Mouse number three in the dog water bowl. But this one lives. The cat batted it out of the bowl, but did not catch it.
Just now I went into my kitchen, where I spent the day making cookies and being generally domestic, and there it stood right on my stove. It calmly smiled at me, and then disappeared into a burner.
Who has a room for me? One with padded walls, calming classical music, and chocolate...
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I just HATE it when they poke their heads up out of the stove and stand looking at you!! It has been some time since we have had that happen.
If some of your neighbors are working on their property that involves digging up dirt...likely they have uprooted a number of them and you may have this problem for some time....you might try a "sticky trap"...if the other traps are left alone. MY mom found the cheapest and most effective way to catch them is to take a sliver of some kind of nut and GLUE it to the trap...then while they are whittling away on the trap...ZAPPO!! Lights out.
Elizabeth
My hubby reminded me just now of our REALLY big mouse event. We were in 4-H and so we had rabbits. We got the bright idea to put them outdoors (in Wa. state the winters can get awfully cold) and made a sort of straw bale house for them...with the downstairs vent (which we ran full time due to having a ton of guinea pigs and gerbils in there). Any rate, that kept the water bottles from freezing and also we had a tarp over the cage and opening. This was all set up on the back patio area. We began to see mice in broad daylight...and more and more with time. None in the house, but then maybe the dog helped there. Finally, the mice got so bold we knew we had to do something. So on a Spring day when it was warm enough for the rabbits to no longer need cover, we did away with the setup.
cont....Elizabeth
We got shovels, hoes, rakes, brooms, unused bricks, and every available weapon plus the dog on duty. As we dismantled the 3 or 4 tiered straw bale house, we saw many mice and did our best to kill them. We missed a few but with the dogs help...she was biting them, spitting them out, going to the next, while we used our weapons on them. When we got to the last bale row, it looked like some kind of convention hall! I kid you not! There must have been 200-300 sitting there in all stages of development...from newborns to adults! They kind of froze and stared at us and us at them...then we went to work in earnest. The dog gave up on spitting them out, there was no time...she ate a great many I regret to say...in order to keep chomping at the others. I know we missed a great many because we laughed so hard in the process. AH, don't you imagine the neighbors wondered where on earth so many mice suddenly came from?? No more such experiments for us!! Our 4-H days were numbered...we were living in town in a neighborhood after all. This was years ago before we understood that it is best to catch the mice and release them in some country place.
Elizabeth
Oh Elizabeth! That is just TOO TOO frightening for me to even think about!
I'm still seeing this little bugger every day.
No traps, Judy? Usually they can be enticed to one, one way or another. I hope you erradicate it soon...they always manage to have large families!
Elizabeth
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