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Start here => What's your crime? Basic Discussion => Topic started by: QuirkyCarla on August 22, 2006, 09:38:00 PM
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Holy crap; there is a mouse in my house. I am scared.
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don't be scared carla, I have one (well, probably more). they don't eatr much, and they are more scared of you than you are of them. still irritating when the cheeky bastards run across yopur fert though. :D
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I agree with dunc, they are fragile little darlings, and more scared of you than you will be them, you should see the way their little hearts pound if someone tries to corner them. I have two as pets and not nervous with mum or i but we have doormice that visit our backyard that play on the wall they get frightened very easily by most things.
Just dont let anyone kill it, if you want rid of it please try some friendly methods even though i appreciate your scared, ive found bribing them with a chocolate button helps lol im being so serious as well.
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don't be scared carla, I have one (well, probably more). they don't eatr much, and they are more scared of you than you are of them. still irritating when the cheeky bastards run across yopur fert though. :D
Yeah, it is irritating, and I'm also kind of skeeved knowing there's a rodent living in here. :-\
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I agree with dunc, they are fragile little darlings, and more scared of you than you will be them, you should see the way their little hearts pound if someone tries to corner them. I have two as pets and not nervous with mum or i but we have doormice that visit our backyard that play on the wall they get frightened very easily by most things.
Just dont let anyone kill it, if you want rid of it please try some friendly methods even though i appreciate your scared, ive found bribing them with a chocolate button helps lol im being so serious as well.
I'm not sure how giving them chocolate would help get it out the door though...it mostly hides... :-\
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Your probably not interested but these are my little babies.
Ahh so you havent seen them for long enough to lure them, they can be fly little buggers anyways, i can understand why your freaked out though, cant you get someone to lay some of those friendly traps for you? then when it catches it you can release it somewhere away from your house.
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They make a humane trap that looks kind of like a plastic school box. Â There is a spring loaded thing that closes the entrance after they pass it, but it does not hurt them at all. Â Maybe you could bait it with chocolate or peanut butter, put it in a preferred corner and wait for your little friend to go inside.
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Yeah Callaway those are the little traps im referring to, theyre great contraptions.
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Cute mice, hypnotica...
I guess I can find some humane traps if I find out where they sell them. Only thing I'm worried about is if I let it go outside, it might come back in later.
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Home Depot, maybe? I think my husband bought one there.
Don't let it out of the box near your house.
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Thanks and yeah the only way to try avoid that risk is by taking it to an area nearby which isnt too near your home or if you feel like a good walk, the best option is to take it somewhere slightly further where theres no chance of it getting back.
Is it only one mouse?, are they normally near your home?
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Home Depot, maybe? I think my husband bought one there.
Don't let it out of the box near your house.
Hmmm I will have to check and see then.
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Thanks and yeah the only way to try avoid that risk is by taking it to an area nearby which isnt too near your home or if you feel like a good walk, the best option is to take it somewhere slightly further where theres no chance of it getting back.
Is it only one mouse?, are they normally near your home?
Only one mouse that I know of, but we've had this problem before. We live near the woods.
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I remember I had a mouse but could never get it would craw up My bed at night and scratch around Me. Finally it moved on maybe up the wall or somewhere never did find the mouse ever.
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Thanks, kevv. Now I'm going to have nightmares.
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Ha ha ha. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
The mouse was a lot of fun to have around though. :laugh:
It became a game to see who could find who the mouse won since I never found Him at all in the end. ;D
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Thanks and yeah the only way to try avoid that risk is by taking it to an area nearby which isnt too near your home or if you feel like a good walk, the best option is to take it somewhere slightly further where theres no chance of it getting back.
Is it only one mouse?, are they normally near your home?
Only one mouse that I know of, but we've had this problem before. We live near the woods.
did you ever build a fort in the woods when you were a kiddo?
