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Dead Mouse In Bathroom

NickNack — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 12:21:37 GMT

I had just finished brushing my teeth and turned around to look at Ava, my dog. There was a dead mouse in front of her. I didn't see it when I went in the bathroom, but it could have been there. I got Ava out of the bathroom and closed the door. I got a grocery bag and a lot of paper towels and picked it up and took it outside to the trash can.

I saw a couple of mouse drippings in my bathroom cabinet and a hole beside the pipe. The hole had been caulked the last time I saw a mouse (about five years ago), and the caulk had worn away. I stuffed a steel wool pad in the hole as best as I could.

I will call a handyman on Monday to come and really seal the hole well. I hate mice! I've lived in this house for 30 years, and have seen a mouse three times. The first time was right after I moved in. It was a new house, and they had probably come in when the house was being built. Then about five years ago I saw one and set traps but never got one. I called a pest control company to come and set poison bait traps. He set them in the very back of all the cabinets and in the air return vent. They are in plastic containers. He said they should last for a long time.

Maybe the poison is still working and that's what killed the mouse. I'll have a hard time walking in the bathroom in the middle of the night. I hate mice!

My house is clean, and there is no food left out at all.

Edited to add: The poison bait trap is a block of human blood thinner. The pest control man told me that the tiny bit that the mouse would eat would not kill my cat or dog if they ate the mouse. I don't think either of my pets would eat a mouse.

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bonnie f — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:03:59 GMT

ughhh good luck.. i had them last yr.. i bought my own poison blocks and put them around my house.. i think i know where they were coming in.. at 1st they were eating the poison.. then they stopped. hope thats what killed them.. but who knows. as long as im not seeing them in here. when there's one there's 10..

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Mersha — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:19:28 GMT

Hopefully, the handyman can fix the situation so no more mice surprise you.

I could never throw one of God's little creatures in the trash. I always take the time to bury them in my back yard.

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NickNack — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:19:29 GMT

@bonnie f wrote:
ughhh good luck.. i had them last yr.. i bought my own poison blocks and put them around my house.. i think i know where they were coming in.. at 1st they were eating the poison.. then they stopped. hope thats what killed them.. but who knows. as long as im not seeing them in here. when there's one there's 10..

@bonnie f I know. That's what I'm afraid of. I have seen my cat looking intently at the floor lately. I wondered if he had seen a mouse, but I never saw one until the dead one today. There is still the plastic bait trap under the sink, but I don't know if there's any poison left in it. That may be how he died unless my dog got it when I was brushing my teeth. I didn't notice her doing anything though.

I put steel wool through the hole and just went and got packing tape to tape it down. I found another hole below the one I stuffed the steel wool in and tried to tape it. It's in an awkward position and I can't get to it very well. I put packing tape over the hole though. I wish tomorrow wasn't Saturday. I'm very anxious to get the holes filled/patched.

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Sushismom — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:22:48 GMT

You'd think with cats I'd have no mice in the house. Wrong. But I bought an electric mouse trap and loved it. No poison, no glue trap. It electrocutes the mouse with high voltage.

Thankfully, it's been over a year since there've been any mice in the house.

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jannabelle1 — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:23:49 GMT

Having just gone through a problem with mice in hubby's SUV, I'm not real fond of the little poison traps. Long story short, I went to Home Depot and bought a package of mouse traps (where you put a little food on the trap - hubby used peanut butter), as well as the little boxes with poison in them and put both in his SUV on the floor. The mouse trap caught one mouse overnight and we got rid of it.

The poison trap had been nibbled on, but we couldn't find the 2nd mouse. Fast forward a couple of days and the odor was getting intense! We had the SUV thoroughly cleaned and the guy found the dead mouse under a layer of carpet. Honestly, I would not have found it. The moral of my story is that the mouse traps are quick, easy and the mouse doesn't have time to hide/die. We are still fighting the odor from that blasted dead mouse that ate the poison and then burrowed under carpet to die!~ No more poison traps here!

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EatWell — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:41:52 GMT

@NickNack

Mice and rats have been invading property due Covid-19 shutdown of restaurants, their reliable food source.

Do you hear any scurrying inside your walls?

The mice have probably reproduced offspring.

If yes, you will probably need to hire a professional exterminator.

Good luck.

“Stay safe. Stay home.”

~Put food in front of me, and I will eat it.~

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NickNack — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:50:18 GMT

@EatWell wrote:
@NickNack

Mice and rats have been invading property due Covid-19 shutdown of restaurants, their reliable food source.
Do you hear any scurrying inside your walls?
The mice have probably reproduced offspring.
If yes, you will probably need to hire a professional exterminator.
Good luck.

“Stay safe. Stay home.”

~Put food in front of me, and I will eat it.~

@EatWell I don't live near any restaurants, so my house wouldn't be a likely place for them to go if a restaurant closed. The restaurants here are open though. I don't hear scurrying in my walls. There are only maybe three droppings in my bathroom cabinet that I saw.

If I see another mouse or see more droppings I will definitely call the pest control company again. I'm not going to try trapping them myself. I'm hoping there's still poison in the bait boxes and that's what killed the mouse. Hopefully getting the holes patched securely and the remaining poison in the boxes will take care of the problem.

I just absolutely hate that this is a weekend. I know there are more mice though. There's never just one.

