That's it I'm moving..there's a MOUSE in my kitchen.

[youthere]

Okay, I'm not going to really move, but..ICK.

The dog is on the hunt now. I have a dachshund who can outmouse ANY cat.
Say your prayers mousie. My little wiener is on the job.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. I'd move.

I really did years ago when there were mice in my apartment.


:scared:

[youthere]

4. We get a couple every year around this time...

they just harvested the corn in the field around our property, plus the weather is getting colder. Two things that ALWAYS bring the varmints in. ICK ICK ICK! I hate this time of year.

[azmouse]

2. It's not me. I swear.

:hi: <:3)~~~~~


When I was a kid my parents had dogs that were good mousers.
And that was a good thing! The cat just played with 'em.

[youthere]

5. Well if it IS you..come on out and we'll have a glass of wine..

but you better not have pooped in the cupboard under my sink!

[azmouse]

10. oooooo.... wine!

I rarely drink this early but there has to be a first time for everything!!! :)

And no pooping under the sink. I broke the habit a loooong time ago. O8)

[youthere]

14. SOmetimes you just gotta' say what the hell...

about the wine..not the pooping.

[Texasgal]

3. There a rat in da kitchen

what am I gonna do..

I'm gonna kill that rat...

[youthere]

6. RATS???!!!

:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

[radfringe]

7. throw a piece of ex-lax chocolate under the fridge

the mouse will eat it and poop it's brains out.. yeah, really, no joke...RIP Mousie

[youthere]

9. that really works?

you're shitting me (no pun intended).

[radfringe]

19. yeah it does

we had a mouse problem last year when the weather started getting cold.. For a couple of weeks I would put down traps in the basement, getting 1 or 2 mice a day.

then in addition to the traps I started putting down a few pieces of ex-lax (I read about it on a website) - within a week or so, no mice in the traps, no mice skittering noises in the walls

the other thing is to cut up the hottest pepper you can find and put that around. We use this in the garden to keep the critters out - they will eat the peppers, and then move on to another food source as this area is now a "not good eating place". Peppers cause them to get sick, but not kill them.

[Patiod]

8. Wiener dog on the hunt!!!

Gotta post some pics!

We used to get mice every year around this time - tiny little field mice - but not anymore. They must be able to smell the cat.

/true weinerdog story: was trying to get people to take our picture at a dog park under the Hollywood sign. Some guy entered the park with 5 dogs, one of which was an ancient longhaired dachshund. I asked how old the dachsie was, and the guy gruffly replied "15" and kept walking. Then I asked if longhairs really were calmer than smooths, since we only ever had smooths. Now THAT got him a chatting! Even the crankiest people can't resist talking about their dachsies.

[youthere]

12. That's true! Dachsie owners are vainglorious about their wieners..

My husband works with four other wiener-owners and they have formed something of a "wiener appreciation lunch club".

They really are wonderful dogs, and every one of them has these weird little personality quirks.

[Patiod]

21. Personality quirks

We've had 3 different dachsies, and they were all completely different dogs.

-one was incredibly smart, quiet, calm and well-behaved (if you said "Oscar, go to your bed" in a conversational tone, he'd walk over and hop in his bed). But he stole food at every chance and ate like a pig - we once picked him up from boarding at a house where the owner left dogfood out all day for his other dogs, and in the week he was there, he had gained about 4 pounds -- we thought something had happened to our dog and the guy had gone out and bought a replacement!

- one was sweet and a little dim, but she was also insatiable and barked CONSTANTLY to try to get food.

- this one has NO INTEREST in food at all (to the point where it's a problem), but barks constantly at the slightest outside noise


The only thing they all had in common was a relentless need to play fetch with tennis balls.

[youthere]

23. did they all piddle when they got nervous?

that seems to be a common factor among dachsies (at least the minis-which is what we have). In fact, I think it's a breed standard.

