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

Yes. But my cat usually kills them before I discover them.

My house, never. Every path inside is sealed.

I think we've had some in our garage but I'm ok if it stays contained over there. I do keep some dried and canned goods in there but they've never gotten into it.

Yes. The little rascal sometimes knaws on my block of cheddar, sometimes eats my left-overs, and leaves cracker crumbs scattered across the floor and countertops. It's frustrating when I need a snack and he's gotten into my food.

But I love my little mouse. He comes out of his hole in the late evening and hangs out in front of the XBOX. He's 14 years old and goes by "Joshua". :-)

Sam

Yes. We used to live in the mountains and had a crawl space. They'd come into the crawl space when it was cold, and some made it into the house. Once we started trapping them in the crawl space they stopped getting into the house. Our cat would kill them occasionally too.

Yes, and I had to catch it because my BF at the time ran out of the room like a scared child.

Yes but that was because I rescued a feeder mouse and kept it as a pet for 2 years and it was awesome He was trained and everything and he was a very spoiled little mouse who was well fed, trained, and cared for. He was very friendly, and he loved to be held and have his head rubbed. He also loved to eat rice krispy cereal. Those were his treats!

He also had a black mark on his back that looked like the superman logo It was quite cool.

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!

That would be so cool...I'm jealous!

aaaaah. not jealous. would move.

:-)

Yes.

During the winter, an entire family of mice moved in. Our landlord recommended non lethal traps which we were on board with already. The reason being that the mice will take the poison to the nest in the walls, die, and rot in your walls. We would capture them on a pretty regular basis and release them on the other side of the freeway in a field - there was no way they could find their way back to our house that way.

Yes. An apartment that I used to live in had them one winter. And it was an entire family. :ohwell: I could hear them in the walls first, it would wake me at night (which is actually pretty funny considering that the apartment was situated next to rail road tracks). I'd had enough, though, when I was awakend by the pitter patter of little mice feet running across my FACE! :noway: The management company said it was up to me to get rid of them. I bought traps and set them, killed several... Until the little f***ers got smart enough to avoid them. I'm not even kidding when I say that my stove, at one point, looked like a "whack-a-mole" game with little mice heads popping up out of the burners. I called the health department. Then I called the management company back and informed them that I'd called the health department and was going to file a complaint. After that, they got rid of the little buggers. Worst mouse experience EVER. :frown:

Yes. Which bring unwanted snakes into my garage...*shivers*

Yes. Before we moved to our current house we lived in a very old house in the country (it was actually my grandparents' house built in the '40s). We would get them pretty regularly. The absolute WORST though was one day I was in the back of the house and looked out toward the barn where my sister keeps chickens and ducks. There were RATS running in and out of a hole in the ground and the side of the barn was COVERED with them. It was one of the scariest things I have ever seen in my life because it was literally like something out of a horror movie. Thankfully those suckers preferred all the chicken feed and stayed away from the house but I literally almost DIED.

Yes, in my last townhouse where I was renting, I had two. My young cat got the first one and I got the second one. I went to take a shower one night and there was this really cute mouse sitting on top of my soap dish. :huh: Yes, he was cure but that still didn't save him!

I bought my own house not long after and so far, have not seen any. I do have three cats, one of which MAY try to catch a mouse if she saw it. The other two, well...:laugh:

My entire street ended up with mice in their homes because an empty field was torn up to build new houses, so all the little field mice that lived in the grass out there decided to move into our crawl spaces and walls.

And I know this because I worked at Lowe's at the time, and saw a bunch of my neighbors come in for pest control stuff.

Yeah