'Tis mousie season again
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'Tis mousie season again
| Mon, 10-25-2004 - 2:09pm |
It's cold weather, time for all good mousies to seek shelter indoors. The girls were both on a serious mousie watch yesterday in the kitchen. Suddenly, Moxie jumped & ran & caught it. She carried it into the dining room & of course, started to play w/it, dropping it, playing hockey w/it, & picking it up again. Eventually, of course, she lost it. It ran under a wood chest. They both posted a mousie watch, & about 1/2 hour later, Daisy caught it. She took it into the kitchen & played hockey with it. Poor mouse! :-( It eventually got away, hopefully not to die behind my stove. :-(

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My house is 150 years old, so it has a million little places where mice can get in. This is a yearly routine for us. Great fun for the cats. Not so good for the mice.
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My friend's cat caught a grass snake once and brought it into the house. My DBF and I happened to be visiting at the time, and I was the first one that saw it. My friend is deathly afraid of snakes, and her husband wasn't home, so it was up to my DBF to catch it! He did, and as soon as he tossed it outside, Monet (the cat) retreated to a corner and started to growl! Then he skulked off and sulked for the rest of the afternoon. He was soooo mad that his "prize" was taken away!
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Some of you MAY remember that we had an addition put up. Some of you may have seen the images on my web site too. It was a nightmare! It was started OVER a year ago and we are still trying to get a few things finished by the contactor! “What the heck does that have to do with the thread on mice?” you ask? Well, one of the latest problems is that the construction dopes did not put the corner wooding on one part of the outside. This left an area of foam exposed and it is open into the wall behind that. Well what do you supposed happened?! Yup, about 2 months ago we hear a mouse in the addition new master bathroom wall! We decided we had to get rid of it/them and of course complained loudly to the contractor who just does not seem to care (Lord help me I am taking this incompetent moron to court very very soon! Our biggest issue left is the the new gas fireplace somehow vents into the air conditioning return in the room! Just keeping the pilot lit makes the addition stink and he won’t fix it saying that is normal). Anyway I put a bunch of these little victor live traps outside and poison packs in the hole outside and after a day it was eaten. I felt horrified that I likely just poisoned a poor little mouse! So I remove the rest of the poison. A few days later one of the traps bated with peanut butter caught a mouse. Those damn traps are so small and tight that he suffocated! I went to some web sites and found out this is a problem with these horrible traps! I emailed Victor inc and complained and told them they need to add more air holes in the front or rename it the “Victor slow kill by suffocation and torture, live then dead” traps. I also emailed PETA and the BBB complaining. I then bought another trap type that is metal and large and has 2 entrances. I put it outside and put sunflower seeds in the trap. The next day I had a little grey mouse with huge eyes in the trap. I drove him about 5 miles from home and released him into the woods there and then reset and bated the trap again. That night I was working in the garage when a mouse ran under the door and past me! So I bought another one of these traps and set it in the garage and caught the mouse that night. The outside trap then caught 2 mice. I released them all in the woods again. No more mice were caught in the garage so I foamed up ALL holes in there and left the trap just in case. Mean time the outside one caught 3 a night for 4 nights! I then bought steel wool and stuffed it in the hole in the wall and use the foam spray to fill it after. The next day there was a NEW hole above the filled one and 4 mice in the damn trap! I filled the next hole as I did the other and released the mice again. Next day a 3rd hole was there and 3 more mice in the trap! I filled and released again. This time I foam filled the whole damn wall corner outside too. 3 more mice and a new hole 3 feet to the right of the area I filled now! I then caulked, steel wooled and foam filled the entire length of the addition and old house and set 2 traps! 6 mice and a new hole in the one place I did not patch! I filled it and set the traps again. So here it is a month later and no more holes (oh they are trying, I can see the little claw marks on the foam and siding now) and I inspect the back every day and check the traps every day as well. We are still catching 2 to 3 mice a day too! How many mice can live on the mountain side, 10,000?! I think I have initiated a new mouse population explosion in the woods now with all my releases too!
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