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sceniccoast — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:52:16 GMT

@NickNack

Ugg! I'm with you on this one. Good luck on getting rid of them.

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Kachina624 — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:58:42 GMT

@NickNack You need to have a talk with Henry. Useless feline!

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Infinite Mom 47 — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 01:04:42 GMT

My Aunt had a mouse that came in from the dryer vent that leads outside. It made a nest there in the lint. Her son cleaned it out. Yuck.

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1Snickers — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 01:20:57 GMT

@NickNack I asked my veterinarian if the poison traps could hurt dogs. He said if they eat them or the mice that gets them.
In the winter they have come in the garage. I found a plastic trap that closes and keeps them inside, quick kill & no poison.

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Anonymous032819 — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 01:31:28 GMT

Please don't use poison to get rid of mice!

If a mouse eats the poison, then another animal eats that mouse, ( cat, owl, etc), then they too ingest the poison.

You could be inadvertently be killing another innocent animal with the poison.

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Mom2Dogs — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 01:39:39 GMT

Ugh, I hate mice.....

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bonnie f — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 01:41:02 GMT

@Anonymous032819 wrote:
Please don't use poison to get rid of mice!

If a mouse eats the poison, then another animal eats that mouse, ( cat, owl, etc), then they too ingest the poison.

You could be inadvertently be killing another innocent animal with the poison.

very true.. but i have no animals. i used the snap traps alot.. it would scare me to death when they went off lol would wake me up out of a sound sleep.. got rid of them and i was tired of putting them around where people could see them! and if i had someone over to sleep or stay i dont want them snapping.. how embarrising would that be lol... yes there;s the risk of them dying and smelling.. i havent had that yet thank god.. but the ones that ate it, sure did enjoy it! i put the bait blocks all around and you cant see them.. i use to use the walk in traps and put the bait in those.. but stopped after awhile.. would they really "go in" them. easier access for them to just smell it out and eat it out in the open.. knock on wood none in the past yr.. but its not cold out either...

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SuhseK — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 01:43:24 GMT

That would be my concern, too!

(Poison traps).

I have a friend, whose dog ate a mouse that had been poisoned, they saved their dogs life, only because, they saw the dog get the mouse, and, then, started getting sick, very soon after.

They rushed him to the Vet. It was touch and go, and very expensive!

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Venezia — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 01:47:22 GMT

I would never use poison to kill mice or any other animal. If a dog, cat or even a bird ate the dead mouse, it would ingest the poison and it's a horrible way to die. (The animal - including the mouse - bleeds to death internally.)

I use Victor Electonic mouse traps, whenever I have a problem. Very effective, a quick kill and no potential harm to any of my cats.

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Anonymous032819 — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 01:51:46 GMT

@bonnie f wrote:
@Anonymous032819 wrote:
Please don't use poison to get rid of mice!

If a mouse eats the poison, then another animal eats that mouse, ( cat, owl, etc), then they too ingest the poison.

You could be inadvertently be killing another innocent animal with the poison.
very true.. but i have no animals. i used the snap traps alot.. it would scare me to death when they went off lol would wake me up out of a sound sleep.. got rid of them and i was tired of putting them around where people could see them! and if i had someone over to sleep or stay i dont want them snapping.. how embarrising would that be lol... yes there;s the risk of them dying and smelling.. i havent had that yet thank god.. but the ones that ate it, sure did enjoy it! i put the bait blocks all around and you cant see them.. i use to use the walk in traps and put the bait in those.. but stopped after awhile.. would they really "go in" them. easier access for them to just smell it out and eat it out in the open.. knock on wood none in the past yr.. but its not cold out either...

You may not have any animals, but what if that mouse that are the poison, gets outside and a stray cat eats it, or an owl, or a fox?

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hellodali — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 02:20:13 GMT

I didn't read every response so this may have already been suggested. However, in the meantime before the exterminator gets to your home, plug the holes with steel wool. You can usually purchase large bags pretty inexpensively at Home Depot, etc. If you can't get out, use Brillo pads.

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J Town Girl — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 02:50:18 GMT

I'm sure this isn't a popular opinion but I would use a catch and release trap for a mouse or rat. It really bothers me to kill any creature.

When my husband had to clean out his parents house after his mother passed away he found out that a small room that his father had built on to the house and used as a storage room had a mother raccoon and babies inside. His father had passed away many years earlier and his mother had never gone into the room. Somehow momma raccoon had found a way to get in and felt it was safe for her babies. My husband called an animal control company to remove them. We both assumed that they would trap them and release them into the many wooded areas surrounding the house.

Fortunately the day before they were to come to the house we found out that they were just going to kill both mom and babies. That was totally unacceptable to us. What we did was turn on loud music in the shed and leave the door open. The next morning they were gone. We watched on the cameras and saw mom take each baby in her mouth and one by one she carried them across the street and into the woods. She had five babies altogether and it was so heartwarming to see how she cared for them.

Even though I don't care for raccoons because I'm slightly afraid of them, there was no way that I could have ever allowed them to be killed like that.

The company had given my husband a business card with a picture of a raccoon on it so a few days after mom and babies moved away he took the card and handed it to me. On it he had written the words coming from the raccoon's mouth "thank you for saving my life". I still have the card sitting on our desk. I smile everytime I look at it.