Ours has food issues too-if it's anywhere she can reach it, it's food. Pens, crayons, kleenex, mud clods, rocks..whatever. She ate the milk cap the other day because one of the kids dropped it.
She swoops in out of nowhere the second something hits the floor, snatches it up and runs off to hide and eat it. the plus side is that my floors are ALWAYS clean, the downside is that even though she EATS anything, she can't keep most of it down, if you know what I mean.

[Patiod]

26. Only the most recent one, and only when she was a puppy

The first one stole food and was a disaster at cocktail parties, getting up on the coffee table and sampling everyone's hors d'oeuvres or getting into the dip whenever it was left unattended.

The second one, Joy, was omnivorous. We often didn't know what she had eaten until it came out the other end: rabbit earmuffs, a needle and thread, knee-his, underwear, hair bands, you name it. Came home once to find her hiding under some shelves, not wearing her collar. Took her to the vet, where she got an emetic and vomiting up an entire studded leather collar. Amazing she survived to dachsie old age.

A woman at a pet store told me they will literally eat themselves to death, and claimed she had a dachshund who got into a huge barnyard supply of dogfood and DID eat itself to death. DK if this is urban legend or not, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were true.

[youthere]

27. I believe it...

No matter how much food you put in her dish, ours will devour it, and then act like she's starving to death. When we first got her, we felt sorry for her (poor thing was starving!) so we fed her on demand..she got REAL fat REAL fast. Plus she threw up like nobodies business. Now she's rationed to 1 cup of food per day and she's healthy and gorgeous..but will still eat anything that's around if she gets a chance. Go figure.
And the collar thing..ours did something similar..she chewed the handle off her leash and ate it. We discovered it when she threw it up. Always an adventure.

[RubyDuby in GA]

30. Not all of them

but your subject line made me laugh. My little "sister" when I was growing up was a black and tan smooth named Meechin and every time someone new came by and bent down to pet her, she rolled right over and squirted them. Every time!

I've had two smooth reds, Ruby (hence Rubyduby - yep, I named myself after my dog!) and Rusty and they neither one piddled when excited.

[youthere]

40. Ours jumped into our friends car one time...

our daughter had spent the night at their house and they were bringing her home. The door opened my daughter got out, the dog jumped in. Our friend reached over to grab her to let her out and she peed all over the seats in their car which they'd only had two weeks! Yikes!

[RubyDuby in GA]

44. Yeah, that sounds about right

:)

[blogslut]

11. Winter's coming

:)

[youthere]

17. Indeed..

happens every year around this time (the mice as well as the weather) and it freaks me out every time. I'm happy to let them frolick happily about OUTDOORS but all bets are off when they try to cozy up in my house for the winter. Then I go after them with a vengeance.

[datasuspect]

13. i had a mouse

or a rat.

i fed the bastard. he stayed in the kitchen.

kind of a st. francis thing.

there are no lesser beasts among god's creatures.

[youthere]

15. I'd be happy to send this one your way.

I'm sure it would appreciate the hospitality. :hi:

[datasuspect]

16. sure, no prob

actually, those little boogers pose very little problems. you just have to encase everything in your cupboards in armor.

[youthere]

18. LOL...

It wouldn't be a big deal for me if it weren't for the chewing and the "doing of their business" amongst my foodstuffs and cookware.

[noonwitch]

20. My cat is pretty good about killing them

I haven't had any mice in my current home. In my old house, I would get them in the fall and put out D-Con. Then, a cat found me, so I took her in and she killed a couple in the fall, and I never had them again.

One of my friends had a cat who would eat the heads off the mice and leave the bodies. I'm glad mine made a lot of noise killing them, so I could get rid of the carcass immediately.

My dog is useless in that type of thing. She would just try to play with the mouse. We had a poodle that would kill them when I was a kid, though. He tried to take a bite out of my sister's hamster one time, too.

[youthere]

22. Our little dog goes after anything "rodent-y"

we have a pet rabbit (a netherland dwarf-tiny little thing named Maisy) and at first the dog thought she was going to take a bite out of her. Rabbits are not rodents, but that didn't seem to matter to our dog. Fortunately the dog now understands that Maisy "IS NOT FOR EATING!". Now the rabbit terrorizes the dog.

