Comments on: A Mouse In The House; Or, Why I’m Leaving Soon

By: emily

emily — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:57:16 +0000

Everyone, THANK YOU for the support on ridding my house of mice. For now, all seems well. We have sprinkled poison all about our basement (good thing we don’t have kids or pets) and I think that’s worked. And I never even noticed a smell. Oh, poor olfactory sense, you come in handy yet again.

By: Kristie

Kristie — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:27:44 +0000

I had a big problem with my house and little mice friends. I found a product called Havoc, it was at Cal Ranch, and it has worked wonders! You put it out, where children and other animals, cannot get to it, and it will kill the little mice. I also got several nice traps that are child friendly. But the thing that seemed to work the best was Victor mouse traps from Walmart, smoothered in peanut butter. Whatever you put out, put it next to a wall. Inbetween a wall and a dresser or something like that. From what I have learned, they run along walls, using their little wiskers to direct them. Use steel wool to plug holes that you find, the size of a pencil eraser is how small they can still get through.
Good luck. And if all else fails, screaming and jumping on something tall always works.

By: Mom

Mom — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:00:11 +0000

My innocence was shattered when an exterminator kindly pointed out that it’s not like mice are potty or litter box trained. That means constant stream of urine over things. UGGG!! or UGH? (Since we are into correct spelling of exclamations as befits an author’s site.) I have found that flinging knives involuntarily and (yes) jumping on chairs are highly effective coping strategies.

By: Valynne

Valynne — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:26:39 +0000

I’m thinking you need two cats. (Not one, but two.) Just let me know when you get home, and I will bring them over.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:53:04 +0000

Ew…I am so sorry! I hate those nasty little things too. Tell Dan to call some of his best pals and go on a scavenger hunt while you’re gone. It’ll be like a male-bonding type thing. Or call a pest guy. Yuck. I hate all creepy crawly things. Have a great trip and DO NOT think about HANTA.

By: Kim Reid

Kim Reid — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:24:13 +0000

Yikes, in your room?? Those little creeps can get inside anything. My mom once opened a basement window, and there was a dead, flat mouse inside the window track. As in, between the wall and where the window pane was before she opened it. How do they DO that? Good luck catching the little beast.

By: Juliana

Juliana — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:48:27 +0000

Eww…That gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it. Eww.

By: Brodi Ashton

Brodi Ashton — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:27:48 +0000

AAAAACL! Whoops, that was meant to say, AAAACK!

I swear, I think I have a great, clean house, and then the second I see a mouse, I think we’re living in a trash heap. That’s what happened when we first moved into this house.

I called a pest guy, and he set up traps that were child-friendly, and he said the mouse would eat the poison and then take it back to its nest to share with the others, and then we’d just have a bad smell for a week.

He was exactly right. A few days later, there was a horrible odor coming from inside the wall of our closet. But then it went away after a few days. No more mice. I guess they decompose quickly.

Have a fab trip to PA.