For the last year, I've been battling with this little furry guy for looooong time. He's been living comfortably in my attic. I could always hear him digging and scratching up there which was right above my office. The noise was irritating at times but I got used to it cause I figured he wasn't really bothering anything and I didn't have anything up in the attic that he could ruin, so I let him be. Just 2 months ago, he figured out how to get into our house. My wife must have left a Rieces Peanutbutter Cup in one of her purses in our spare bedroom which is where the hatch door to the attic is. One day I went in the room to get something out of the attic and I see little pieces of a Rieces wrapper everywhere. :irked: I KNEW the little varmit was in the house! I didn't know where he was and I was worried that my wife would have a run-in with the mouse and freak out (I was thinking 'serves her right for leaving chocolate in her purse burried in the spare room'). I'm too nice of a guy so, it was my goal to catch this furry critter. This all became more important because my Wife's sister is coming to town next week with her 1 year old daughter. So, I can't have a furry varmit critter loose while my niece plays on the floor. Anyways... so a couple of weeks ago... I spotted the mouse in the kitchen! Hey, smart critter... knows where the food is. Now that I knew where this varmit's new headquarters was.. I could build "The Traps". :lol: So, I set them in place but for a while nothing seem to be working... Everytime I walked into the kitchen, I see the varmit race across the floor! Sometimes I could've sworn the mouse was flippin me off!! :lol: Hey, Bronx mice are tough little critters! LOL. So, low and behold.... this morning I hear all this commotion underneath the microwave cart in the kitchen... I look under and THERE IT WAS stuck in the trap trying to get the peanutbutter!! WooooooHooooooo!!! I WIN! 1 to 0!!! http://websmileys.bei.t-online.de/div271.gif

Anyways... just wanted to share the story with you and here's a couple of pics of the furry critter varmit!!

Here's a close-up shot!

I'm not even going to start on how very, very distrubing this is Taz... I'll let Pagan do it. But congrats on your hard fought victory :) But the pictures are way too much!!!

As for Bronx mice flipping you off... yes, they do that. I had one in my house after we remodeled the bathroom. He was a ghost mouse, no one saw him except for me. My mom thought I was losing it. :laugh:

LOL Um, congratz! And thank you for those wonderful victory shots. :lol:

Nice shots! :lol: Congratz.

*shudder*
I'm not even going to look at the pictures. Glad you got rid of that mouse. I know how you feel, Taz when it comes to varmits. I grew up in the country and my family had our share of them.

Originally posted by Tydestra
I'm not even going to start on how very, very distrubing this is Taz... I'll let Pagan do it. But congrats on your hard fought victory :) But the pictures are way too much!!!


Disturbing? Listen, when you have no job... and your sitting around the house with a furry varmit pissing you off, you let me know if it's disturbing or not. ;)

You don't like the pics? Come on! :p

Pagan already knows I'm not well.... it was a prerequisite for joining the band..... ask him. :lol: ;)

Well at least it was a cute little fuzzy varmint. I've been tormented by a possum before and that wasn't a pretty situation.
Anyhow, congratulations on the hard fought victory over your nemesis!:D

Congratulations on your victory, Taz! :lol: Hopefully your house will stay "rodent free". ;)

Does this remind anyone of the "Married With Children" episode when Al was at war with the mouse in the basement?

Bro....we REALLY need to get you another job....we're losing you.....come back to us bro....:lol:

Originally posted by Pagan
Does this remind anyone of the "Married With Children" episode when Al was at war with the mouse in the basement?

Or how about the movie 'Mouse Hunt' with Nathan Lane! LMAO!! :lol:

Originally posted by Pagan
Bro....we REALLY need to get you another job....we're losing you.....come back to us bro....:lol:

Yeah... well, I think I've been lost since long before this.... don't worry, I'm harmless! LOL :lol:

:lol: A Rat!! They are ALL rats!! You can call them mice, gerbils, hamsters, whatever! RATS!!! :yikes:

Congrats! It was kinda cute, tho'.....for a rat.

Look at it's sad little black eyes..all it wanted was food for it's family. Mommy won't be home tonight kids..the big bad drummer(for a really cool rock band :thumb: ) has took her life from us. :cry:


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Hey, a rat is a rat! You should have called or PMd me Taz, Went to a special school in the Navy to learn all the tricks of pest control! I could have had him in your trap within the first week of your problem! Congrats anyhow!

