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These stories are so funny. I gotta go with setsuna, though – after years of dealing with the darn mice in our old farmhouse, I have no compassion for them.
😆 😆 @ all of the stories! When I lived with my parents, the field mice would come in every winter. They were so bold, they would steal the cats’ dry food out of their dish! The food was in the laundry room, which also had a toilet in it. They weren’t shy and didn’t care if it was in use. Talk about scaring the crap out of somebody. lol Some did get caught though, if the cats woke up for 5 minutes. Max would drop her catch in a margarine cup and I would let them go outside. Bear, on the other hand, wouldn’t give up his catch for love or money.
We had mice at our old house. How did I know you may be asking….Well, because our golden retriever would catch them. Yes, our old, wouldn’t move if the house was on fire, dog. She would be SO proud of herself too!! Prance around with the tail hanging out her mouth 😀 . They would always be dead and soaking wet from being licked(probably to death), she never bit one….
Our cats never hurt one mouse.
This one other time, we were getting a new stove. My hubby wanted to pull out the old one and clean under it so when the delivery guys came they didn’t think we were slobs. I didnt want too, everyone has dust and hair under thier stoves, it’s normal right? Thank GOD I listened. There was a dead mouse under it!! I would have been so embarrassed if a stranger had seen it! The mice were coming in under a small hole under the stove it turns out. There was also a green crayon under there and little pieces of green crayon mouse poo too 😆
I’m glad you didn’t listen to the guys at work, ski! Personally I think mice are really cute but I’ve been biased since a very young age. When I was a kid Dad brought home two mice somebody at his office gave him for us girls – Pete and Re-Pete. And Re-Pete did! We ended up with a bunch of mice and learned how to sex them in self-defense! My sisters (I have 3) were rotten little kids. The few times my parents actually left us with a sitter we would walk past the cage and hit the top so it was ajar. The cage was on a stand behind the most comfortable chair in the TV room so invariably the poor girl would be sitting there and a mouse would climb down over her shoulder! 😆 👿 We went through a whole family of kids until we got to the one who liked mice so she became our permanent baby sitter. I eventually graduated to having pet rats which make much better pets!
Mice aren’t too bothersome, so long as they’re not living in our pantry, but holy cow, the rats in the barn are driving me nuts! The walls are hollow (not my design, believe me) and the bottom boards are getting pretty rotten, so the rats have had no trouble at all digging and gnawing tunnels into the barn everywhere. The floor is dirt–no help there–and in the winter the ground gets soft enough for the rats to just blast through it. At night the little buggers come out and forage and fight everywhere; all of the chickens are freaked out. I wouldn’t mind if it were just one or two or three rats, but we have something on the order of twenty at least. Hate it! 😡 Even hanging the feeders up high at night doesn’t discourage them–they’re still finding enough food somehow. For a while there they were even stealing eggs out of the nest boxes.
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