You cant tell a mouse tale without a mouse card- This is my card for my friend Paulette-who had to hear my dramatic stories and terror all week. Sorry Paulette.
PLEASE NOTE: What you are about to read is a true story about a mouse. There is a photo of the CHASE but my husband said NOT to publish it. Who really wants to see a cat chasing a mouse anyway right. It gives me the heebie geebies.
While all events sound DRAMATIC, they are true. I am a DRAMATIC person when it comes to situations like this. I would make a great hidden video candidate.
A little background first.
Taking a break after this mornings “festivities”.
We became the proud owner of this STRAY cat, while on our honeymoon in Hawaii.
How does that happen? How do you get a cat while you are away? Well, lets share.
Lily kept coming around to our house while we were gone. Our mother’s took turns caring for our kids AND feeding this STRAY cat! Needless to say, by the time we returned home, we owned her!
She was pregnant, and full of fleas! YEAH! The pregnancy was a loss due to malnourishment. , from being a stray for so long.
So we took her in, cleaner her up, and got her fixed.
We also have to older cats who are 11. Brother and Sister. They have names, but since having kids they are referred to most as girl cat and boy cat! PATHETIC I know.
They are all de-clawed house cats. They NEVER go outside. Although Lily has “escaped” a few times. Being a stray she found her way back, when she was ready.
We knew we had “A” mouse, in the house, for about a week now. Hadn’t seen it, but knew.
When you have 3 cats, and 1 dog sitting in front of your kitchen stove ALL night, for HOURS, you KNOW “something” is under there.
Do I even want to consider there is MORE than ONE-Um, NO! I definitely do not. But since this day-Monday, when this story took place, we have caught—————ready for this———–EW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!——-15 MICE!!! YEAH! Im freaking! But I THINK/HOPE they are gone. I have never had this many EVER! What’s worse is we didn’t even know we had any till this incident.
Yes, I know! You are freaking out too right now, and yes I want to MOVE, and yes I check my shoes before I put them on! LOL! And NO I haven’t slept since Monday. At least not very well.
My house is clean-I dont want this story to sound like we live in the Ghetto and have food everywhere! I mean Im sure we have crumbs somewhere! LOL! You can’t have 3 kids and no hidden crumbs!
I know most people get a mouse, here and there. We get them every year around this time. I think its due to our basement. We have to seal in some cracks in the foundation. We also live near the dam, and near some houses with fields.
ANYWAY-
OK THIS is the scenario I woke up to. MONDAY!!!!
NOAH: Screaming at the top of his lungs, and crying :MOMMY HELP ME !! THERE IS A MOUSE!!! THE MOUSE JUST TRIED TO EAT ME AND BITE ME! MOMMY HELP! HELP! HELP!
(reality-it just ran across the floor near him)
ME: I fly out if bed to find Noah and Amber sitting on our dining table-Noah is crying hysterically, as he explains, the mouse ran across the floor, towards his feet, and under the video rocker.
I see our cat Lily sitting with her nose under the video rocker, tail flickering, and her swatting.
I JUMP as fast as I can on a chair next to the kids. I push the rocker forward a little-from the chair.
NOW I SEE the mouse! EEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am screaming, the kids are screaming. Noah is balling. I want to ball too-but can’t. Trying to be strong for the kids-but its not really working.
The mouse moves in an attempt to make it out from under the chair. Lily is nose to nose with the mouse.
I am FREAKING out, as bad as Noah.
The mouse is trying to bite the cat! I can see it lunging forward, and opening its mouth! The cat keeps swatting it with both paws.
She pounces it and pounces it. It moves from the back of the rocker around to the front. Here is where I can see her going after the mouse.
After 10 minutes of swatting and pouncing I take a closer look. I think its actually dead.
Um, yeah! I think Lily is thinking the same, sine she is now sitting and just swatting like “Hello! Little play toy……..are you going to move so I can chase you?”
Um, NOPE! Not moving. It was curled up, and breathing shallowly. Poor thing. I felt bad.
Then the unthinkable! We moved the rocker,(carefully) and Lily dived forward, and grabbed the mouse IN HER MOUTH!!! I screamed! She ran. She began shaking her head violently. Then dropped it. Um yeah. Definitely dead.
Now what?
Well Daisy went to get it, so I realized “I” had to dispose of it PRONTO!
THAT in itself was a movie in the making. I grabbed a large dishtowel and quickly put it in the trash.
Later on I heard squeaking-YEAH! The mouse came back to life and was in the trash moving around! OMG!!! I opened all the doors quickly grabbed workers gloves, and ran out of the house as fast as I could-tossing the bag far into the back yard.
I needed a shower-I was SOOOOO grossed out.
Needless to say-not a good day.
After all this mouse commotion, Amber is NOT afraid of mice. She doesn’t understand the big deal, and says she likes them! She wants to be an animal Doctor like Daisy’s doctor.
OK WHERE did this kid come from? Noah cries at the thought of a mouse, as do I and she wants a closer look!
