I used to equate having mice with being dirty. I was so naive. The little fellas just want to be warm. I can appreciate that as I like to be warm too. Nonetheless, they're simply not welcome here.
I leave traps out all year round in the basement, and I check them once a week or once a month or once a quarter.
A spring trap got yesterday's mouse. However, I can't understand why he went for the prize because the cheese that was on there was literally over a year old and as hard as a fossil.
That's a desperate tummy, I do believe.
Do you ever receive unwanted visitors?
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knock on wood, we have not...now lady bugs...
Oh snap...very clever:-)
Poor thing. We don't have them inside...yet. But because it is really cold in FL right now, they are looking to get warm and every now and then you will find a little mouse...or his bigger cousin, if you know what I mean, in the swimming pool. Looking for warmth and found it in warm water but...
Unfortunately, today we found a little bunny:-(
Please warm up!
we NEVER have mouse problems.. another thing i love about cats... my dad swears UP AND DOWN that a mouse can smell a cat, and will NOT come around.. and i sorta think i kinda agree, we live with a field behind us, and woods to the side of us and NEVER have seen a mouse...
have a wonderful wkend!!!!
Poor mousie. I have never had a mice problem, but my parents did a while back. There was one little guy that kept getting in through, they think, some hole via the crawl space under their home. They put down traps, too, but I don't believe he was ever caught. Since I have been back home staying with them, he hasn't come out. Then again, I have three cats with me. So, maybe there is something to what the commenter above me said about mice not coming out if there are cats around.
No, but we have had a possum invasion!!
Eek! No mice that I know of, but we once became the unwilling home to two possums. Took alot more than a spring trap to relocate them though.
Poor Mickey!
When we lived on base, our house was up on a hill so we would get field mice. Charles was on deployment when we happened to get an infestation (3 mice) I was so grossed out! I bought some of those pellets that they eat and then crawl out looking for water. Well one day I was cooking dinner and Caitlyn who was about 2 at the time came up next to me and she said "Look Mommy, I got a mousey" I looked down and she was holding it upside down by the tail and it was dead. I think I about had a heart attack. I washed her hands over ten times!! Not fun times at all!
nope, just wasps and yellowjackets
We did when we lived in an old farmhouse a few years back but so far so good with this one.
No mice here. If we did though the cats would get them. Now when we lived in Santa Fe, we had mice in the garage. The bad thing about rodents in Santa Fe or New Mexico in general is that they can carry the plague. Yes, I said the Plague. The Black Death. I was shocked as well but in NM there is plague and in the area we lived a family got it. WTH? it's like the Dark Ages and such. Anyway, because we lived in the boonies we had field mice and they got warm by coming into the garage. They never came into the house and again if they had they would have been dead in a minute and we might have gotten the Plague. BTW, I hate mice or any rodent for that matter.
I was naive in thinking that mice meant you were dirty too. I've known very clean people who have had mice. I've been fortunate enough to never have them (but now that I said that I can here them scurrying over now).
EEK! We've had a mouse issue (I refuse to use the plural form). Ours sounds like your situation...traps in the basement and attic and I check them periodically and 2x a year the exterminator comes to make me feel better. If I see something I feel a little weak in the knees and become a girlygirl.
We get mice every once in awhile. We now have a couple outdoor/garage cats that seem to be keeping them out. We live in an older house in the country surrounded by woods and farm fields so I know they are out there!
We live on a canyon, so every now and then one tries to sneak it's way into the garage.
my parents had mouse once and it scared me to death. I think it just left on its own though. smart guy.
No mice to my knowlege. Certain times of the year we do have a spider issue though. Being an arachniphob, you can often find me screaming like a school girl(I'm a 36 year old tough guy in rel life) begging my wife to come kill it. I'd almost rather have mice, or tigers for that matter in the house than spiders.
When I lived in Manhattan I had a lot more than I do know and I had to get over my fear of them because someone had to take them out of the house lol!! My cat was my de-mouser. Living in CT now, I make my hubby cart the critters to the curb :O
No! And I am so glad!
I spent part of my childhood in the country, and we always had mice and other little things (tree frogs, raccoons) sneaking in the house. They still gross me out beyond a reasonable reaction, though.
Mice are cute; rats however are not.
