My dining room has a little sitting area, and I was sitting there the other night in a big comfy upholstered chair. The light was off in the main part of the dining room, and suddenly out of the corner of my eye I saw a dark flash run by on the floor. It was either a mouse or a spider that was so large and fast that I'd have to move and burn the house down.
I went into full wartime mode and tried to hunt it down, but it disappeared. My concern was that when I saw it, it was headed directly for a large floor vent and that's the only place it could have gone.
I told the wife, but there was little we could do without knowing what type of Predator had invaded our world.
Well, tonight the wife was sitting in a different chair in the sitting area, and suddenly a mouse flashed by on the floor. She sounded the alarm and we went into high alert. She said that it had run underneath the large comfy upholstered chair. I got my bazooka and a bayonet and looked under the chair and once again the mouse was nowhere to be found.
She had been watching the whole time and said that it didn't come out from under the chair, so with great trepidation I drew a conclusion. If it didn't leave and it's not under the chair, then...
I flipped the chair on its side, and sure enough there were three holes that were chewed into the bottom of the lining.
It's in the chair! The call is coming from the chair!
We immediately dragged the chair out onto the back porch, despite the fact that it's an expensive chair and it's snowing and Von Miller lives in our city.
So what do I do now? We've got a mouse living in our chair, and we can't guarantee that it's one mouse. It's possible that there's a different mouse living in the ductwork and we can't guarantee that it's one mouse. But then again, all of this could just be one mouse. It's been warm and just got cold, so it's possible that an outside mouse somehow got in temporarily.
How do you get mice out of a house, and how do you get mice out of a chair? This is not the type of chair that you just throw away. This chair is the chair of royalty. I've called an exterminator, but is there anything else I can do?
The thing that worries me is that I saw a mouse last year in our kitchen. We bought a bunch of traps and put them out, but never caught anything. However, we never saw any mice other than the one time. But now I'm wondering if the mouse/mice has been in our house the whole time, watching us and waiting for its chance to attack. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
Okay, I've got a bombshell. Sit down, everyone.
Are you sitting down?
I'll wait.
Okay, you're sitting down?
I went into the office today, and my wife also went to the office. She got home before me, walked in, and was met by a sight. On the dining room rug, right in the middle of the room, was a dying mouse. She dragged the rug outside and the mouse passed peacefully within minutes in the peaceful back yard environment of its birth.
We have no traps set in the house right now, and there's nothing poison in the house. The mouse assassin isn't coming until tomorrow.
So what happened?
I'm thinking through the scenarios, and it's obvious. We had two long-time cats who passed away several years ago, and they were in charge of home security. Clearly, their ghostly spirits saw our crisis and they burst through the astral plane to eliminate the threat. In the manner of cats, they then presented it to us as a display of their prowess.
Good kitties! Good kitties!
Get a Ouija board and try to communicate with your Kitty ghosts.. If the answer to any question is “meow”.. You know they are watching over you.. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
Okay, I've got a bombshell. Sit down, everyone.
Are you sitting down?
I'll wait.
Okay, you're sitting down?
I went into the office today, and my wife also went to the office. She got home before me, walked in, and was met by a sight. On the dining room rug, right in the middle of the room, was a dying mouse. She dragged the rug outside and the mouse passed peacefully within minutes in the peaceful back yard environment of its birth.
We have no traps set in the house right now, and there's nothing poison in the house. The mouse assassin isn't coming until tomorrow.
So what happened?
I'm thinking through the scenarios, and it's obvious. We had two long-time cats who passed away several years ago, and they were in charge of home security. Clearly, their ghostly spirits saw our crisis and they burst through the astral plane to eliminate the threat. In the manner of cats, they then presented it to us as a display of their prowess.
Good kitties! Good kitties!
Probably ate something it shouldn't have. Something very expensive or potentially electrical. :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
Okay, I've got a bombshell. Sit down, everyone.
Are you sitting down?
I'll wait.
Okay, you're sitting down?
I went into the office today, and my wife also went to the office. She got home before me, walked in, and was met by a sight. On the dining room rug, right in the middle of the room, was a dying mouse. She dragged the rug outside and the mouse passed peacefully within minutes in the peaceful back yard environment of its birth.
We have no traps set in the house right now, and there's nothing poison in the house. The mouse assassin isn't coming until tomorrow.
So what happened?
I'm thinking through the scenarios, and it's obvious. We had two long-time cats who passed away several years ago, and they were in charge of home security. Clearly, their ghostly spirits saw our crisis and they burst through the astral plane to eliminate the threat. In the manner of cats, they then presented it to us as a display of their prowess.