Here is her picture-of a dead mouse. I had to laugh that it was on its back, with a smile. Pretty good for a 3 year old! LOL!
In case I didnt say-
I am petrified of mice. My fear began when I was little. I had a Hamster name Tinker. One day while cleaning his cage he got out of the “bucket”. My dad went to grab him off the counter, and he BIT my dad. I never picked up that hamster EVER again! I took care of him, but would not hold him, only pet him. He lived FIVE years!!! Anyway-after owning that hamster I have had BAD hamster/rodent dreams my whole life. My kids will NEVER own anything RODENT like-that includes BUNNIES. Sorry to the rodent lovers but I just CANT DEAL!
I HATE mice so much so that while 9 months pregnant with Amber, I did my best to hop up on a counter when a mouse skittered along the cabinets in our kitchen. What a sight that was my my husband. He always tries to scare me when this stuff happens. He gets a few too many laughs.
LAST year, I went to lay down on the couch with Amber, and “something happened” I think I needed to get a blanket, as I moved the pillow ON THE COUCH a mouse went running along the cushion! Have you ever heard of a mouse on the furniture???? OMG! It was like brand new, and I didn’t think about thae fact mice could CLIMB!!!
Do you realize I would have LAID NEXT TO A MOUSE!!! ALIVE????? OMG! I cannot tell you how I freaked out. I made my husband come home from work (he works an hour away).
That was just the worst.
Anyway, this is my sad gross story.
BLECH!
Ill be back later with a blog challenge, and tomorrow have a special post that I teamed up with Jen to do!
75 Responses for "A MOUSE TALE-LONG STORY"
You know I feel your pain, friend. Thanks for the # update – the kids have been asking how many you’d caught since Wednesday.
Hope you got ’em all – then I can go in your house again! LOL!
Oh Lauren…that was so funny!!! I know I shouldn’t laugh but I am. Just to warn you tho…mice can crawl through openings as small as a Bic pen so you better get out your calking gun!! Hope you recover soon. Keep up your great work.
Oh you poor thing. I would be up on that counter with you!!! You have me in tears as I read this you are too funny. I hope you got them all! Tell Amber I *LOVE* her drawing!!!
I do not like the little nasties either! However, the pest that makes me cry is spiders. We had brown recluse spiders when we first moved and I had a spider bite on my arm that hurt so bad. We bug bombed like crazy (more than was probably safe for our health) and knock on wood have not seen any in a few years. I still check my kids beds EVERY single night before they go to bed to make sure there aren’t any spiders in their sheets. We never did see one in any of our beds, so I don’t know why I have to perform this ritual. My husband says I am crazy and he is mostly right, but it helps me sleep a little easier at night!
“They have names, but since having kids they are referred to most as girl cat and boy cat! PATHETIC I know.”
This so made me laugh. We have a “girl” and “boy” too. ~:-D
Oh Lauren, I so feel your pain! I’ve so been there – trying unsuccessfully to be brave. I actually paid my friend’s 9year old son $2 to remove our mouse. Best money I ever spent. And FYI if you don’t like mice, don’t EVER go on “Honey, i shrunk the audience” at Disney. I still shudder 10 years later. Yuck!!!
When we moved into our new home we got mice and I know exactly what you mean about the dog and cat sitting in front of the stove all night. That is the exact same thing we dealt with. Well, my husband was away on a business trip, so I had to deal with it myself. I trapped the mice and then pulled out the stove where I saw a huge hole where they had cut out for the electric to come it. I went to Lowe’s and bought some of that foam stuff and I filled that hole in (and some!!!). Then I took some steel wool and filled in every little hole under sinks, bathrooms and kitchen, with that stuff. Knock on wood–no mice since!!! Thanks for the laugh and the memory.
Cheryl
Lauren – I am with you on the not liking mice – I would have been screaming at the top of my lungs with you. You did; however, tell a great story that had me laughing!! I love that all of the other animals in the house were a part of the action too!!! I hope they go away soon. Heather
That was too funny. Sorry to laugh at your distress but I couldn’t help it. I actually like some members of the rodent family, when they are supposed to be in your house that is. Not a fan at all of the ones that come in without asking. We had a mouse problem a few years ago. Got up in the middle of the night when Tyler was crying and a mouse ran practically over my feet. Of course DH was on the road. I was freaked for the rest of the night. Even slept with the lights on. There is a great little gadget you can get that plugs in and makes some kind of high pitched noise that mice hate. We have one in our basement (I think i might bother dogs if it is in the house) and I think it must help because – knock on wood – we havent had any mice since. Also could be because I made DH plug up every hole he could find bigger than a toothpick! Good luck. -Molly B
P.S. Amber I love your mouse picture. Great Job!
Oh Lauren, I love your story.
Your Lily looks a lot like our Buttons. He had caught a mouse too, very young and I took it away. My DH said I ruined his hunting skills not letting him eat what he killed, but the neighbor lady said he could puke it up and no way was I going to clean up that mess.
