Beware the mouse!

Bret Chase said:

Yup....

My mouse control strategy involves D-con in the cellar, shed, and barn... and my daughter's cat in the house.. My hound tries like hell to get the mice, but never can catch one it seems.

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Do you realize your dog or cat can be poisoned themselves if they chew on a mouse/rat that's eaten some D-Con but hasn't died yet? Same with hawks and other wild predators.

gyrfalcon said:

Do you realize your dog or cat can be poisoned themselves if they chew on a mouse/rat that's eaten some D-Con but hasn't died yet? Same with hawks and other wild predators.

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relay toxicosis is extremely unlikely with warfarin based rodenticides... the dog or cat would have to be eating poisoned rodents almost exclusively for several days.

I like mice. I have a couple in my garage. I leave them some dog food every now and them, It's always gone by the morning.

We had a cat inside for a while and did it's job. Had to kick her out after she decided to make messes [emoji35]

Our mouse issue though is that they like to get into the walls... then start scratching. Kinda freaks you out hearing that for the first time at night.

Lyndenbrook Farm said:

I did feel a tad guilty about all the critter homes I destroyed today moving wood.
Some little fella had spent a lot of time making a nice little moss&feather lined chamber in a hollow in my stack.
None came in with me, though

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I felt bad after looking in the cone filter of a dust buster I left out all winter. One baby tried as hard as he could to chew through the rubber flap, but did not succeed. Yes out in the county.

PA. Woodsman said:

Be careful they don't take residence up in your car, namely the air filter-had that happen several times !

I had told the story back in April when I was splitting wood and a field mouse bolted out of the round I was splitting, and there were 4 babies in there that didn't even have their eyes open. I took them to a woman who works for a local animal rescue organization, they actually had a "foster" mouse that nursed them and they were released into the woods. I am the typical "he wouldn't hurt a fly" type guy, henceforth the "rescue"

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I had an old chevy with large air filter. One winter I found and entire litter of little ones just born on top, though I put on over 100 miles before we found the poor bisquits.

ackkk, i just found a dead one in my basement tonight. Glad i stumbled on him before he got ripe.

Six cats in the house ... any foolish mice that come into the house don't last long unless they stay hidden in the walls, attic or crawl space.

Don't like mice-or relatives- Yellow jacket Queens tend to hole up in the outdoor stacks, once in a while one makes it past my feeble eyes. Kind of fun to watch the pups runing up and down the shop with eyeballs glued to the little flying troublemakers.

KindredSpiritzz said:

ackkk, i just found a dead one in my basement tonight. Glad i stumbled on him before he got ripe.

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If it stays there long enough, it will just turn into a few bits of fluff & a few tiny hard white things.

Tried spring traps, glue traps, poison, etc.

I bought an electric chair, more of an electric maze in a lunch box. Bait it with peanut butter and it collects mice. They come in, get zapped while crawling through a maze, the thing spins and dumps them into a collection bin, which gets tossed on the compost heap for other critters to snack on.

Much easier on my psyche than those spring traps... No mess and no worry about unintentionally poisoning something else. It was around $90 but just sits quietly in the corner collecting mice. A light comes on when it has some.

No one ever has JUST ONE mouse in the house.


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Worse than mice to me is a squirrel in the attic.

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Or bats in the belfry.

1750 said:

I've talked about developing a new recipe called 'Catsagna' to try and expand that list.

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more than a billion chinese have no problem eating cats...

Our mouse population seems to be down this year, I've only gotten one so far.

firefighterjake said:

I've got a Maine coon mix . . . well two technically . . . although the other one seems to have more Manx than Maine Coon in him. The Maine Coon is huge though and while I wouldn't say he is lazy, he is very, very mellow and easy going -- my wife personally witnessed him watching two of our other cats playing with a mouse and he just sat there watching them with zero interest in chasing the mouse. He doesn't really like the heat at all though . . . typically we find him in the coldest parts of the house.

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My guy is a pure certified Maine coon from a breeder. He is larger then my four year old daughter (his head is the size if a softball, plus ten pounds of fur). He is the most mellow cat I've ever owned, he tolerates our little girl mauling him without even a flick of the tale. There isn't an aggressive bone in his body. He has killed two mice over the years, the dog has actually killed more though. With his shear size he could over power most animals, but he just won't. A true gentle giant. The little black barn cat...well...he's just plain vicious. Actually chased our dog (Giant schnauzer) howling and yipping all the way across the house the other day. Our dog is game hungry, but wants no part of this cat. He'd much rather tangle with a coon or coyote...

Ian

Thislilfishy said:

My guy is a pure certified Maine coon from a breeder. He is larger then my four year old daughter (his head is the size if a softball, plus ten pounds of fur). He is the most mellow cat I've ever owned, he tolerates our little girl mauling him without even a flick of the tale. There isn't an aggressive bone in his body. He has killed two mice over the years, the dog has actually killed more though. With his shear size he could over power most animals, but he just won't. A true gentle giant. The little black barn cat...well...he's just plain vicious. Actually chased our dog (Giant schnauzer) howling and yipping all the way across the house the other day. Our dog is game hungry, but wants no part of this cat. He'd much rather tangle with a coon or coyote...

Ian

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Ours is a mix, but he most definitely got most of his genetic make up from his father . . . as you said . . . he is huge, but a true gentle giant that tolerates everyone . . . I don't think I've ever heard him growl or hiss . . . and he rarely meows. A perfect cat for families with young children to be sure.

Mice cannot resist the wheel of misfortune.
Any mouse that goes into the garage, goes into the bucket.

Mag Craft said:

If your out away from the city mice are a way if life. .

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The mice in the city are much bigger. We call them RATS.

I had a few of them critters build a nest in the frame of my corvett that i parked on the lawn. Chewed the heck out of the wiring.

In our barn, our two cats nicknamed the "wrecking crew" keep it clear of anything that moves. In the house I've gad very good success setting the traps with the yellow pads in sets of two or three all in a row against the wall, no bait needed. Seems mice like to travel along walls and may try to jump over one, but will hit the second or third trap.

Never actually found one in the stacks but have ruined many a mouse house. We've brought yellow jackets in though-suck them up with the dust buster and let them back out, outside.

I *hate* mice. Field mice. The Cottage was vacant for a few years when we bought it. It's been an ongoing battle to discover where they are getting in. The dog just caught the last one we've been at war with for the last month. We caught plenty with snap and glue traps, this one avoided the glue traps like it KNEW what they were. Somehow he/she made it out into the house, and the dog whacked it with her paw. It made it under the dining room table where she kept it cornered until we came in. DH tossed a glue trap onto it upside down and I took it out and dispatched it. I'm ok with the spiders and the mice are welcome to nest in the stacks, but the house, shed and garage as well as cars are off limits and I will use deadly means to keep it that way!!