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[washertalk]

they are cute, I had them as pets as a teen. but they aren't welcome to live in my home unless they restrict their diet to certain things like boxes going for recycling and learn to use a litter box. yuck.

Be fearless otherwise. This is the time of year they seek shelter especially in colder climz.

The biggest problem I ever had was with a house I bought in Eden Prairie, Minnesota about 5 years ago and there were open cynder blocks tops in the basement and the mice were living in them.

Glue traps worked if you put a small dab of peanut butter in the middle to lure them. Also make sure to cut off any exposed tray on the edges where they would be able to get leverage from to escape. I always used a pliers to grab them and pull them off and flush them.

I say this with guilt but it is kinda funny when they first get stuck and they move thier body back and forth trying to get unstuck. They look at you in terror and develope an attitude and try and scare you away. Sorry mousey.

Still I would rather have a short term mouse problem then bugs.

 

[vivalalavatrice]

Bran smell...

I see that in my country house... mice are been attracted from anything smell of bran or any cereal like it, corn for example!

And any "dry fruit"...almods, nuts, peanuts... they feel the smell of them...:-D

Try to take everything like what I mentioned away from them...

Then CATS are the best solution!

Bye
Diomede

 

[tomturbomatic]

Glenn, It probably is going to turn cold and they are seeking a warm home. They heard that you were cute and friendly but did not know that you were not mouse friendly; oops, wrong address. You might want to do a perimeter check for their entry point.

Early one fall, I unknowingly brought a bromeliad in with a little frog in it. He started chirping so I fixed him up an aquarium holding tank, got him safely transferred then bought him some crickets to build up his strength. After a day or two in the warmth of the house so that he could digest his meals, I figured he needed a place to hibernate. Because I live quite a ways from a creek (I still wonder how he got to my deck), I took him to the one in our park and let him go so that he could find a place to spend the winter.

Hungry frogs are frightening. If they were larger than we are, there would be no people. He snatched those crickets to where you could see their bodies poking against his belly. They must have strong digestive juices to process all of that.

 

[DADoES]

Tom, that's true about frogs. I've read they are *voracious*. I wonder if turtles would eat mice? I've got three turtles camped out in the ditch since summer. Course, they make a burrow and disappear when the weather dries or turns cold.

Mouse in the wall -- that's why I don't use poison. If mousie gonna be in the wall, I'd rather it be alive and well. If it's gonna be dead, it better be on a trap where I can see it.

A friend instructed me to use the sticky traps, then use veggie oil to loosen the critter and set it "out in the field where it's supposed to live." Uhhhh, no.

Bob, could be, I don't recall. The first incident in this round was a couple weeks before the October wash-in, so maybe that's what you're remembering. I was anxious to catch the perp before houseguests arrived. Human houseguests, that is.

Carol .... meese & softener delivery ... what we gonna do with you?? LOL.

And oops, those upper-ASCII characters sure screwed up the thread headline.

 

[toggleswitch]

Speaking of Mickey and Minnie Mouse.

Did you hear that Mickey Mouse is divorcing Minnie? oh yes, child.

Apparently she is f---ing goofey.
(Uppercase G may be used as well)

*LOL*

 

[exploder321]

Here ya go:

Rat In The Affinity..

 

[exploder321]

Here is Tom on top of the Frigidaire..LOL

I gave him to my grandpa as a gag gift many years ago... He collects these kinda things...
His name is tom and he lives atop his computer....

 

[jaxsunst]

Many years ago, I lived in North Little Rock in one of my parent's rentals. The place behind me was really nasty, people would come and go at all hours. About every three months one set would leave and another would move in. It would stir up the mice and I would get infested.

I bought 12 mouse traps and set them around the house. As soon as the lights went out, I heard, snap, snap, snap. In the morning ALL TWELVE were full. It took a week like that before they settled down for another few months.

 

[washertalk]

Oh, sorry to hear of the break up with Minnie and Mickey.
I'm not surprised though, I knew that Minnie was a harlet.

~~So maybe Mickey is, available. If you know what I mean. ah ha.

 

[washertalk]

Eyes in the machine

Chad-Exploder.
There is 2 sets of eyes peering at us through the window in your machine.

Is your frontloader possessed by the ghosts of evil mice since departed?

I've never seen a washer that was haunted. (teeth chattering)

 

[exploder321]

ROFLMAO!!!! Did not even see this

The light fixtures do quite a nice job of making it look like it has eyes eh?

 

[tolivac]

Mice-Got lots of 'em at the transmitter site where I work at Mice love these places.Lots of humans and warm places.-sometimes they get to close to HV parts in the tranmitters-BLAM-FLASH-no more mousey!At home had one brazen little guy that would run out and snatch any Cheerios I spilled onto the floor.I had peanut butter(homemade at that-fresh!)in my mousetraps and they turned up their noses at it.so I put some Cheerios on the mousetrap trigger--and SNAP-while I was eating-and the lone Cheerio rolled out from behind the Hi-Fi speaker where I set the trap-the Mice liked that area.After eating-sure enought one nailed mouse.At present have several stray cats that live in mine and the neighbors bushes.They even had kittens-so more mouths to feed-as a result-no more mice in my house-and those cats have narrowed the squirrel population too!Welcomed those kitties!I watched one of them just about nail a squirrel.