Duly noted....
Heh.
Sir? I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
Zoe ,'The Train Job'
Spike's Bitches 26: Damn right I'm impure!
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 17, 2005 3:56:03 pm PDT #3626 of 10001
What is even happening?
Deena - Sep 17, 2005 3:58:18 pm PDT #3627 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
When your mom has to come stay with you all day, you can make her smoke pot, okay?
I like this. I'll be sure to tell him, and then make plans to stay at a hotel should we ever reach the day where he's not living at home.
meara - Sep 17, 2005 4:01:46 pm PDT #3628 of 10001
Not to make you freak even more, but it's probably inside the couch frame somewhere
Yeah, that's kinda what I'm afraid of.
And the cat thing--well, last time I had a mouse (not at this apartment, a few years back) we borrowed a cat and it was freakin' SCARED of the mouse!!! We ended up cornering it ourselves, with a broom, in the kitchen, and it turned out to be a little tiny thing. We almost (almost) felt bad for it.
This one was a medium-sized mouse. Not big, which is good, but not teeny tiny either. And IN MY HOUSE!!!
Also: suggestions as to where I could easily get some freakin' traps or poison or something? And what's the best sort to get? I'm given to understand traditional mousetraps, not so useful....
Deena - Sep 17, 2005 4:07:44 pm PDT #3629 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Many moons ago we used DeCon MousePruf, or something like that (can't recall the name exactly), and found it at the grocery store and the hardware store.
Okay, that took about 10 tries to post and it wasn't even worth the trouble. I think someone's trying to tell me it's bath time for babies.
SailAweigh - Sep 17, 2005 4:12:50 pm PDT #3630 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Traditional mousetraps are better. You know exactly where the dead mouse is once it's dead. My brother baits them with peanut butter, works like a charm. You just can't be squeamish (like me) about disposing of the wee corpse.
ION, if I'm going to get a blister on the bottom of my big toe from my shoes, I want those shoes to be diamond shoes, damnit, and they aren't. I done got cheated.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 17, 2005 4:31:13 pm PDT #3631 of 10001
What is even happening?
Traditional mousetraps are better. You know exactly where the dead mouse is once it's dead. My brother baits them with peanut butter, works like a charm. You just can't be squeamish (like me) about disposing of the wee corpse.
I recommend a husband. I know, I know, they come with baggage, and other things that some of you don't want. But at mouse corpse disposal, they're tops!
Ginger - Sep 17, 2005 4:35:17 pm PDT #3632 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Most of the commercial traps work fine if they're baited with peanut butter. I agree with Sail; the problem with poison is they go off and die somewhere unfortunate, like under the refrigerator. I'm not too thrilled with dealing with tiny corpses either. It's much easier if you just do what I do, which is to throw away the trap too. My theory is that it's worth a couple of bucks to spend a minimum amount of time with the dear departed.
Laura - Sep 17, 2005 4:37:08 pm PDT #3633 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
It was a wonderful thing when the boys were old enough to handle vermin corpse disposal. We had a baby possum in the pool once that B.Jr. got rid of for me. With 3 guys around now I am rapidly turning into a big girly girl.
Anne W. - Sep 17, 2005 4:38:00 pm PDT #3634 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Just don't get those sticky traps. Those are horrid.
Cashmere - Sep 17, 2005 4:54:52 pm PDT #3635 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Right now I am trying to convince myself that it's not so much "my" mouse as just...passing through. But I rather doubt that.
The mouse is probably pregnant and building a condo in your walls.
We've always had cats, but not mousers. Our last cat, Bogey actually brought a live mouse INSIDE from OUTSIDE. What kind of mouse gets caught by a declawed cat, I ask you?
I made DH catch it alive and walk three blocks to the park to set it free. I like the humane live traps, but that's just me.