Mice... · 6:16pm Aug 25th, 2012
Your regularly scheduled Slice of Life update and the grand unveiling of We the Ponies has been postponed for the time being. I have a small problem.
A very small problem. And it is fucking fast. Like, its just fast. Not like, mating fast. Its only one mouse....
...with my luck, I probably got a freaking hermaphroditic mouse. The ONLY hermaphroditic mouse in the world. And its gonna f**k itself, and have babies, and then mutant inbred mice will be EVERYWHERE.
So yeah. I spent four hours last night chasing after the bastard. Apparently, it is smart. Didnt even touch the bloody cheese. Currently have it locked/trapped/barely secured in my bathroom.
...we don't even HAVE mice here. They're not native. So how the FUCK did a mouse get here? And why won't the goddamn cats who keep digging through my trash each day do stuff about it?
Ugh... loyal fans. I have mouse problem. What do?
mouse trap? Just don't step on it in the dark.
I hear cats are great for lonely people and for people with mice.
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Peanut butter, mice go ape-shit for peanut butter.
Just please don't kill the poor thing...
I'm not sure about mice, but rats love peanut butter, so that might be better bait than cheese. Other than that I can't give much advice. If I had a mouse problem I'd just let my cat handle it, he would make very short work of it.
Also, parthenogenic mice FTW!
Kill it perhaps? Wait till it's near starvation so It can't run away then enter the bathroom to finish it off (with a method of your choosing). Tis the only logical tactic
Call an exterminator.
If there's a small crack under the door, you could go full-on chemical weapons on it. Go to the store and buy about thirty cans of axe bodyspray or equivilant. Try to find a kind that will let you fit a straw onto the nozzle. Then empty all of the cans into the bathroom. I'm pretty sure that axe is heavier than air, so this should solve your mouse problem. Just be sure that you have a good plan to ventilate he place afterwards, and don't have any wireing that might produce stray sparks, because if you do your bathroom might explode.
Although, I'm pretty sure that would solve your mouse problem.
310958 Traps are expensive. O_O; But always a possibility.
310959 Ugh, hate cats. Cats are evil.
310960 FINALLY! A use for all the weapons grade plutonium I have stockpiled in my underwear drawer.
(though I am seriously liking this option).
310961 Definately gonna try that.
310964 Its a single mouse. Im not cruel or sadistic. I AM, however, gonna release it a mile away from my house, just fyi. If it breeds, Im committing mouse genocide in a way only Hitler would be proud of. Ill make the little pests were striped prison garb and I'll exterminate them in batches.
(But no, I have no intention of harming it so long as it stays a single mouse).
310970 Decent advice. Totally gonna try peanut butter. No cat.
310999 Bit cruel, but not an option Im leaving off the table. We'll save that for the end.
311002 For a single mouse? Isnt that overkill? Expensive overkill?
are you kidding me? this is your opportunity to breed a mutant army of mice, seize the day my friend
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As a friend once told me 'There is no kill quiet like overkill.'
311006 You, my friend, are a mad genius worthy of my admiration. More expensive than need be? Probably. Totally worth it for the sheer brilliance? Absofucinglutely. We're calling that plan C for now. The explosion is plan D.
311025 If all else fails, Im doing this. My army of mice will then take over the globe, and I will be named the Mouse King!
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I concur with the peanut butter.
You've got to purge the area with fire. Otherwise, the contamination might get out. Don't want that, now do we?
Try this method
http://journal.chrisglass.com/2005/09/how_to_catch_a_.html
put the cat in the room with the mouse and close the door
EDIT: that mouse in the picture is sssoooo cute
Sticky trap.
leave out some strips of duct tape, with the sticky side up.
Some no-kill traps are deceptively simple. Mouse goes in after the food, and nudges the door, but can't back out once it closes, leaving the poor little guy trapped in there until you go to collect him.
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Oh, okay then. Don't worry, I'm not someone who is overly pro-animal, just someone who prefers not to kill unless necessary.
I feel a "Mouse Hunt" scenario will take place shortly
complete with a double barrel shotgun, a canister of repellent, and a big gosh dang hole in the middle of your living area...
But I would assume you should find it a mate
If this wasn't an actual problem, I'd probably be laughing at this blog post, so I apologise for almost taking pleasure in your distress
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In all seriousness, though, based on what everyone else has said, I recommend 3 possible solutions:
1: KILL IT WITH FIRE
2: Put a blob of peanut butter or similar nutty goodness on the floor, and surround it with loops of duct tape, sticky side out. Return in a couple of hours to (hopefully) find the mouse stuck to the tape, ready to be removed from your property.
3: My parents did this a few years ago when a gopher or something took up residence underneath our shed. Turn on all the lights, all the time, and play the loudest, most obnoxious music you can on full volume, all the time. Basically, make your house the last place on Earth that the mouse wants to be. It's super effective against gopher-beasts, and should work against anything else as well.
Checking to see if anyone in the neighborhood has lost a pet mouse is also a good idea.
i would get rid of that mouse very quickly, by any means necessary, mouse shit leaves a bunch of nasty surprises you see; one happen to be that they act as scent beacons for other mice, leave it alone for a few days and you will get another one, and then you WILL have the problem of multiplying mice (although, since they are attracting more by simply taking a dump that won't be much a problem anyways, and they won't just begin humping the moment they see each other, it will take a while; so that's not really a problem unless you leave it be).
the best way is to simply set up a regular old mouse trap and wait for it to works it's magic, just be careful with what you use as bait, they are extremely crafty with getting that freaking bait of the hook without triggering the trap (i don't know how they do it, but somehow they always seem to manage unless i've carefully sculpted the piece of cheese (in my case) to perfection (i mean, i could sell that piece of cheese as art...)). money can't really be a problem, unless you can't spare 2-3 dollars (assuming you're american)...
there are of course similar traps that cage the mouse instead of snapping it's neck, but seriously, it's a mouse...
you sure? they can survive basically anywhere and, from what i've heard, exist everywhere in the world.
Snickers bar
Coat all your cheese in warfrin and leave razor blades everywhere.
Hey, if you step on one it'll still hurt less than a fucking lego.
I had a mouse problem a few weeks ago that solved itself. The mouse climbed into an empty plastic recycling bin and nearly died from starvation/dehydration before I found it. I decided to flush it instead of using a cleaver like my dad did when he found them trapped in a bucket of bird seed. Not the nicest way to do it, but then few are.
If you have a large can/bucket/etc. put some food in it and put it, upright, near a wall with something the mouse can climb on the outside. DIY pitfall trap.