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Ha ha ha. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
The mouse was a lot of fun to have around though. :laugh:
It became a game to see who could find who the mouse won since I never found Him at all in the end. ;D
Can't find mine either. I saw it last night, but not today. I don't think I want to find it. :laugh:
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Thanks and yeah the only way to try avoid that risk is by taking it to an area nearby which isnt too near your home or if you feel like a good walk, the best option is to take it somewhere slightly further where theres no chance of it getting back.
Is it only one mouse?, are they normally near your home?
Only one mouse that I know of, but we've had this problem before. We live near the woods.
did you ever build a fort in the woods when you were a kiddo?
Nah. I was 12 when I moved here, so I was a little old for that. I walked in the woods a couple of times though.
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Here a old scary story one time when I was living in a trailer-house My mother made Me kill some mice I killed even a pregnant mother mouse I was a teenager at the time it was gross for sure in the end. Some mice had eaten through the bottom of the floor some idiot packed it with straw. In My bedroom I found the mother mouse she was very pregnant You should have seen the little ones, I killed besides the mother it was really gross let Me tell You All. I believe yet life live but then I did what I was toad to do. Very Gross it was in the end too.
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:o
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Oh shit. I just saw the mouse again. :(
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So You still have it huh. ;D
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Yes...wipe that grin of your face...
get over here and KILL it!
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Yeah...yeah...yeah...screw the humane traps, this fucker is going down...shouldn't have messed with me...
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It would not hurt You it more scared of You in the end. ;)
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My mom put out some of the glue traps. It's in one of them now, and I think it's dead. >:D
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Better go check it then. ;)
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I was going to try to sweep it into a plastic bag, but it moved. :-\ It's still in the trap, but it's ALIVE.
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Yeah don't mess with it I remember trying to save a mouse that was in a trap it came back a bite Me. :(
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:o :-\
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Is it dead yet?
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I don't know. I'm not gonna mess with it anymore.
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Throw an encyclopaedia at it, and it will be. There's a humane trap, um, something, for you. ;D
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Throw an encyclopaedia at it, and it will be. There's a humane trap, um, something, for you. ;D
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You make Me laugh. :laugh:
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Throw an encyclopaedia at it, and it will be. There's a humane trap, um, something, for you. ;D
is that what they means by "the pen [or, in this case, word processor] is mightier than the sword?" perhaps they should have said "weightier". or perhaps they did, and someone with dodgy hearing/not paying attention properly was the one recording it.
humane trap, say i. or do what i did, if it's an outdoors invader: find the way it was getting in and block it off.
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Throw an encyclopaedia at it, and it will be. There's a humane trap, um, something, for you. ;D
is that what they means by "the pen [or, in this case, word processor] is mightier than the sword?" perhaps they should have said "weightier". or perhaps they did, and someone with dodgy hearing/not paying attention properly was the one recording it.
It's the power of the written word. Try throwing a DVD at the little critters--they say the book is usually better than the film, and there's a reason to it.
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hahahahaha!
oh, someone's fully awake, this morning, eh? ;)
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If its stuck in the glue trap there's nowt you can do at this point other than put the fecker out of its misery, you'll never get the bugger out. One word: lumphammer.
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One word: lumphammer.
The encyclopaedia is a more... informed decision, though. :laugh:
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The encyclopedia might get bloody though a mouse body is small enough. I see the encyclopedia squashing the mouse.
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but fort building is soooo much fun.
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Ewwww, that's horrible. Did you deliberately pick the most inhumane way of getting rid of it?
(http://www.peta.org/photos/600-gluetrap-mouse.jpg)
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that is actually really upsetting. :(
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In some parts of this country, mice carry Hantavirus, which can be fatal even to otherwise healthy people. In Europe rat fleas carried Bubonic Plague which killed 90% of the people who caught it and wiped out a significant fraction of the world's population in the fourteenth century, so there is a very good evolutionary reason people fear having wild rodents in their homes.
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If its stuck in the glue trap there's nowt you can do at this point other than put the fecker out of its misery, you'll never get the bugger out. One word: lumphammer.
