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Ok, so they're only cute if named Mickey or Minnie
....mice that is. I like cute little mice dressed in cute clothes that are about 5 feet tall but the little tiny ones that creep into my house are another story. Every few years a mouse gets in my house and it's not the type that I buy at the Disney store. They usually come in under my kitchen sink and leave their calling card but this brave @#>& mouse explored my breakfast bar cabinets including the drawers. This is where I store the silverware, serving and mixing utensils, measuring cups, bowls, mixer, blender.
I found the calling cards on Monday morning and pulled everything out to either wash by hand or run thru the dishwasher. I left everything out of the cabinet and drawers so we could set a trap. Monday night came and went : mouse in trap but more calling cards. The same on Tuesday. Last night? Caught him red handed. Well actually I don't know what color his hands were. I couldn't look in the drawer. Made DH look and dispose. So today I get to wash out cabinets and put everything away. Too much fun!
Got any mice stories to share?
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When I was about DJ's age (around 5) we lived in one of the farmhand trailers on my grandfather's farm with my mom and step-dad. Every once in a while, these teeny tiny field mice would get into the trailer. There was just enough space under all the doors for them to roam freely until caught.
My mom (about 7 months pregnant) was in the bathroom once and screamed bloody murder that there was a mouse running around on the floor. Mom had locked the door from the inside and she was not stepping onto the floor to get to the door to unlock it. So my stepdad had to pop the lock to get in to rescue her. He opened the door and stepped on the mouse (eww!), but it was effective. There stood my mom, on her tippy toes on the toilet lid, towel around her head like a turban, naked , clutching the curling iron and the hairdryer like weapons to ward off this mouse that couldn't have weighed more than an ounce.
We get field mice in the house all the time (we live in a field after all). We had a cat that was very old (died when he as 21) who was almost completely blind and deaf. One cold winters night DH goes into the kitchen to get a snack. The cat goes with him. I hear banging and cursing all of a sudden. I walk into the kitchen - there is the cat calmly eating from his dish, while behind him DH is trying to kill a mouse with a cast iron fry pan as it runs back and forth across the kitchen trying to find an escape route!
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We have rented our house for about six years now and twice (2 TIMES!!) we have had a RAT come in. Huge ones! Yuk. They came in under the front door because there was about a two inch gap. Tried to get Landlords to replace it to no avail (nothing wrong with the door!) so we went out and bought a new front door. My sweet baby Belle (German Sheppard) took care of one and my dear, dear husband took care of the other. Replacing the door helped, haven't had a problem in two years but geez! My kitty Indiana Jones seems to take care of any mice - I get presents on the front door every once in a while!
My mothers claims that when I was little, I saw my Grammy smack a mouse with a broom. I guess it was pregnant b/c as she smacked it babies started popping out and that is where my fear of mice came from. I don't remember it at all
I was a cheese monger my senior year in high school. I was allowed to wear my halloween costume to work, since the whole mall dressed up and it was a renaissance number. I was wearing ballet slippers underneath. We knew we had a couple of "friends" running around, but had been unsuccessful in catching them. I was helping a customer when I stepped back and realized that something was amiss under my foot. I calmly scooted the smooshed beast (cleverly concealed by my long skirt) under the case and finished the transaction. I calmly walked to the back and proceeded to FREAK out at the manager. He went out and took it from there while I recovered in the office.
When I was a single mom, I had a townhouse where they had started a construction project. One night, blissfully asleep, I felt something tickle my ear. It was that dreamy, hmmmmmm, feeling until I realized it was NOT a dream. I simultaneously smacked it, jumped to standing on my bed and got my ceiling fan light on all at the same time. The little thing lay stunned on my bedroom floor, but I was equally stunned standing in the middle of my bed in the middle of the night. Sadly, he recovered before I did and escahp-ayd. I did catch him and his evil twins, too, with traps, however.
Finally, right after DH and I were married, we had a mouse. Tried and tried to catch it to no avail. I was preggers, but we didn't know it yet and I saw the mouse run out of DDs' room into my linen closet. We had him cornered! I'm screaming for DH, he comes running and the first thing out of my mouth is, "Grab the oven spray! Get it with the OVEN SPRAY!" He wound up getting it with a towel instead, but to this day, if we ever see a mouse, we smile at one another and ask where the Easy Off is...
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I like mice as long as they are pets and in cages - not the wild ones that get in your house.
My mom was bitten on her toe by at mouse while we were at WDW We were staying in an off-site condo with some friends and she got up in the middle of the night to use the potty. She didn't turn on the light in the walk-in master bathroom so as to not disturb my sleeping dad. Suddenly she felt a "nip" on her toe, and she turned on the light from where she was sitting - a mouse scurried under the linen closet door!
This was about 16 years ago (I was 8, maybe)...my dad still does not believe her. He said she dreamed it. She begs to differ
We had just gotton back from our honeymoon at Disney World in 1999 and moved into our first apartment as a married couple.... anyway I was sitting on the floor folding clothes and going through boxes of stuff you know settling into our new place I thought I had seen a shadow in the corner of the room and then it would dissappear but I thought it was the sun pecking in and out of the clouds causing a dissappearing shadow. The the shadow ran accross the room over my leg and under the sofa into the chimeny. I screamed so loud that by DH came running with his pants at is ankles ( he was in the little Mickey's room), by this time there was clothing and things all over the room and I some how got on the breckfast nook. Will I reashed for the phone and called the apartment office and I told them that I had a mouse in my apartment...... then they tell me that I am in trouble..... I was stuned how could I be in trouble..... then she tells me I am in trouble because I didn't pay a pet deposit then she laughes .... Will I was in no mood to play I wanted the thing out of my apartment after I made it very very clear I wanted the thing out of my apartment they sent maintace over to take care of it. We caught the critter that very night. When we went to pay the rent the following month the lady jokingly asked me if I was going to pay the pet deposit. Then I laughed.
I grew up on a farm. I'm pretty certain nobody wants to hear the mouse stories I have - and especially not my most memorable one. <gross, gross, grossity, gross>
When me and my DH was dating back in 2003 we were in his garage while he was working on his truck. Let me tell you he had a Ford F-350 that had a huge lift kit on it and huge tires. Well, anyways I saw a baby mouse that was about dead it got into some poison. It took about 3 seconds to get from the ground all the way ontop of the cab of the truck. He saw i was up there and asked me what I was doing because I was screaming bloody murder. I told him where it was and he laughed for hours because he had never seen anyone do something like that and move so quickly. I have to say I have gotten better about it. I no longer scream but I still don't like to see them because I fell off the toilet and into the bathtub after one ran under the bathroom door but that is the only good stories I have. FYI i am terrified of frogs also.
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I like cute little mice dressed in cute clothes that are about 5 feet tall but the little tiny ones that creep into my house are another story. Every few years a mouse gets in my house and it's not the type that I buy at the Disney store. They usually come in under my kitchen sink and leave their calling card but this brave @#>& mouse explored my breakfast bar cabinets including the drawers. This is where I store the silverware, serving and mixing utensils, measuring cups, bowls, mixer, blender. 
: mouse in trap but more calling cards. The same on Tuesday. Last night? Caught him red handed. Well actually I don't know what color his hands were. I couldn't look in the drawer. Made DH look and dispose. 
So today I get to wash out cabinets and put everything away. Too much fun!
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, clutching the curling iron and the hairdryer like weapons to ward off this mouse that couldn't have weighed more than an ounce. 
I'm not sure my mom would be happy to learn I'd shared that particular story. 
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