Shit. I was hoping, as Midwestern mice, that they’d be polite and die quietly.
Ideally it would go away forever or die quickly, but if it has to die painfully, so be it. Sorry, mouse lovers. War is ugly.
Yes, but it would have to be in an opaque plastic bag because looking at it would freak me out.
??? Confused. Do you mean the vegetable oil dissolves the glue, so the mouse can get out of it?
Mickey may have moved on, especially if you’re made sure all the food is out. He’s probably feasting at your neighbor’s place.
StG
I don’t know if I should tell this mouse story or not. I’ll spoiler it and warn you all that it’s quite a horror story. You may want to avoid it if inadvertent mouse torture bothers you.
My mother has a gas stove. One day she turned on a burner, to heat water for tea or something. Suddenly a squealing burning mouse ran out from under the kettle and ran across the counter into the sink. She ran water on it. It died in short order. She says it was a horrible experience. I can only imagine.
It does indeed. I always used vegetable oil, but I’d think any of the cooking oils would work, with no long-term effects on the mouse.
I’m going to laugh if it turns it out it was a really big bug.
My husband had a similar experience but with the toaster. It was a crappy (har) toaster anyway, so we tossed it out and got a new one.
For those of you who have tried to dispose of poor little mouskies on glue traps—yeah, I won’t use them either—the best solution is to submerge mouskie and trap in a bucket of water and weight them down. As quick and as humane as possible, considering that you already glued a living creature to a board ;).
We use snap traps, the new ones that look like plastic clothespins. They work great as long as you remember where you put them.
Its a mouse, just a mouse. Its about as big as your thumb and not poisonous.
Just kill it, because once you get one, you get more and more and more, and it never stops. When I was kid once, we had mice in the house so bad. My bedroom was in the attic and when I would wake up in the morning there was a pile of catfood under my pillow. They’d bring it up from downstairs while I was sleeping and stash it under my pillow while I was sleeping. ICK.
Not a fan of glue traps, already been said, you have to deal with it, and finding a chewed off leg just makes you feel bad.
Bait blocks or wedges, at least then you know they are dead and not applying for VA benefits. I’d say 70% of them have the decency to die out in the open, then you can just toss them out back. If they die in the wall, they smell like a dirty diaper for a few days, but at least you KNOW they are dead.
I don’t mind a few mice, but when they are everywhere, they have to go.
Here’s a pic of what came walking across my desk a few weeks ago at the shop.
Might make you feel better about having a mouse.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8281/7601457102_03d736b906_b.jpg
Spiders love Santa Fe Grill burritos.
I used to have a big prickly pear cactus just outside of my bedroom window. Rats love to make a nest under these things, and being rats they also loved to take bits of a nearby cholla cactus into their nests. Now our long hair cat was undeterred by the cactus and occasionally would catch and kill one of these rats. He never brought the rats inside, but what he did bring in were these little bits of cholla spines in on his fur. These little spines always managed to drop off of him in the middle of the room or hallway like little tiny almost invisible calthrops, and goddamn if it I didn’t manage to step on them with bare feet every time.
So the rats had to go. I bought a large rat sized snap trap, loaded it with peanut butter, and set it out in the evening. Checking it the next day the peanut butter was gone and the trap was still armed. Clever little (well, not so little) fucker. I decided to give it one more try, and the next morning the trap was gone. No sign of it anywhere. I then reluctantly tried poison bait one time, tossing the cubes well into the rat holes. If it killed any rats, it didn’t kill all of them. I gave up.
Fast forward to the winter two years ago, where we had a hard freeze which killed the cactus. I removed it in the summer (even after 6 month of being dead, cactus is still heavy and a bitch to haul off) and when I was digging up the last of it I found the missing trap. The rats took it inside their nest. Cheeky bastards!
Have you tried contacting your own pest exterminator? I think it’d be better than trying all kinds of methods yourself, having to buy the traps and dispose of them. As many people have said, it’s very likely that you’ve got more mice that you’ve never seen, though.
I’ll have to remember that the next time we play. 
I even tried to let it get away alive but it just would. not. leave my room. Sorry mousie. Wham!
:eek::eek:
(Here I was, laughing at this thread [sorry MOL!] but if I ever saw that… *thing *appear in my room I don’t know what I would do.)
I have this vision of a little mousie priest in full regalia hiding behind the dresser and watching you wake. Noting your displeasure he returns to the other mice declaring “Our God is dissatisfied!! We must dedicate ourselves to increasing our offerings!!!”
What the hell kind of enormous meaty thumbs do you have, mister? :dubious:
I’m looking at my thumb and I’ve never seen a mouse that tiny. Please post pix of your thumb next to a mouse.
Whatthefuckkillitkillitkillitkillitwithfire.
I like spiders. That isn’t a spider. That’s a monster.
Also, I will be checking under my pillow for cat food from now on. shudder
Holy hell, bubba jr. I’da died. I’m terrified of those…things, and totally not afraid to admit it. Yeah, it’s a phobia, but it’s *my *phobia, and if I want to run screaming, then I can do so. (Luckily El SpouseO is an understanding man and totally my knight in shining armor.)
Kill it. Kill it with fire. Then nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way…you know the rest.
Pshh. Just setting glue traps (which, I agree, are a very cruel method) won’t resolve the problem. I’m guessing the landlord’s “exterminator” didn’t bother to do an apartment inspection to find out how the mouse/mice are getting in, did he? You will need to plug the holes with steel wool (mice can’t chew through it). According to what I’ve read, they can get in through holes as small as a standard pencil. I have no idea HOW they fit through a hole that narrow, but apparently they do.
Before you opt for poison, please do your neighbors the courtesy of asking if they have pets that might chase and eat a dying mouse. Dying mice are easier to catch than a healthy one, obviously, and I’m sure they don’t want their cat/dog to get poisoned.
We moved into our new place in May and had/have some issues with mice. Our cat has caught two, though more than a month apart so I wouldn’t count on that being the fastest way to get rid of them. I think the second was the last one, though I can’t say for sure since I never see them except when the cat is batting his new “toy” around the floor. We did make sure the landlord’s maintenance guy plugged the holes/potential entry points we could find, though.
Also, indoor cats are capable of catching mice, but may not realize that mice are edible, and may not actually know how to kill one. The first was dead (probably a snapped neck as it had no visible damage other than a broken tail), but the second was only unconscious. It was clearly too broken to survive (back leg was twisted at an odd angle, I’m guessing it’s back was broken, but not high enough to kill it instantly), and I doubt it would have regained consciousness, but a mercy killing on our part was necessary.
I don’t see the point in waterboarding the mice. They probably have little intelligence information that can be exploited.
It’s the “soft skull” part that creeps me out. How can you fit through a hole smaller than your head??! Squeeeeeeesh.
Cute tarantula. They kind of give me the willies too.
Deep down I know I don’t have to worry, because we have thesetoo, and they keep the spiders in check.
