2k]

Yes.

And I keep singing the theme from Ben.

I don't understand how this came on so suddenly. I have had, for example, the birdseed and sunflower seeds on the counter for two weeks. And the day before yesterday I saw that they had been eaten. How does it go from that to hundreds of poops behind the couch in two days? I just moved that couch last week.....

Go cats...get those little buggers.

edited for typo

 

[2dream]

If its dry in your area they are looking for water. We have the problem here when it gets really dry. Humongous field rats and mice. There are vacant fields (uncut and unkept) all around us.

In my situation I don't really have a problem though. At first sign of a rat or mouse I make gravy. Of course its laced with rat poison. They love the cold greasy stuff. One bowl on the top self in the garage or behind the dryer or where ever. I can put out a whole bowl full and the next day its gone. Shortly after that, I don't see rats or mice. But I do not have small children or cats. My dog is always contained during that time as well.

You have to be very careful with this as squirrels, cats, dogs, chickens and anything else in the area will lap it up like candy.

However, it is very effective for me.

 

[Blackbird]

And just think, they were right behind you the entire time!

It must suck, I would hate having rats in the house, but we've all gotten a lot of laughs reading your adventure!

 

[Ldychef2k]

Oh, boy... Well, SOMETHING has been eating the bait, so I am hoping soon to find at least ONE carcass.

I don't know now if it is a rat or lots of mice. The first scat I found was large. The hundreds under the couch were small. The hole isn't big enough for a rat.

I am rooting for the cats.

I want to move.

 

[big brown horse]

Don't mean to scare you any more than you are already scared, but if I were you I would also check inside the couch too. Tip it over and look for entry holes on the bottom.

I'm with Bee, honey I will be happy to send you a package of one bites until you get on your feet, nobody should have to live in fear.

 

[eggs4sale]

We live in the country surrounded by fields. Mice are going to come whether I like it or not. The snakes and barn owls can do only so much, so I keep 4 boxes of mouse poison at all times in the wall where they travel from the attic to the outside. The only times I have mouse problems is when the poison is gone. If I don't replace them, I will be kept up all night by the sounds of mice scritching and clawing around inside the wall right by my bed. This is NOT a pleasant sensation when you have been up late watching Most Haunted.

If I found mouse poop behind my couch, I'd have 4 boxes there, too.
You know you've got them when you smell a stink that won't go away. After a week or so, it's completely gone. Boy, is it worth it!

For the record, my BIL was walking to the bathroom in the middle of the night and stepped on a mouse. Both of them screamed like a little girl. The mouse died. Maybe i can send him to your house.