So, in our old farm house we do get mice occasionally, but I’ve never seen them or signs of them in our kitchen. DH and I went to the show one night and as I opened the door when we came home, it wouldn’t open, and I had to push dear Buttons out of the way. That is when I saw it!!!!! The tail between his lips, one big slurp and that was it. So, I didn’t scare the work out of him when he was little. He still mouses, but he gets to eat his finds now!
I’m so thankful for DH’s pet now, but the mice belong outside, in the sheds, etc. Not in my house!!!!!!!!!
Good luck, and poor you and poor little Noah, so scared!!!
I’m with you…mice are just gross nasty rodents. I even scream at spiders…such a wimp I am! Hugs!
Too funny, and sad, and funny 😉 I don’t mind mice (too much) but I can’t stand spiders and I’m not sure I will sleep tonight after reading the comment about them. That would be a move for me for sure, and it would be out of the city, state, whatever, where those spiders lived. There are some benefits to living on a cold, foggy little island in the North Atlantic Ocean 🙂
Alison from Newfoundland, Canada
Oh what a great story teller you are! LOVED the mouse story and the drawing by Amber! So how do you feel about RATS??!!!! OMG! We had a rabbit several years ago and one day I looked out the window to see it had at least 10 HUGE RATS in the cage with him….down in the bottom poo catcher and everything! I FREAKED OUT! I called my husband and tried to make him come home…..but he wouldn’t…..he said, “They are outside…just don’t go outside.” I had the heebie-jeebies all day. Even though it was outside…..I made my husband get rid of the rabbit and we will NEVER have anything like that again! Can you imagine?? Ick….Now I don’t even like rabits….they hang with the rats!
I had cats for several years and they were so so at mousing. The worst catch was when they caught one and pretty much split it in half and left me the bottom half of the mouse (and I’m assuming consumed the other half)! Ugh!!
My best mouser is my Beagle, Molly. She is a fabulous killer of rodents – last winter it was 5 mice and one rat. Mice don’t bother me but rats are a whole different story.
My dad always laughed at my mom when she would get so panicked. His answer – “How can a 100 pound woman be scared of a 3 ounce mouse?”
OMg Lauren , I be on the counter with you, I hate mice.
BUt you had me laughing so hard reading your story.
I know I shouldn’t laugh but you are such a story teller.
I hope you got them all.
Hahahahahaha, you just cracked me up with your mice stories!!! I used to have pet mice when I was a kid! My brother found one in the park that somebody probably got rid of because it was white… he caught it and brought it home, of course I complained that I wanted one too and my parents bought me a black one!♥ Of course white was a “he” and black was a “she” and we soon ended up with loads and loads of babies, LOL! One day they escaped and went hiding into the dishwasher door!! I still remember my poor dad at 2am unmounting the dishwasher door to make sure he had rescued all the babies (and that they wouldn’t eat the electric wires in there!). Man, that was fun! 😀
However a few weeks ago, my dad had left my garage door open and I ended up with a RAT in the garage. One day I was putting something in the garbage can and there comes this black thing from behind, that almost gave me a heart attack. I left my garage door opened for a while thinking it would go away, and let the cat in the garage…and didn’t see it anymore that day or the next one, then I went into the garage to get a watering can and the cat followed me, when I came back in there 2 mn later I found a dying rat on the floor and blood stains here and there…Ewwwwwww! The worse part was having to dispose of the animal! It was still barely breathing and it made me cry but I couldn’t find the strenght to “finish it off” so I took a shoe box, put it over the rat and pushed it out of the garage. I left the poor rat there to dye alone under its box, at least without more trouble from the cat… 🙁 Then a few hours later when it was definitely dead I just scooped it in the box, put the lid on and threw it in the trash that was going out that night.
Ugh! This was so NOT fun!
As much as I love mice (I had a few hamsters too over time, but I didn’t mind the biting cause it was gentle! 😉 ) I wouldn’t want some in my house running around and just thinking about the rat makes me shiver…. 🙁
I’m sure there has to be things that they don’t like that you can put around, like for example spraying your baseboards with a mix of water and mint essential oil (that keeps ants at bay too) so it’s not dangerous for your pets but they don’t feel like coming back……
Poor little Noah, first he steps in dog poop then he is scrared by mice! And Amber is too cool, way to go kiddo! LOL 😉
We always get mice this time of year too, but so far none. My hubby put some mice poison in the basement last Spring and it seems to have worked. Biggest thing is though that you have cats and they might try to eat the bait.
I hope they are gone!
Lauren, this story is hilarious and horrifying all at the same time!!! 🙂 I’m sooooo with ya – if it were my house I’d be completely grossed out!!! But goodness, you tell a FUNNY story, Girly! Keep settin’ those traps till you make sure they’re all gone! (Otherwise, you might never see Paulette again! Hahaha!)
Oh good god! So sorry to hear this. Knock on wood, I haven’t had to deal with mice. If I saw one outside I would freak out but I dont know what I would do if it was in the house.