That is the truth. When we first moved into our house, the basement was unfinished, and rats were getting into the house through that room. My parents set up glue traps. I was curious, and peeked into one of the traps and sure enough a mouse was already stuck. I felt so horrible. It was small and trying desperately to get free. I grabbed a butterknife and used the end to try to loosen it. I didn't work and I cried. I'm happy that there are more humane traps available today.
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I agree with Lucifers last statement.
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In some parts of this country, mice carry Hantavirus, which can be fatal even to otherwise healthy people. In Europe rat fleas carried Bubonic Plague which killed 90% of the people who caught it and wiped out a significant fraction of the world's population in the fourteenth century, so there is a very good evolutionary reason people fear having wild rodents in their homes.
i thought it had something to do with the original indoor plumbing that did not have air vents, thus the plumbing backed up and the feces caused the black plague during the dark ages.
and rodents.
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Yersinia pestis is the bacterium that causes plague. If a rodent flea carries plague from biting one infected animal and it bites another rodent or another animal, including a human, this animal can be infected with plague. Rat fleas were the primary vector of plague in the Middle Ages and they still are even today. Bubonic plague victims have swollen and very tender lymph nodes, called buboes, usually in the groin, armpit or neck. However, a person who has pneumonic plague, which is plague in the lungs, can spread the disease by coughing on someone or by other close contact.
Follow this CDC link for more information:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/
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i was thinking of the cholera outbreak.
When millions in Europe died from cholera in 1832, people began to realize that poor sanitary conditions caused the disease to spread. Parisians rioted and Emperor Napoleon III had old sewers cleaned and new ones built. The government in Britain passed laws requiring houses to have some kind of flushing toilet or privy.
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/modern/toilet.html
interestingly enough, thomas crapper a British plumber, developed a type of flushing toilet in 1872. He perfected the cistern - the tank that holds the water for flushing and made flushing quieter. The American soldiers stationed in England during World War I who returned to the US used his name as a euphemism for the toilet.
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Thanks for the image, Peter. ::) No, I did not do it on purpose.
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"yersinia" is such a fabulous word...
/says "yersinia" several times, enjoying the feel of it... 8)
takes me back to my microbiological days...
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Why we have cats...
I'm surprised nobody mentioned cats. Ours do a pretty good job of keeping the mice away - this was the first mouse we've seen in our house in over a year.
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stupid ficking mouse.
looks like an appetizer.
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I'd go for the organic method myself, but both me and our little lass are allergic to the fish-stinking mouse killers. :-\
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Why we have cats...
I'm surprised nobody mentioned cats. Ours do a pretty good job of keeping the mice away - this was the first mouse we've seen in our house in over a year.
Ehehehehehehe! Kittah!!! :3
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that mouse has been PWN3D!
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My daughter would like to have a pet dog or cat, but both she and my husband have bad allergies to them.
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I've got allergies to them too. :( I think it's just the dander I'm allergic too though. My dad used to have a poodle and a bijon, and I wasn't allergic to them because their fur is different.
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I wonder if they would be allergic to a poodle?
Does anyone know what sort of training an animal has to have before it can be classified as a service animal? Because we could take a service animal with us everywhere, even into a restaurant or onto an airplane, but we would have to leave a pet at home.
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I did a little research into that, because I wanted to be able to take my Golden Retriever into nursing homes. In the US there are complicated rules. Basically unless you are blind or deaf and have a nationally-certified dog, it does not qualify as a service animal. There are other categories of training you can put a dog through, such as Therapy Dog (which is what I'm going to do one day), but the laws are such that even a certified Therapy Dog cannot go into places Guide Dogs can, such as airplanes and restaurants.
There are people who are working on changing this, but as you know, the US is slow to change anything.
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We had a big mouse problem earlier this month. It was a mother and three of her kiddies. I don't like to kill them either, so I have live traps or "Havahart" traps as they are called where I live. One of them started chewing the buttons on the tv remote control. And they were running around the tv room while we were having our supper.
