Still Shaking.........

hahahaha cute story i know it's not funny

sorry and i AM squeemish -

i know it is shocking no matter what it was

i know of no humane way to have 'peaceful co-existence' with mice but somehow somewhere the glue traps seem the least bad (and will not poison or trap your dogs and cats - at least that can't be fixed/cleaned up).

I have had two experiences with mice - both about my pets and that is why it is ironic to me that your story was the animals were like oblivious to the mouse. (so cute I could visualize them just kicking back, snoring away...)

1. when my son was little we had 3 rats - we lived in a 'garden' apartment which means bugs and who knew mice?

they were attracted to the rat food and would not only brave coming in to the apartment but would go right in the rat's cages into their dishes and crap all over going both ways.

the worst thing (when i went ballistic) was it was Valentines Day and I gave my son a chocolate marshmallow valentine heart and they totally demolished it tin foil and all.

2. my dwarf rabbit - also probably his cuisine was haute' to a mouse! i moved into a place on a bluff a couple stories up from the bottom - and within days of moving here we had mice in the store room on the back deck (the bunny's apartment) -

Of all things they found a space around the pipes and scooted on up for a food fight. That was easily remedied by just caulking up the space around the pipes and glue trapping the ones that made it through.

So I don't know what you are going to do.

The bad part is there is rarely just one mouse. lol.

good luck.

Oooooooooo, that's awful. We get them in the garage in the winter sometimes...we live by a lot of woods, but we set traps or sticky paper. We just have a dog and she's not allowed in the garage, but avoid anything poisonous.

With the animals in your home, don't do any kind of poison or anything where they could get hurt, or you or anyone else inside your house.

Maybe sticky paper where if they run across it, they stick to it? I can't help much with mice, but there used to be a bat problem in the neighborhood quite a few years ago...at least mice are much cuter, but still disease carriers. If you don't check the paper often, the mouse might chew his own leg off to get away. The sticky paper would also have to be in a place where none of your pets can get to that or the mouse stuck on it. Maybe look for some humane traps baited with peanut butter and you could just take them far out in the woods and let them go.

With all your pets, that is one brave mouse. Surely your neighbors in your area have the same kind of problem, maybe you could ask some of them.

I can only suggest that when the weather gets better you get any outside holes and crevices plugged where they can get inside. It's amazing what little places they can squeeze themselves in...and those buggers can climb pretty well, too.

time to get some cats

First off = the mice in the country aren't as diseased in the city where they mess around in human sewage.

Get a live trap and set it up. Make sure you check it a couple times a day so the little guys don't die in the traps. Then take a couple mile drive and let them out where you don't have to worry about them coming back. These little guys are pests - but they are actually very sweet and communicative when they aren't afraid of being whacked. I've trapped hundreds and let them go at a stream with vegetation and places for shelter and never once has one of the little guys bit me. I've actually made pets of a few and they were terrific kids.

Just pretend they are hamsters and they won't scare you.

Jaqueline - I love mice. And they are exceptionally important to the environment, regardless of what people think. I made shelters for them and actually took food for them when it was getting cold so they would have a way to survive til spring if they needed it. Took cut up cloth for them for bedding, too - treated the litlle guys to the ritz life.

When I trapped them I put them in an aquarium with a wheel, food, water and bedding. When I got too many or if they were fighting, then I'd take the trip out and let them choose their own shelters. I had a little mousy town for them to go to. The ones I kept were brush mice that were born in the aquarium and were too young to let go or they would die. By spring, two of them were too tame to let go of so I kept them. One lived 5 years. They were a delight. They didn't have the skunky smell of the house mice, had pouches for food like hamsters, and became very tame with regular handling. But you can't let them run or they chew everything to pieces.

One guy, I called Trap. He would escape every time I got ready to take them out. A few days later he'd show up in one of the traps, go back to the cage and play and eat safe and sound, then escape the next time I got ready to take everyone out. I'd see him running here and again on his "escapee" days. Never had the heart to kill him. He was just hilarious.

I used to keep hamsters and gerbils. What's the big deal? They are adorable.

I was going to say much what heysal said. But DON'T feel so comfortable as SHE does. They ARE less diseased, and may even be healthy, but they CAN have mites, ticks, or fleas, and spread some things, so be careful. Try not to handle them, and was your hands afterwards. And in some parts of the country, you are BOUND to see them. There may even be BATS in your house!

Steve

I have a stapler from like, the 1920s. It weighs 18 pounds. When a mouse runs across my desk I just pick up that cast iron stapler and pound that sucker right there on the spot. My three boy cats, lounging nearby hardly even flinch. Then I take that mouse, flip it up into the air and as he comes down, stretch out my neck and swallow him whole. I think the cats are impressed.

Jacqueline,

Quit feeding the damn cat and dogs and you won't have a mouse problem.

Joe Mobley

I know you don't want to harm them but they will not just go away. I live in an older home and we have poison put out at all times. You can buy it at the local hardware store and I have not seen a mouse in almost 8 months. You can also buy the traps that you don't have to see the dead mouse or handle them. Hope this helps.

Wait - You're Canadian - and you live on 117 acres..and you're whining to me about a mouse? :rolleyes:

Did you ever see the movie "Never Cry Wolf"? About the Canadian biologist Farley Mowat?

Remember the scene with all the field mice in his cabin?...and when he takes great delight in 'blenderizing' their little buddies for all the little buggers to see and take heed? :rolleyes:

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/2...Clip-Mice.html (great scene )

Send the mice a message

lol, everyone has their stupid fears. Can't exactly control them.

Whew! You scared me Jacqueline, I thought something was really wrong!

Try getting some cats maybe?

@ Travelin guy

Thats hilarious.... they are probably after your moon pies!

1. Get some peppermint oil and some cotton balls. Put a few drops of peppermint oil on the cotton balls and put those cotton balls in strategic places all over the house. Mice hate the smell of peppermint and will run for the nearest exit.

2. Plant some Cat Grass, Lemongrass, Catnip, Catmintand/or Valerian in your yard. This will attract cats to your garden and will make the mice keep far away from your house.

If you want to get a cat, try to get a farm cat, as they are the best mousers, usually

I think I'd be shaken up too.

I had one recently, I called in the Mouse guys for help.

Told the guy, " You won't be able to catch it as it's really fast "

His reply " No intention of catching it ! "

He simply put down a box with a blue tablet under my kitchen and came back a week later and when the tablet was gone he told me the mouse would now be probably outside but dead !

He came back a week later after leaving another tablet but nothing was touched which confirmed ( to him ) that the mouse was gone.

I hope you didn't forget the Cokes and the Spicy Baby Dip!?