I hate spiders! Oh lord I freak whenever I see one. I agree with Stacy though if you go to Disney World DO NOT go on that ride! It was awful, that I hated. I too will shudder and I think we also went about 10 years ago!
I hope all is clear for you now! Your mousey project is adorable.
ROFLMAO! You are too funny but I only find this amusing because I too am deathly afraid of the dirty little creatures. Love your mouse card. He is cute. Thank God for the cat or the mouse would still be in the house. Anyway if it is still alive and can make its way back across the lawn he will come back in. Sorry to disappoint you but they must die or they will be back. I know it sounds awful but they are uninvited guests. My fear is that they will get into my stamping stuff. I shutter at the thought. Take care of those kiddos and animals with the exception of the mice and keep your chin up and be brave for Noah and Alexa. Stacy
*That* was *the* funniest thing I’ve read/heard in a long time. I know it was tramatic for you but for me, sitting here… hilarious!
I *so* needed this chuckle.
Ahhh…. you are such a good story teller. It was like I was right there with you while the whole thing played out.
I hope it gets all cleared up for you soon. Love the picture Amber drew for you too.
Love,
Renee
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We’ve had mice here and there too. Your story had me laughing. I’m not afraid of the mice – they’re actually cute – but I don’t want them in my house. We bought the rat zapper – haven’t seen them since!
Blahh!!! I am sooo sorrry and I totally relate! We’ve lived in two places that had mice issues. The second place the mice practically invaded when my baby was a month old and I didn’t think we’d survive. You sound exactly like me, all hysterical while my husband is laughing too hard to catch them! Blaahhh!!! I’m so bad I can’t stand anything mous-y. Mice *stamps* make me gag! Anyway, great story…you’ll make it!
Holy crap!!!!! 15 mice????? I don’t think I’d be able to sleep for a month! Oh I’m so sorry. But at least you’ve got 3 cats and a dog who can help you with it!
Oh my what a story, hope that is the last of the mice. I lived a block from a river in Jacksonville and we had some big ones, they are water and field mice. But thankfully you have animals to take care of them.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHa, I am still LOL!!! This totally cracked me up, as I was raised on a farm, and am used to all sorts of critters! Even mice!
I do have to agree I would not want them in the house…our kitties get plenty of the field mice and leave them on the patio for me, but thank goodness we haven’t had any in the house. When I was a kid, we did have the field mice in the house…I remember my Dad once plucked one off the stove in the kitchen, (by the tail) and slammed it down on the floor to kill it! I will never forget that!!! But he’s terribly afraid of snakes…
Thanks for the belly laugh, I love how you tell stories…you are so entertaining!!!
Have a good day, I’m sure the mice are all gone now!!! 😀 (well, let’s hope so! )
OMGosh, I forgot to say how absolutely AWESOME is Amber’s drawing….and your card is the cutest thing EVER!!! You are so great to have as a cyber friend, I get a blast out of your blog! THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU!!! 😀
LOL Lauren! I don’t know what it is about mice. My kids both approached me one day about getting RATS for a pet! Finally I succumbed to their wishes. We went to the pet store and they each picked out a rat. I told the guy at the store that I wanted to make sure they were the same sex because I didn’t want to end up with babies. He checked them and said “yep, these are both female!” Well we came home and my kids had strict instructions that THEY were the ones taking care of them. A few days later we had babies! Lots of babies! Both of the females were pregnant when we bought them! For several years we had rats as pets and they kept picking new babies to keep and we’d take the others to the pet store where I think they were sold mainly for snake food! yuck! Over the years we’ve had hamsters, rabbits, guinea pigs (my youngest actually accidently drowned her guinea pig giving it a bath!), ferrets, and the usual dogs and cats. My husband worked for the water department and he’d bring home little snakes he found in the meters for my kids to play with! My youngest daughter loved to play with them. She’d play with them and then let them go IN OUR YARD! One day he brought home a bucket with about six little snakes and she played with them and was going to keep them for just a little while before letting them go, but the cat found the bucket and tipped it over and they were all gone when we discovered the tipped over bucket!
So Lauren, I hate to tell you this, but I think you have lots more fun in store for you before your kids are grown! LOL!
oh, just realized I forgot to tell you how cute your “paper” mouse is! what did you use for the tail?
Holy……cow! Wow! That’s giving me the heebie jeebies! I’ve got goosebumps all over and I swear, I had my face so wrinkled up, I know I’ve just given myself 3 years worth of premature wrinkles!! Wow, that’s a story I’m gonna have hubby read when he gets home! Get rid of those nasty things so you can go back to resting peacefully on the sofa or eating stress-free in your own kitchen! This one’s gonna give me nightmares, I just know it! Huggh(shrugging shoulders!) Hang in there!
How funny! And the mouse card is really cute:) I grew up in a house with a cornfield across the street, so we had our fair share of mice in the house. My mom and sisters just couldn’t handle them. For whatever reason, they don’t really bother me, so I would be the one to put on my Dad’s work gloves and “dispose” of them when we would get one in a trap.
