20 grams of excitement

[Lee]

My wife gets home today and asks me where one of our daughters is. I tell her she went to a basketball game. She flips out and says that she was supposed to do some laundry and such...then calls her to bitch at her. Suddenly she screams and says oh my God, Oh my God. I'm upstairs and think my daughter has just had a head on collision or  something ...so I come flying down the stairs. Turns out, a tiny mouse had gotten in the house...likely from the same daughter's friends leaving the door between the utility room and garage open last night. So I close the room off where the Mouse was last seen and ask my wife where all the damn cats are. She has four of them. I find two of the cats, and grab a broom stick to spear the little home invader if given the chance. Within 5 minutes, the cats are begging to get out of the room, in spite of finding the mouse interesting. After chasing the bugger back and forth for ten minutes, and chasing him from behind a desk, he finally hides in a bad place ( behind a shopping bag, and I deliver a death blow with my broomstick spear.
I put him in a bag and carried him to my wife, who screamed again and told me she is so disgusted by mice. I told her that I'm ten times more disgusted by cats. Thank God for my tactical flashlight - it was the first tine ive used it in a tactical situation.

[wmenorr67]

Classic, reminds me of the time the daughters cat brought her a live mouse on Valentine's Day.  She was asleep and she woke up screaming bloody murder.  Once I heard what the problem was I laughed my ass off.

[230RN]

We never saw any mice except for their stomachs, which our cats would bring to the house as trophies.

Don't know why that was.

It just was.

[lee n. field]

My wife gets home today and asks me where one of our daughters is. I tell her she went to a basketball game. She flips out and says that she was supposed to do some laundry and such...then calls her to bitch at her. Suddenly she screams and says oh my God, Oh my God. I'm upstairs and think my daughter has just had a head on collision or  something ...so I come flying down the stairs. Turns out, a tiny mouse had gotten in the house...likely from the same daughter's friends leaving the door between the utility room and garage open last night. So I close the room off where the Mouse was last seen and ask my wife where all the damn cats are. She has four of them. I find two of the cats, and grab a broom stick to spear the little home invader if given the chance. Within 5 minutes, the cats are begging to get out of the room, in spite of finding the mouse interesting. After chasing the bugger back and forth for ten minutes, and chasing him from behind a desk, he finally hides in a bad place ( behind a shopping bag, and I deliver a death blow with my broomstick spear.
I put him in a bag and carried him to my wife, who screamed again and told me she is so disgusted by mice. I told her that I'm ten times more disgusted by cats. Thank God for my tactical flashlight - it was the first tine ive used it in a tactical situation.

All that drama over a mouse.  Geez.  You'd think it was a spider or something.

[Daniel964]

She should spend a few days here. We are overrun with mice. I have traps everywhere and can't get rid of them all . I'm sure it's because of the cold and the farm behind the house but it's still a pain. We usually catch 5 -10 a week.

[Lee]

I'm up to four now. Our new kitten brought one to me last night.
Haven't  figured out how they're getting in yet. At least I've got a mouser.

[geronimotwo]

She should spend a few days here. We are overrun with mice. I have traps everywhere and can't get rid of them all . I'm sure it's because of the cold and the farm behind the house but it's still a pain. We usually catch 5 -10 a week.

what do you use for bait?  we use a small dab of peanut butter on the bottom of the trap activator.  I think I finally have our house sealed up well as I haven't seen any mouse sign for about 18 months.  we used to get a few every season change.

[Cliffh]

what do you use for bait?  we use a small dab of peanut butter on the bottom of the trap activator.  I think I finally have our house sealed up well as I haven't seen any mouse sign for about 18 months.  we used to get a few every season change.

That's what I've been using, peanut butter smeared all around the trigger.  Caught 5 or 6 field rats under the house in about 2 weeks, haven't seen any in the last two weeks or so.

Strange thing is/was, they won't go into the live traps.  I've got 3 snap traps within 2 feet of each other and have caught rats in all 3 at the same time (left them unchecked for 4 days once), but the bait was still in the empty live traps.

[never_retreat]

With a title like that I would have thought this thread had something to do with drugs.

[charby]

With a title like that I would have thought this thread had something to do with drugs.

Ditto.

[AJ Dual]

http://www.lowes.com/pd_333955-30313-22486_0__?productId=3321514

These work great.

Use the kid/cat/dog resistant box for exposed thoroughfares for the mice, along the bases of walls where mice cross.  Toss the extra bare blocks anywhere a rodent might like to run, travel, or hide where pets and children can't get to them, like under cabinets, in any holes or gaps, or behind/under heavy equipment.

[Lee]

Drugs? What kind of place is this?
I don't like the poisons, at least not as the first option - mice tend to go elsewhere to die- then something else eats them.
I have been using the Ortho plastic traps they sell at Home Depot. They work great.
The kitten then drags the trap and mouse up to the kids or my wife. It's a win/win.

[41magsnub]

I'm not real big on the poisons either after almost losing my dog.