get stirred up every time they do something new. We are also on the edge of our neighborhood with a big field behind our house. What does all of this add up to? Mice!! They're itty bitty little things. I've never had to deal with little mice running around before and it's put me into a bit of a quandary. Do I like the mice in our garage and running in our wall (we've only seen one inside fortunately)? Of course not! But do I like "exterminating" them? Not really.
The other night I was pulling up the driveway and I saw something white in the lights. It was a little mouse running feverishly away from the car and running straight into our garage (argh!). But it was so cute to me and it kept leaping really high into the air as it was running, which made me laugh. I even had a pet mouse just like these little guys when I was little.So I put forth the question to you all. Do we befriend these little guys? Or do we let the mouse traps, glue boards, and pesticides do their duty?
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Okay, first of all...mice are not FRIENDS!! Second...whatever you do, do NOT use pesticides or whatever you call them. Stick to traps...I wouldn't even use tape boards. Here's the reasoning:
If you use some sort of poison, they die where they die...they don't leave a note say: "hey you, I crawled into your wall and died there...come get me"....which means that you have to use your sniffer to find them.....after they've been rotting for a few weeks.
Tape boards...no good either....they don't kill them, so you have to actually throw them out alive, or even worse...peel them off the board and throw them back. SICKNESS!!
At least with traps, they're dead REAL quick and you know exactly where you put them to go looking for them....so that you can then throw them out.
We had mice in our garage....NEVER in the house....I would have died. Gary always took care of all of it...because like I've said before: loose teeth gross me out. So, one day I was out in the garage rooting through empty boxes for a good shipping box and I saw a dead mouse ON THE TRAP!! I nearly died, screamed bloody murder, ran in the house, and started crying about how we had to move. Fortunately, that was the first and last mouse I saw....Gary found about a dozen....and they are now...knock on wood....gone.
I hope that helps. lol.
I totally agree with Janette. You need to get rid of them because if you don't it will add up to a bigger problem later and before you know it you'll have a infestation.
I had good luck with the little, black, rectangular sticky mouse traps. You need to set them at the corners of your big garage door because this is where they get in. They come in packs of about 6. They catch other creepy crawlers, too!
We had mice problems when we lived on the Presidio and I tell you nothing could ruin my mood quicker then seeing one of those things, finding droppings on the floor for any little boy to think they found a chocolate stash, and smelling their pee on stuff animals left on the ground. Take action immediately because as cute as they look they are not great house guests. We used the sticky traps because the Presidio made us. I wasn't a huge fan because I would have to listen to them squeaking because they were stuck until Matthew threw them out, but they worked. GOOD LUCK!
I was shocked at how many people have had experience with mice! I never knew! Thanks for all the good advice. It sounds like little Gus Gus is going to have to go bye bye.
p.s. Bethany, I'm so sorry you had to listen to the mice stuck to the glue boards. I took one far away glance at the wiggling mouse stuck to one in our garage and freaked out!
hey emily! so, i remember your little pet mouse because it involves one of my "most embarrassing moments" stories... i was holding your mouse and it pooped on my hand and so i wiped my hand on a leaf. well, unbeknownst to me, the leaf flipped the mouse poop right back at me and it landed on my face. both our families were all standing around talking on the driveway and finally my mom pointed out to me that i had mouse poop on my cheek. nice. who knows how long i had been standing there talking to you all with that nastiness on my face. anyways, congrats on your new house! good luck with your infestation!
--kathryn (erin's sis... in case you didn't get that)
Kathryn,
I love your "most embarrassing moment!" How funny! I totally don't remember that happening, so hopefully for your sake everyone else has forgotten as well. Oh the days when our parents let us "experiment" with being pet owners...the sad truth is that my little mouse died because I didn't take good care of it. Sad...
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