have you ever found a mouse in your house?

Question

eeeekkkkk!!!

i found one in my kitchen. i put a pyrex dish over it hoping it would suffocate but my husband said that was like trying to suffocate me by leaving me in the millenium dome! hes very brave and took it to the farmers field behind our house.

Answer 1

My answer is no but a friend said she woke up to the sound of one and she glanced at the nightstand by her bed (eyes half open) and saw a mouse in the drawer she had left half open. She said she instinctively slammed the drawer shut because she was in shock and just wanted to trap it in the drawer until she figured out what to do. Unfortunately when she slammed the drawer it slammed on his neck so then she had to witness this poor little mouse in the throes of death. What a way to wake up. What a way to die if you're a mouse. I have never seen one in my house and I think if I did I'd get a hotel and try to decide what to do next (have a friend search it out and kill it, or put my house up for sale)!!!!! Cute question.

Answer 2

Yes, when I was 4 years old there was a rat in our house, it was hit killed immediately by wooden stick.
A word of caution, a mouse has a kin sense of smell. They can smell food and the sex organ of both a male and female person. They also tend to attack helpless infants. They tend to bite the eyes or the sex organs when you are asleep. They smell the women in her monthly sickness more. So if you know they are around your house, or at a nearby field. I suggest to buy glue traps for the inside of the house and place a very small piece of cheese in the center of the glue traps. When you capture the mouse in the glue trap, kill it by stepping on the head or pressing the head down with a wooden board. Be sure the mouse is glued on good by pressing on it with the board more against the glue trap. The house might scream and definitely bleed a little but once it is dead it is dead. The reason is because if you let them remain in the glue trap alive, they will call out for help and another mouse might hear it and try to rescue it.

You can also buy a small portable metal cage trap at a local lumber yard or warehouse where they sale nails, traps, etc. You place a bait inside and the mouse will go to it outside your barn it is big enough for a rat but too small for a cat or pet and thus it is a second alternative to this problem. It will capture the rat, but it will not kill it. Some people kill the rat by submersing the small cage in a bucket of water and drown it. Others use a cloth bag and place it where the rat can get out and open the cage and capture the live rat inside the bag and tie a knot at the opening of the bag and hammer the bag against the ground or hit the bag with a stick. Others place an old pillow case linen or a cloth bag inside some water and drown the rat and then open the knot and throw the dead rat inside the garbage.

You can try to get yourself a mouser cat. It runs in the genes so if you see one get an offspring of the mouser cat. A mouser cat is a cat that likes to kill rats. You can train one by feeding a cat only 1 or 2 small meals in the afternoon, thus most mornings and nights it remains hungry and thus it searches for the rat or something to eat. Be sure you have plenty of water for the cat if you get one.

Answer 3

Yes a previous flat I lived in backed onto this really over grown field. I came home from work one evening to find a cream egg I had left on the worktop in the kitchen had been nibbled tinfoil as well gone that when I realised I had a mouse. I must have set about 10 traps to catch it and the next evening I seen this thin moving in the dinning area grabbed the frying pan and proceeded to chase this mouse for about 20minutes before I thought what am I doing the poor mouse was more scared of me that I could possibly of it. The two days later I caught it and let it go back into the field. Didn't have any more after that as I found the small hole it came in and filled it with foam.

Answer 4

most homes have mice these days. although most of those that do are only the computer variety.
personally never had anything more than a few spiders and moths in my home.
though one retail store i worked at had a mouse living in the lighting department until someone had to get rid of it.
I was volunteered for the task. of removing the mouse which was a very docile little thing, i was able to pick it up with out any problems and move it out to the bushes out side the store.
no traps or chemicals to hurt the mouse. they have a right to life too in my book.
a humane trap should be used to trap the mouse and move it to an area well away from population (other homes) and then released.

humane traps are relatively cheap. see a local store to get one.

Answer 5

Oh yes, we've have many a mouse in our house. We live next to a corn field & in the winter or at harvest time is when you see them. The run from the thrashers or look for warm places. Having cats help. I can't stand when the mice scratch around waking me up at night, but I can deal with the cat waking me up when they catch it. I just put the combined cat & mouse on the porch & go back to a peaceful nights rest!

Answer 6

yes many yrs ago . we found a mouse in our kitchen too , we had 2 cats at the time , and when they saw it , they both tried to jump out of small kitchen window at same time [thank god it was open]. it was really funny .and we still laugh about it many years later. [2 macho tom cats scared of a little mouse ] oh and by the way the mouse got away ......never to be seen again, lol xxxx

Answer 7

Ive had mice, you can get poison for them. I dont know how you managed to put the dish over it as usually they run away too fast.

Aslo, I used to have a rabbit in a hutch in my back garden, and one day I noticed a wee mouse had moved in, I used to see it most times I went out to feed him. I think they lived in harmony.

Answer 8

yes, several times

the best way to get rid of them is to set traps with fruit and nut chocolate or mars bars

if you just want them out without killing them you can get traps from the stores, they look like baked bean cans and they let the mouse in but you have to let it out

place traps nearest the walls because that is where they run

are you aware that if you can put a pencil through a hole in your wall that a mouse can get through as well - they are able to squeeze themselves to that size

look for spaces between walls and windows and any air vents

Answer 9

We"ve found sticky traps most effective, but also most costly
Now we use the plastic traps that resemble the old wood ones.
They are cost effective& reuseable.We usually use a dab of peanutbutter as bait. Happy Huntingt!!

Answer 10

I had a mouse running round the living room. My mum said get a mousetrap but I thought that was too cruel. So I phoned the council and they sent someone round to get it.