Fuck Mice... Seriously

One day we will all be against animal cruelty and this will be linked in a future milkshake duck thread.

Have you tried the sticky tape? That's all the exterminator will use.

I'm glad I've never had to deal with mice or other mammalian pests, just roaches. Zero remorse killing roaches.

But they're so cute!

Cats are your best friends for this. My cat is super on point about catching them. If I spot her by a section of the house walking constantly and looking at the wall I know there is a mouse. Usually a few hours or days later I catch a mouse in her mouth. I try to get it from her while alive if possible and take him outside away from the house. I know it's possible they can make their way back in, but I'm too nice to kill them. Plus, I hope the mouse says fuck it to my house once they are terrorized by the cat. Lol

Yeah I only had to drown a mouse attached to the sticky trap twice, first time I ended up throwing it in the trash cause I just couldn't do it second time I managed to drown it but yeah. Sorry mice bros but you shit in my bed. That meant war.

(Least my lazy ass cat started playing with them to death after that. Why she let those other two go is anyone's guess). Also she put one of them in my bed because you know I totally wanted that. -___-

if they keep appearing, there is an underlying issue your pest control isn't catching. Maybe bring in better people?

uncelestial said:

But they're so cute!

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Dawwww

They are a reason they are called vermin. Get rid of them for the sake of society, they carry diseases and spread like wild fire.

mentallyinept said:

The exterminators have been here for months. Glue traps we're provided by them and are set up. They haven't caught anything in weeks. I don't see how they are more humane than what I'm going to build. Starve to death over days or drown in minutes.

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Damn, it sounds like a challenge to get rid of them in that case.

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mentallyinept said:

Sure, but the problem is there's no guarantee that the cat will be effective.

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Yep, my mother's cat is a great example of, "don't give a fuck I'm sleeping". Kinda funny in hindsight at least. But yeah, that's the roll of the dice with pets. Can't just say "nope, you're gone" when they don't do the one thing you ask of them.

NYR said:

They are a reason they are called vermin. Get rid of them for the sake of society, they carry diseases and spread like wild fire.

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They're called vermin yes, but that doesn't mean they aren't evolved mammals capable of thought,emotions and pain. When OP says he's done everything has he gotten someone's cat for a little while? Mice fear predators. Or even used poison which kills more than just one mouse. They get in where there is entry. In the end, what helpes us was the big spring traps that are built for rats and kill faster and simple rat poison pellets. Borrowing someone's cat is a good option because the smell of the cat will put off the mice too, especially if he kills some.

OP's main thing is to make sure his infant is safe, so if that means he has to go medieval on mice thats fine, kid is more important than those mice.

mice are capable of empathy and singing among other things
tried to save one I found that was sick outside

Fuck mice?



Seriously?

I sympathize. My neighbor's house is a pigsty and they recently had some renovations done which naturally drove the vermin into my place and we still haven't been able to get rid of them. My parents don't think there are more than a few but they're coming in through the space behind our oven and have been avoiding all the glue traps, tearing up labels and just shitting everywhere.

Poison's a good idea though. Think we'll go buy some this weekend.

In the past, we've always used glue traps, put them in plastic bags and threw them out in the public trash cans a few blocks away. I think the only time one was actually killed in the house was when it tried to run past my mom and she smacked it with a broom she just happened to be holding.

They're cute but not what I'd call fuckable material, naw what m sayin?

While we lived in a condo, my wife and I had a storage unit that was infested with mice. We lost a few collector's editions, books, baby gifts etc.. So yeah, fuck mice.

No kidding. My air conditioning fan in my car crapped out on me today. I take out the glove box and remove the fan to find inside... a dead freaking mouse - which was a nasty shock. He had knocked the fan off balance and jammed it causing the motor to burn out. $70 part. I did feel kind of sorry for the mouse, basically his death was like a horror movie scene.

I helped my aging cat catch a mouse in the house once. Made him very happy.

I've had to deal with a rat problem in my tiny 2 bedroom house, with my 2 year old son running around...I know how infuriating dealing with pests can be especially when you have a young child. Had no problem killing em. The hell with releasing them in the wild. They'd just find another house to go infest, and nobody in my country gives a crap about rats.