Congrats on your victory, Taz.

Those pics weren't disturbing at all.......they would've been if they were pics of the mouse in the trap as he was reaching for the peanut butter with his last gasp of air! :barf: :lol:

Eeeeeewwwww! I'm glad you caught the mouse before your wife saw it. *shudders* Taz.....a hero. LOL

LOL... I grew up in a forested area. Mice would spend their winters in the warmth of my house on occasion. I would trap them in a certain way. If I spotted one... which they usually would scurry and hide under furniture... I would grab a bath towel, stand by the piece of furniture with the towel hiding my feet... they can recognise your feet, but they tend to follow the 'out of sight, not there' thought pattern. I would wait until they made their break for it and throw the towel over them and trap them. I would then release the mouse outside. Of course, I guess it took them all of 20 seconds to get back into the house. Oh well.

Gluetraps rock, eh Taz? :D I once had a house near a field and caught over 30 mice in one winter. Never took any pictures of them though...musta slipped my mind :rolleyes:

Funny story: during that winter, the wife & I could hear the mice playing on top of our bedroom ceiling. Now the ceiling was sorta vaulted, flat in the middle and then slants down towards the walls. We could hear the mice playing up there, sliding down the slanted part and landing next to the wall! :lol: That when I decided to take action.

Now your next task is rounding up all the traps. You think a mouse is trouble for a 1 yr old, a glue trap is waaaaaay too enticing for a curious toddler. In case of emergency, use veggie oil to release the glue. Not that I've ever had to do that...;)

I am sooooo afraid of mice! I'm not even lookn' at that picture. I'm an animal lover but mice get to me sooooo bad! I'm totally serious. So, I mean it when I say
Congrats Taz!
I'm glad ya got the little bugger!:D

:lol: that's a funny story Buc!

I know what you mean about cleaning up. I have a week to do it. Plus, my wife is buying one of those gates for the doors so our little niece wont get into the kitchen. ;)

Veggie oil huh? Hmmm... you sure you weren't watching too much of that movie 'American Pie 2'? :laugh: j/k ;)

I hope for you that you didn't have killed a relative of Danger Mouse... :lol:

:lol: You may have a carrer in photography yet Taz :)

get the peanutbutter!! WooooooHooooooo!!! I WIN! 1 to 0!!!

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No coment !!!!!!! :lol:

I know how disturbing a rat can be. But if you got that close to take the picture why couldn't you just grabbed it and taken it outside. So what if it is full of diseases and it might have bitten you... you could have sparred him his life :rolleyes:

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Who am I kidding.. :hammer: I am glad you killed the bastard.. now do you have a picture of it dead :lol:


Way to go !!!!!!

Personally, I would have gotten a humane trap and released it outside. Then again....I have that silly little "Harm None" thing to follow. ;)

Ok, is anyone thinking of the Shining here?????? :lol:

Well done man! Now your next target should be a Phin!!!!!!!

I bet that little thing had many babies :eek:
and they will hunt you down for killing their mommy!!! So be scared be very scared :eek:

An army of little mice in helmets, guns over their shoulders.....they're advancing towards you, bud.....:yikes:

Originally posted by Pagan
Personally, I would have gotten a humane trap and released it outside.

Me too Pagan, probably because I actually own two pet mice.
I've had a little talk to them about all this and I've found out that they are close personal friends of Mighty Mouse!
I'd watch your back if I was you Taz - he's going to fly in one day and club you with an ACME wooden mallet :hammer: then twist you into a giant knot and swing you around a bit! :laugh: ;)

Yea, yea... I know. I'd get a humane trap but #1- nobody sells them in the Bronx, that I know. #2 If I released it outside... who's to say that the varmit would come back to my house!

... So, what's done is done.


Retro, I guess I'm gonna have to take my chances now Mate!

Yeah... I hate to kill things too... well, maybe that just extends to all things furry. Anyway, scroll up to my reply... like I said, the whole cacth and release deal just continues the problem. Though when I was six, it was fun.

