There’s a !@#$%^&* mouse in my house...
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Topic: There’s a !@#$%^&* mouse in my house...
Posted By: Katherine
Subject: There’s a !@#$%^&* mouse in my house...
Date Posted: 19 June 2007 at 11:43pm
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...And I am no longer amused. Is this something the landlord has to deal with (we are renting) or is it our responsibility? We can see where he's getting in -- there's a hole in the baseboards in the kitchen where the dishwasher connection should be, but as we don't have a dishwasher, the hole is exposed. I've just got down on my hands and knees and shone a torch into the hole, and I can see that he's chewed a great big hole in the particle board in between the outer wall and inner wall of the house, so he must have been working on it for quite a while. There's also heaps and heaps of mouse poop in the space under the cupboards. YUCK! We've tried to poison him, but it obviously isn't working, and we can't leave mousetraps or poison around as we have a curious dog. And yesterday I was tidying Emma Rose's toys and found mouse poop in her toybox. NOT GOOD! (Yes, I disinfected the whole lot, including the toy box!) The last house we lived in was an old bungalow, and we had mice in the walls. Once a mouse died in the living room wall, and we couldn't do anything about it -- we just had to close off the room and wait for him to decay (the stench was vomit-inducing). But this mouse... Something must be done! So who do I call? |
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 20 June 2007 at 4:47am
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call the landlord cause it is his house that is being ruined by the little bugger... ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: mum2emj
Date Posted: 20 June 2007 at 6:29am
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OH NO!!!! argh! i had the same problem last week and i wasnt a happy mumma! lol. i saw it run down the hallway a few times and even go into my bedroom EEK!! why is it something so little gives me the creeps?? in typical fashion everytime it cam near i jumped on a chair- seriously whats up with that?!! lol.
in the end against my wishes we caught the mouse but not my preferred way- we tried to catch him alive but sadly he wouldnt come out so ended up trapping him  it was a sad day for poor little tinky winky as i named him. goodluck with catching you visitor! EWWW!!!
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 20 June 2007 at 7:00am
| i would call the landlord too, as mice eat electrical wiring too and can do a lot of damage to a house. there are some traps you can get from mitre10 that are like a plastic. we have them at our place and taine has been snapped twice and no longer goes near them. they hurt his hfingers but not dangerously so. so for a dog, maybe one or two times and he'll leave them alone. we put peanut butter on ours and got it! hehe. was very proud. |
Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 20 June 2007 at 7:30am
I almost caught the little critter last night, but he escaped from my clutches! I'm calling the landlord this morning -- I just didn't want to get laughed at like at the last house, when the landlord basically told us there was nothing he could do about the dead mouse stinking up our house. But this mouse ain't dead yet... Although he soon will be, if I have my way! 
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 20 June 2007 at 8:30am
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I'd hire out our super dooper expert mouse trap to ya but Paris hates strangers!!!! (she is a darn fine mouser though!!!!) ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 20 June 2007 at 8:42am
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I will call the landlord. Let him know what is up and what you have done. Ultimately it should be his responsibility but if something happens because you neglected to tell him it is your responsibility. (like chewed up cables ect before you told him)
Hope the little mouse decide to travel somewhere else. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 20 June 2007 at 9:00am
Definitley call the landlord. Any infestation/creature problem is their responsibility as per the tenancy agreement. We had cockroaches in our last house. In the meantime if you get a steelo pad and pull it apart a bit and then stuff it in the hole the mouse won't be able to get through as they can't chew through it. DH was a pest control officer when I met him, full of handy hints like that ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 20 June 2007 at 10:09am
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Ewwwwww!!!!!!!!!!
Full sympathies, Katherine! We have mice too... when the hot water cylinder burst 18 months ago, the replacement was a little bigger. At the same time they moved the pipes to being in the hot water cupboard rather than under the house... resulting in a nice hole under the new cylinder that field mice come in through! The property manager can't do anything about ours, other than supply poison. I got rid of a dead mouse yesterday... I was nearly crying and very shakey (hate even dead ones!) but I did it. ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 20 June 2007 at 10:24am
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Eeek, we had not only a mouse but a mice infestation in our last place, Willie trapped three but they kept on coming. About a week before we moved out I saw one crawling across my bedroom floor - needless to say I was very glad to get out of there!