Years ago my big fluffy fat cat dragged something inside that I thought (without the aid of my glasses) was a leaf. When I reached down to picked it up, it scurried away under the couch! I opened the front door, and spent the next 3 hours chasing him around with a broom... good times.
We have never had a mouse problem until this year. We don't have our cat anymore so now we have a little mouse. I think I would rather have the cat.
I hate mice they totally creep me out, that had to be one desperate mouse :)
We had mice issues when we lived in Northern Oklahoma. And, those little suckers were picky little guys. I'd try to catch them with Kraft American Cheese Singles, but it'd never work. I had to upgrade them to blocked cheddar. Worked EVERY TIME!
Even though I have an old cat and two kittens, we still get the odd mouse sneak in! They are Harvest Mice, and are only about an inch long, but with really long tails!
Actually mice don't like cheese, so if you want to catch a mouse, use flour or bread on the trap. We use humane traps, that don't kill them, so we just put them back out-doors!
It's flies and wasps that I'm scared of! I just cannot stand flies!
About 8 years ago or so we had a mice invasion. We could hear them in the walls and the heating vents. WE put traps down in the crawl space and then my husband put traps in the heating vents. Which would have been fine except the first two trap when the mouse got in them ran off with the traps. So he tied strings to the traps and anchored it outside the vent. We caught over 50 mice that winter. For the record we were surrounded by farms being torn down for subdivisions. We are not dirty either.
Back when I was pregnant with the little guy, we had mice. There was actually a family of little babies living behind our fridge. DH sucked them up with the Dyson though b/c we had no traps. That was a sight I tell ya. We then taped up the little hole area (where the fridge plugs/hoses are on the wall), and we've had no issues since. I can't stand the little boogers.
If we do, I don't know about it. See no evil, hear no evil...lalalala, plugging my ears and closing my peepers.
In the mobile home, growing up. MOM and sisters were afraid of them, I was stuck the with the job of hunting them down and getting rid of them.
One time, I found one taking a nap in the middle of the kitchen. No shame, no worries..just laying there like it was the king of home. I put a shoe box on top of it.
To kill them I used to pour hot water on them. They died quickly, a very painful death, though.
We lived in the country, so we had mice once in a while all the time.
No mice, just skunks. Ewww. We have two chubby cats, though, so I suspect they visit the basement but get no further. A cat's got to make a living, too, right?
I have had mice invasions but once my cats got inside the problem disappeared :)
We had a bat get in the house once- found out my wife doesn't like them...:)
Oh how I don't like mice. I think it must be too cold for them here because thankfully I haven't seen them. Back in the Land of Nowhere we had many unwanted visitors which included mice - mainly in the garage.
Happy hunting and Happy Friday.
mice are not welcome. In our old house we had a tiny problem with them and put out poison which almost killed our dog UGH thats another story for another day!
My house is always a mess. nd I havent had any mice (that I know of). Yet my mom and my friend are both total clean freaks and they have both had mice issues! So ha ha to them!!
Ahhh!!! I HATE mice...but I especially hate them in the house!! My theory is, if they enter my home, they must die!! I can't have it! And I don't know what I would do without my husband. He has to clean out the traps because I would just NOT be able to do it.
Wow...I guess you hit a nerve:-)
I always feel bad for them, I tried using the traps that just catch them and then letting them go outside but they just kept comming back, so I had to resort back to the killing traps;(
A mouse trap is symbolic of the lure of drugs as well. The cheese looks good at first...
Not too morbid for your comments I hope.
Well, there is Abby....
it's amazing how something so cute in the pet store is so disgusting when scurrying around your house. I haven't had any here - knock wood - but in my old house in Nevada I did. Yuk! I have caught a couple here in traps in the garage tho. I hope they don't intend on getting inside!
we live in an old farm house and get frequent visitors each fall. i used to use the "friendly" traps and take them outside to turn them loose. then i considered the possibility, after catching 12 mice in one month, that i may be catching the same mice over and over. hello, springload death trap.
To my absolute horror I was doing a load of laundry before we went out on Christmas eve and found a dead mouse in my large jacuzzi tub in the downstairs bathroom. The one and only I have every had(Knock on wood!)