[Kashka-Kat]

24. My cat likes to catch live mice outside and then let them loose in the house!

If she wasnt so damn soft and purry she'd be totally useless. Weren't weiner dogs bred for going down rat holes or something? hence the short legs and weiner body?

[youthere]

25. Oh jeebus! She brings mice IN?

I'd go nuts!

The full size dachsies were actually bred to fight badgers, rats, weasels-all the burrowing type agressive mammals. Mine however, has the special talent of burrowing beneath the sheets at night and sticking her cold nose against my legs.

[RubyDuby in GA]

33. Badgers

Dachshunds were bred for hunting badgers. Dachshund is German for badger hound.
Try telling that to my doxie. He's the sweetest thing on earth, but not the sharpest knife in the drawer. But he makes my baby laugh, so he's good as gold.

Love my doxies -
Here's Rusty - just in time for the holidays:

[jilln]

28. Killing it won't help. Would you try a humane solution?

There are humane traps that you can then empty far from your home. Or you can make your own with a bucket.

Poison and lethal traps are just plain mean and don't really solve the problem, since other rodents will just come take this one's place. You have to figure out how they get in and close up the hole.

Here is a place that will help you deal with this humanely, for free:

972-234-WILD: A free wildlife hotline that can help you get rid of the mouse without killing or poisoning anyone (remember, your own animals are at risk when there is poison around and if you poison a mouse who runs out of the house, when the mouse dies your neighbors cats could eat it).

[youthere]

29. Sorry...

my respect for wildlife doesn't extend that far. If it's in my house, it's days are numbered. If it wants to leave of it's own free will, I support that, but if it chooses to stay its dead.I don't need poison or traps..my dog catches them just fine and kills them quickly and efficiently.
I refuse to "catch and release" a mouse. I salute those of you who do.

[jilln]

32. It's unfortunate you won't do something so simple. (nt)

[youthere]

35. What could be simpler than allowing my dog to take care of it for me?

[Sequoia]

31. Weiner dogs are so cute.

This lady who once worked here brought in a basket of those puppies that were beyond adorable.

[youthere]

34. Ours was a "rescue" of sorts...

This lady in my town who is a "six month" pet owner. She gets animals for her kids, keeps them for about six months until the novelty wears off and then gets rid of them. She threatened to drive this dachsie out in the country and dump it, so we took it. She claimed the dog was agressive and bit her toddler (I don't doubt it bit the boy, I've seen the way they treat animals and I'd bite him too). We brought her home and haven't had a bit of problem with her.

[Sequoia]

45. Good doggie!

There about the only little dogs I actually like.

[Taverner]

36. Dress it up like Napoleon

They say mice like that kind of thing

[SoCalDem]

39. or put a bonnet on its teensy little head, and call it Irene

they like that too :)

[youthere]

41. EWW. No way..It's a dead man er..mouse.

If it comes in the house, all bets are OFF.

[Oeditpus Rex]

37. Poor li'l mousie :(

He's sorry he made you mad. :cry:

[youthere]

42. Damn straight he'll be sorry..

especially if my dog gets ahold of it. LOL

[Oeditpus Rex]

46. And then the larger predatory animal

gets ahold of your dog. LOL

Ain't the food chain wonderful?

:sarcasm:

[azmouse]

38. mmmm.... wiener dogs!

[youthere]

43. delicious with chili cheese and onions.

MMMMM.

[BlueJazz]

47. I used to have 6 Rats (as Pets). I loved every one of the little critters.

I'd put them on the Bed and play with them.
Their favorite game was "Attack the Hand"
and then scurry under the covers for 2 minutes...
Repeat
Repeat
Repeat

[YellowRubberDuckie]

48. It's just a mouse.

Calm down.
We used to have rats. They're looking for warm places to stay now that it's getting cold. Cut it some slack.
Duckie