This is why bodegas have cats.

I don't mind them myself. I had them when I was renting an old Victorian house in college, I am guessing because there was tons of places for them to live in that old place - or cavern into. I'd catch them in a bucket trap and take them out to the woods about a mile away whenever I caught some. Too cure to kill. They just wanna live and eat cheese.

they had a petting zoo at the old folks home before my gran died
they liked most of the animals but they were terrified of the poor rat that was there

yeah I figured this would bring out people who brag about mutilating creatures

Cats are the only thing that's worked for me. Get a cat, OP. Feed it pizza, OP. Don't dress it up in costumes, OP.

Borrow/steal a friends cat, and let it go loose. All you have to do is get rid of the corpses, those fuckers don't know what's coming.

Lived out near some open woods I really wish I knew of that years ago. Was a pain ridding the darn house of them. Ended up just moving out, fuck them. I thought living with Brown Recluse was terrible enough.

Shame on you. I demand you watch the Mouse and the Motorcycle trilogy immediately followed by Stuart Little and Stuart Little II. Also, yea, get a cat. Cats are great for dealing with mice.

Just be glad it's not rats...rat traps are monsterous contraptions and still barely kill rats.

Come home after a day of work to finish off a rat that left a trail of blood across your floor.

Madness said:

Or even used poison which kills more than just one mouse.

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Poison with an 18 month old around?

Yes let the hate flow through you. Make you stronger.

Never had to deal with mice until a few weeks ago, we had to set traps up in our kitchen

One morning while I'm still in bed I hear the most god-awful shriek come from outside my room. I smile and go back to sleep.

When I do wake up to check the traps, I see yep, it got it. But I look over at another trap, and see that the PB bait is gone, and it was set off with a splurt of blood.

So this mouse got caught or winged by one trap, and then decided to try again from the same exact trap across the room, and met its demise.

WHAT A DUMB FUCKER XD

We have an annual mice problem in SF. I've just gone to using no kill traps as they tend to be more reliable at trapping then snap traps are at killing. I freeze them in the traps in a ziplock bag then dump the frozen mice in the bushes for the racoons and birds.

Rinse and reuse, hasnt failed in 10 years. Zero fucks given.

I got one that keeps running around my room at night for the past month or so. He won't go in our traps so he's my buddy now. He hangs out in the wall right next to my bed.
Mice are pretty cute

I literally just got finished dealing with a mice problem a couple weeks ago.

I ended up having to clean out the whole house, mostly the closets, and tight spaces where they just shit all over the floor, and smeared it on the walls.

In the end, I got a bunch of sticky traps, and caught all of them eventually once I cleaned out all the food, and they had nothing left to eat, and started scurrying around.

Those things worked like a charm, and now I'm mice free.

Apparently they chewed a hole near the dishwasher water line hose that went out of the house, so I had to also seal that up, and re-enforced it with fiber mesh this time so they can't chew through that again.

Really, absolutely nightmare, but it did give me a chance to do some crazy cleaning I've been meaning to get to for years. :P

At least it's not a possum problem. We gave up on trying to deal with that and just started treating the little bastards like unwelcome pets.

I suddenly remembered the cat in the wall Always Sunny episode.

Try peppermint oil. They hate it. Google it.

We once had an infestation of mice, the wife wanted to trap them live and then rehome them (there was a large pasture down the street). We caught mice for a month

Now we just have pest guys put out traps

PoppaBK said:

No kidding. My air conditioning fan in my car crapped out on me today. I take out the glove box and remove the fan to find inside... a dead freaking mouse - which was a nasty shock. He had knocked the fan off balance and jammed it causing the motor to burn out. $70 part. I did feel kind of sorry for the mouse, basically his death was like a horror movie scene.

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In your car? I'd lose my damn mind if there was a dead rodent chilling in my glove compartment

I had pet rats as a kid. You're a bad man OP

navyspheal said:

In your car? I'd lose my damn mind if there was a dead rodent chilling in my glove compartment

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In the damn fan. Like it crawled through an air inlet and then got sucked into the main fan that blows air into the cabin. I'm just glad it just got jammed and not pureed. Or worse just died in there and I would have had rotting mouse scent blowing out of the vents.