Mice

[Thelemech]

<The following commentary is best read whilst Blue Oyster Cult's I Love the Night, followed by their performance of Nosferatu plays in the background.>

The people with knowledge have since passed on (under questionable circumstances I might add). I was once acquainted with two of them. It was too long ago to count the years, but they shared a tiny amount of their knowledge with me:

First, it's the mice. This phase is...gentle. Annoying, of course. Unsanitary? Absolutely. Yet gentle all the same.

Second, it's the rats. You'll question whether the mice are just getting stouter, but you will just be deluding yourself. They're rats, and this phase is decidedly not gentle. Loud chittering, clothing, furniture, walls...perhaps a toe or two. All gnawed, chewed, and defiled. Diseases of unknown properties being spread randomly and regularly. Unsanitary would be considered clean at this point.

Finally, Dracula shows up and EATS YOUR FUCKING SOUL.

You've got to stop the process Thel. The disposition of your eternal soul is at stake, man.

 

[Typhon]

Hey Thel, how's the mouse problem?

[Thelemech]

I have a bunch of traps still out but so far I have not seen any in a long time. The renovations on my building are mostly over now so I think that has helped.

[Zzzptm]

I've got a friend who had a mouse infestation just recently. All the furniture eaten out from inside, carpet ruined. Those rodents are serious business.

[Freeyyaa]

They are doing renovations in the building that I live at, new siding new windows new carpet and new paint. Well all the hammering and smashing around that takes place during the day is both giving an entrance to mice and also scaring them into goiing all through the building.
Yesterday I saw a quite big brown mouse run across my floor and under my fridge. Then later in the day the damn little bugger was in the garbage container in my kitchen. Well I tried to kill it and chased it around the room. It went under the stove and so far I have seen no sign of him.
I have traps out with peanut butter on them as that was what the manager in my building provided me to deal with the problem. I can say that they do not seem to be working.

I was just wondering if any of you had any advice to deal with this problem??

My solution is to take a big catchful she-cat to your house.

[Typhon]

I looked up this old thread because of what took place at my house this past week.  It is not uncommon for me to detect that a mouse has been spending time in my garage.  I have some bags of bird seed in there and a few days ago I noticed that a mouse had stopped by, gnawed open the bottom of 1 of the bags, and had a midnight snack.  I have never figured out how they even get to the bags, because they are on the floor of my flat-bed trailer. 

So anyhow, I performed the usual routine: get the mouse trap, bait it with peanut butter, and place it on the trailer near the bags.  Then in a day or 2 I see the trap has sprung and I toss the corpse into the woods.  In all the years I have used this same trap, it has never missed.  So this morning, I go out to the garage to check the trap, and to my astonishment, the trap is gone!    Now I'm like, "Who the hell took my trap?"

So I start looking around a crowded 3 car garage to try and find my trap.  Finally I spot the trap and it turns out that a mouse got only his front foot caught by the trap and was still alive.  I then said to myself, "This guy has made it this far, so he deserves another chance at life."  I got a large tupperware container, carefully dropped him into the container, releasing him from the trap, got in my Geo Tracker and drove a couple of miles down the road and let him loose.  His front leg appeared to be damaged, but he did go hopping away.  I really hope he survives, but let him eat someone else's bird seed.

[Zzzptm]

Respect for a worthy opponent!