dead mouses = sad Allie :(

[alliecat8]

My husband just caught a MOUSE! We were eating dinner and we saw the cats all flipping out over something, and I said, "They always flip out when we have steak, leave 'em alone," and he said, "No, it's a rodent!" To make a long story short, he caught it in the fish net from our aquarium. Then he put it in a shoe box, took it outside, and set it free, because I'm a hippie chick who believes in peace and freedom for everyone, even if you're a mouse.

But what does it mean to have a mouse in your house? How did he get in? Does that automatically mean that we have other mouses? Now I'm the one flipping out!

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[eponine119.livejournal.com]

I think it means it's fall and it's been raining a lot and it's that time when mouses come inside. But what a brave mouse, choosing a house with 6 cats in it!

I would be upset if I had a mouse though. We had them in my college dorm and in one place I worked but I've never had one personally (which I'm fine with!)

[alliecat8.livejournal.com]

But what a brave mouse, choosing a house with 6 cats in it!

Or a very stupid one!

I'm too freaked out (and I'll admit it, amused by the fish net scenario) to be upset...yet. Maybe I'll be upset tomorrow.

My niece in your icon looks like you're dangling a mouse over her head. You wouldn't do that, would you? ;)

[hendercats.livejournal.com]

If mousie didn't get in through an open door, you need to find the hole and plug it. I remember reading somewhere that if the hole is the size of a (small coin - I really don't want to think it's a dime, but that's possible), they can get in. Any place you have something that goes through from the inside of your house to the outside - think water pipes for outside spigots, the dryer vent, the hole for the wires and pipe that go to the outside part of your air conditioner - is a possibility. We used to have a gas grill that ran off the house gas line, the pipe was attached in the basement. Yep, little brown mouse dug along the pipe and got inside. One humane trap and a can of that expanding foam later we had no problem.

[alliecat8.livejournal.com]

Or what if there isn't a hole (tho it sounds like you can't have a house without holes!) and a cat brought it in in its mouth? I've had that happen with birds and squirrels and even a snake...yeah, I live in a madhouse. Anyway, I'll look around, and it's good to know about the expanding foam -- and especially about humane mouse traps! Because my cats are not humane, sadly. *glares at one offender, looking all innocent asleep on my bed*

[bachlava.livejournal.com]

Yay for rescuing mousies and setting them free! I'm not sure about other ones... I do know they tend to avoid the scent of a cat, so you're not likely to have a colony of the little critters or anything.

[alliecat8.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was a lucky mouse to stumble into a critter-lovin' house...and a dumb mouse for not knowing it was such a cathouse! Maybe other mice are smarter?

[rogueapprentice.livejournal.com]

I...have never had a mouse problem, actually. Small furry and feathered creatures avoid my yard completely cause my cat is v. much Mr. Hunter, but I don't think mice are like roaches where if you see one you have a colony? I'm pretty sure that's right.

[alliecat8.livejournal.com]

I have SIX cats and most of them hunt, especially the boy cat who has that hunting & gathering instinct, but I think this mouse was trying to get in out of the flood -- it rained here for about a month. Well, you don't live far away so you probably know a lot about that! But you had no four or six or eight legged refugees, huh? Lucky you! :)

[bachlava.livejournal.com]

I don't think mice are like roaches where if you see one you have a colony? I'm pretty sure that's right.
Me too. I think it's that mice live in little family groups, while it's rats that tend to swarm like roaches. Yeuch!

[alliecat8.livejournal.com]

I thought mice were just baby rats!

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

Maybe a cat brought it in - if they are hunters. I only had the one cat and she brought them in at times. If you have six cats, i doubt you'll have a problem with them staying, although they are good at hiding (Yeah, believe me, I couldn't tell you how long it took to catch some of ours)

[missy-useless.livejournal.com]

Yay for rescuing the mouse. :) (I don't have any advice, though. We used to have mice in our house sometimes but we never actually knew where they were coming from. ;))

[alliecat8.livejournal.com]

So they eventually disappeared? I hope we'll never see another one! Eeeeewwwwww! (although actually, he was a cute little bugger)

[scandaloussteph.livejournal.com]

Ewwwwwwww!
A MOUSE!!!
*shudder*

I think 1 mouse = Several mice/baby mice hiding somewhere. I'm not sure though.

[alliecat8.livejournal.com]

Yes, ew, but like I just told Missy ^^^, he was actually very cute. It's just the idea, and the association with RATS!

So you think maybe this was Daddy Mouse, and Mommy Mouse is home under one of my kitchen cabinets or something with the kids? "Shudder" is RIGHT!

[tellshannon815.livejournal.com]

I'm convinced I saw one running around in the corridor at my grandad's house the night before I went on holiday, chased it into the kitchen only to find out it had gone so I wondered if I'd imagined it. It was only later I worked out where the hole must be!

[alliecat8.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was a ghost-mouse? I think I'd be happier with that than a real one (and less scared!).

[luna481516.livejournal.com]

Ah - you've discovered the chief thing husbands are for! Hendercats is right - they can get into the house through the most inconsequential little hole. It doesn't mean you have a flock, or den, (or whatever groups of mice are called) - we catch a single mouse from time to time and then don't see any more. When they poop on the kitchen counter, though, it's time to get rid of them. Since you have cats they should pretty much keep them away.

[alliecat8.livejournal.com]

Yes, husbands = Chief Mouse Catchers and Gas-Pumpers. And Going to Walmart in the Middle of the Night-ers. ;)

I will keep an eye out for mouse poop on the kitchen table. *shudders* Does the same rule hold true for cats???