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SphynxKid

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I had been seeing a few signs in my house that Moses might need a little help in the mouse catching department. So last night I stopped and got a couple of traps, baited them and pulled the stove out and put a couple behind there. Fluffy was having a party in my bed at 2am, so I nicely removed everyone from my bedroom and closed the door. At 3am, I heard Moses crying at the door, which he does frequently. But this time it was a bit different. It had rhythm to it, he would cry, yowl and walk away, and start again. Finally this turned into a cry, yowl, walk away and then I'd hear something bang into the door. And all of a sudden I shot out of bed remembering the mouse trap. I open the door, and he bolts into the room and promptly drops this on my floor:

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I guess everyone needs a little help once in awhile. He was very proud of his prize! He kept walking circles around it! I disposed of it, and he spent the next hour looking for it under the dresser, as if it had run away while he wasn't looking!

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At the last place I lived we had a mouse problem. One night we caught 4 mice in 2 hours in the laundry room. I don't deal well with mice and so Curt would look after them for me. One day we came home from work and there was a paw in the trap and some drops of blood, but no mouse. He had chewed off his hand..:ThumbsDown:

We inspected every mouse to see if we ever caught Houdini, but we never found him. I had to move from that place once I started living on my own because I wont deal with the traps. Our subdivision was right next to a huge open field and there were hawks everywhere. Everyone on our street had mice issues all year long. Our neighbor even had his car infested.
 

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At the last place I lived we had a mouse problem. One night we caught 4 mice in 2 hours in the laundry room. I don't deal well with mice and so Curt would look after them for me. One day we came home from work and there was a paw in the trap and some drops of blood, but no mouse. He had chewed off his hand..:ThumbsDown:

We inspected every mouse to see if we ever caught Houdini, but we never found him. I had to move from that place once I started living on my own because I wont deal with the traps. Our subdivision was right next to a huge open field and there were hawks everywhere. Everyone on our street had mice issues all year long. Our neighbor even had his car infested.

It didnt appear to be such a problem the first year I moved in, but last year was a really wet spring, so I think they moved back in too...so might be time to call a professional! Although, this is the first time I ever set a real mouse trap! usually Moses brings them to me on his own free will. I think it is hysterical that he brought me the trap with the mouse IN it.

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:LOL:It's so nice of you to catch the mice for Moses! Now all he has to do is show you his prizes!! What was Fluffy's party about? Cleopatra's mad that she wasn't invited and had to sleep in our boring old bed. She never gets to party. :Cry: The only parties she gets at night are pity parties!:LOL:
 

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It's so nice of you to catch the mice for Moses! Now all he has to do is show you his prizes!! What was Fluffy's party about? Cleopatra's mad that she wasn't invited and had to sleep in our boring old bed. She never gets to party. :Cry:

:Furious: I haven't figured that part out! She has a new habit, of tap dancing on my head at all hours of the morning....so, I took her tap dancing shoes and banished her to the living room! Next time Cleo can come over and maybe keep her busy, outside! :Cool:

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:Furious: I haven't figured that part out! She has a new habit, of tap dancing on my head at all hours of the morning....so, I took her tap dancing shoes and banished her to the living room! Next time Cleo can come over and maybe keep her busy, outside! :Cool:

Jen

Maybe Cleo can bring her new fav toys, emperor scorpions as a party treat. They grow to over a foot long!!! :ThumbsUp::Surprise::Sweat:
 

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Hahaha!!!!

I can't kill them.... It makes me sad :( So as a kid when we'd find them I'd let them go in a field!

So glad my kitties don't find them!!! I would cry everytime! Well at least I'd make a frowny face.

It's nice to hear Moses takes pride in his work and that he's got a helping hand when he needs one ;)
 

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Hahaha!!!!

I can't kill them.... It makes me sad :( So as a kid when we'd find them I'd let them go in a field!

So glad my kitties don't find them!!! I would cry everytime! Well at least I'd make a frowny face.

