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

I also found a mouse floating on a sponge in my dishwater one evening. He was so tiny and pitiful Knowing that he had fought for his little life to get up on his little life raft made me take pity on him. I caught him in a solo cup and took him out to the field and let him go.

If a mouse enters my house, i will be out! I am freaked out by them!

yes, and it was bold enough to sit on my counter eating a carrot staring at me, while i stared back at it holding a wooden spoon. i tried to hit it with the spoon, but it hightailed it down the refrigerator.

days later, my cat came in and brought me the mouse. he promptly ate the mouse, then threw up the mouse and the mouse was inside out. that was one of the grossest things i've ever seen. he then ate the inside out mouse again.

We catch them in ouchless traps and keep them as pets! My children like to watch them have babies and see them grow. Then eventually we take them to the river and let them loose. Lots of predators out there, so nature takes her course....

What type of trap do you use? I would love to switch to a kill-free method of extraction...

My parents had a mouse come running out of their dishwasher.

We had 2 mice get in the basement through the sump. What follows mice? Yeah, we had a snake come up through the sump after that.

Yes. We lived in an old farmhouse in the country for many years. Field mice, chipmunk, bats, birds on occasion. Country livin' y'all :grumble:

Now, we live in the city (a small one), but with a river in our backyard. So...now we get rats and feral cats tracking them :sick: Not in the house, but in our garage. Still too close for comfort. :frown:

When I lived in Ohio I lived in this one house and in the 20 some odd years I had never had a mouse, well with the exception of about 4 years ago when I saw signs of a mouse and thought okay I'll put a trap or two out and get the little sucker. Killed two that night so I put more traps out and every night I killed two or three. By the time I quit killing them I had murdered over 50 of those thangs. I was ready to move out and just let them have the damn house. It was horrible. I lived there 4 more years and never had another mouse in that house. Now I live in MS in the woods and I've killed 4. I keep a trap bated and ready every night. And I moved into the place with roaches. I was pissed. But now even those are gone. I don't take kindly to creepy crawlies in my humble abode. Everyone said you can't kill the roaches just move. Excuse me I'm broke now so I got to do something else and moving isn't an option. So I've killed all the roaches and the mice when they come to visit. It's not a shame to have them, the shame comes in keeping them.

the question should be have you ever SEEN a mouse... i think its a safe bet to say most houses have been invaded by those sneaky little *kitten* at some point or another

haha that is true.

No, lizards, palmetto bugs, and snakes though. Had fruit rats living in our attic once if that counts. XD
Yay Florida!

No, lizards, palmetto bugs, and snakes though. Had fruit rats living in our attic once if that counts. XD
Yay Florida!

Palmetto bugs :explode:

yes 3 caught last month!

we had an issue where mice were getting into the pantry and helping themselves to snacks
i must have caught 10 of them in conventional traps.. i had gotten pretty good at knowing where to place the traps

then i picked up those plug in sonic noise things at lowes...

came home and plugged one into the hallway.. immediately a mouse came bolting out of the guest bedroom.. hit the stairs going so fast, that he basically cleared them all in one shot.. and quickly went right back out the hole he had come in... (i hadnt found that hole, until i saw him racing out of it.. sealed it then)...

plugged another in the master bedroom and another mouse came scurrying out of the closet.. went into a corner.. and kept slamming itself into the wall trying to get out... that one i caught in a trash can and tossed him to the neighbors

so i put a few more of those plug ins around the house.. and have never had another issue since..
that was a few years ago

I had a few of those placed around my duplex. I had mouse traps too and kept catching them (in addition to finding scat and holes chewed through food packages). Anyway, the nest was in a place I couldn't access from my area of the duplex. Once the landlord found that and removed it, no more problems. But I had those plugins setup the whole time and the mice just seemed to ignore them.

Multiple times.... part of livin' in the country....

yes

my cat brought him in

We had a lizard in our bedroom for a while but no mice. The kiddos were catching lizards on the porch and thought it would be a good idea to bring it inside to show us.