Posted: 8/5/2006 8:27:42 AM EDT
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I'm in my office sitting here reading the paper and I start to hear a little crinkling noise. I keep some little snacks and stuff in a plastic bag behind my office door and I just knew there was something in there. I walk over and lo and behold a little mouse goes running down the wall behind some furniture only to dissapear. So what's my plan of action? Obviously, tannerite and and my AR are out of the question :(. So far I've got a baited sticky trap for him along the wall, so next time he venture out here he might get stuck. I'd like to be a little more proactive but I', not sure what I can do other than wait it out. I know where there's smoke there's gotta be fire, but I just how many of these little fuckers can there be? Update- Well I heard the little fucker again and I found him inside a small bag of potato chips behind the door. I gotta him with an NADA blue book from about 5 feet high and 3 feet over. Surprisingly effective weapon :) |
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Call your supervisor or building maintenance. Mice are health and safety hazards, not just a furry nuisance. Rodent droppings and urine are known means of viral transmission. These pesky creatures have also been known to gnaw on wiring, which results in fires. See www.massnrc.org/ipm/factsheets/RodentAdvisory.pdf for information on making your site (home or office) less attractive to rodents. |
Work office. Apparently one of the other brokers here has suspected mice activity for a while, so we're breaking out the big mouse traps before leaving today. I'm bringing my suppressed .22 pistol tomorrow just in case :) |
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+1 on the traps. Bait them with a bit of peanut butter and when you come back from the weekend you should have one dead mickey. An office cat might be fun too. I know my house cat caught a mouse two weeks ago and I watched him play with that mouse and chase it around for about an hour before he finally killed it. Of course I had the 22/45 rwady just in case he left the mouse before it was dead. 
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JIHAD ON MICKEY!  Yeah, the traps, but damn, that's just nasty after they've been cookin in your un-occupied office for a day or so... Get an empty trashcan, plastic preferred with deep sides. Leave some bait in the bottom. They will crawl in, but can't crawl out. Get some brakleen and give em a good squirt, wait a few minutes and empty the whole thing in the dumpster. |
 How inhumane!!!! Poor wiw ow flat mousie!20lb book against a 3oz mouse 
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Kinda reminds me of dropping a 500 pounder in a sniper position. "Whatever it was, its dead now!" |
I've used the sticky traps in my shed. If I don't check it often, I find a bunch fur stuck on it and no mouse. Somewhere out there are some bald-assed mice! I prefer the wire sprung trap... the kind that has a yellow simulated cheese trigger. I smear the holes with peanut butter. That usually get them as long as the slugs don't eat all the peanutbutter. 
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 Your just pissed becuase you can't skin them and make yourself a new loin clot  
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Those sticky traps are the shit! Middle of the night you wake up to something squeeking and screaming, you can't help but laugh seeing this mouse giving it all trying to get out of the goo. Pick it up, take it outside and throw it in the garbage, then you hear muffled squeeks. Microwave shuts them up in 45 seconds or less. |