Well, I caught all four of them and released them at the neaby deserted fairgrounds, where there's a chance for food and shelter. It's a site for various functions as well as the big country fair in about a month.
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We had a big mouse problem earlier this month. It was a mother and three of her kiddies. I don't like to kill them either, so I have live traps or "Havahart" traps as they are called where I live. One of them started chewing the buttons on the tv remote control. And they were running around the tv room while we were having our supper.
Well, I caught all four of them and released them at the neaby deserted fairgrounds, where there's a chance for food and shelter. It's a site for various functions as well as the big country fair in about a month.
Ozy, thats what i like to hear someone who has respect for nature and wildlife, +1 for you. 8)
Allergies pfffttt i have allergies to people but well i still force myself to mix with them from time to time. ;)
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My husband had the allergy shots, as much as he hates needles, but they did not really help.
There's no way I am putting our daughter through that. She already takes Zyrtec and Nasonex, so if we got a pet she is allergic to, she would probably get asthma. I think she has enough health problems without me consciously adding to them.
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I've got pretty bad allergies myself and also have asthma. It sucks...and I've been sick the past few days.
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I've never had allergies, but I've lived with two different people who thought they were allergic to pets, only to discover it was mold. Both times, when either removed from the moldy house or when the mold was removed from the house, the allergies disappeared immediately.
THS: toxic house syndrome
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I'm allergic to dogs, so when I played with scruffs, I'd start sneezing and my hands would get itchy and break out in exzema if I didn't wash them and apply steroid cream. Usually I used gloves or a tea towel when playing with her, and I'd change my clothes if they got too much of her smell on them.
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That's so sad. One of the small joys in life is to pet a dog or pussy.
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I've never had allergies, but I've lived with two different people who thought they were allergic to pets, only to discover it was mold. Both times, when either removed from the moldy house or when the mold was removed from the house, the allergies disappeared immediately.
THS: toxic house syndrome
My husband and daughter are both highly allergic to several different types of mold as well.
They were tested to find out the specific allergens they were allergic to. My daughter had a RAST test. She loved to eat corn, but we found out she was very allergic to it and it was the primary cause of her eczema. We thought she might be allergic to milk, but the test showed she was not.
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Hoots mon, there's a moose loose aboot this hoose!
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your so fucking stupid you dipshit. go away! ;)
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I didn't know eamonn had canadian in him.
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he'd have a little southern caliifornian in him if i could only catch him.
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Why don't you just go to Scotland so you can catch him AND Peter? ;)
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i may.
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If you go, will you take pictures? :laugh:
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I didn't know eamonn had canadian in him.
Huh, that's a famous Scottish song. Are you as dumb as mcjagger looks?
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It was a joke about the "aboot." Everyone says that's how Canadians pronounce "about".
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It was a joke about the "aboot." Everyone says that's how Canadians pronounce "about".
Acht, wee lassie, ue dinnae ken aboot such thingies as accent when ye hivnae macled all ah've mikled lik doon the water noo. Jings.
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I think I understood the first half of that...you lost me on the second half... :laugh:
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I think I understood the first half of that...you lost me on the second half... :laugh:
I got about roughly the same.
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If you go, will you take pictures? :laugh:
i will with peter, but eamonns a bit more private.
maybe i'd get him drunk first.
maybe i'd have to get him drunk first.
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he'd have a little southern caliifornian in him if i could only catch him.
pmsl! :laugh:
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If you go, will you take pictures? :laugh:
i will with peter, but eamonns a bit more private.
maybe i'd get him drunk first.
maybe i'd have to get him drunk first.
And you'd need to bring a sizeable mass of the US army with you. Too bad about them being all tied up with international affairs at the moment.
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sizable mass huh.
too bad i only have a dinky winky doo da down there. at least i won't hurt you too much.
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sizable mass huh.
too bad i only have a dinky winky doo da down there. at least i won't hurt you too much.
That small huh. ;D