MICE!
It's not that they are inherently bad creatures - I just don't like them around ME!...in my HOUSE! The sneakiness, the surprise factor, the droppings, ugh. Since I've been up and around at night much more lately, holding little ones, doing extra loads of laundry, (due to the flu epidemic) I've seen exactly how many have made their residence here and make themselves quite at home during the evening hours, when we are all typically asleep!!!!! They run, play, chase, and get in and out and on top of everything! Yuck. They really like my closet, although there is nothing at all to eat in there! I also saw one dance across the back of the couch tonight! Did you know that they can get inside your piano, run up and down the strings...and make light music! Oh yes.....oh yes....I do not exaggerate! I about croaked! The worst was when I found that they will climb up the inside or back of an electric stove and into the drip pans ....and then out onto the kitchen counter!!! Yes, gives me shivers up my back too!!! Ok, that's quite enough. They are NOT CUTE, not at ALL.
Until they broke from excessive use, we had 2 fabulous black box-like mouse traps from D-Con that worked marvelously.
Worth every bit of the $4 - $6 we had to spend for each one! The best feature of them was that I could actually set them. It was as easy as pulling down a lever on top. The girls liked them too, because they never had to touch the mouse! To get rid of the dead mouse (their job), they just pulled the lever back, and dropped the corpse into the yard (where the dogs disposed of it quickly!) The kind in the photo below, although admittedly cheaper, are beyond my mechanical ability, so we're always having to wait for Johnny to come home from work each day so he can reset them at night (thus missing opportunties to catch mice all day long!). Tomorrow we're going to be looking for more of the black box kind! WalMart no longer carries them, but I see that ACE HARDWARE does. They work, folks!
Might be worth getting a good cat for a week or so too....if I could tolerate it.
Oh, we had some too. Very nasty to think about it. We realized that they wre coming for our bag of dog food that we stored in the laundry room. They even ate some of my fall decorations (styrofoam berries and stuff)... Good luck to you. I will have to remember these for the next time. *shiver*
ReplyDeleteOh, yuuuuuck!! You need to watch the movie Ratatuii (sp?)...about mice/rats. It won't get rid of the shivers, but it will make you laugh.
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Absolutely YUCK! I feel your pain!
ReplyDeleteMice are bad. Rats are worse. Mice at least, have the redeeming quality of cuteness. Heather H.
ReplyDeleteRachel,
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I have found that has helped in this old farmhouse, is to put packets of the edible poison under the house, in the crawlspace. I wouldn't use those IN the house because of little ones possibly getting into them...but for the last two years, we've had very FEW mouse visits when I put fresh poison under the house. One year, Rich & Jack also went under the house and we turned on all the lights inside the house...they sealed up every hole that they could see where a mouse might want to enter. We also jammed steel wool soap pads into any holes that I could see INSIDE the house. They don't like to gnaw through that material. Oh, I just cringe when I think about the year that they seemed to be everywhere -- I was ready to MOVE!!! ugh.
Rachel,
ReplyDeleteI'm right with you on the mice. I'm sorry to hear you've been up so many late nights. I have been too. All three kids with the stomach flu. I hope we didn't send you home with a little more than our good wishes. It was such a special treat to see you. Thanks for carving out some time.