I can't sleep, I'm thinking about the evidence of mice I found today in my mudroom closet and in my van. Tonight the internet has been quite informative, maybe too informative.
Tonight I am reading all kinds of horror stories about mice nesting in vehicles, chewing their way through fuel lines, wiring and such. Not to mention the fact that I am now afraid that one is going to rear it's ugly head as I am tooling down the highway!!!!
What to do?
I feel like some kind of disgusting housekeeper, who let one too many crumbs fall to the floor in the minivan (shut up Brad).
Again, what to do?
18 comments:
I wouldn't be able to sleep either. Mice freak me out! Have you ever heard our story of Kevin's car starting on fire due to a mouse nest? The car had sat too long in my parents yard and the mice decided to make a home there. Might just want to look under the hood occassionally to make sure no nest is being built!
Hope that makes you feel better. I'd be setting traps everywhere!
My wife stopped a light and had a mouse run behind her in the rear window, when she had her fiero she saw it in her rear view mirror! (if I have my story correct)
poor Cheryl, that Fiero did not have enough room for a human and a mouse. scary!
When we moved our furniture into our house from storage it had a strange smell that we thought we go away. Rob stuck his hand deep into the cushions and pulled out a stiff dead rat. Yikes!!!
Anyone who lives near woods or fields will have mice. Not much you can do about it. Don't try the poison, they only carry it around and put in piles - like Dewey probably would
We caught ten mice this year after seeing poop in the utensil drawer -yuck. The first one we caught (I kid you not) the trap went off while we were you know ... and we ran out to see it.
It kind of killed the mood.
I recommend traps and sharpen up the "snapper." Put peanut butter on them not cheese. (Do not buy the sticky glue ones. Worthless.)
Remember, where there is one of us, there's more, we travel in groups
thanks for the encouragement guys,
So far I can look forward to a car fire, dead carcases, more turds, more mice, and no solution to the problem.
doomed.
We found mouse poop on our 3 foot filing cabinet in the garage...How the heck they got up there, I'll never know.
Areeba, areeba, andele, andele
I am not sure if this works, but outside in our pool house we use Moth balls all winter. So far it has kept all the animals (and people for that matter-that stuff smells like crap) away.
Get Ross to chase them with a knife. He may not kill them but he sure scares them away. He one time taught a mouse to jump from our pantry into a paper bag!
THAT I'd like to see! Those critters are QUICK! I remeber trying to stomp on 'em in a 15'x40' cage in Haiti when I was 17. They were tough to get
Typical Brad... stomping on mice.
We have been infested with mice since we moved in our house. I tell myself they stay downstairs. Although Brad let it slip when I was in the hospital that there was a dead one in the tub upstairs.
Now I have to go out the the garage and bring in the girls' new carseats. We don't need nests in them before we put them in the van!
why can't i leave comments on today's post? May 21, 2007.
PS thanks for the link(s)
WOOPS, I hit a wrong button, comments can now be made. on my latest post.
FYI...
Read that mice can get through a hole no bigger than the size of a pencil hole.
Go check any three-hole punched paper. That's not very big.
P.S. Rest easy tonight, Chelle!
Monday morning, the kids are getting ready for school, I hear "MOMMMMM!!" coming from the basement, followed by, "there is a mouse in the washing machine!!".
We are no stranger to mice in our old house, but in the washing machine??? why would they go in there? and...How do you get a live mouse out of there??
It was interesting to say the least, and now the girls are very cautious about the laundry room.
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