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I happen to think mice are cute--just not in the house because they leave their poopers everywhere. I'm glad you see that mice don't come because you are dirty--on the contrary--mice (as are all rodents) are very fastidious about their grooming and cleanliness. Haven't your kids had hamsters?? They wash themselves like 4000 times a day! They only stink because their territory is like 2 miles and we confine them to one square foot--if they are lucky.
So, I'm glad/sorry that you got your mouse. Ick on the clean-up.
Crickets. They creep in and get stuck inside our shoes. A shake down is always necessary before slipping into our Reeboks.
Oh and a lizard that lived in the staircase. We thought he was one of J4's plastic animal toys but moved when we got close. Freaked us out. He's gone now, returned to the front garden.
Do I ever receive unwanted visitors? Yes, but they don't make traps for people.
The only mouse I can tolerate is Mickey.
No mice, but we still have one unwanted possum in our garage.
We have had two mice, fleas, and tons of roaches since we moved in. The first mouse would go around and lick all the peanut butter off the traps and sneak away all uncaught-like. Eventually though we heard a SNAP! while up for a midnight feeding and sure enough, there he was behind our microwave (ew!), trapped.
The other liked to run into the kitchen behind the fridge. We caught him fairly quickly though.
Mice I'm okay with, it's spiders that freak me out. I can't handle any spiders in my house! We used to have a problem with ants getting inside to eat the cat food. We had to hire and exterminator and all that junk, it took forever to get rid of those punks!
From what I hear, you should be happy he was very hungry and made it to the trap, and didn't starve in your walls...stinky!
Spiders in the basement and voles in the front yard.
Big hairy spiders that turn and fight back when you come at them with a shoe.
Spiders. Millions of spiders.
yup, I think every basement in New England has had them at least once.
It is wild kingdom up in our attic. I hear lot of little feet, scratching and flapping up there. My husband went up and it looks like we probably have birds, squirrels and mice - oh my!
Before we had cats, we'd get one in the garage with the first frost...like clockwork. Chef Stu would trap it. Sometimes we'd get a second. About 6 years ago, we started rescuing cats. We have three and no more mice. Not a one. Magic. Love my cats!!
We get a lot of lizards...we keep our back lanai doors open to the pool area and they just waltz right in. In about 20 minutes though they have no tails...thanks to the 3 cats!!
I think you just need a basement cat!
I hope not because I hate mice. Man. When I see them I scream like a girl. LOL.
Happy Friday!
Your compassion coupled with your necessity to rightfully rid yourself of the tiny cold, hungry invaders is touching. You are so freaking solid. Will you team up with Laura to serve as co-life coach to me? I couldn't handle knowingly k*i*l*l*i*n*g them....can't even say it. I think we would have to move.
This past fall we had the strangest looking bugs all over the outside of our windows. They would fly and just stick to the screen. They were sooooo ugly. I have a bit of a bug phobia too I sprayed the screens with Lysol till they flew away. When one would fly back I sprayed it again. Eventually they stopped paying a visit to my unit but I saw them all over our neighbors window. YUK!
Not many inside but we have allot of creatures outside. Frogs, snakes, hawks, coyote, mice, etc. and they better stay outside!
Yes, we use to have mice in our last house, in the garage.
Gross. It seemed like we always had mice in our old house. Set out traps, but they never really went away.
Thankfully, I haven't seen one here yet.
Our cat likes to catch the mice from the garage and leave them as a decapitated gift by my hubby's truck. He's so loved.
Where is the mouse now
Oh, yeah, every year when it starts to get cold. There is nothing like being woken up in the middle of the night by the cat running around like a maniac chasing one. I get the added comedy of my husband, in his underwear, chasing the cat that has the mouse in his mouth. This year hasn't been as bad as last so far (knock on wood), but I've told my husband that we'll never be without a cat (or two...)!
We once had a little visitor years ago...
I chased him around the house with a broom & then whacked him out the door into the snow. He slid down the hill on his butt and I realized how much the whole ordeal must've looked like a cartoon.
Do in-laws count?
-->Ugh, who took it off for you?
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we had one mouse. ONCE and what started as "oh, lets catch it and free it back outside" after 4 hours of trying to capture it turned into "KILL THAT _______ __________ MOUSE"
Oh sad, the poor thing just wanted a rock hard piece of cheese and he had to die. I don't blame though, yuck! We have never had this problem, yet, thank God!
