POLL: Have you ever have a mouse in your house?

NoXCuses4me

Yes! It was just chillin', watching TV with us! Threw a bucket over it, scooped it up, and back outdoors he went, post haste!

Kakibot

Yes and so did my best friend. At least my cat kept it hiding most of the time.

bugaboo_sue

Yes! It was just chillin', watching TV with us! Threw a bucket over it, scooped it up, and back outdoors he went, post haste!

Then turned around and ran right back into your house the way he got in originally.

MysteriousMerlin

Yes, after we had a new stove delivered.

Why am I so insanely grossed out at a dead one in a trap, yet I have no problems holding one as a pet???

TheRoadDog

A couple years ago, we could hear one scurrying around in the ceiling of my man cave. Couldn't locate it. Drove me and my wife's cat bonkers. Got some industrial strength poision and put it at various places in what I thought might be the mouse's path.

Was a little concerned that it would die up there and we would have a bad stench.

The scurrying noises ended in about two weeks and no stench. Must've left the premises to die.

eddiesmith1

We've always had cats which has kept them limited but they still come. We are the end house in a row of 4 built in the 1860's so no keeping them out. In fact when a house 2 doors up underwent a big reno including digging out the basement it drew rats out of the sewer system (not an uncommon occurrence apparently) they invaded the neighbours first, who had an exterminator in and put out poison. they came through the walls to our place to die . hell of a racket from rats and far more destructive. thankfully that issue has been resolved . Mice however are persistent (as are Squirrels and Raccoons and Possums)

jmv7117

Yes and put it's head on a stick to warn other meeces to stay away!

icck

Yep! They're a nuisance. We're not allowed pets, else we'd have a cat too. And I hate cats.

We had them when I was around 7-8 months pregnant, and one decided to join us in bed. Honestly, you have never seen a heavily pregnant woman move so fast. I literally flew out of bed, hurdling over my other half.

ItsMeGee3

Yes and it give me the creeps just thinking about it!

StraubreyR

Yes, many times! I don't mind them as much as bats (my attic apartment had them), or snakes! I had baby garter snakes in the basement one year. That was the worst!

TraceyLee1102

Yes, quite a few times! We live in an old house that we have renovated, but there is still some areas they can get in! Argh I hate them

Oi_Sunshine

Yes.

Traps.

Poison.

Plugged every crack around pipes coming in with steel wool.

Problem solved.

adlace

Yes. Bold little sucker too. It walked around the apt. like it was the one paying rent. Then it died in my hallway and I had to dispose of it's little corpse. And still, I find those feathery house centipedes creepier.

JonnyMacAwesome

Yes I have.

I gave it green eggs and ham. Never bothered me again.

Shimmysista

I had DOZENS in my house once! Was the most horrifying thing ever! they were EVERYWHERE! There was an empty field next door to our house with a large pile of rock for decades. Someone had purchased the parcel and they bulldozed the land and all the field mice that were living in it moved into my house!

And Adlace i agree i freaking HATE house centipedes too! Did you know that their bite is about the same as a bee sting? They have toxins. I had one crawl in my ear in the middle of the night and did quite a bit of damage to my ear drum n canal. Lets just say PERMANENT phobia!

sjebert

I used to like in a 150 year old house, a mouse in the house was the least of my worries, I had bats too.

Bella0531

Yup! Thankfully our tabby cat is a great mouser - he makes quick work of them (the other cat can't be bothered to care LOL).

triciabh1

Unfortunately yes...we are surrounded by a field so the first fall that we lived here they had a party. We went to war and now we don't get them in very often. We have two outdoor cats who do a pretty good job and we know where the mice get to the upper level so we set traps...we also make sure any food source is always closed up like our pantry. It was a complete nightmare and I seriously wanted to burn down our house at one time.

kmariet7

Yes...more than once:(

futuresize8

I had one in the store I managed at the mall, a million years ago.

To give you an idea of how long ago it was, it ate through the stirrup part of the stirrup pants that were selling like hotcakes (except for the ones he ate, of course...) Apparently, stirrup pants make a nice lining for mousey beds.