It's nice to hear Moses takes pride in his work and that he's got a helping hand when he needs one ;)

I have no problems letting them go if HE brings them to me alive. We have let 5 of them go alive because he brought them to me that way! But he as been stalking the stove and my upstairs door for awhile and then, I found mouse poop next to the stove :Angry: the other day. So I decided he needed a little help. I even HELPED him by pulling the stove out, and left it that way for 3 days before setting a trap, and nothing. So...we just had to take care of the little creature before it made more little creatures in my house. His little ryhthm was SOO funny though. You could tell he was walking between the kitchen and my bedroom. And finally he must have been banging the trap up against the door. He usually cries at the door when I lock Fluffy out, and I will let him back in, and he usually will just settle in and sleep and she will run around like a maniac and ride the roomba and stuff throughout the hosue...but last night he didn't give up, and then I remembed I set the traps and there he was with his "kill".

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What a good boy. Everybody on our street has a shed in their yard and nice will hide under them (little field mice) and Orphious loves bringing us presents. But he will leave them in the back porch or front porch. (We don't have a doggy door for that reason).
He also brings us birds. He has done some nasty things. I found a mouse on the porch with its spine ripped out of its body...so gross.
 

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I have no problems letting them go if HE brings them to me alive. We have let 5 of them go alive because he brought them to me that way! But he as been stalking the stove and my upstairs door for awhile and then, I found mouse poop next to the stove :Angry: the other day. So I decided he needed a little help. I even HELPED him by pulling the stove out, and left it that way for 3 days before setting a trap, and nothing. So...we just had to take care of the little creature before it made more little creatures in my house. His little ryhthm was SOO funny though. You could tell he was walking between the kitchen and my bedroom. And finally he must have been banging the trap up against the door. He usually cries at the door when I lock Fluffy out, and I will let him back in, and he usually will just settle in and sleep and she will run around like a maniac and ride the roomba and stuff throughout the hosue...but last night he didn't give up, and then I remembed I set the traps and there he was with his "kill".

Jen

Well yes it is great that you have your own rodent control living with you I would be pretty furious if I found mouse turds on my stove YUK!!! I guess if it were between having them in my house and the remains I'd take the remains.... Well as long as they got disposed of! Funny he doesn't eat them though?

Our cats growing up would leave body parts on the front step but never a whole one!!!!!
 

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Well yes it is great that you have your own rodent control living with you I would be pretty furious if I found mouse turds on my stove YUK!!! I guess if it were between having them in my house and the remains I'd take the remains.... Well as long as they got disposed of! Funny he doesn't eat them though?

Our cats growing up would leave body parts on the front step but never a whole one!!!!!

Hey- I said NEXT to the stove! Not on the stove! What kind of mice do you think I have here?? Flying ones? If that mouse can JUMP onto my stove, I am out of here! Because that means it can jump into my bed a d that freaks me out a little!!

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LOL too cute about the catching . Wow your guy's cats are awesome hunters !
Mine so far only have caught Spiders and Flies! They eat them too..... before I could say ...."Hairynoooooooooooooo" it was gone ! lol
 

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Elvira & Olivia only stalk and kill stink bugs! I have yet to have either of them bring me a mouse. That would freak me out a little!
 

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Hey- I said NEXT to the stove! Not on the stove! What kind of mice do you think I have here?? Flying ones? If that mouse can JUMP onto my stove, I am out of here! Because that means it can jump into my bed a d that freaks me out a little!!

Jen

Oh! Whew!!!! I was a bit freaked out for you!!!!

And then again haven't you seen the movie mouse hunt? They may not fly but the will get where they can to get food crumbs!!! They will climb chords and all sorts of stuff to get up there! We had a hamster when we were a kid who escaped and was found in the top part of our stove (where the buttons are). She came to her demise by chewing a wire and my mom only found because our stove kept bleeding :(. She had to take the dang thing apart just to find her remains.... And I had a mouse friend make a house in my top dresser drawer once too!!! They don't fly but they will climb.

Moses better get with the program!!!!
 

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At least you handled it with tact. I'm the person that would have been on the bed screaming my head off. LOL!
 

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At least you handled it with tact. I'm the person that would have been on the bed screaming my head off. LOL!

Well, if by tact you mean, turning on the light and taking a picture of my hairless cat carrying around a mousetrap with an already dead mouse in it so I could share it on the Internet, why, yes I did :LOL:

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Hey- I said NEXT to the stove! Not on the stove! What kind of mice do you think I have here?? Flying ones? If that mouse can JUMP onto my stove, I am out of here! Because that means it can jump into my bed a d that freaks me out a little!!

Jen


:LOL::LOL::LOL:
Good boy Moses:ThumbsUp:
 
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