Spiders on the other hand, do me in! If I see a spider, I turn into a screaming, gasping, shaking FOOL! My husband gets really peaved at me when I have my spider melt downs. My almost 7 year old has seen me have enough spider meltdowns, that now he does too! He told one of the neighbor kids last summer that spiders make him “scream like a girl!” Lovely, huh?
Hope you have rounded them all up and don’t have to give out any more mousey eviction notices:D
TOO FUNNY!!!
I scream at them too! they are the worst!!! Wouldn’t go to bed one night 6 years ago until my husband caught and killed one, then set traps and thank goodness he only had 1 friend with him!
But that wasn’t the worst…last year July 7th I had the pest man come out and set traps (the sticky kind) because I saw “markings” and it was my son’s b-day the next day! I’m decorating the cake at 10pm and wham, bam, the mouse is stuck…behind the stove! Now that is a racket…a mouse stuck on the trap flipping and flopping hitting the wall, the electrical pipe, the stove…I was in my bedroom on top of my bed with the phone. My husband had to bring the kids home NOW and kill it! or the cake would never get done! an hour later I could continue on the cake….
GROSS little things!
Ok reading your story I got ontop of my chair and got the chills up and down my spine.. OHHHH GOODNESS ME.. I HATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTEE and am soooo SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO afraid of mice OH MY GOSH its so bad I can’t even see then on TV without me squealing! lol I grow up in New York City in a city building sooo what did I have indure while I spent and my mom told me just go to sleep hearing them OHH I get chills thinking about it and THEN we got Flex (our cat) and OH my when he would catch one he would growl at us YES GROWL like a dog when we would try to get it away from him and then we had to chase him down of course I would be locked up in my room behind closed door w/chairs by the door w/a baseball bat in my hand.!!! OH YES.. Ellie doesn’t like mice.. So I send you the biggest hugs!! AND NOOOOO MORE MICEEEE for Lauren!!
OK, not nice to be laughing here………Lauren you sure do make my day! You are a brave woman. I just love the mouse card……..
I get at least one mouse in my basement every year. Like you I HATE mice. What I did was call Pest Control and they set up traps in and around the out side of my home. I am happy to tell you that so far not one mice this year. ) The company is called Pest Control Lauren and I have them come twice a year for spiders, wasps, ants etc. I do this every year with out fail. I have a brook on my property so seeing a mouse is not an uncommon thing. I am so grateful I have the problem under control now.
God luck Lauren.
Mary
Hilarious Lauren! We had a little mouse issue at one of our condo’s in college, the mouse/mice were running between our house and the neighbors. I would leave things on the counter just to see if the mouse liked them – he (or she?) ate funny things like Reese’s Pieces, a chicken nugget, part of a banana (peel and all), but luckily I never saw him. One day our neighbor was taking out his trash and is was literally screaming…cause he had a mouse trapped on a glue board inside. It was gross, but that was the last mouse issue we had! Cute card too by the way! My son is totally like yours (he is 4), he FREAKS out when he sees things like spiders, rodents, etc. He was with me at work one time and a little mole came in through the door (we are in the country) and my son was crying and freaking out forever, he still talks about it, calls him Mr. Mole.
Yuck! I also DETEST mice AND rats. Hamsters I have no problem, but mice and rats send me for the hills! I think I’d have the pest company ASAP! Cute card, though! 🙂
DH says to make sure you figure out where on Earth they are coming in at..so that you can take care of that! YIKES! I hate mice..we get them in our garage, but DH has traps set up..I refuse to take them out of the traps. I made DH and DS take them out and get rid of them when they get caught. EWWWWWW!!! DH came in one night with one in his hand, and I screamed LOUD! Of course he laughs at me, since some of my all time favorite stamps are the House Mouse stamps..LOL.
GRRR! Oh well, I tell him they are cute on paper and to color, not in my face!!!
I feel sorry for you Lauren. It sounds like you have far too many critters in the house. I once had a problem with one mouse who loved crawling into my kitchen pantry in the wee hours of morning. I never did see the mouse, but I knew he was there. One evening before going to bed, I put a mouse trap on the floor which had a little bit of peanut butter on it. Peanut butter works great on traps. I manage to get him the next day in the trap. You might want to try a few traps.
oh, my heart is just pounding out of my heart just reading this- cant even begin to imagine what it was like to have it run across the floor. At least your cats and dogs are protecting you. I can just picture them standing guard!
You might have a food source that you are not considering. The cat and dog food, or even birdseed. The dog food was our problem attracting the mice- we discovered that fact when I was searching for some things in a box in the storage area in the basement. Continuing on through the boxes we found little piles of dog food piled up in them. The only thing I can figure out was that those buggers were getting up through the floor by the oven and going over to the dog dish and carrying it back to their stockpile. Now we feed our dog at dinner when we eat and if there is anything left in the dish when we go to bed we put that and the water away. It was creepy, but believe me it has nothing to do with dirt. only the ability to find food or water.
