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[Bri36]

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@Lipstickdiva wrote:

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@Bri36 wrote:

Rodents in the home should be taken care promptly.  They can do a lot of damage 

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We had a mouse in our basement last year.  I realized it when it chewed up a mattress pad I had on a table down there.  Not only was the pad totally chewed, it had yellow stains all over it from you know what and mouse poo everywhere.  I hated to do it but DH set a trap and caught it the first night.

We had a mouse problem in our garage and they used to get under the hood of my car.  One day I opened my hood to put windshield washer fluid in and there were all kinds of seeds and nuts on top of my engine!  I asked DH what was going on and he said it was a mouse/mice doing that.  We set traps and no joke that first night we caught 6 mice!  They were tearing down a wooded area at the end of our street and flushed all kinds of animals and critters out of there.  People closer to that area had rats so I guess we were lucky.

Mice really are cute little things though.     

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Sorry.  I think they're vile.

[Lipstickdiva]

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@Pearlee wrote:

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@Lipstickdiva wrote:

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@Bri36 wrote:

Rodents in the home should be taken care promptly.  They can do a lot of damage 

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We had a mouse in our basement last year.  I realized it when it chewed up a mattress pad I had on a table down there.  Not only was the pad totally chewed, it had yellow stains all over it from you know what and mouse poo everywhere.  I hated to do it but DH set a trap and caught it the first night.

We had a mouse problem in our garage and they used to get under the hood of my car.  One day I opened my hood to put windshield washer fluid in and there were all kinds of seeds and nuts on top of my engine!  I asked DH what was going on and he said it was a mouse/mice doing that.  We set traps and no joke that first night we caught 6 mice!  They were tearing down a wooded area at the end of our street and flushed all kinds of animals and critters out of there.  People closer to that area had rats so I guess we were lucky.

Mice really are cute little things though.     

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@Lipstickdiva  As one of my neighbors likes to say, it's hardly ever one mouse.   They almost always bring "friends and relatives".

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In our basement it was just that one.  We've had no issues since with finding droppings but just in case we still keep traps set.  Outside is a whole different story.

I keep a bin of birdseed in my garage.  Over the summer I opened up the lid to grab a scoop and a mouse ran across my hand.  I screamed not because I'm afraid of mice, but it scared me and caught me off guard.  The poor thing froze like it was as scared as I was.  I was able to take a picture of it sitting in that bird seed.  The face was really adorable.

About a month later, I found a dead mouse in my backyard that I'm sure a stray cat got.  I wondered if it was that same mouse or a friend.  Made me sad though.   But I just don't like the destruction.