And we recently had a mouse that was relaxing on the side plate of our grill. He was grey with pink feet and he freaked out when I took the cover off the grill and discovered him chilling there. I also freaked out. Then I sterilized the side plate with Lysol cleaner, burned the grill for 20 extra minutes before cooking on it, and sprinkled the side plates with red pepper flakes before closing up for the evening. No more mousey!

andreavarangu

Of course! .....but don't tell your wife this.....apparently for every mouse you see there are 9 you don't!

So.....time for a cat (unless the cat brought the mouse in).

Zaftique

Ugh, we did. The stupid thing must have been pregnant, because we killed one, but then kept hearing more. They chewed through CONCRETE, wtf supermouse.

Heinous as it is, the only traps that worked were glue traps. x_x After seeing the effects of one that had been stuck for a whole day, we decided to only lay them out while we were home so we could dispatch them the second we heard the first squeak.

CassandraEldridge

Yup. It was a cute little baby mouse. So before my cats could get it my husband put it out side and we watched it run and sqeeze right back under the house lol a short while later we had to take away a carcass from my cat... Poor mousey

laynerich15

Yep- left a pizza box out for a day, he got in and tried eating the cheese on the lip.

Took him to the work site over the road. He had been messing with me for months

seltzermint555

Yes but not often.

Growing up, NEVER had a mouse in any of our houses ever. We had one in our garage when I was like five or six and my mom, much like your wife, had a total meltdown over it and thought we were the first in the world to have that problem.

After moving out on my own, I lived in several apartments & duplexes and even bought an older, not-wonderful-quality mobile home while I was in college and never once had a mouse in it!

Then my ex and I bought our first house. It was a very nice house, only about 12 years old, but it was in a neighborhood that was slightly sketchy. Our neighbors on BOTH sides moved out within the same month, right at the end of Autumn when it was getting very cold outside, and we started having a serious mouse problem at that time. Fortunately they were mostly just in the kitchen and laundry room but it was disgusting. I think we lost count at seventeen mice!! :-( I was completely freaked out and started wearing sneakers at ALL times when cooking or doing laundry. After little success with traditional traps we switched to glue and then poison...honestly I'd never imagined myself doing ANYTHING but traditional traps but I was desperate after awhile. The worst was when we couldn't find some of the dead ones and they started to smell...ewww. I bought these bags of charcoal (?) rocks from the hardware store and it REALLY helped.

I've owned another house since, and now live in an older duplex in a very nice neighborhood and I have had zero mice.

BlueBombers

I had a nest in my shed once.

T1DCarnivoreRunner

Yes, I've had them in homes in various places, but most often when living next to fields. They come in for food and warmth.

seltzermint555

I'm surprised that people say you wouldn't know. The time I knew I had a mouse, it was quite evident. It left a mess everywhere, made a hole between cupboards, chew open the bag of bread on the counter. And I saw him.
Y'all must have covert mice.

I was thinking the same thing. When I had a mouse problem, I definitely couldn't ignore it. There were droppings around and all of our bags of cereal, loaves of bread, boxed goods & pet food items were broken into. I had to buy heavy duty plastic boxes & containers for EVERYTHING in the pantry and cabinets.

jmv7117

I had DOZENS in my house once! Was the most horrifying thing ever! they were EVERYWHERE! There was an empty field next door to our house with a large pile of rock for decades. Someone had purchased the parcel and they bulldozed the land and all the field mice that were living in it moved into my house!

And Adlace i agree i freaking HATE house centipedes too! Did you know that their bite is about the same as a bee sting? They have toxins. I had one crawl in my ear in the middle of the night and did quite a bit of damage to my ear drum n canal. Lets just say PERMANENT phobia!

We back onto a field. When the crops come off, the mice come in or at least they did until we got the house well sealed. It is an ongoing, always on the lookout for the little critters to get in. Our last house was a centipede mecca. I absolutely detest them! Ortho Home Defense works well to keep the centipedes and other creepy crawlies out as does Spiderban for spiders. A more natural, less toxic to humans method is peppermint oil.

cwolfman13

Yes, pretty routine. We live in a rural suburb of Albuquerque and they are plentiful...they sneak in through the garage. We have a cat, but she's too frackin' lazy to chase them down so we always have traps set up.