Sorry to hear about your troubles. find the food source, get rid of it, and your mouse problem should go away too. adelle
Hi Lauren,
I have been checking out (and loving) your blog, and although I love your stuff – it is all so beautifu, I’m not one to write in. But I just had to write in had after reading your mouse story. I am the same way with mice…..deathly afraid of them! I have two boys so they of course think it is hysterical when I am on top of the couch trying to throw a shoe at a tiny little rodent! I can still remember many, many years ago when I lived hours away from home in my own apartment and discoverd mice. I used to hear them at night in my bedroom closet…..so I stuffed socks under the closet door (I didn’t know how easily those little buggers could crawl around) then I got a radio and put it in front of the door so they would hopefully hear the noise and stay away. When I got brave enough I put posion in the closet not realizing they would eat it and die in my toilets looking for water. It wasn’t funny at the time – that was actually the final straw to drive me out of the apartment and back to my hometown (at least closer to home, someone could come and help me fight the mice). But I do laugh now, all I can think of is a bunch of disco mice laughing at me as they danced around my bed at night!! Be glad you at least have a cat. I haven’t seen any mice at our current home, but I fear it’s because we have tons of snakes keeping them at bay!! Thanks for sharing your stories.
Oh my gosh!! This so sounds like my house, except you need another cat in the house and possums to breed with the rats in the creek. Those are ugly looking things!
Omigosh–you poor thing!!
Poor thing! I hate mice, but I hate geckos even more. And we have them by the dozens here. (Texas)
I freak so bad….I have called my mom to come to my house and get it out of my house. And, bless her heart, she has come over with curlers in her hair 🙂 , unlocked my front door (to find me perched on the couch-white knuckles and all).
A big YEAH for moms!
So I totally understand what you are saying in this post!
OMG Lauren!! I haven’t laughed this hard in forever! I am totally cracking up over here! Here’s the weird part – I have 2 cats – one named Lily – and one named Nani who looks exactly like your Lily!! They just caught a mouse last week after being camped out by the stove for 3 days. Thanks for the story – I can totally relate and it was so entertaining!!!
Back when we first moved into our home, we had two mice that never made an apparance unless my husband was out of town! Seriously – they never came out unless he was like 4-6 hours away. It took us FOREVER to catch them both – but we used the old mouse-traps with peanut butter on them and snapped them in half – yes, that’s harsh, but frankly, I felt no remorse whatsoever – YUCK!!!!! I have to say, I’m not a cat-lover at all, but the fact that your cat was defending her home, makes me like her a little bit! 🙂 Go, Lily!!!!
OK, I can totally relate. I’m sooo sorry for you having to go through this ordeal. (I don’t like mice either, and I don’t even know why!) You’ve certainly told a good story about it, and it’s good to see that your daughter took it in stride. I hope things improve!
OMG I was laughing. I know it’s not funny when it’s happening. I was at work several years ago and I feel something go by feet – I look down and it’s a mouse. I’m on top of the desk screaming (in a suit and heels). My boss comes running down and this poor mouse got stuck going back and forth and I guess I scared him screaming so loud. He ended up having someone come and get him and I wouldn’t get down until he was gone. I sat up front and had a window that people would come to and all you saw in that window was my skinny legs on top of the desk. They had a big laugh over that one. I laugh about that now but it wasn’t funny when it happened. Hopefully you’ll get all of them. Where there is one there is usually more. So watch out for them. Good Luck. I love that drawing of your daughters. 🙂
OMG! You had me in stitches!!! I was laughing so hard, hubby came over to see why! He said, yeah laugh at the girl, you would have died right there before picking up a mouse EVER & he walked away laughing at me at the thought! I go nuts over bugs never mind a mouse, I feel for you, I know I couln’t handle it. You found courage in yourself for the sake of the kids…good girl! Hope their all gone! Have a great day lauren!!!
Thanks for the laugh!!
My mom has mice in her garage, and being the dutiful daughter I have been put in charge of trying to catch them, so she doesnt have to pay$$$ to have a pro get them out! i can’t do a regular trap and the glue things are horrifying but I’ve found a covered trap that seems acceptable. Of course now the mice won’t go in the trap!!
thanks again for the mousy laugh.
Oh and your cat looks like mine!
Oh, Lauren, you are sooooo funny. I don’t like mice, but they don’t scare me. You just deal with them. Trap + peanut butter = dead mouse. The thing I really don’t like is when they die inside a wall and you can smell it for 2 or 3 weeks. I hate spiders worse than mice.
PS – Amber’s picture is awesome!
