Roasted mouse

Every year the white footed mice move into our house when it gets cold and infest it from one end to the other. They once built nests in the washing machine and the repairman was afraid of them and refused to repair the washer until I got the mice out of it. This year they are eating the soap in the bathroom and butter on the counter. They also get into the oven, though I don't know how. My wife wants to get killing traps or sticky traps but I refuse--I can't hurt the little fellows after I see their big little eyes--so she did agree to get live traps called micecubes that are plastic and I set them and let the mice go in the brush pile. She insists they just say Hi bro and then take turns coming back to the house. I'm afraid it's too cold for them out there. I caught and released five this afternoon, although we only have one trap left as they drag them down their hole and eat the peanut butter bait. They are fast learners. Late this afternoon I heard one in the oven again so I put the plastic trap in the oven. I forgot it was there after the mouse tripped the thing four times and ran down the holes in the bottom of the oven. She made baked chicken for dinner after which I suddenly remembered the darn trap. It is now melted on the oven floor. I think she is a bit perturbed, although she hasn't said much except can we put the self cleaning function on with plastic melted on the oven floor. The mouse is still in there making a racket on the metal shelf.--------------------Weedy

Oh no!!!!

Are you nuts ? Mice spread disease! Eating butter! Good grief did ever think of using a covered dish.
We don't have a "mouse in the house" problem.
A nice tight home with 18 outdoor cats keeps things under control.

Dude!!! Call an exterminator!!!

I have mice also. Ate a rubber spatula, nawing on my kitchen towels and then in the bathroom started on washcloths. Sometimes you can hear them pecking away in the walls. It all starts in the fall when its getting cold out. We caught 7 and hopefully now they are gone. Must of been a family.
Mice pee/poo can make you sick. They can chew your electrical wiring and a fire "could" happen in time.

Someone on this forum got the ones at Home Depot that makes a sound and chases them out. I cant remember who said this. Chime in............

Mice are not worth nothing unless his name is Micky - Get rid of them.

We get mice, too. Our cats are fairly useless. At the end of February, I start my seeds under lights in the basement and the mice have sometimes nibbled at my baby seedlings in the past. So a few weeks ago I began my annual mice catching event. I have six small, metal Hav-a-Heart traps which catch them but don't kill them. Every morning, I take whoever has been caught for a long walk into the woods. The benefits are: I finally get rid of them (the count is up to 30 now), I get to take a long walk in the woods, and I sometimes take my camera and get a good photo. This guy headed for a nearby tree and then stayed still long enough for me to take his picture.

Always find a reason to take some photos, eh bop?!!

I had that problem too when I first moved into this house. i would see them scurrying around when cold weather came.

I put out those green poison bricks. One day i found one dead in the middle of my kitchen floor. He looked like that fella in your pic...cute. I felt really bad.

So my neighbor got me a cat. It seems to have worked. Buddha don't play. He's a real mouser. They dont hang out here anymore.

let me think of how i can put this diplomatically ------------ kill the mice!!!!!!!!!

Well as for disease, after two flu shots, regular and swine, I caught swine flu anyway. I probably caught it at the hopelessly crowded super market over the Holidays. I then got pneumonia, probably in the same huge overcrowded market. I refuse to use the rest room there because people pee on the floor and smear the seats with ------.I'm recovering from gall bladder disease and I can't imagine where that came from. and I don't want to. Our cat is aged and has a gimpy leg so we don't want to confuse the poor old thing with new companions as she thinks the house is all her territory. I like the havahart traps but they are pricey. If you have a colony there will likely be a lot more than seven--they really reproduce. My favorite mouser of all was a four foot milk snake that liked to curl up on top of the water heater and could pursue the mice into the walls. My wife could be heard in the next county the first time she went down cellar to do the laundry and saw that snake but eventually she apparently adjusted as I caught her sneaking down there with a flash-light to get a good look. It was really a very pretty snake, especially after it shed it's skin. Possibly those of us who lived on a farm with a two holer and and outside hand pump have different feelings about animals, even mice-----------Weedy

they must die!!!!.. the electric traps are quick... and no mess.. you can get all sorts of problems even just breathing the waste from them... get rid of them

The life span of a mouse is about one and a half years. They can live alone, or in groups. Female mice can produce young 60 days after birth, eight young at a time, and fifteen litters a year. That could mean 120 mice!

