Of mice & men

[beard5]

Or, Rodents:1, Primate:0

So, I'm stitching along, in my studio (as I do) and I see some motion, out of the corner of my eye. I stop stitching and look. It's a little roly-poly mouse. I think to myself, "Self, why it's a little fieldmouse. How cute!"

Then, I think to myself,"Self, mice make nests in fabric and yarns, of which, you have great

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[hakerh]

Haha, yeah, they do that. I saved a mouse last night from the cats, who immediately dove into the can of cold liquid beaver grease we'd been rendering, then jumped out and ran off, dripping grease everywhere. Some gratitude!

[brickhousewench]

Mice cubes! You used to be able to get them at Wal-Mart, although I had to order my last batch from Amazon. Cheap, humane, and they work.

http://www.amazon.com/Mice-Cube-Humane-Mouse-Trap/dp/B000WB11ZK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1304628045&sr=8-3

[lysystrata]

Tomcat brand traps. Effective, fast, and you don't have to touch the ex-vermin once they've met their maker. Remember, every time you see a plump little rolypoly Jerry, it's actually peeing in your fabric and chewing your embroidery floss. Rodents, yuck!

[aishabintjamil]

So that's where the mice who were nesting in our office moved. Seriously, we did have a mouse problem in the brand new office building over the winter. They also like to nest in paper. The Officer Manager was not amused to find one had taken up residence in his file drawer, amid a heap of now-shredded correspondence.... Traps were procured. The successful ones were baited with peanut butter. Cheese is apparently a second rate lure.

I came home on Monday to find the bookshelf in our kitchen surrounded by 3 cats, all trying to figure out how to get between it and the wall, where there was a mouse lurking. Cats are rather over-rated as mouse deterrents - they had apparently caught it earlier, and dropped it.

[hakerh]

Our cats have such a high catch-and-release rate, we joke that they're stocking the house.

[elmsley_rose]

That is one VERY cheeky mouse!

I discovered little moths in my fabric stash, to my horror. I've bought some cedarwood lavendar and naptholene balls - I hope they bring about the little chewers' demise.