I thought it was going to be about Mickey… LOL!! Definitely EWWWW! Mice freak me out too! When we were building our house, we apparently built right on top of a bunch of field mice so they were everywhere. One afternoon one got up into the bonus room. My mom and I trapped it in a corner and called my husband home who was visiting at a friends. He held that mouse hostage for 20 nerve-wracking minutes!! Another time we had set some traps in the master bath. During the night a mouse tripped one and then tried to run into our closet…he got under the door but the trap didn’t so when I woke up I saw a trap with a mouse tail from under the door. I jumped on top of my bed and called my mom… EWWWWWW! I feel your pain! Love the card, though! Don’t you just love that you can make a card for *any* occasion?!?! Hugs…
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Hey Lauren, I feel your pain. I detest rodents…and all bugs (especially spiders) are just ick. One thing…PLEASE be very careful when coming across rodent droppings. A friend of a friend’s son passed away of Hanta virus just from playing in the garage where there were droppings. Yes, that’s right, he didn’t even touch them, just breathed in air around where the droppings were. Extremely scary..scarier then the rodents themselves.
Here’s a link on the virus and how to properly disinfect if you come across droppings.
Sonia
First of all, I also hate mice. Hate them. I am so glad we have never had any. I live at the beach so, I think the gulls would eat them.
I think you need to call some mouse people. 15 ugh. I was lol and going eeekkkk the whole time I read your story. AHHHH, I sooo feel for ya. I hate those icky things. I really really hope you get some sleep. I don’t think I would sleep either.
also, your poor little boy, I soooo can relate, had those type of moments with spiders. Give him a big hug!!
Sorry, forgot to give you the link:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hanta/hps/noframes/FAQ.htm
I am totally freaking out now. Thanks for sharing that. NOT! lol…….I really feel for you. I am terrified of mice too. You are a braver woman than I am though. I would never have been able to pick it up with my hands. We had mice in the last house we lived in pretty bad and I almost had a heart attack when I saw one and about gave my husband a heart attack too because of how loud I screamed. I actully ran out of the house that time after I saw it. I made sure to check the cushions before I sat on the couch after that too. I can’t believe you have had that many since Monday. I would suggest you get some poision ASAP and find out where they are coming from. Steel wool is the only thing they can’t get through. I hope you get rid of them soon.
P.S. Make sure all Daisy’s dog food is in a airtight container and sealed well. Mice love dog food and that might be what is bringing them in.
OMG I sooo feel your pain. We just relocated to Texas last year from New York City (DH is in the Army) where I met my first live in mouse. Let me tell you. It was tiny
( just the baby). We just moved in and I always seem to have insomnia when we are moving into a new place like I can’t sleep until everything has a place, so I decided not to wake DH and go into the hall closet to get my scrapbooking supplies out.. Well that thing ran across my leg and into the bathroom. I, (being a hawaii girl) assumed it was a large roach which I am terrified of, and went crying to my hubby to kill (it had ran into the bathrooom and I had promptly closed the door). He dutifully went in there to kill it and I could hear repeated stomping I was thinking what kind of roaches do they have here. DH came out and informed me…not a roach.. I loked in and saw the mouse corpse and promptly FREAKED OUT!!!! Told DH one of us had to go me or the mouse. As you can see were still married so DH de-moused the house (6 of them, mom, dad and babies) and sealed it up so tight it was an oven every winter and icebox in the summer. Best of luck to you girlfriend they terrify me.
Michelle
I loved your story, sorry for the scare though. I can relate. I to have 2 cats and 2 dogs. Yup, when they all are looking at the bottom of the stove ya know its a mouse. My cat came carrying it out to the living room. She had its back in her mouth. Of course I freaked. It looked quite dead. It was sort of curled up as she carried it. BUT when she put it down, it took off on the run. Caught that suckeer a couple days later.
I am laughing so hard as I read this and I’m sure you want to here yet another mouse story. well, not really a story but my situation is this- I’ve caught 8 in my van..that is in the garage! I have traps under every seat. My boys fight over who gets to empty the trap. I refuse to drive it when I “know” one has recently been hanging out in there getting fat off of the cookie crumbs on the floor. I hate them so much!
This story is hillarious and your daughter’s drawing is marvelous! I HATE mice, and I have experienced the dog lying in front of the kitchen cabinets long after dinner was served and the kitchen cleaned up. A terrier, Schnauzer to be specific, and they were bred to be ratters back in Germany. No doubt we had “a” mouse. Well, we cannot match your 15, but we did have several. It was in winter when it got terribly cold outside. We were living in a double-wide while building our home. I hate mice…hate, hate, hate. Give me snakes, lizards, etc. anyday. I prefer reptiles to mice. So my husband and I have an agreement. I take care of the cold blooded creatures, and he handles the warm blooded ones. A marriage made in heaven! Hope you have seen the last of your mice!!! BTW, I love your cards!
I hate mice too and I hear ya . . I have a horrid mouse story too . . just wild stuff.. we used to live in a really old house. I guess there were lots of places they could get in because we had a whole family living with us. One day I decided to make pumpkin loaf .. I found these funny things in the flour and couldn’t figure out what they were. Well, I managed to pull most of them out, and just finished with the pumpkin loaves . . hubby comes home and eats the pumpkin loaves . . .mmmm, this are good he says, did you put something special in it? Well, I started to tell him about the things I found in the flour but he just shrugs and says ‘oh well, it tastes good anyway!’ What do I know, I’m a city girl . . never seen a mouse never mind had one in my house! Had a cat too . . later that same night, the cat pretty much chased the mouse out of the house . . the rest of the family wasn’t so eager to leave tho . . we ended up with mouse traps all over the place . . and I was absolutely horrified every time I heard one of those things go off!! Anyway, I love your castle card, it’s absolutely beautiful! Hope you get all those mice soon . .
