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or a mouse. i can't tell the difference from looking at their poop.

it ate my food!



which explains the strange plastic noises i heard earlier. of course i had to discover this at 3:40 am, so i could obsess over it rather than sleep. i did manage to get back to sleep, only to have a nightmare about evil rats trashing my room and ruining my clothes.

i have called someone to help clear my room of rodents. he will be here in a few hours. i hope he doesn't kill it.

Unacceptable!

Are you sure it's a rat and not a mouse? Maybe you can train him/her, name him/her "Mortimer" and walk around with a rat on your shoulder.

Big difference between rat and mouse. Rat probably would have eaten the whole package of food. Much bigger poop too.

for some odd reason every time i read this thread title i want to say out loud "somebody's poisoned the water hole"

Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "for some odd reason every time i read this thread title i want to say out loud "somebody's poisoned the water hole""

"There's a snake in my boot!"

Sarah Pi wrote: "Big difference between rat and mouse. Rat probably would have eaten the whole package of food. Much bigger poop too."

probably a mouse then. no sign of it yet. it's probably sleeping in a corner where i can't find it.

poops!

Rat poop is MUCH larger that the mouse variety.

I remember when I was a kid my mother would leave bacon fat in the skillet on the stove overnight (no, I don't know why). We had mice in the house. We knew that because they would leave little mouse tracks in the cold bacon fat.

We had a mouse that kept coming in and out of our house a couple of years ago and couldn't figure out where it disappeared to. My family spent many hours frustratingly searching for a hole or opening that the thing could be coming in and out of.

I kid you not, the silly mouse was able to jump through the doggy door. I wouldn't have believed it if I had not seen it with my own eyes the night that our beagle chased the mouse and the thing went flying right through the (heavy) flap on the doggy door.

I just turned on the light in my kitchen and a mouse ran across from one end to the other. Ack! I haven't seen one in my house since 2006.

congratulations on your new roommate. my sister wants a new pet, can you catch it for me?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS0fXQ...

janine wrote: "congratulations on your new roommate. my sister wants a new pet, can you catch it for me?"

No, I'm afraid.

last night there was another mouse in my room. it tried to eat some old bread, but didn't get through the packaging. while thinking about ways to catch the mouse i had cheese cravings, but there's no cheese in the fridge. then, after a few hours of sleep, i woke up and discovered the mouse got stuck in a plastic bag i kept to reuse. i put on my leather gloves, and when the mouse stuck his head out the plastic bag told him to get back in, went to the balcony, and dropped the mouse from the bag. i hope mice are like cats and always land on their feet. if not the neighbor's cat had a nice snack last night.

I saw a couple of minutes of a show called Animal Hoarders on Animal Planet. Some guy had his house overrun with rats. He was feeding them. The place was a sh*thole. They were crawling all over him. I had to change the channel. Is there some kind of Prozac shortage? What is going on with these people?

Problem solved, Janine, I hope. This thread made me think of this crazy guy I worked with long ago. He lived in a run-down trailer so that he could drive a Mercedes. He opened the drawer in his bathroom one night to find a 'possum looking up at him. He jumped up onto the toilet seat, then finally ran and called 911. Hilarity ensued.

The possum dialed 911?

Ha! Just imagined a Twilight Zone universe in which the 'possum is the protagonist, and the crazy guy on the toilet seat is the pest.

Run with that concept, Scout.

Possum dials 911.

Officer Badger: What's your problem?

Possum: There's a freaky-looking human pest hunched on my toilet seat.

Officer Badger: Remain calm. Whatever you do, don't mention health care, taxes, unions, or cigarettes. It seems to infuriate them.

Possum: OK, I won't mention health care, taxes, unions, or . . . Oh my God. Nooooooo.

Dial tone.

Scout wrote: "Problem solved, Janine, I hope."

they both probably came in by accident through an open window, so as long as i keep that shut or mice stop being stupid the problem is solved.

Aynge wrote: "I saw a couple of minutes of a show called Animal Hoarders on Animal Planet. Some guy had his house overrun with rats. He was feeding them. The place was a sh*thole. They were crawling all over him..."

I can't watch that show. Animal Cops is also difficult to watch sometimes.

The things people will do to get on TV ....

janine wrote: "there is a RAT IN MY BEDROOM

I often overhear women I’ve spent the night with whispering those words into their cell phone the next morning.

I imagine that's after you've untied them?

I try to explain to them, “You know, in my neighborhood it isn’t considered kinky or illegal.”

i'm off to buy a mouse trap and some cheese. do they keep someone on the lookout to see if i'll open the window and then sneak in when i'm not looking? if you're watching, mice, it's not cool!

am i evil for thinking that catching a mouse with actual cheese is funny?

but cheese is classic. maybe i'll set two, one with cheese and one with a raisin.

i feel kind of bad for them, but when i woke up today i found a mouse dropping ON MY PILLOW.

Peanut butter works well too.

Peanut butter works better than anything else on mice. We get them every so often in our garage. I hate using the kill traps, but I get outvoted.

Sometimes you need the kill ones. We have a mouse in the office and my supervisor put a doughnut hole on the sticky trap. We came in this morning and the doughnut is eaten on and there is a chunk of sticky stuff missing.

Sneaky mouse got free!

Sneaky mouse is sneaky. Love it.

A maintenance person once put a sticky trap under my desk over the weekend. I came in to find a live mouse stuck to it. Crappy day for both of us.

We caught our office mouse this morning too! Problem with it was it was stuck straddling the computer wire. I had no clue how to get it off without it getting loose.

My supervisor came in stuck another glue trap on its head and then pulled the bottom one off. Never would have thought of that.

I've lived in rural areas where field mice are just a fact of life. stepped on one once. I don't know who was more scared: me or the poor mouse. It let out a really loud squeak but I let out a really loud scream. It was 2 AM. Then there was the time I lived near a lake and had a problem with water rats. Then there was the time I was living in Richmond, VA in a mobile home and a mouse got into my stove and fried himself and my stove. If you use poison, sometimes they die in the walls and stink for months.

The one time my landlord put a sticky trap in my apartment, I stepped in it.

caught two mice yesterday. ew.

What did you catch them doing? Steeling cheese?

eating raisins in a mouse trap. being dead.

I hope you never catch me being dead.

Sad little dead mouses.

Larry wrote: "What did you catch them doing? Steeling cheese?"

Steeling it for what? A possible attack?

their eyes are the worst part.

janine wrote: "their eyes are the worst part."

You're eating them?

grrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!

i mean to look at. mouse traps don't do good things for a mouse's eyes.

Kind of like this, Janine?

exactly like that, only in black.