Now I suspect we have a mouse in the big cupboard, I thought I saw it about a week ago, and there is suspicious chewing around the edge of the boards. I've bought some poison but am not brave enough to use it in case I find one dead on my kitchen floor - I don't cope with dead animals at all! If I spot one for certain I'll ring the landlord and make him board up the hole at the back of the cupboard where the little creeps are getting in. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
 (02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 20 June 2007 at 11:06am
| I agree that it is definitely your landlord's resposibility, but what also comes to mind (re: trapping) is to remember you *are* a human and therefore smarter than a mouse! And as cliche as it sounds, it is probably more afraid of you than you are of it. Good luck ! |
Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 20 June 2007 at 1:51pm
| I admit that DH built three increasingly elaborate mousetraps out of cardboard boxes, toilet rolls, produce bags, packing tape, and odd bits and pieces of detritus from the garage, but the dang mouse has evaded his best efforts, so now I'm wondering who is *really* the smart one here... I left a voicemail for the landlord this morning, so they better get on to it. |
Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 20 June 2007 at 1:59pm
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LOL, goodluck getting rid of the unwanted guest ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 20 June 2007 at 4:00pm
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We had a whole family living with us, and you could hear them up in the roof at night, and they lived behind the fireplace. In the end we got a product called "storm" and hubbie climbed up in the roof space and nailed it to the beams it was funny cause we could hear them playing with it. The stuff worked brillantly and we haven't seen or heard from them since. We did however find them dead, apparently the stuff makes them go looking for water, and then they just die. They looked like they were sleeping, not gross to look at.
They did however make a mess, chewing out the skirtings and we found holes in our wardrobes, so frustrating also to find poo everywhere...
Good luck in your hunt to get rid of your visitor. Remember though, it might not be the one, it could be a relative?? ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 20 June 2007 at 9:11pm
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OMG i hate mice!!!
Landlord is resp - and make sure you show them the hole it is getting in from....and ask them to do something about it!! We had one tenant who asked us to get rid of white tails...but then previous three tenants hadnt had them and she had obviously bought them with her so we told her to get exterminator and she had to pay...didnt worry us and did nothing as far as damage to property was concerned....now mice - that WOULD be different... |
Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 21 June 2007 at 2:44pm
| I've left TWO messages for the landlord now -- that little !@#$%^&* mouse left poop in my SINK this time! So he's obviously scuttling across the kitchen counter somehow, probably nibbling on the stuff in our fruit bowl, helping himself to the bread bin... Grr. I'm a pacifist, but I really want to stomp on him now! |
Posted By: CRS
Date Posted: 21 June 2007 at 3:27pm
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I don't know what you can do. But remind me not to come over to your house any more
Oh man, I would absolutely spew! Sounds like your LL is avoiding ya? ------------- Bonnie, Mum to a 1 1/2 year old & a 3 year old - still RF in their Brio Zento's CPST & Safe2Go Technician www.childrestraintsafety.com 
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Posted By: Millie1976
Date Posted: 21 June 2007 at 3:43pm
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I should send my cat over to catch the mouse for you - she brings in mice all the time to show me and I hate it!! ------------- Sebastien 2 years old Olivier 3 3/4 years old |
Posted By: bumblefoot
Date Posted: 21 June 2007 at 5:09pm
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We have one or two at the moment, and although I dont find them creepy at all (I had pet rats for a few years) They do make alot of mess. So I crushed up some cheap Nurofen tablets finely and mixed it well with some peanut butter and put the mixture on to wee bits of card that we placed around the kitchen. Havent seen any since, but I must check if there is any poop lying around to suggest they still live here. Best of luck with the landlord, we will be contacting ours as well if this plan doesnt work. Just remember too that the reason poisons work so well is that they dont posess the ability to vomit, so what goes in, basically has to stay in. |
Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 21 June 2007 at 6:26pm
| Ewwwwwww, bumblefoot, I didn't know that (about the non-vomiting)! That is interesting and icky at the same time. LOL We have tried poison, but the dog (brain the size of a walnut) is a little bit too interested in it, so we gave up. And CRS, we'll just have to meet somewhere, as I obviously can't have visitors with mouse poop decorating everything! It looks like chocolate sprinkles, ewwwww... |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 21 June 2007 at 6:30pm
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I am never eating chocolate sprinkles again ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: CRS
Date Posted: 21 June 2007 at 6:33pm
LOL! ------------- Bonnie, Mum to a 1 1/2 year old & a 3 year old - still RF in their Brio Zento's CPST & Safe2Go Technician www.childrestraintsafety.com
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Maya wrote:Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 21 June 2007 at 7:32pm
| or anything from Katherines kitchen with choc sprinkles on it!!! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 21 June 2007 at 7:35pm
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Woohoo, I just spoke to my landlady and she's making her hubby come over and board up the holes where the little creeps are getting in and right before he does that we're going to stuff some poison in there so they crawl off and die. Have I mentioned how much I love my landlady?
Hope your landlord pulls finger Katherine! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Chovynz
Date Posted: 24 June 2007 at 8:37am
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Hehe.. reminds me of a story.
A fellow geek was trying to get his computer working. The sound was bugging out. Then one day this 'orrible smell was in the room. About a week went by. The sound still wasnt working. He opened up his computer to see if he could fix the sound card or some connections in the computer. Well he found the source of the smell and the sound problems. A mouse had made a nest in his computer. It was shorting out the card and then died one day, hence the smell. Thing is.... how the heck did it get in there??? ------------- Defending the male species since 1980 
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