Eek! A mouse in my house!

Okay, my story:

Getting ready to go on a 2 week vacation Down Under. Cleaning the house, discover much "evidence" of meeses. I must have disturbed their lair, because last night, one ran almost under my feet. So I peeled myself off the ceiling, and now I'm wondering what to do.

The last place I lived in, I had encounters with the much larger rodents (San Francisco is a port city, the rats are bigger than cocker spaniels here!) So since I'm a vegetarian hypocrite, I couldn't bring myself to use the glue traps against them, so I brought home a feline carnivore to take care of things. Kitty didn't do much else, except shed all over my lap and flay my epidermis clean off when she played with me, but she did eliminate my rat problem.

Unfortunately, kitty no longer lives with me. When my mom died last year, I left her with my father to distract him from his grief, and now they're so bonded, I couldn't possibly separate them. So now what???

Since I'm leaving tonight, I can't put out traps and let whatever ends up there stay in my house for a fortnight. I can't borrow a cat. So I cleaned within an inch of my life, hoping that the mouse will get hungry and leave. But what I'm really worried about is they'll turn my house into a party crib.

I don't loathe mice the way I hate rats, but they're vermin that spread disease, and I don't really need a dose of Cipro right now!

but I can totally sympathize about hating rodents that like to move in with you. I don't know what it is that makes them so disgusting to me...actually, they scare me.

can you dad come stay at your house for a few days with the cat?

But my sister has 4 cats. Maybe I can persuade her to come into the city and hang out for awhile!

Thanks for the idea

I discovered a mouse nest in a basket of clean laundry last fall that freaked me out big time; the problem is eliminated now but I completely sympathize.

Can you set traps and have a friend or relative check them while you're gone?

You sound like you could use a furry companion. (Sorry if mice don't fill that one for you; just trying to find a win-win for all involved.)

Good luck.

When you come back if you can't borrow a mouse hunting cat, set the old fashioned spring traps because they're quick and lethal. Glue traps are cruel.

Hopefully the mice will eat it and crawl off somewhere else to croak.

and get an exterminator over to your place while you're gone

I think you're out of luck. What's their food supply? Have you checked your pantry and cabinets?

"Vegetarian hypocrite" made me LOL btw.