So I cried...whats new!

As some of you know, i have(or had) a mouse problem. Well i was in the kitchen letting the puppies out and looking through the cupboards for something to eat. Well i glanced down and saw a DEAD MOUSE...oh god! So i kinda freaked out. I was standing in the living room discussing to myself and the dogs how much i REALLY didnt want to touch it, but i have no choice, i just gotta buck up and do it.
So i trott my new self esteemed self in there and look down as to where it was laying and it MOVED, oh my god it moved! I screamed freaked out, paced to the living room and talked it out again.
Yet again i marched a little more warily into the kitchen. Talked to cainan(who by the way was still attached to the chain at the door who hadnt been let out to potty yet) told him i need to get strong. So i moved the trash can and a doggie treat stand thinger i have and just kinda looked at it for a while.
FYI** it was just little**
While looking at the little thing i was pretty much talking to my crazy self again. I was yelling at myself for killing just a little baby when it hit me, like a semi ran threw my kitchen.
Lots and Lots of tears. Streaming down my face and me sobbing and talking about what i bad person i am for killing just a little baby mouse
To finally end my story, i grab a garbage bag and a napkin(napkin so i wouldnt have to feel it too much threw the bag) and grabbed it and took it outside!
I AM A HORRIBLE PERSON! I killed a baby mouse who just wanted to stay warm.
I know it had to be done, but come on. I wouldnt want anyone just going around throwing poison down for my babies to eat and then die!
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I know the feeling, as I told you before. It isn't a wonderful feeling. But then again we do need to protect ourselves from some of the things we can catch from them and their droppings lying around the house..I think leptosporosis is one.

Not totally sure if this will work...and someone correct me if it won't...but the tried and true way of getting a pet rodent back...is to take a large bucket, make a little ramp up the bucket, and put some food in the bottom. The rodent will go into the bucket to eat, and it will be too slippery to climb out. You can then relocate the mousie-away from your house. It may be a very slow process though.

coco bean- you arent using poison are you?? I hope not because even if you believe your dogs cant get to the poison, if you dogs had bite the mouse or eaten the mouse- they would get the poison too.. Also- using poison- the mice go back home in the walls and die- and the odor is over whelming!
When I lived in an apartment and I had mice- first I got steel wool- wrapped them around bathroom, and kitchen pipes like blocking the holes where they come in. At the water heater- where that pipe came out of the wall- packed that one off as well.
I hate snap traps but its necessary. We also have used sticky traps. I know you see a " fuzzy little animal" but you have to remember- wild mice easily can carry lepto, mites, and fleas. These are not someones well cared for " pets".. Only time I ever had fleas on my dogs in my life was when I had mice at that place.. Put it that way...
I am sorry it upset you so. However- as we see it- if we have taken the precautions we know so they came in, its not worth the risk to our health and the dogs..

Oh honey, I know how you feel. I left for a 6 day trip and came home to my kitchen drawers, cupboards filled with mouse dung. My beloved husband said "I've trapped them all and taken care of the mice. I thought I'd leave the kitchen so you could see it."
"Seeeeee it?" How bout cleaning it! It took me a couple days to strip everything out & bleach it all down. And I still saw two more mice under the kitchen sink! The upside was that when we figured out how they were getting in, (through a hole in the wall behind the old dishwasher), I ended up with a brand new dishwasher and a nice clean kitchen! Good things can come in small unexpected packages. I thank the mice for the new dishwasher ;)

We use snap traps because they are the quickest. I put several plastic bags on my hand before picking them up, then turn the bag inside out around them & tie it shut quickly. I would never ever use sticky traps, I've seen mice caught in them and that mouse goes through a living hell before it dies. :( And poison sounds like an awful way to go to me.

It is sad, but sometimes it must be done. You are not a bad person because of it. Just imagine if rodents overran the world....yuck! (Remember the Black Death?)

A little levity for you hunny,
It isn't like you killed Pinky and the Brain, and it wouldn't matter if you had, I have it on good authority that Star and Sherman with their husky friends are plotting to take over the world. :eek:

So, try to remember you are just making it safer for your dogs and for the World dominating huskies when they arrive!

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Originally Posted by areias

Not totally sure if this will work...and someone correct me if it won't...but the tried and true way of getting a pet rodent back...is to take a large bucket, make a little ramp up the bucket, and put some food in the bottom. The rodent will go into the bucket to eat, and it will be too slippery to climb out. You can then relocate the mousie-away from your house. It may be a very slow process though.

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This is a good idea albeit a laborious one ;) If you look around then maybe you'll be able to find some humane traps often used for scientific research, you just put bait in them and the movement of the mouse entering the trap snaps the trap shut. The mouse is happy, he just eats whatever you've put in it and has enough space to move around for a while. Then you can release him somewhere far away from your house!

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Originally Posted by cyber-sibes

Just imagine if rodents overran the world....yuck!

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Hee hee, I think that's already started in my house, the rat and the gerbils rule the roost :p

And, like I said before and cybersibes said, you are going to be fighting a losing battle if you don't figure out where they are coming from. Have your boyfriend look for holes when he comes home, if you can't. Put some steel wool in the holes.