I am freaking out! ahhhhhh
Once, we had a mouse in our pool. Instead of drowning it like a normal person, my dad took it out of the pool and hit it over the head with the pool thingy until it died. It was horrifying.
I can't handle those "visitors." Hubs has to. I know it's a mouse, but it still seems innocent enough and then BAM! Caught in a nasty trap. It makes me feel so mean. But it has to be done. Sigh.
yeah we do receive unwanted visitors, but they are note mice. i put a no soliciting sign on my front door and since then we have had almost none(well an occasional few who doesn't think it applies to them!)
havent found any in my house yet. but i'm always on the look out, in the winter especially. can't really blame 'em. it is cold out there!!!
the title of this post was cute! lol
Oh. Poor little thing. Or Poor you! I am afraid of them too! They aren't welcome here!
I caught 2 a few weeks ago, but none since. Hopefully that was all we had!
That really sounds like a desperate mouse you had there! lol
we just had a minor mice issue that we got rid of, we used peanut butter on the traps, works every time!
WE had a mouse problem last winter in our old (VERY CLEAN!) house. It was horrible. Our dog would occasionally catch one! I was terried to leave my room in the morning for fear what would be out in the house. We had to poison them. I'm sad to say I was glad to do it. Ick!
I've had them and I did not like the feeling. I was so freaked out I hired an exterminator to get rid of them. He kept adding on services and I kept saying yes to anything he wanted to do as soon as I heard him talk about the disease they carry.
My hubby thought that he took advantage of my state of mind.
We got them back about 2 years later but this time, we just bought the poison food. I wasn't as freaked out and saved a hell lot of money.
Ha the person in front of me has my name - Brittany Anne! Awesome!
Um yeah we have mice in our clean house. It is an old house and it is cold outside and well, there are ways to get in. It is gross but I do feel bad for he little guys. They are not welcome though!
Poor little mice. Hungry and cold and nobody wants them.
do inlaws count?
We had mice in our garage. I just hated using the traps on those little guys. I always made my husband dispose of their little dead bodies. Yuck.
At my last house we discovered they were coming to visit some of my kitchen drawers...ewwwwww!
ugh. We do. I think the problem has been remedied since we fixed the chewed through runner on the bottom of our garage door.
We got the bigger version of the mouse.
Alright. I am going to go lay down now that I am light headed thinking about this.
Buh-Bye Mr. Mouse!
Maybe the mouse had been dieting, so that made the old cheese that much more appealing!
EVERY. SINGLE. FALL. I get mice.
My house backs up to a huge field so my house becomes the Do Drop Inn for mice in the fall when it gets cold.
I briefly considered burning my house down to get rid of them this year.
We had a mouse issue a couple of years ago. I was ready to move out.
Hahaha...we have occasional beetles, silverfish and roaches but the greatest thing about living in Florida is the crabs, giant lizards and wood storks that linger on our porches:)
No mouse. But I am tried of ants!
We always have mice in the garage and only occasionally in the house. Having a cat seems to deter them a bit!!!! Glad you caught it before it made little baby mice!
My dad gets them all the time! Thank God (knock on wood) I have not had any in my house. I HATE them!!!
Oh yes. When you live in a house that is close to a hundred years old in a big city, you are bound to get them. Fortunately we have three cats, but only one is a hunter. She caught one for us two months ago but did not kill it, so I gently extracted it from her mouth and put it outside.
Now, we have another, because she is literally slinking and stalking her way around the house. I dread going home and finding mouse guts on my pillow. Sigh.
Not in my house because I have a cat, but I had to get rid of my bird feeders, the rats live in my neighbor's palm tree and like nuts and seed!
We've had mice in our house before - even watched one walk right in front of our cat who showed no interest in catching it. We finally set up traps in the basement and they've moved elsewhere. ;)
My sister in Iowa had mice once - even saw one of the mice dragging the mousetrap away (not caught in it, but apparently a very smart mouse that was taking it back to his buddies to figure out how to get the food off it). :)
Many years ago, when I lived on the edge of a game preserve...and just a few years ago, when I lived in Washington, DC...I had to deal with mice. It's beyond gross.