The problem with catch & release in the case of mice is the boomerang effect. Especially in winter, as darkmatter elluded to earlier, they make a beeline for your crib all over again. Also, if you release a common mouse far enough from human habitation, he may well starve to death if the predators let him live long enough. Either way, the mouse is toast. :devil: :rolleyes:

Originally posted by TopCat
Look at it's sad little black eyes..all it wanted was food for it's family. Mommy won't be home tonight kids..the big bad drummer(for a really cool rock band :thumb: ) has took her life from us. :cry:


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Yes TC , 1/3 of Europe said the same thing as you in the Middle Ages about rodents and look what they got in return:) ... I just used the poison pellet when i had my unwanted visitor and he was gone in two days

Originally posted by Caligula



Yes TC , 1/3 of Europe said the same thing as you in the Middle Ages about rodents and look what they got in return:) ... I just used the poison pellet when i had my unwanted visitor and he was gone in two days

Mice are not rodents they are cute cuddly..ok they are nasty rodents. Good point there Cal. :p

My cat loves to eat mice and especially like the one Taz had living quietly, not bothering anyone....stealing measly amounts of food to feed the childern since daddy mouse got hurt in the war. :lol:

I got the best mouse trap..a 20 pound Main Coon cat that eats them all up....except that one body part that I always seem to step on. :irked: :D

Uh oh, Taz...seems that the mice are seeking for revenge... :D

LMAO! Wave, that's priceless. :laugh:

LMAO!! Uh Oh!! I better hide! :laugh:

Thanks Wave! ;)

..... Well, here's an update.... I must of caught the mother cause I found baby mice! :irked: Now I gotta find out how many of them are running around.

Here is the deal, penut butter, and bacon are EXTREMELY attractive to rats, mice and most other creatures like them, use THAT to bait them, and if you can catch and release (not my preference, but still okay) you can, or use those items to lure them to a trap.

And, you can always release them in the nearest park, field, (or river LOL!).

Thanks Ron! :thumb:

I've got the peanut butter out... so far I've caught 4 varmits!

I knew there would be baby mice.. there always is.. I bet you have 40 running around in your place :lol: You better buy more food for them. :o

Originally posted by Pagan
Personally, I would have gotten a humane trap and released it outside. Then again....I have that silly little "Harm None" thing to follow. ;)

Ditto, me too... except when it comes to roaches. That rule doesn't exist for them. If I ever needed any clear proof that the devil is alive and kicking and planning in the destruction of the world...its in the roaches, the roaches are his minons. Those bastards just don't know how to f*cking die!!! And they are everywhere!!!!!

Originally posted by wavemaster
Uh oh, Taz...seems that the mice are seeking for revenge... :D


Hey Wave!! this is what they look like when they see me coming for them! LOL!! :p

Originally posted by Taz



Hey Wave!! this is what they look like when they see me coming for them! LOL!! :p

:lol: ...I bet that they are now planning evasive actions, since you are on a killing spree...

Well, I saw ANOTHER one last night! :irked:


Does anybody know how many mice I should expect?

Maybe there's a ton of them but now, only the smart ones are hiding behind the scene. :rolleyes:

Go buy the pellets, You won't have any after they eat them, and they don't die in your house. From what I was told, they eat the pellets, the pellets make them real thirsty, they run outside to drink, and the drinking makes their liver bleed and they die outside. Check with someone, but that was I was told and it did work

Why don't you get a cat?
Let him take care of them all!

Cats are the answer bro....I have five as you know, and I have the woods behind my place. No mice even seen here!

Poor little mousies *pouts* Taz, you're a big meanie! I'm kicking your butt whenever I get the money to come down and see Livesay!

I suggest the cat thing though. Not only you get rid of the mice, but you don't even have to see them die! And, you get a cuddly friend :)

I would get a cat... and I love cats but Mia & I are very allergic to them. :(

We'd both be puffy, red & itchy in 6 hours. :rolleyes:

You're allergic to kitties??? Oh you poor thing. How can you hang around Pagan if he has 5? You must be allergic to him too :p

Yes Amy... it's a miracle in itself! :goofy: That's why I can only be around him for a short period of time! :lol: :p

j/k Dude! ;)

Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!! :lol:

How about a Rex cat? They don't have fur so you can't be allergic to them

Originally posted by Pagan
Cats are the answer bro....I have five as you know, and I have the woods behind my place. No mice even seen here!

:laugh: 5 cats?!?! Dude, that is so Witchy... I just had to say it!

I had my friend crash at my place and he's like: "Keep your cat away from me..." and I was telling him that I don't have a cat, let alone like them and he was like: "You don't like cats? You dog heathen you!" :lol: