EEEEEEK! A mouse!

[Blue-Jay]

OK, I was just taking a leak and a mouse ran across my foot. Dammit. Dammit. I HATE mice. This is only the second one (old house) I've seen in over a year.

That's it. I declare war. The sticky glue traps are going to be placed tonight. I could understand having vermin if I were a slob, but I'm a cleaning nazi.

My poor Levi (cat) is getting too old to be an effective hunter, so I'm also going to adopt one of my cousin's farm kitties. Did I mention that I hate mice in my house?

You're going DOWN, you rotten gray greasy sonofabitch.

[PittPoliSci]

1. oh be nice!

I love mice! I used to have 8 as pets. They are very clean animals, and you should greet your new friend with a treat, not with a trap. :-)

[Blue-Jay]

5. I've had pet mice too

Even rats (the most under-rated pet ever).

This is different. This is not a pet. This is vermin.

To quote Khan: "He tasks me. He tasks me and I will have him." (yes I'm a geek)

[JewelDigger]

2. Catch and relocate....

...is a 'good' philosophy when cold weather, old houses, and ultra-clean people are forced to 'meet'. :-)

on edit: I, of course, mean relocate the mouse ;-)

[JaySherman]

3. You sound like me when I big carpenter ants in my old place.

Back in the spring. My weapons of choice were a slipper and bottle of diluted bleach. I hate those things. Now in Japan I have to fear VERY large cockroaches. My friend moved into a new apartment and there was one sitting in the middle of the floor. It had to be almost two inches long! Ugh. She made me kill it too. Luckily I haven't gotten them in my place yet.

[Cleita]

4. Those glue traps work.

Poor little mice scream they are so scared. I take them a quarter mile down the road, pull them off the traps and let them go in an empty field. We have four cats on the property and they are all pretty useless.

[prolesunited]

6. At least your mouse didn't ATTACK you!

I kid you not. In my old apartment, the one where the lady next door raised chickens and ducks for dinner, I would have mice sneak in from the cold, too. One time I was opening a drawer in the kitchen where I kept the dish towels and this mouse flew out of the drawer, lunging at me! Needless to say, I screamed awfully loud. :D

Put out traps and then got a cat, so I never saw any more. But, the rest of that winter I would actually knock on all of the drawers in the kitchen before I opened them just so any lurking mice would have a chance to run away.

[Blue-Jay]

7. No release. No quarter.

I'm adopting the meanest, leanest, nastiest farm cat tomorrow afternoon. Cousin Sue has plenty to choose from, and I'll save one from being a coyote-snack.

I demand satisfaction. This mouse has insulted my honor and my fastidiousness. (I assume that's a word.) Were a duel possible, I'd take that route. I feel as though I've been insulted.

[prolesunited]

8. Certainly glad I'm not that mouse!

So, what are you going to name the cat? Are you feeling better today?

[Blue-Jay]

9. You're no mouse, bebe.

Had you done what the mouse did, I'd just call it "foreplay". :D

Feeling slightly better than "crappy", so that's a step in the right direction. (Also, your email finally landed. I'm going to brush up on my Photoshop skills)

DEATH TO MICE!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

10. Naah get an electric trap and set them out in a field

I'm against the death penalty :D

[Skittles]

11. don't do the glue thing - unbelievably cruel

get a live trap. Mice are cute.

[ET Awful]

12. I agree glue traps are cruel as all hell.

And you can't just let the mouse go, that glue takes skin with it, I've seen it happen.

Get some humane traps and let the poor critter go a mile down the road or something.

[kmla]

13. Oddly enough, I think 'Eek-a-mouse' was also the name of

reggae artist back in the early 80's. Don't know if he is still recording or not.

But I bet you don't really care about that...

http://www.angelfire.com/ak/eekamouse/