But your title - "Oh Snap" made me lol when I started reading the post. Well done!
It's one thing to catch a mouse, another to pick up the trap - NO THANK YOU.
I am a wimp.
Two years ago we had one very fat, healthy mouse. I knew he was here (I could hear him) but of course hubby would not believe me, because he couldn't find evidence (chewed cereal boxes was what he was looking for) Of course not...I have three children who think of nothing of leaving food laying around, this guy had it made.
One night while making supper he ran across the counter and the back of the stove and went down the side of the stove and then was behind the stove. We set a trap that night and he was caught by morning. We set the trap for a couple of weeks afterward and never got another.
One mouse...I could not believe he didn't have a family! We have those sonic noise plug ins...they work great!!
I used to have a house in the country and there were a lot of mice. I always used peanut butter to catch them on the traps.
Did you ever see those terrible sticky trap ones? they are little trays filled with very sticky stuff that just traps them still, and they die of starvation or chew their legs off. I can't believe they sell them.
Must have been a male mouse, us guys always fall into the same old traps, no matter what the cheese looks like!
They are pretty cute aren't they? I feel bad, but I must agree - they are not welcome here.
Every now and then I think I hear scratching in the attic.
But critters don't last very long around here with Winston and Spencer - our cat-babies. :)
Oh no they are certainly not welcome here either. Neither are ants or anything to that matter. I always have ant issues it drives me nuts!
Oh, I hate having to think about doing that. Once at an office I once worked in, a mouse was caught in one of those stickey traps. I spent hours trying to remove the sticky crap from its tiny feet and then released it on a nature trail...after it bit me & I had to go for a Tetanus shot!
No problems inside. My cats bring me gifts outside so I have to be careful when I let them in. I use those sonic plug ins and have for over 12 yrs. You plug them in a outside wall outlet and it emits a noise (we can't hear) that makes small rodents and spiders, roaches, flys, etc's nervous system go crazy. You can't have hamsters, or other small animals or big spiders. This will kill them. Mom, if you want to get rid of kids unwanted pets, this will work.LOL. May work on snakes? LOL
I have had a mouse come in the house but through the stove vent that they chewed through. They may be little and I do like Mickey Mouse BUT not in my house. I hear that steel wool will keep them out once you find out where they are coming from. Apparently, they don't like chewing through steel wool.
I feel for you. Dead or not, I get the creeps.
hmm. my unwanted visitors are usually of the human variety.
Funny you posted about this. We have an unwanted visitor in my florida room. It tore open the garbage my husband put in there last night.
Unfortunately two houses that I have lived in had rats - not mice- rats. The first was a house I shared with Oscar and his brother before we lived together on our own - that was the worst! They wouldn't even call the landlord, it was so gross. I couldn't call because I wasn't on the lease. One time Oscar picked up a blanket and rat jumped right out. Another time we were doing dishes and one came out from under the dishwasher. We set traps too, I'll never forget coming home after watching Disney's Tarzan to find smashed baby rats in the traps - so gross and sad. At night you could hear them running in the attic - it was so disgusting. I couldn't wait to get outta that hell hole!
Can't say I've been visited by any mice. But in our last place we had spiders! I think I'd rather have mice. *shudder*
We had a mouse in our attic once. The only other problem we've had in the past was with bees. :p
Crazy coincidence! We just caught a little mouse last week too. And we had "FAKE" cheese on our trap! Poor thing.
Thankfully, no mice here (knock on wood). BUT, we do get crickets and I HATE them! I think we've talked about this before... =)
We had a couple that came in just as the weather turned cold. You are braver than I about checking the traps-I leave that to hubby!
Yes every time my MIL stops by...
See, that is what you get for living in one of those OLD houses with those big old trees in the back yard! Our new house doesn't have mice in them! :-)
Have a great weekend.
We do not have a mouse problem but geckos are something we have to deal with. They are every where!!
ugh. Mice give me the creeps in a big way! So does the sound of a trap, snapping.
ugh. Mice give me the creeps in a big way! So does the sound of a trap, snapping.
Well, now that I think about it, older cheeses are actually more expensive... so perhaps you caught yourself a gourmet mouse?
We'll never know! SNAP.
