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The Rat Saga Continues...

Okay, since my last post, I slayed the giant rat known to me as "Ralph".  Since then I haven't seen or heard any more rats.  Instead I hear and see the pitter patter of small mouse feet!  I SEE them!  Those little guys are ballsy!  I was watching tv one day and I look up to see two of them playing tag around my hall.  I get up and walk towards them, once they realize that they have been spotted they scramble!  And I mean SCRAMBLE!  It was the funniest thing to watch!  Almost surreal.  One of them ran to my lower cupboard that was cracked open and kept leaping towards it.  The only problem was the little guy kept missing the opening, instead he kept smacking himself again the door.  REPEATEDLY!!!!!  It was so funny to watch, seriously surreal!  Then on the last head bang, instead of jumping, he slowly walked through the cracked opening.  It's seemed like it was in slow-mo.  FUNNY SHIT!  There was nothing I could do at the time.  I had nothing to catch him with, I couldn't throw a pot on him because the pots were in the place he kept banging against.  All I could do was watch in amazement. 

After that incident I hadn't heard or seen any more mice.  That is until recently.  I figured out that they really like my coat closet, it's like their above ground secret passage, so I kept putting sticky traps there.  It got to a point where I didn't have to put any bait on it, they just kept walking on it and getting stuck on their way to wherever!  Well, since Ralph, I have caught SIX more mice!!!!!!   SIX!!!!!  I caught THREE in one sitting!  It was insane!  I had two traps set out in the closet, and when I came home, I heard them "chirping", then I bagged them up, put another trap in their place and then I went out to send them off to their trashcan eden. When I came back in, I heard more chirping and thought I was going crazy, then I realized, no, I just caught another mouse!!  Then I had to replace that sticky trap.  I'm tired of buying sticky traps.  Although, it is a lot easier to put them in a bag now, but I still feel guilty, they are getting smaller and smaller, and almost cute if it weren't for the smell.  Mice STINK!  It's a horribly dirty smell.  I can tell when I've caught one because the stench is strong next to the coat closet.  Yucky yucky smell! 

Well, I'm sitting here now at 2:40am, blogging about my mouse problem because I'm at my wits end!!!!  Tonight was just over the top!  I went to use the bathroom, THANK GOD I LOOKED DOWN FIRST because there was a small WET mouse trying to fight his way out of the TOILET!  HOW THE FUCK DID HE GET THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!  Now I have to constantly look down hoping that a mouse won't crall up!  I mean seriously!  I'm at my wits end!  IN THE TOILET?????   Does that happen to people?  Am I the only one with toilet mice?  This is too much!  Do I call an exterminator?  Is this something I take up with my landlord?  The house is infested with mice!!!!!  And what exactly can an exterminator do?  Put more traps than me?  Really!  What can anyone do?  They'll find a way in.  My boss just told me that he was living in an apartment in Washington D.C. on the 8th floor and had mice!  That he didn't buy!  What can anyone do???   I can't seal off my only toilet!  and yes, I did flush him back down, he did a last minute spring out of the toilet but my cat like reflexes beat him to it and he banged his head on the toilet cover.  and no, I still haven't peed yet.  I'll just wait til the morning and pee at the office where it's safe.  man.  this blows.  I don't know what to do anymore.  Anyone got any clues? 

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  • eVL _..

    Surrealously?!

    4 years ago
  • "Hi, Bob" Movie

    And who do we thank for teaching you to look down before you sit on the toilet?

    1) buy a trap
    2) put tough chewy meat that the rodent with have to yank off.

    3) dispose of rodent
    4) sushi!!

    4 years ago
  • nafets

    Another friend of mine doesn't cook; one day she's freaked by finding mice in her kitchen, they appear to be hiding around the cooker. Oh no that's not it... she opens the oven door to find a whole family of mice camping out in there! Cue exterminator.


    You can call an exterminator (or your landlord can) but they're just going to leave poison traps around the place and i take it you don't actually want to see/have dead mice. Plus innocent animals can eat the poison, or the mice eat the poison and the rotting corpses are left in places you can't reach and clear them out.
    Yuch, smelly!

    I'll offer you a cat, the mice'll learn theres a cat about and they'll piss off next door :-) But you have to promise to feed him. The cat that is. He'll also love the entertainment, as will you.

    4 years ago
  • Laleh R

    You have a landlord? i thought you bought the place. if you do have one, it's their problem. should say something in the lease. OR call an exterminator and keep really good track of the papers and receipts from the exterminator (and they'll seal off where the mice are coming from) and have the landlord reimburse you. i've done that with roaches.
    :(

    4 years ago
  • Ben Holley

    All I could picture was a bunch of mice doing a Busby Berkely aquatic number in your toilet. You should leave it open and see it they could. Be sure to shoot some video and post it.

    4 years ago
  • His Divine Holiness

    Wow, I think its time to call a professional. Sounds like you definitely have an opening somewhere, you could ask your landlord to check. Also did you get any new neighbors or is there a vacant lot or abandoned house next to you? I know its hot here in South Texas so they are looking to mooch off of your A/C. Good luck, but definitely get an exterminator, they can set traps in places you never thought and also seal off any entrances that you didn't know you had. All i have is a Pharoah Ant problem, i don't envy your situation.


    --His Holiness

    4 years ago

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