Gak! Mouse ate my DSL cord!

rachylou

There is a mouse in the house. It ate the DSL line! The mouse man has come and set 12 snap traps. Ewww.

My mother said once when I was little they pulled a mouse out of the water pipes. Ewwww! Mouse water!

I heard some rustling in the night. But as soon as I sat up, it stopped. Lilypup had no interest. She is not a mouser. Ya realize the only thing she's ever gone after is a tattooed gangsta in a park.

The DSL man came too...

Just sharing the eeeeeww :p

7 years ago

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Diana

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Eew! Borrow a kitty maybe?

My sister once found a (live) rat in her toilet in the middle of the night, speaking of rodents in the pipes. Apparently they can come up from the sewers! This is why I always, *always* turn on the light and look inside the toilet before I sit down on it in the middle of the night.

7 years ago

Style Fan

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Mice use to invade my house in the country in the late fall. My dog Tasha ignored them. I had to set traps. Then I got Christie. Christie took care of the mice. I never saw another mouse. I suspect Sophie takes care of mice too. We live in a rural northern place and lots of people have mice.
Some people have found snakes living in their basements. They nest in the rock foundations. I will never ever live in a house that has rocks in a foundation.
I also always turn on the light in the bathroom. I have heard stories about what can happen. Yikes!

7 years ago

rachylou

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Omg. Up the pipes? Eeeww! Once we found a mouse drinking out of the toilet at work... I really hope he didn't swim up!

7 years ago

JAileen

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My dogs dream of catching rodents. I can see their legs twitch when they sleep.

7 years ago

Suz

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Diana, that story has freaked me out!!

My daughter went to the grocery store to pick up a cardboard box for a project she was working on. When she got home, out popped a little mouse. A LAB mouse!! White with red eyes.

Our cat, who is otherwise a pretty decent mouser, has zero interest in this creature.

It was running loose in the house for several days! GAAAAAA.

Fortunately, it did not chew any chords. We caught it and got it a cage and now she has it as a pet. Cat goes in to watch it run around occasionally but does not seem perturbed.

Definitely borrow a kitty!!

7 years ago

Glory

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Ewwwwwwwww

7 years ago

rachylou

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Total freak out. Total.

7 years ago

Barbara Diane

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In the water pipes! In the toilet! Oh NO! Guess who's going to look in the toilet first from now on!

7 years ago

Eliza

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What can I say? I'm not so good with rodents myself, so I get the freaking out, Rachy. Sorry this happened and how inconvenient about the DSL line, too. Mice need a hole the size of a pencil to get in and it gets cold here, so many have them once in awhile. Hard to seal every opening. Good luck
and glad you had some help, even if not from Lilypup.

Suz, you are a good sport!

Diana- wow. A rat in a toilet would push me over the edge. Have heard of others who experienced that, though. Yuck.

7 years ago

Chris987

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Hah, nothing mouse-related grosses me out anymore. I live in a house with a stone foundation (like you would NOT, Style Fan ) and have two cats...one is a GREAT mouser. The other is only a mediocre one. They usually catch them in the middle of the night. We figure it's part of their role in the household. Our town is small enough that we have wells so no mice come up through the plumbing.

Chewing on wires ...that's certainly a pain in the butt.

7 years ago

rachylou

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The next town over is offering feral cats for free... but you have to lock them in the basement for 2 weeks... that's weird.

7 years ago

Anonymous

I can't even imagine. I would freak out big time.

7 years ago

Anonymous

We get mice in the attic and my dog freaks out. We set traps and I put peppermint essential oil up there this last time and the peppermint got rid of them. Not a one in the trap.No more attic noises.

What freaks me out even more than mice are bats. My neighbor had one in their garage. I now make my DH close the garage door when he works outside.

7 years ago

rachylou

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Oh bats are fuuulll of disease! Yicko.

7 years ago

Jane

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Our cat brings little field mice in alive. To play with. Ewww

We then have to rely on the cat to take back out (or eat them - yuk) and once she has had an escapee ...

7 years ago

rachylou

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I suppose I should be happy hat Lilypup rejects the raw food diet...

7 years ago

Karie

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We had a mouse in our first house. Notice I said "first house." That's because we put the house up for sale! No kidding, the mouse won. He had a couple of relatives, too.

7 years ago

rachylou

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Omg, Karie!

No mouse in the traps today. But he knocked the board over that I'm using to block the door!

7 years ago

Anonymous

Rachylou, you should try spraying peppermint. Mice absolutely hate it. Either peppermint essential oil or in a pinch some peppermint extract. Either spray the area with the peppermint diluted in some water or what I do is soak cotton balls in peppermint and just place it in some random spots in the room or area you have spotted them.

7 years ago

rachylou

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I'll try that, danusia. Actually, I used some tea tree oil last night - not for the mice. But the scent filled whole place and you know, I didn't hear anything last night.

7 years ago

Sisi

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Hehe, Rachylou, you are lucky you do not live in the countryside as I do. I could tell many stories of little animals getting into the house. Small country mice, frogs, little toads, lizards .... Once I found a lizard in the toilet bowl. Poor little thing was not able to get out. I of course set it free. (When I told this to someone, they said, why didn't you just flush it down? WHAT ?! Animal lover me? ). Well, since then, as Diana, I lost the habit of going to the bathroom without turning the light on and I *always* look into the bowl!

Danusia: peppermint oil against mice? Very interesting! Thanks for the suggestion.

7 years ago

rachylou

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A lizard would be ok. Lizards are ok. Mice and rats are harbingers of plague... hehe.

7 years ago

JAileen

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When I lived up in the mountains, chipmonks in my neighborhood were diagnosed with bubonic plague. It's not scary anymore.

6 years ago

rachylou

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JAileen! What are you saying! That just makes chipmunks terrifying! Lol

6 years ago

JAileen

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Not scary because it doesn't mean death - antibiotics! Now hantavirus, that's a different matter.

6 years ago

The Cat

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Sorry to hear about the mice in your house.

Did you remember to place some real temptations (like cheese or bacon) in the traps?

6 years ago

rachylou

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The mouse man used a rasin and peanut. But didn't catch anything. My mum says he was too clean for a mouse man. Got to find a scuzzy mouse man, because he'll know better what rats like. Lol! Mum is full of precious wisdom.

6 years ago

unfrumped

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We had squirrels in the attic but apparently one became trapped up there instead of getting out however it came in and apparently died right over the ceiling a/c vent. Now THAT was eeewww!

6 years ago

SarahTheWhite

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I am dying over the "scuzzy mouse.man". Your mom is hilarious! And sort of logical...

I used to live in central America and we had to just make peace with sharing space with the critters. I went for something in my sewing basket one day and found a little mouse all cozied up in the yarn. In the chaos that ensured, the mouse took off and learned to stay more to himself after that. I was more unhappy that during rainstorms the wind would lift the ceiling tiles, and bats sometimes got in the house. One day I realized that a bat died above the clear plastic ceiling light in the bathroom (with the fluorescent bulbs) and my entertainment over the course of the next week every time I sat on the toilet was to look up and watch the ants "disappear" the carcass. And don't get me started on the roaches. I'll take anything over those! So, yeah... I've got no advice, just sympathy. I'd be all for sharing space with the mouse, but when he starts messing with the tech, he's got to go!

6 years ago

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