(smiles)
No matter what we do..every winter some little mouse ndecides to call our garage home. Yuck.
We had one last month-- used a humane trap... sad to say though -- it was 2 am when we heard the tell tell squeak-- Hubby put it outside and it froze...I can't imagine either or use acutally releasing it though...eeewww it might touch us!! They do just want to be warm though. Cute Title!!
Ewwwww!
Ugh! Hate mice. I live in an older building (that has been renovated). I'm just waiting for them to creep in! When I taught I also had MANY mice in my classroom. Gross!
Unwanted visitors...does an STD count? Kidding!
We haven't had a mice problem. Does unwanted chicken's in my yard count? The people across the street from us have a bunch of chickens.
I have not gotten any visitors lately and if we do it is usely a nasty roach but that is it!
at the family bungalow in the Catskills, we used to trap mice all the time. And then we would track it on the Mouse Chart. (I wish I was kidding) and sketch the mouse doing something funny....is that weird???
Yes, I use safe traps every time. If I wandered into someplace where I wasn't wanted, I would not want to die for my mistake.
Awwww Snap!
Haven't had any mice issues here, I think it might be too high up for them to handle... Kind of nice for us however, that means it's high up for us too!
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Big hugs!
We've got birds nesting in our ceiling, they snuck in through the vents in the roof, now they're in there making eggs...and not the over easy kind.
Five CATS... you can say no mice. :)
yes, we get mice in our garage every once in a while. I hate to trap them but they just don't belong anywhere near the house!
Luckily, I haven't noticed any mice yet. I hope I don't either! :) This is a popular post!
We haven't had mice in a few years (and even then we only ever caught 1). Funny, because DH was the one who saw it and texted me to buy traps. He made it out to be this huge mouse, almost rat-like. 5 minutes after we went to bed, we heard the trap snap shut. In it was this tiny (dead) little mouse - according to my husband it must have shrank when it died! ha!
About five years ago, Jason heard things running around in our attic. When he told me I was in my bed in labor with my second kid. Freaked me out!! Probably progressed the labor a bit;)
We called a mouse killer and they stuck traps in the attic and the garage. The one in the garage has been opened. I say yay!! Bring the poison home rodent:p
My mom had a mouse in her house last year. My sister wouldn't even sleep in her room because the thing had gotten into her dresser drawer. My mom put out those rat friendly traps, where they just go into a box to get the cheese and can't get out. Well, eventually the mouse went in, but he got overheated. So there we were--my sister, my mom, my nephew, and myself, all the people afraid of the mouse--outside, trying to nurse the mouse back to health after we set him free. We got him more cheese. We tried to give him water. It was hilarious. The mouse ran away once he got his bearings, probably right back inside. Yes, we were idiots, but animal loving idiots.
So far the only unwanted creatures that I know about in my own house, knock on wood, are spiders. I can't get rid of the things. Also after Christmas I came home to find a pile of dead bugs had fallen out of my Christmas tree. Next year I'm going back to the fake one for that reason alone.
I know...they are the grossest! We had some high up in the garage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No mice, but I hate those darn silverfish things that hang around my guest bathroom. One dropped on me the other day while I was on the throne! Nearly jumped off.
We get mice fairly often...our house backs onto a big field. They come in for shelter from something and scurry around our garage.
Oh. And spiders. *shudder*
Had a whole NATION of mice once. Took them out one by one. Now I have lizards in my garden and geckos in my house, plus baby brown snakes which I think are legless lizards, but the wife and I disagree
We had mice about a year ago. I don't mind them in principal but they're LOUD.
In seven years, we've only had one little mouse. And it was really small. I felt so bad for him when we tried to corner and capture him and instead ended up killing it. Traumatic.
At our other house we also had a big mouse.
You are right, it's not about dirty-ness (in most cases, lol). THey are just cold and hungry.
Well...we have voles outside. I had never seen one before I moved to PA.
I felt bad for him so I took a lid and made him a plate. For Christmas, I served him a cheeseball and he very much enjoyed it.
I've had mice in a house before and we humane trapped them, took them in the car and released them in a neighbors yard. That was me.
I love it! We have had mice too and first I felt horrible, then I realized they find the tiniest holes to get in and we just can't seem to find them.
Peanut Butter is better than cheese for catching mice, by the way.