# Mice can transmit salmonellosis (bacterial food poisoning) when food is contaminated with infected mouse feces.
# Mice also transmit rickettsial pox, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, leptospirosis, ratbite fever, tularemia, dermatitis, and Hantavirus

A few things I found when I googled mice.

quote from allison - "they must die!!!!" - that cracked me up :)

yeah what that says

:)

Yes, I pictured her running after a mouse with a steak knife!

cute or not.. fry them suckers!!!!

I was messing with one of the three that got in here... we set the electric traps up all over.. the one got in the living room and it's an addition.. no basement or attic... in here it had no where to go... every time it came out from behind the couch and tried to head to the kitchen... I jumped out of my chair like a lunatic... it ran back and sooner or later found the trap with PB .. must have went on for hours.. I know I know.. I could be the next star of caddy shack

To this day some people believe that fried mice or mouse pie is a cure for bed wetting.

Cooked mice were once used to treat smallpox, whooping cough, measles and many other ailments.

#
# In Egypt a cooked mouse was used to cure a variety of ills including stomachaches.

good thing we have learnt something since way back then and can actually save people instead of torcher them

think i saw bear grylls eat one

I will die as I am NOT going to eat a mouse, cockroach or anything out of the ordinary.

I'm with her!!!

Hilarious thread (also serious!)
I read an article written by a man who discovered that mice had moved into his antique cars' upholstery (and were eating it!). He was also an engineer, so in proper scientific fashion he tested the catch-and-release of the mice he caught in his Havaheart traps. He marked the mice before releasing them--I think with paint--and afterward discovered that they are highly territorial and would find their way back to his car-barn from more than two miles away!

I would eat what I have to, to survive, I can always try to cure a disease, but death is incurable.

unless you are taking them miles away.. they are coming right back in the way they found the first time

They can smell their trail & others also follow that same trail.

A big problem for farmers is mice & rats getting into a stored combine & chewing the wiring. Big expense to fix that.

if there is something left to fix after a fire

There was a movie out years ago.
"Never Cry Wolf"
Biologist sent to Alaska to study small mammels. Its just a riot.

I would go out and eat the bark off a tree - first, of course it would have to be cooked. I WOULD find some other way to survive then eating a mouse/cockroach. There is the wild deer, moose, rabbit, squirrel ummmm. The right time of year fiddle heads, berries what ever is out there.

If I had to give in I would become a professional theif.

Maybe one is a chef! (lol!)

A sort of an update. My wife talked me into going to the mall and while I was waiting in the car she sneakily put the oven on self clean and cremated everything in it. Now the kitchen smells like burnt plastic and cremated mouse droppings and it's my turn to cook while she goes to church, presumably to pray for me among other things. The butter is now in a polycarbonate container called Lock@Lock which only a beaver could chew open I guess but they stay down in their dam and I've never seen one close to the house, although I did have a muskrat eating my daylilies last summer. Still, our yard is full of tracks, deer and I hope not coyote, although I do hear the pack at night. There is an odd track that has a continuous furrow in it like something was dragging a large tail. Maybe it was a beaver. The rabbits have pruned the hollys down to snow level. And I have to make mac and cheese on her church nights in that stinky oven.-------------------------------Weedy

good grief

Ok, this is hopeless... lol!

sounds like a chemical death waiting to happen

ROTFLMAO - GOOD GRIEF. What am I doing up reading this at this time of night. Tears are coming down my eyes. Good thing my husband cant hear me laughing!

Call in the Exorcist.

I never have live mice in my house.

Memory and the cats - HollyCat, Wallingford, Sampson Thunderpaws, Meeyow and Yowmee

I think The Colonel has Mac and Cheese.

Oh Weedy! You need to get rid of those mice! Do you have a friend with a cat you can borrow for a week or so? Just having the hunter around will scare off some of the mice. We had one stubborn one that would come up a hole under the sink. He/she managed to evade a sink floor plastered with sticky traps for about a week. I could see his trail of poo.... Finally I got one of the snap traps - he couldn't escape that one. It's gross but it's final.

I haven't seen mice in my house in a while. I store the birdfood in a metal container and all of the rice/flour/nuts in plastic or glass. So far so good.