There’s A Mouse In The House….Thanks To A Strong Cold Front That Blew In Last Night…

@beermeplease The look on his face 😹😹😹😹😹

@NativePortlander1970 that's my "girl" 😻

@beermeplease my cats afriad of mice. My dog is a better hunter.

@cherokeepatti I just don't wanna use poison or sticky ones.

@FloorGenAdm When we lived on a farm one morning at breakfast my uncle said he heard a noise. Looked up at the ceiling and said it was in the attic. He walked up the stairs and saw a huge rat. Came back down and got his shotgun. He got his shotgun and went back upstairs and killed it within 5 minutes. Brought it downstairs and it was as big as the huge lab-rats that I saw at the university in the science building. About the size of a smaller possum…seriously could do damage to the wiring or even to humans it if bit someone when they were sleeping. Didn’t know how he worked his way into the house being that large.

@FloorGenAdm I don’t want to use the poison because they can wander outside and die and then kill a cat. But I have used sticky traps and will keep doing so. Caught one smaller one about 3 months ago in an insect sticky trap out in the sun room.

@Musicman The best mouser I had one time rolled a big firewood log back and forth, it was so loud I woke up and went to see what Whisker was doing. There was a mouse running back and forth in front of the stack of firewood and that cat was trying to catch it. He was a very strong cat and a great mouser. I watched him catch it. Best mouser I’ve ever had.

@Sojournersoul I hope it didn’t bring family & friends with it. A few years ago I caught 8 mice after one winter cold snap. They were not easy to catch, small black long-furred mice. Much harder to get than the larger gray ones. This last one was gray and fully adult.

@cherokeepatti Hopefully it is just one. They are hard to catch.

@cherokeepatti my partner was told peanut butter or chocolate are the best. So he uses those. What do you use?

@meggie usually peanut butter or almond butter and sometimes cheese. I once had a little storage closet in the chicken house and stored the chicken feed out there. Saw where mice were there & were eating the small bits of feed that fell over the container scoop. So I swept up every last bit. Then I got a trap and sper- fluted a single dry kernel of corn on it for bait so they couldn’t steal the bait. Caught 5 mice with one kernel of corn

@cherokeepatti this one left droppings around the toaster where we use multiseeded bread, so since we've stopped using the toaster he hasn't been around. All our food is sealed. We had builders in doing renovations, so he probably got disturbed and found his way to the kitchen.

@UnderLockDown Last one I caught was a couple summers ago. The boy was home and he came towards the kitchen to get a drink. He says “Look!” There’s a mouse on the stove. We watched it for a couple minutes, it was really bold to do that with us standing there about 12 feet away. I got a trap and it ran into the pantry. Could hear it rattling a plastic bag chewing on it. Set a couple mouse traps,it got on the dryer so put one up there and caught it within 30 minutes .