I have a mouse in the house

[Not_Giving_Up]

Three cats, yet today, I pulled a plastic bag out of the cabinet to line a trash can, and found it drenched in mouse pee, with little mouse turds all around. Nice!!

[NV Whino]

1. Well, there you are...

Cats don't do plastic bags. And here I was going to offer to send you a cat.

[Not_Giving_Up]

3. Actually, two of the three cats love the bags

I bring in the groceries, and they have a field day playing in them.

[Hatalles]

16. That makes me smile...

My cat is deathly afraid of plastic bags... the mere crinkling sound of them gets her zipping out of the area. Paper bags and newspapers, on ther other hands, she loves -- she'll tear that paper to shreds.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. i found that this stuff "FRESH CAB" works wonders. Not poison, sort of

herbal. Check it out.
http://www.pioneerheritageshoppe.com/airfreshener.htm

[Enquiringkitty]

4. My house is 150 years old and I have mice too. I have a deal with my mice

They stay out of my food and I won't put out poison. I have found that the best way to encourage mice to live somewhere else with out poison or traps is jalapeno juice...habanero is the best. Get the 5 gal. jug of peppers and pour out half of the juice in it. fill it back up with vinegar. Sit it in a sunny place to "cook" for a while, opening it every 3 days to refresh the air in it. One day you will open it and your eyes will water and burn.....it is ready. Place some in a sprat bottle and spray in corners and along the base boards. You won't have a mouse for very long. It burns their feet and eyes and if you make sure they can't get to water, they are out of there....fast. It's s good substitute for poison.

[Not_Giving_Up]

5. OK, sounds good

I'm assuming this will not be very friendly to the cats though.

[Enquiringkitty]

9. I have two cats and a dog. My grand daughter comes over all of the time.

The cats can get into the small areas but they just sniff and walk away. They all have the rest of the house to play in. Only put it in areas that kids won't be going like in your trash can, back of closets and cabinet, behind ref and stove, etc....places that mice like to hide and travel but people and pets don't really go or don't have to go. The cats learn, dog can't really get to it, and grand daughter doesn't need to be in those places....it won't have lasting effects to pets and kids if they do manage to get into it. but what is on the floor will be plenty strong for a mouse because he is so small, the effects will be big for him.

[Not_Giving_Up]

10. OK....I have to be sure

The cats are forever getting into the very cabinet where the mpuse evidence was...they like to lay on the plastic bags.

[Enquiringkitty]

12. They may be doing like my cats...wanting to play with the mice

so they lay in there and wait for them to come back but don't really get around to killing them.

[Not_Giving_Up]

14. Well, that's just unacceptable!

It's time for the kitties to get of their asses and do their jobs!:crazy:

[Quixote1818]

6. The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese!

:9

[Neoma]

7. got/get a cat?

[Not_Giving_Up]

8. I have three

You'd think they'd earn their keep!

[Enquiringkitty]

11. My cats chase them and bop them around when they do catch them but

they get away. My cats don't see them as food. I guess a good life take all incentive and motivation out of them. They will protect their food dish though.

[Not_Giving_Up]

13. I have one that is quite the huntress

She brings me dead tree roaches (those big flying cockroaches)...Don't know what the deal is with the mouse.

[hfojvt]

15. then douse than mouse and do not grouse

the cats arouse, and save the house
do not let them souse, or be a louse
get the mouse out of the house

tanj, where is the shade of Ted Geisel when you need him?