Good kitties! Good kitties!
Well, studies have shown that the pandemic has raised mental health issues, including depression. Maybe the mouse just didn't see a future in your chair and went out on his terms. [Reply]
My resume' for catching-dispatching mice includes everything from traditional store bought traps, sticky traps, home built traps, blow gun darts, poison....cats and I've had my chickens eat them before.
A couple of things. The "trigger" on most store bought traps is not sensitive enough. You need to do a little bending and tweaking on that trigger wire to make it more sensitive. Use a little sticky bait like peanut butter, not a lot. Sticky traps are good as long as they are fresh and aren't cold(like in a barn/garage in the winter).
You're a creative guy, so you can try to build a better mouse trap. Try a bucket trap with a string and a pop can or toilet paper roll.
If you've got a house cat that doesn't catch mice, I've got a solution for that as well. [Reply]
This summer I was on a trip to a desert lake, on a houseboat.
In the evenings, after the kids were in bed, the men sat on the back deck drinking a few beers. There were so many mice/packrats on the beach that we had a mouse catching contest. Everyone had a trap, could use whatever bait you wanted. Each "set" was a round that ended when a mouse was caught. Everyone put a dollar in a hat and the winner kept the loot.
I couldn't get a paiute deadfall to work right. [Reply]
First, in a life lesson about stereotypes, my mouse assassin was a young woman, so she was more Red Sparrow than Anton Chigurh. But she knew her stuff. She crawled around my dining room and noticed a small hole in the frame around my fireplace. It's on the side of the frame in a spot where you're not going to see it as a casual observer. She put a trap directly over the opening, along with a few other traps elsewhere.
Now I'm sitting in my dining room and there's some mouse or mice noisily noshing on the poisoned treats like Casper on movie night.
I don't know if that little hole goes directly into the fireplace (which is a long-sealed coal fireplace), or if there's just a masonry gap to the outdoors. But my hunch is that some mice are living in the fireplace itself, and they're about to learn about Castle Doctrine the hard way. [Reply]
First, in a life lesson about stereotypes, my mouse assassin was a young woman, so she was more Red Sparrow than Anton Chigurh. But she knew her stuff. She crawled around my dining room and noticed a small hole in the frame around my fireplace. It's on the side of the frame in a spot where you're not going to see it as a casual observer. She put a trap directly over the opening, along with a few other traps elsewhere.
Now I'm sitting in my dining room and there's some mouse or mice noisily noshing on the poisoned treats like Casper on movie night.
I don't know if that little hole goes directly into the fireplace (which is a long-sealed coal fireplace), or if there's just a masonry gap to the outdoors. But my hunch is that some mice are living in the fireplace itself, and they're about to learn about Castle Doctrine the hard way.
DON"T poison them !!! Use the snap traps with peanut butter so they don't go die in crevices' [Reply]
First, in a life lesson about stereotypes, my mouse assassin was a young woman, so she was more Red Sparrow than Anton Chigurh. But she knew her stuff. She crawled around my dining room and noticed a small hole in the frame around my fireplace. It's on the side of the frame in a spot where you're not going to see it as a casual observer. She put a trap directly over the opening, along with a few other traps elsewhere.
Now I'm sitting in my dining room and there's some mouse or mice noisily noshing on the poisoned treats like Casper on movie night.
I don't know if that little hole goes directly into the fireplace (which is a long-sealed coal fireplace), or if there's just a masonry gap to the outdoors. But my hunch is that some mice are living in the fireplace itself, and they're about to learn about Castle Doctrine the hard way.
“Red Sparrow” and crawling around on your dining room floor. You are SO lucky. I want mice too. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hog's Gone Fishin:
DON"T poison them !!! Use the snap traps with peanut butter so they don't go die in crevices'
The sales pitch is that they use poison that makes the mice slowly overheat, so they go outside to cool down and then join their ancestors outdoors. I hope that's the case. I don't want to end up with vultures in my fireplace. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
The sales pitch is that they use poison that makes the mice slowly overheat, so they go outside to cool down and then join their ancestors outdoors. I hope that's the case. I don't want to end up with vultures in my fireplace.
Those people lie! They're selling stuff. You're in Denver where it's -50 outside. Mice won't go out. I had a hog Farm . i know mice. and I live in the Texas panhandle where it gets cold as shit with wind blowing 50 mph. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
The sales pitch is that they use poison that makes the mice slowly overheat, so they go outside to cool down and then join their ancestors outdoors. I hope that's the case. I don't want to end up with vultures in my fireplace.
I wouldn’t ever use poison.. It was used at my work and we smelled dead mice for a month.. [Reply]
