There's a mouse in my printer!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I was bored and didn’t feel like doing school work, so I decided that it was time to clean my desk. After clearing all of the papers, food containers, and pop cans away; I decided to rearrange my printer and computers to maximize space.

I unplugged the printer and set it to the side. Hmm, whats this under the printer? Ugh, its mouse crap! The lazy cat must be slacking in her rodent elimination duties again.

I got the sweeper and cleaned the area, then I decided I might as well sweep the dust off the printer. When I started sweeping it, a mouse popped his head out the back of the printer, looked at me, said “squeeek!”, and pulled his head back in. I dropped the sweeper and almost crapped my pants.

On the back of the printer there is some kind of bay to add some kind of device. The cover to this bay is held on by a strip of duct tape at the top and just hangs there, creating a perfect mouse door. Click for picture

Anyway, I have the little bastard trapped in the printer now, what should I do?

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errr…

Take it outside and shake it?

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Name him Lexmarky Mark?

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I took it outside and shook it, the mouse was already gone. He must have escaped somtime between when I dropped the sweeper and when I stuck that second piece of tape on there. I taped it up so that it can’t go back in there. Now if only I could figure out how they get into the house…

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I assume you’re using your USB port to connect the printer to the computer? Because it looks like the parallel port is covered up with duct tape now.

Other than that, I have no advice, other than feed your cat less snacks (it will be more apt to hunt for food, perhaps) or get mousetraps.

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Sticky duct tape.
Sticky pins on the parallel port.
Clean them before you connect a cable.

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Well of course if you have a USB printer you have to share your port with a mouse. (Someone had to say this.)

I would just be careful that the mouse is actually out of the printer – with the egress taped up, the consequences of it being locked in could be rather nasty.

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That old thing doesn’t have USB, the tape over the parallel port was just temporary. Now the whole area except the port is taped up, and the mouse is definately gone. My plan of action is to stop leaving food laying around and to set a bunch of traps.

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I’m sorry, but the image of that mouse popping up and saying “squeek” to you just kills me. The crapping of the pants is also excellent imagry. The combined effort resulted in a laugh out loud post that I had to read to my husband (after he asked what I was laughing about)