NEVER throw a mouse into a commode!!!!

[TomSeller]

I could hear a mouse in the pantry cabinet in the middle of the night. Grabbed two oven mits because they were close. I am standing in my tighty whiteys with oven mits on. My wife is behind me with the broom. I open the cabinet and the mouse jumps out and lands right in the crotch area, I start dancing and cant grab a thing with oven mits

I laughed so hard my eyes were watering. This post could lead to multiple assumptions. Welcome to TBN!

 

[k0ua]

Speaking of Mouse electrocutions, many years and another career ago, I was running service calls on 2 way radio equipment. One customer had complained of multiple problems with their Motorola base station unit for a few days but now would not transmit at all. After some diagnostics I found an electrocuted and somewhat dried out mouse in the High voltage cage of this tube type transmitter. He had gotten in contact with the Plate voltage which was near 800 volts DC. I removed it and put it in a sandwich bag, took it to the customer and showed it to them and stated, "I found your problem, your engineer is dead". It got a laugh out of them. After replacing a blown fuse and some clean up and tweaked the tuning, they were back on the air.:thumbsup:

 

[dmccarty]

Well I have been lurking for a while. Read this post and had to respond. I could hear a mouse in the pantry cabinet in the middle of the night.
Grabbed two oven mits because they were close. I am standing in my tighty whiteys with oven mits on. My wife is behind me with the broom.
I open the cabinet and the mouse jumps out and lands right in the crotch area, I start dancing and cant grab a thing with oven mits. Mouse drops to
the floor and wife swings broom and hits me in the shin. Mouse runs under the dishwasher. I may have even screamed a little.

As long as you did not tinkle, a little scream is ok. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

You need to keep that wife. I think if my wife had an opportunity to swing a broom at me, it would not have hit my shin. :shocked:

Welcome to TBN,
Dan

 

[MossRoad]

A co-worker of mine went home one day and her house smelled like smoke. Upon investigation, she and her husband found a broom that was sitting in the corner of the basement burnt to the floor! They started poking around and found a burned mouse carcass under it. They looked around further and found a burned mouse next under their water heater! Best they can figure, the mouse nest caught on fire, the burning mouse made a dash for the corner, went under the broom, set it on fire and died.

 

[k0ua]

A co-worker of mine went home one day and her house smelled like smoke. Upon investigation, she and her husband found a broom that was sitting in the corner of the basement burnt to the floor! They started poking around and found a burned mouse carcass under it. They looked around further and found a burned mouse next under their water heater! Best they can figure, the mouse nest caught on fire, the burning mouse made a dash for the corner, went under the broom, set it on fire and died.

A video of that would have been worth some money!

 

[MossRoad]

Yeah, unfortunately, it was before the era of video, motion cameras, iPhones, game cams, etc... :laughing:

I once had a dog that could sneeze on command. I mean, wind up, blow slobber on the floor, shake his head, sneeze! But it was before easy video recording and he was too old by the time Letterman started doing the stupid pet tricks segment. Its one of my biggest regrets in life not to have filmed that. I miss that dog!

 

[PILOON]

We were about to install an old pot belly wood stove but wife decided to vacuum out the ash bin before doing so.
She slid out the ash drawer and lo and behold there was a nice mouse nest with newborns in it.
(FYI newborn mice are hairless and WOW, creepy looking)
They actually look more like large maggots, kinda pinkish with big eyes.
Her scream actually came to neighbors attention and as to me I thought she had been attacked by by some wild creature.

 

[westcliffe01]

Never a truer word spoken....

As long as you did not tinkle, a little scream is ok. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

You need to keep that wife. I think if my wife had an opportunity to swing a broom at me, it would not have hit my shin. :shocked:

Welcome to TBN,
Dan

 

[Sprinklerman]

Had a renter in one of my houses call me at 11 pm screaming about a mouse in the house . Took a while to calm her down , she insisted I come over and kill it . After trying to reason with her to no avail , I said " all right let me find my shot gun and I will be right over " She said you dont need to shoot it , just step on it . I then replied , well you have feet , use yours , I am going back to bed . ( she wanted to break the lease because I wouldnt get the mouse )

 

[Taylortractornut]

Imy exwife freaked out in the fall when mice try to move in. She grew up with a lot of yard cats the kept it mouse free. We had one that was brazen every night at nine o clock he'd run along the wall behind the entertainment center. Amy bought a bunch of dollar tree mouse traps. You know the kind a mouse can walk over but won't set it off but stick a hand near it would take off a finger nail. One night after watching the trap fail I thought I'd fix him. I put a pane of glass between the wall and the entertainment center. Hoping he'd have to linger on the trap to set it off. He ran full speed into the pane and fell over dead. An old bug zapper with a hole in the screen Ind some peanut butter on the bars is fun to.

 

[arrow]

Another use of Decon. I keep a tray of it in the trunk, under the front seat and in the engine comparwtment. Much cheaper than trying to replace chewed wiring.

Harry K

Good idea Harry. Auto air filters keep getting clogged up with acorns and nesting stuff.

 

[teejk]

When you buy sticky traps, pick up a hammer. I figure a decent hammer will be good for about 5 million sticky traps.

 

[arpt209]

Best mouse trap I ever saw was a plastic 5 gallon bucket with rolled barley & molasses in the bottom, a piece of wooden snow fence slat at about a 30 degree angle up to the outside top edge from the floor. I think my dad caught something like 17 mice the first night with it. It did reduce my fun of shooting mice with a pellet gun while I was working in the garage. Now I put some bar bait like TomKat in a canning jar with about a 1" square cut in the lid. Lay the jar on its side. Mice go in & eat, wander off to never be seen again. I have them scattered around the yard next to outbuildings, lumber pile, etc. I even taped one on top of the inner fender under the hood of my pickup. I haven't had mouse problems since then.
I once took my old lion hound out for a walk on a leash. She was busy dying of cancer. We were walking across the pasture. She dropped her head & took off. I could tell she was on a track. I ran with her to the end of the track where she stopped & started eating something. I pulled her back & saw that it was pink, wiggly jelly beans. She had tracked a mouse to the nest & was eliminating the babies. Poor old Maggie died later that winter. She was a true hunter to the very end.