# I caught me a mouse **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 11, 2024, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141 "2024-09-11T23:36:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/21 "2024-09-12T13:34:54Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > I drove him over the bridge, and let him go on the other side of the river. I hope that’s far enough away… Heh. I live trap the mice that get into our house each winter. My gf relocates them 75 yards away in our barn where she has food, water, and shelter for them. Assuming they overwinter in the barn, the rat snakes will gobble them up come warm weather. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/22 "2024-09-12T13:42:29Z")
Can you please send a couple of those lovely snakes to Europe? Do you have them in various sizes, preferably mouse, rat, raccoon? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/23 "2024-09-12T13:47:28Z")
Raccoon would really be pushing it! But I have pictures of myself holding up a central rat snake over 6 feet long with impressive girth. He’d been eating a couple of hens eggs each day. I relocated him and our egg production soared. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/24 "2024-09-12T14:07:22Z")
My childhood friend was in town for a visit. She told me a harrowing tale. She lives in SE Washington state. She has a beautiful yard with many gardens including a vegetable garden. She said that something has been eating her vegetables. She went outside one night with a flashlight and saw rats, lots of rats. When they sensed her they ran up the trees and were running through the branches! Every time I think of big rats running around in the trees above my head, I get the heeby-jeebies. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/25 "2024-09-12T14:26:20Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > You knew it was coming: > > Rabbits are not rodents! > > (takes cyanide capsule) According to the renowned zoologist Yosemite Sam, the official taxonomy of the rabbit is “long-eared varmint”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/26 "2024-09-12T14:52:27Z")
(Capsule malfunctioned) Varmint = Galoot? Oh, Cecil!🎵 ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/27 "2024-09-12T18:36:18Z")
@TRC4941 Stay away from SCal. Urban area are plagued with roof rats. Some idiot people set up lawn chairs in their yards and spend summer evenings drinking beer and watching roof rats running along the utility wires going from house to house. Mr VOW bought special pellets for his BB rifle and shot the damned things. He even duct taped a flashlight at the end of the barrel, so he could aim for their red eyes. I told him to make sure the dead ones fell in the neighbors’ yards. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/28 "2024-09-12T20:26:16Z")
“Boss. Saw me a mouse go by.” “Can’t put anything over on you.” ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/29 "2024-09-12T20:36:47Z")
I give you…_Tularemia_ (rabbit fever) Well, I don’t actually give it to you…I inform you of it. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/30 "2024-09-12T20:40:25Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Mice are extremely cute, but I would be grateful if my cats would refrain from bringing them into the house, live and intact, If you keep your cats inside, you will not have that problem. > [@Gyrate](#): > > If you need to bait mousetraps (of any kind), I recommend peanut butter. They love that stuff. Yep. I use snap traps in the garage, but I dont like seeing the little guys dead. They dont come into our house, there are several cats waiting for them. > [@VOW](#): > > Stay away from SCal. Urban area are plagued with roof rats. In our area yeah, we sometimes see the invasive rat species, but there are also local rats- which dont have that scaly tail. However some moron sets out poison outside, thus we get dead hawks, owls, skunks etc, dying slowly and painfully from eating the poisoned rodents. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/31 "2024-09-12T20:44:25Z")
Yep. Nature is brutal. Something is always hunting /eating something. Fighting something. Getting themselves in fixes they can’t get out of. Mother Nature don’t play. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/32 "2024-09-12T21:12:57Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > If you keep your cats inside, you will not have that problem But then I will have other problems. Like cranky cats who piss on everything because I won’t let them out. And who don’t get enough exercise. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/33 "2024-09-13T10:48:13Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > If you keep your cats inside, you will not have that problem. Statistically, cats kept indoors live longer. Additionally, in the United States, cats kill between 1.3 and 4 billion birds each year. This is the second-largest human-caused cause of bird deaths in North America, after habitat loss. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/34 "2024-09-13T11:17:42Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > Every time I think of big rats running around in the trees above my head, I get the heeby-jeebies. They don’t just run around in trees. I was once walking home in the city late at night, looking at the shop windows, when something large, soft and oddly sharp fell on my head from the building above. I spun around and saw a brown shape scurry off into the dark. Looking up, I saw a group of teenagers, staring at me with their mouths open. One of them said slowly, in awestruck tones, “A rat fell on you, dude.” I washed my hair very thoroughly when I got home. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/35 "2024-09-13T12:36:15Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Can you please send a couple of those lovely snakes to Europe? Do you have them in various sizes, preferably mouse, rat, raccoon? I’m not sure of the size of the snake Mrs. J. encountered at the bottom of our basement stairs, but she’d be happy to arrange express shipping. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/36 "2024-09-13T14:03:00Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > > [@Gyrate](#): > > > > Mice are extremely cute, but I would be grateful if my cats would refrain from bringing them into the house, live and intact, > > If you keep your cats inside, you will not have that problem. A long, long time ago… It’s the middle of the night. I hear the cat galumphing through the house. Ba-dump ba-dump ba-dump. Ba-dump ba-dump ba-dump. “Fritz, what the hell are you doing?” I come out of my bedroom; squat down. Fritz comes prancing up to me as proud as can be with a mouse in his mouth. He drops it at my feet. Of course, Mr. Mouse wasn’t dead and wanted to get away from the spiky furball as quickly as possible, so he jumped _at me_. Out of pure surprise, I swat at the mouse - hit him in mid air. He bounces off of the bathroom door and into the bathtub. Now the mouse is running around, trying to get out, and can’t climb up the sides. Then Fritz jumps into the tub. He’s not sure what to do - he just sits there batting at the mouse every so often. I end up doing the humane thing - catch the mouse in a cup, then flushed him down the toilet. So, yes, even indoor cats will bring you live mouseys. [![](https://www.chisholm-poster.com/large/CL27985.jpg) ](https://www.chisholm-poster.com/large/CL27985.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/37 "2024-09-13T14:23:11Z")
Am I the only person who keeps seeing the thread title and thinks of this every time? [I caught me a mouse My mouse pleased me I fed my mouse under yonder tree…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40MEJIOAEz8) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/38 "2024-09-13T14:37:49Z")
The mouse says, “Squeak, squeak.” The cat says, “Dinner, dinner.” The wife says, “Eek, a mouse!”… The Dope says, “Discourse sucks.” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/39 "2024-09-13T14:40:35Z")
Nope. That was my first thought too. Fiddle-eye-fee and all that. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141/40 "2024-09-13T14:55:30Z")
See, the idea is to train them to catch and EAT them. Not only is there no disposal issue, you don’t even know it happened! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-me-a-mouse/1007141.md?page=3)