Now I hope our little guy is as cute as that and not actually a big oily rat. We found three opened bags of chips in our basement this weekend. Now I'm having flashbacks of my days in my college rental house. After a trip to Meijer, the traps and bait are in place.
Hopefully there will be a dead mouse to show you next. No, I'm not that grotesque. I don't think I'll post a picture of a dead rodent. This event leaves me wondering why these mice are so repulsive. If I just situated my food so that they can't get to it, what harm is it for them to be in my basement?
I was also a little bit amused by a story I saw on the news last night. We've seen it a hundred times, a deer is struggling in a river or lake. 50 people including firemen and cops spend hours working out a plan to save it. The deer then probably runs to the forest and is shot by a hunter, which is legal. So why do we work so hard to save that deer?!
Anyway, I'm off to bake a maple cake. The recipe is in this month's issue of Everyday Food. I have some fresh maple syrup my mom brought back from the U.P. Cheers for baked goods!
13 comments:
Gross. In the 1/2 hour since I posted, the mouse/mice already chewed into the bait bag! How have I not seen them if they are that active?
Ew, gross. I hate mice. We killed 13 or so in our old house. It was disgusting. I feel for you.
Hey, anyone interested in doing a knit along for the remaining few days in October? I'm making this dishcloth
http://www.knittingknonsense.com/pinkribboncloth.html
in that same stripey pink and white yarn I made the other dishcloth in for October as it is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Gotta finish in the next week though before Breast Cancer Awareness month is over. I just started this morning. Anyone interested?
13! That is disgusting.
I'll knit along. Should be fun and quick. I don't have pink yarn right now, but I have plenty of other colors of Sugar & Cream in my stash.
How's the ear Ang?! I would have done the drugs immediately for the pain so you are now my hero! You and anyone that has a scope without sedation! Yes it happens!
We are battling the mice too. Don't keep things they can chew through on countertops or out in the open. WE use the old fashioned traps that snap. Not a pretty sight, but effective.
I just bought my yarn to finally finish my prayer shawl, a pattern book, & a new set of needles today. I went to JT Stitchery first, (wanting to go to a downtown Rockville store first), and when I asked for Lion Brand, I was quickly told that was for a "chain store!" I'm not quite "there" yet when it comes to yarns and things, but I felt a little snubbed! Unfortunatley when I even look at a crochet pattern it all looks so greek to me to follow on my own, but I'm going to give it a try!
I'll stitch along with you. I'm wanting to try to do a washcloth to start anyway! We got quite a few from Ang!
I just caught a mouse!!! I was sitting at the computer when I heard a trap go off downstairs. The mouse is dead inside it and the trap even flipped over. I'm leaving it for Brian to do the dirty work. Yech.
I'm sorry you were snubbed by the yarn store people. People who look down on yarns like Lion Brand are called "yarn snobs." I'm only a yarn snob with sock yarn, I can't afford to be that way with all projects. I've felt that way at stores in the past too.
It's a mouse! not a rat. No way those traps could snap a rat's neck. I worked up the guts to throw him/her away myself. Now those beady eyes stare up at me from the trash can. Turns out he licked the peanut butter off the other trap too. Greedy mouse.
If it was a rat would you still kill it? Remember Holly and Domino (it seems like there were more, but I can't remember now). Luckily our mice are still outside in the garden, but Ben still wants to set up traps.
GO TIGERS!!!
I think you should get a cat. The cat will get rid of those rodents. And it will also like your bird.
Mrs. TOK and I have mouse that lives in our attic right above our bed. I can hear it, diging around. Well, from my spot, it sounds like a Wolverine (schnick!). First time I went up to take a look see, I had Mrs. TOK ready to hand me my .22 in case it was a Skunk/Cougar/Raccoon. Turns out it was just a mouse. The little monsters were climbing up the inside of my sideings corners. I filled the bottoms of the corner pieces with spray foam, and that stoped them last winter. But they are back, and the foam is still there, so I'm going to have to change tacks.
TOK
Kyle, you should get a cat and put it in your attic. The cat will scare the mice away.
Weren't you the one in college to empty the trap? I remember that I came home to it and nearly puked when I saw it. I had to put a paper plate over it so I couldn't see it. Nasty.
We have mice in my school. Hundreds of mice, if you listen to the custodians. They live above our ceiling tiles and in the media center. They shred apart books and then take the pages between the shelves to make nests where they can reproduce. Eventually they will take over the school. You'll see it on the news. One ran around my neighbor's room as her children were taking the MEAP. She stood on a chair and screamed.
What I have learned this fall about mice is that those little suckers can flatten their disgusting little rodent bodies down and get into spaces you never thought that they could. All food should be in the fridge or in sealed plastic storage bins. Remember when we saw the bat fold his eagle-sized body up and go into the grate the size of a dime? Mice are just like bats. Maybe you'll have bats, too.
Get a dog--much cooler and they chase all kinds of animals--like garbage-eating squirrels.
Yes Kim, it was me that threw the mouse away. That's the only reason I did it this time, I knew I could. And yes, you and Meredith threw the paper plate over it so you didn't have to look at him. What was more disgusting with the college mouse was he was in our kitchen. Gross.
Kit Kat is our hunter cat. She lays on the kitchen floor on the little rug watching for mice to creep out from under the oven. That's when I know when to have chuck set out the traps!
Karl is right about the cat!
They can squeeze through a vent so miniscule it's beyond imagination!
I looked at Amber's washcloth pattern and said, "no Way!" Too good for me. I just want to practice stitches and make a square! It was a beautiful washcloth though! Back to the prayer shawl instead. I've got that routine down!
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