That was a very interesting read and had me laughing, (that is always a good thing), love your little mouse card that came out of it all, so cute! I don’t know if my cats would know what to do with a mouse, that would freak me out laying next to one I know that much!
Hi Lauren,
Sorry about your “Crazy moose loose in the hoose” (I forget what cartoon that is from). It happens when you live in New England. When we lived in Massachusetts they used to get in through the roof. They the house was built, there were narrow spaces between the walls (it wasn’t a single piece of wood between rooms, but something more like a double paned window). The poor little guys would be walking along the tops of those boards and trip – whoops! – and fall to their deaths in the tiny spaces between the walls in the rooms. We wouldn’t notice for weeks until something didn’t quite smell right, then go on a hunt for the poor little things so we could remove them and then repatch the wall we had to open. Nice huh? Luckily it mostly seemed to happen inside closets so no one noticed the patching.
OH YEAH – one thing I DON’T recommend – those sticky boxes thelittle guys get stuck in! They are SO inhumane! They crawl in and get so stuck there they starve to death (unless you want to keep feeding them, but if that were the case you wouldn’t use the sticky boxes to begin with right?), so THEN you have to put them out of their misery. I learned this the hard way – it was AWFUL!
Hang in there, they are only coming to visit because they have heard about your talents and want to witness them for themselves. 🙂
Lauren, I want to say that I understand you 100%!!!!!
I think we can share stories and make really great cartoon stories, LOL. Well, I just want to share my story. Last year we moved into our new brand house, everything was great until weather started to change. By November, I saw some mouse poop in one corner of the garage, I was wondering, Is it poop or just dirt? Ok, not dirt,it was mice poop!!!!! I was in shock, I hate mice!!!!!! My husband always says, they are tiny, you can kill one just stamping on it, ewwwwwwwwwwww. I went to NC to visit my sister and I talked to my husband everyday, he told me that almost everyday he found a dead mouse in the trap, AJJJJJJJJ!!!! I was in shock again, thinking, Oh mY How many are in the garage?????
I came back home after 3 weeks and they vanished, I was so happy, I can’t see them dead, imagine me seeing them alive, PLOP!!!!! Just 2 weeks ago, they came back!!!! On ho, somebody help me!!!!!! We have our big freezer in the garage, so anytime I am there for some groceries I check if the traps are empty, oh silly me, they are there and one of them had a dead mouse, I ran like crazy inside the house, after that I realized, hey the mouse is dead, LOL.
Anyway, I hate mice, I can’t even see them on TV or pictures, they are EWWW, AJJJJ .
Thanks for sharing your stories, I love to read them everyday!!!!
God bless you
Giovana
LOL!!! I can just picture the commotion! we too have had the occasional mouse but only in spring, anyway, our computers are out in the garage & this particular week dd Jess, had been sitting at her pc & a little field mouse bit her on the toe! She was most indignant. but we got a good laugh of it! TFS
OMG !
I do know how you feel….. I can’t
stand them either…YUK! YUK!
I would have been screaming too!
At least, with cats in the house…
you will know when there is a mouse around.
Take Care…
Dee
I just read this and giggled reading about your adventures… I too had a recent encounter- with a RAT in our room in CUBA!!!!!! We chased it around, and around all night, and they moved us the next morning… I am not normally afraid of these things, but I have to admit I was in bed with the blankets up to my chin, calling out where the rat was as my husband chased it around! I can tell you that rodents can not only climb furniture, but walls and door jambs too!
THanks for the laughs!
Diane
Lauren I am definitely feeling your pain! Years ago we lived in the basement apartment of my parents house. The two older boys were 3 and 1 and I was pregnant with our third son. Our incident started one night after hubby and the boys were asleep. While watching TV something moving caught the corner of my eye on the floor by the front door where our shoes were. I got up to look but couldn’t find anything (thought it was a big wolf spider). I woke up hubby and he started looking by the door and when picking up one of his shoes a mouse came flying out and ran towards the kitchen. Well, we sat a trap and caught that one but that started a month long nightmare. In the end we caugth a whopping total of 31 mice! Most were caught in the first couple of weeks. We couldn’t for the life of us figure out how or why they were coming in. It turns out they were coming in from an old dryer vent hole that had been sealed up but had come unsealed at some point and made a perfect little home for all those lovely little varmits. The last incident was the scariest one for me. I was getting into my closet to get something and when I opened the door the mouse flew out and hit me in the chest then went running off somewhere in the bedroom. Talk about traumatized! I always said it was a miracle youngest son wasn’t born with a tail after that fright. “grin”
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