A mouse

This is bizarre, but we have a mouse in our blinds.

Our house is in northern New England, so mice often come into homes as it gets colder, more typically older homes but sometimes newer homes. It's just a fact of life. We don't get freaked out by mice, we just deal with them.

I have some windows with solid slats for blinds, meaning that they can carry some weight. This morning my wife found a mouse up there. She wanted me to feed it some cheese so I gave it some cheese (;et's not go there). It's still up there. It's very cute. HOWEVER, we have five dogs. If we take it into the house it will be a short lifespan. So, it's sitting on the blinds, very mouselike. I'm tempted to take it outside, but I think it will just work its way back in. What I think I should do is take it a few hundred yards down the road, so it has a chance to get to a dog-free house.

Any other ideas?

in my house. I actually moved out of an apartment due to them. :puke:

Your wife has more fortitude than I do, that's for sure.

:hi: Tab. How ya doing?

You have to release it several miles away from your home or it will find it's way back.

Is it a cute deer mouse or an yucky house mouse? Hehehe.



deer mouse

I would take them to my office and let them loose. Let's see the little fucker find his way back from there.

as long as no harm came to the mice. :rofl:

No, I don't like the place where I work. :P

Where's your office?

You could hear them fight little wars up there, sometimes squeaking as they died.
They were cute, though, when the cats treed them up on the window curtains.

I had one living in my walls a few houses ago. He made a little hole in my closet and I would leave him food outside it. He would run around in my room but he never gave my any problems.. Eventually, he would just walk around without giving a shit that I was in the room. Never caught him on my bed, that would have pissed me off.

Hantavirus

http://www.hantavirus.net/

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What is the host of the hantavirus?

The natural host of the hantavirus appears to be rodents, which are thus considered vectors for both HPS and HFRS. In the United States, the hantavirus is typically carried by the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus). It can also be found in other rodent hosts, such as the cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus), the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) and the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus), so other carriers may exist.

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Unless you are dealing with a PET MOUSE, born and raised in a PET SHOP, I am very sorry to say that the best policy is to TRAP, ERADICATE, and WET CLEAN THE AREA, with FULL STRENGTH BLEACH. It is most critical that no cleaning method that raises dust or aerosols be employed. The most dangerous areas will be where dead mice or feces are found. AND WEAR A VERY GOOD FILTER MASK.

Hantavirus is very rare but has a higher death rate than some strains of EBOLA.

Mice are cute, delightful little creatures who have no place living in areas of human habitation.

They even named the darn things and thought it was so cute to see them running around. That place was so over run with mice that mice poo and pee was visible everywhere..the lunchroom tables, sink, counters, work stations, even on our inspection conveyor belts. One day I went to throw something in the lunchroom garbage can and one leaped out of the can and nearly hit my face. That was the final straw for me..I pitched a fit and got the place cleaned up by taking the hantavirus information to the boss. Later he thanked me, because he'd previously tried, but had been overruled by a couple people who had named the creatures.

After that, I can't even stand seeing one.

Very smart, gentle, and friendly.

But in the wild, they ain't doing auditions for the roadshow version of "Ratatouille"

She greeted us, after her first nights stay, with babies. I remember my Mom not being happy about that.

After experiencing that job/mouse problem, any rodent just give me the creeps now.

Clean, smart, gentle, 3 year lifespan.

and the result, could be a FIRE ....I would relocate the mousie and hope you don't have mayhem in the house when the dogs find it first..the mouse WILL have to eventually try to get down & find some water...:scared:

I mean, you get that along with the chance to die drowning in your own mucus.

"Fuck me? No, fuck YOU!"