We would have 1 or 2 in August and then one year we had....5.... then I called the mouse guy and he comes out 4 times a year to check for holes. We haven't had one since!!
PS. THe month we had 5, our cat got TIRED of catching them :-) Then he would just chase and play with them.
We have two hunter kitties so if there are mice around here, they've received the memo because we haven't seen any.
Our problem here are snakes! Ewww!!!! I'd rather have mice! OMG I just had a thought...what if we do have mice and the snakes are eating them! Okay...now I have the heebie jeebies! :)
Our visitors are spiders and ants and bugs. I've not seen the rodent type visitors here.
Too many flies. They like the guinea pig. :( :( :(
Thank goodness all the other critters have stayed outside. But we don't like them in our yard next to the house either!
I really do not like mice. They are not welcome!
We have never mice problems, I only like mouse pictures!
hugs hugs
We had a RAT problem! Yes...big ugly RATS Not in the house, thankfully! They were living in my neighbor's garage (they left boxes of clothes and other items the rats nested in and they had open garbage). The nasty things would run into my backyard and get into my garbage and my garage. In fact, once I had one climb on the window screen! We had about 3-4 in my garage and a ton in my neighbor's. I am so glad they moved. Not a rat sighting since!
Of course you don't need to be a flith to get rodents.
Try mint. Rodents HATE the smell of mint. You can plant it around your house or just make little packets of mint out of mint leaves and cheesecloth.
(oh and how in the heck do you keep up on so many comments! WOW...you always have so many! You certainly deserve but it's amazing. And you even find the time to comment on other blogs! You go!)
I hate those lil boogers.
I think the dogs would find it before we did, but I have seen centipedes here. I would much rather see a mouse, those centipedes are disgusting!
I've never had a mouse yet, but we get a lot of huge cricket like bugs.
I think mouse are pretty cute, but not in my house. Then I'd trap them too.
We've never had mice get into the house, but we've had mice in the house.
Ah, need an explanation?
Our two cats!!!
We have all sort of creatures running around outside. My most frequent visitor is the rolly-polly bug.
Yuck, on the mouse! Yes, we have, they are always getting into the big can we keep dog food in and then can't get out. What a shock when you go to feed the dog. Love your title by the way!
not in this house, but in our last house we had attic rats. They dropped onto our roof from a tree... ewww.... I freaked out in the middle of the night hearing the rats scamper back and forth in the ceiling above my head.
Not to my knowledge ... and I find out I do, I'm so outta here!
When I was little we had mice in that old house. We named them "Faith", "Hope" and "Charity".
Unwanted visitors? Uh, yeah! Only, mine takes shape of a man....
In Florida, unwelcome visitors are palmetto bugs. Giant flying roaches. Ewwwwwww!
i have been so lucky. but we do get crickets because my house is backed up to a field and they just started doing something with the land. I felt like I was experiencing the movie of moses with these suckers LOL...
Oh ya then there was the snake ughhh in my bathroom
Just squirrels. They would always find a way to get into the attic. Been awhile though... maybe they moved on.
Most of my unwanted visitors are of the eight-legged nature! As for the mice...none of those, thank goodness. Although, my neighbors swear the area has a mouse problem. Maybe, me not having the problem, is a sign that my kitty cat is pulling her weight in this house!
Just my MIL. Badoom-chi.
Oh, luckily no. Although we did get a yellow jackets nest in our yard this summer. But our bug/pest people will come get rid of those for us. Hope you don't get any more.
Too many. And rats. And millions of ants.
Yuck! I'm happy to say no, we haven't had any unwanted visitors, besides some spiders and some ants in the summer.
I had a mouse in my house. Made a guide to catching mice with a difference here on my new blog "www.BobVersus.com".
1 man. 1 mouse (hopefully!).
3 attempts to catch the mouse.
Take a peak:
http://bobversus.com/?p=130#more-130
Loving the site by the way, really smart design!
OMGosh we had a little turd come in threw the wall around Thanksgiving. He actually dug his way threw the drywall behind my baseboard heater! Yup Rick fixed it but freaking scared the crap out of me when I looked up to be staring at him!
This made me giggle so much.
I'm sorry but yes they are not welcome. Find somewhere else to get warm.
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