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[brobee]

i found what appears to be mouse poop in my kitchen today. my place is generally pretty tidy and we never leave food out. and all of a sudden bam. i scrubbed the kitchen this morning, and then in the evening found more poop on a couch. now i laid out glue traps (not necessarily lethal ones) and am waiting to see if something gets caught. what else do i do? any one else have this happen to them. i feel dirty all over. and ten points to the first person who makes a milton bradley mouse trap joke.

[theremin]

give it a cookie.

[wakingrufus]

give it a cookie.

dont do it! its a trap!


i seen it in books

[coldcomfort]

You seem to be doing all you can - glue strips are horrible though. Mice are not rats. Don't freak. Poop on the couch is unexecptable......is there a way to lure them, like toward the back door? Shit, I don't know....this bothers me.

[M_Rots]

There ya go: I'll take my points in scratch-offs, please.

[theminimumcircus]

Fryin' pan, motherfucker.

[Waterloo]

just leave it there. give it a name, let it be your pet. everybody wins.

[M_Rots]

Fryin' pan, motherfucker.

In my experience, a cinder block is more decisive.

[theminimumcircus]

just leave it there. give it a name, let it be your pet. everybody wins.

Ben

[6ome 9irl]

Tip: Mice love olives, don't actually like cheese.

[zolacolby]

Ask Skinny, he knows what to do...

[brobee]

You seem to be doing all you can - glue strips are horrible though. Mice are not rats. Don't freak.
Poop on the couch is unexecptable......is there a way to lure them, like toward the back door? Shit, I don't know....this bothers me.

that's how i feel, mostly. these glue traps say that they dissolve with cooking oil for humane release. i hope that's true. i can't even kill a bug. i've lived in apartments with roach problems and caught and released them.

as for the poop on the couch, it was really unsettling. i was away for like an hour and all of a sudden it was there. this is one crafty fucking mouse.

[Finn McCool]

Milton Bradley? Amatuer! I was going for the UB40 route. Yeah, that's right. I don't know how to get rid of mice. I'd move. That's your answer. Pick up some bubble wrap and start packing. One miniature mound of mouse doo doo means you've got a barmy army of them under your floorboards and you know what? They're walking across your mouth while you sleep. You have to move.

[wakingrufus]

mouse traps with peanut butter always works

[brobee]

mouse traps with peanut butter always works

for serious?

[wakingrufus]

mouse traps with peanut butter always works

for serious?

yeah. at my parents house (when i lived there) we had mice int he crawl space, and i was in charge of making them get dead, and there would be nights where i would catch 3 in a night with this combo.

[velocity]

Rufus speaks truth. I hate to say it but if you let them outside they'll only come back--them or their progeny. Well, I guess if you drive them to a grassy field yards or miles from your pad, that could work.

[Saskadelphia]

Ask Skinny, he knows what to do...

I was just going to say that.

[Complain]

Show it your avatar - that will scare it to death

[sKinnY]

Ask Skinny, he knows what to do...

I was just going to say that.

you mean the oven thing?