The Mouse Saga

[mitch5252]

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Soos, how's the mouse situation since the weather's turned cold by you?




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[Redetotry]

Mitch Mitch, you have out done yourself with this one! I love it, you're on a roll today.

[Forestgal]

Mitch, if you've got so much time on your hands that you can find these delightful cartoons, etc., I've got lots of papers that need grading. What do you say?

[Acadianmom]

I hate to tell my mouse saga since Soos believes in catch and release. Thursday one of the cats came in with a mouse and let it get away in the house. Thursday night they hunted for it all night, I don't know how many times they woke me up. Friday I put a glue trap under a plastic container with the side propped up enough for a mouse but so the cats wouldn't walk in it. That night I heard a big commotion and the mouse had gotten into the trap but the cats found it before I did. One of the cats had the glue trap stuck to her foot with the mouse and the other cats were chasing her. Needless to say I no longer leave the door open so they can come and go at will. I don't want any more presents.

Martha

[VickieP]

I can just picture that, with the cats running through the house, hobbling on the glue trap!

[mitch5252]

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Martha, the visual on your story was hysterical!

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[avalen]

reminds me of the time I walked into the fly trap hanging in the
feed shed, you know those sticky paper rolls you just hang, yuk, it was
all in my hair, ewww

[Cedar518]

Laughing,.... still laughing,... hard enough so that students in the computer lab are looking at me grinning.

[Redetotry]

That must have been some sight Martha, too bad you didn't do a video for Funniest Home Video show it would be a winner. I am still laughing at the thought of the commotion. I think the cats would have to solve that problem without my help I don't like mice!!!

[Acadianmom]

Never a dull moment around here with 5 house cats. Thank goodness only one brings her catches in the house if the storm door isn't latched. I started letting them go out during the day because they sound like a herd of buffalo when they get to playing chase. We were down to one cat 4 years ago and said no more but then we took in my sons 2, a kitten that needed doctoring and a kitten that turned up during one of the hurricanes. Cats look at us and say suckers.

Martha

[Sparkle]

After my last cat died I swore I'd never have another while fulltiming. I'm dreading the day I find a stray. When I went to Best Friends I sighed with relief when I left without another pet. Loved your cat and mouse story, Martha. A friends Chihuahua did the same thing.

[Carolinagal]

I am so glad, I have learned to keep all drinks away from my computer. I never drink anything at all, when reading this forum. I picture these happenings as I read them and good thing I have no close neighbors, they would inform my kids I needed to be commited!!!

[OutandAbout]

I had a major mouse problem about 2 1/2 yrs ago. It took about a year to get all of them. I did use the glue boards and some clip kind of traps. Sorry Soos, I just can't catch and release. One day I heard a lot of noise in the cupboard next to the stove where the pots and pans are kept. I couldn't imagine what was causing it, possibly a squirrel (I had them in the attic). To my horror, after I got the nerve to investigate, it was a snake chasing a mouse. The snake was caught n the glue trap and still chasing the mouse. ACK! Thanks to the neighbor's sons who came to the rescue. He adores snakes and was able to remove it and save it. Not so the mouse. I HATES THEM MECESSES TO PIECES. Linda

[Nasoosie]

Now the picture of that snake caught on the sticky mouse trap still going after the mouse made me spew my afternoon drink all over hell and gone! But only because you said that the neighbor boy was able to set it free!

Last year I found a mouse caught on a piece of that torture sticky device in our school teachers' room drawer, and I spent my entire free period setting it free! What a horrible, horribly cruel device those sticky traps are......sort of akin to the joint dismemberers of the ancient peoples....ACK! The usual snap and kill traps are way preferable to those sticky things, I would think.

Anyway, still no no new mice in my live traps tonight, and I am feeling happy about it. I can't believe that will be it for the fall, but we shall see. At least I made a dent in their population!

Molly and I are off to the pond for my thickest sleeping bag and some stove gasket cement to block up the screw holes in my new stove pipe after we had to 're-align' it a tad!

[Sparkle]

We have lots of complaints from guests about the mice moving in. Cabin 6 seems very popular. We have told the guests NO PETS! Maybe we should be telling them - BYOC I'll let you figure that one out.