Me and My Designer Mouse - Page 3

Witchy Woman · ‎03-15-2010

I live on 8 acres of wooded property with all kinds of wild life. My husband takes them out in the field to release.

We have owls, hawks, eagles, snakes and foxes...if they can navigate that lineup, I don't worry much about catching anything from them.

While I don't want them living in my house, we have not had a problem in a long time.

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

@Sooner wrote:
When you trap and release you just move the problem. There are enough mice in the world and they carry diseases.

@Sooner Great theory, but say you come into possession of a live mouse. How do you propose getting rid of it? Would it work to flush it?

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Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

@eddyandme My mini Aussie, Piper, came in from outside one day and jumped on my lap with his back to me. I could tell he had something in his mouth and reached around to see what it was. I didn't like what I felt. Turned him around and discovered there was a long tail hanging out of his mouth.

I put my hand up as though to take it and he growled furiously. It was clear he was set to defend his prize voraciously. Decision time: risk getting bitten or let him have it. I made him get off my lap and let him eat the mouse. I really didn't want to handle it or try to take it. By the way, it was dead.

I didn't kiss him for days. The dog is a rescue that was on his own as a stray for a long time. I suppose he was conditioned to savor such morsels so I forgave him for growling and bringing the mouse inside. Thank goodness he kept it down!

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eddyandme · ‎09-24-2011

@Kachina624 wrote:
@eddyandme My mini Aussie, Piper, came in from outside one day and jumped on my lap with his back to me. I could tell he had something in his mouth and reached around to see what it was. I didn't like what I felt. Turned him around and discovered there was a long tail hanging out of his mouth.

I put my hand up as though to take it and he growled furiously. It was clear he was set to defend his prize voraciously. Decision time: risk getting bitten or let him have it. I made him get off my lap and let him eat the mouse. I really didn't want to handle it or try to take it. By the way, it was dead.

I didn't kiss him for days. The dog is a rescue that was on his own as a stray for a long time. I suppose he was conditioned to savor such morsels so I forgave him for growling and bringing the mouse inside. Thank goodness he kept it down!

OMG @Kachina624 !!!!! I would have freaked!!!!! I think out boys have a lot in common. Once Eddy snuck into the livingroom with something after finding a baby rabbit 'nest' in his yard! I was soooo upset, but did not go near the LR, nor did I let him kiss me for a couple days. Nothing was in there when I went in - nothing left to clean!

KaySD · ‎08-16-2016

@PickyPicky3 Yes, brie, that should work, or a nice Gorgonzola. Perhaps a soupçon of caviar and a nice aperitif? White napkin and silver, of course.

Sigh. I'm sorry to say that the people saying there is never just one are right. They will take advantage of hospitality. Eventually you will probably have to move them or kill them. Or catch it and keep it as a pet. (I mean, keep them as pets.)

If you get bitten, do check that you've had a tetanus shot booster in the last 10 years.

mousiegirl · ‎03-09-2010

@eddyandme wrote:
I had an exterminator after a contractor pulled out tons of trees next to my property to put in two hundred houses!!! Eddy traced ther entry - around where the pipe is for the heating oil to go in.

Found out: 1) @Kachina624 is right. There never is only one!

   2) they really don't necessarily seek cheese; assume crackers, etc
   would be fine - if you want to sustain them - and they will multiply!

   3) exterminators don't kill them: they just put down food traps and
   the mice eat that stuff, get very thirsty and vacate the premises
   in search of water. No harm done.

I suggest if you want to keep them, go to a pet store who can give you the proper food and 'housing' for them. If you let them roam free, you'll probably land up with a ton of mice.

@eddyandme Exterminators leave a packet of green food which kills them within a few days. If they can get out of the house, they die outside, if not, they die inside.

Glittergal · ‎05-12-2010

It is a domestic mouse with coloring like that. It will not carry the diseases that wild ones do, and it could very well be just one mouse. Someone dumped a pet, or a pet got loose. Tin Cat small live traps are humane. Bait it with chocolate, peanut butter, fruit (banana seems to be a favorite). When you capture it, please take it to a humane society so it can be adopted. Please do not dump it back into the wild as that is cruel to a domestic creature. Put the trap against the wall in the area that you have seen him. They tens to stay close to baseboards and the wall and placing a trap there will increase the likelhood of him going into the trap. Good luck.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@Kachina624 wrote:

@Sooner wrote:
When you trap and release you just move the problem. There are enough mice in the world and they carry diseases.
@Sooner Great theory, but say you come into possession of a live mouse. How do you propose getting rid of it? Would it work to flush it?

@Kachina624 We don't have that problem with the traps we use. I wouldn't flush it. But I would kill it. But they have all been dead when we found them. In the traps.

bonnie f · ‎10-26-2014

flush it?? down yout toilet??? why not just throw in the trash???

Witchy Woman · ‎03-15-2010

@Glittergal -- you make a good and heartfelt point that I agree with. I know nothing about mice, but if he is someone's released pet, that's just sad. In any case, I cannot kill a mouse of any kind.

When we were building our home (over 35 years ago), a little white ferret was found sleeping in a box of nails at our work site. My husband's brother adopted him and had him for many years until he escaped, never to be seen again.

He chewed through the subfloor and left via an opening near the washer/dryer. I always felt bad that he broke out but they are mischievous little critters.