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I Found The Culprit To My Partially Eatin' Rice Cakes...
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celebrian23 said:
That's the ideal situation, but it also happens that the mouse gets snapped the wrong way, and then it's stuck / half broken neck / in pain, waiting to die. It's actually quite often.
But well, there is indeed a moment when something has to be done.
mpw said:
if a person had "worms" they would be noticed coming out one's anus. That is, if you/someone happened to be looking down there at the time of defecation.
Not guaranteed you'll see them "poking out" as it were.
no one -should- have any worms at all, anywhere.
SamIchi said:
well, aside of worms i can only think of Hanta Virus. Hanta Virus is transmitted by mice and can lead to total kidney failure. But there is no treatment anyway. It's rare so you will be fine.
iTwitch said:
But its a way cooler story than just using a trap. Plus how many times in your life are you going to be able to lace rice cakes with arsenic or cyanide and not have the cops knocking on your door.
njmac said:
Yup, I live upstate but decided to live in the city for the summer.
I think there's more than just one. My dad killed one the other day. It got caught in a bag. I don't think I'm goin to take any further action. I don't think that I'll be able to get rid of them permanently. I keep all my food in plastic containers now.
Put the rice cakes in a box trap then release the mouse outside.
I'd also get a sealed container to put your rice cakes in from now on. And try to find where the mouse entered the house and seal it off.
I'd also get a sealed container to put your rice cakes in from now on. And try to find where the mouse entered the house and seal it off.
when i saw the title of the thread i though it was started by Q (after the whole soda pop incidence)
i would throw those out and clean the area where you were storing the food...
chances are there are mouse droppings in the area and the droppings contain enourmous amounts of bacteria... gives me the heebee jeebies just thinking about it...
you can get the Hantavirus just from breathing the air around mouse poo.... million to one chance im sure... but im a germaphobe and... well i just stop here because im grossing myself out already....
http://www.doh.wa.gov/ehsphl/factsheet/hanta.htm
i would throw those out and clean the area where you were storing the food...
chances are there are mouse droppings in the area and the droppings contain enourmous amounts of bacteria... gives me the heebee jeebies just thinking about it...
you can get the Hantavirus just from breathing the air around mouse poo.... million to one chance im sure... but im a germaphobe and... well i just stop here because im grossing myself out already....
http://www.doh.wa.gov/ehsphl/factsheet/hanta.htm
Four and counting, Muahahahahaahahahah!.............er, I mean none......honest. :shifty eyes:Felldownthewell said:But its a way cooler story than just using a trap. Plus how many times in your life are you going to be able to lace rice cakes with arsenic or cyanide and not have the cops knocking on your door.
For all the people talking about sticky traps thinking they're the only non-lethal traps (interesting, since you have to kill the mouse later)... There are traps that just close behind the mouse so you can take it away someplace and let it go free. Your choices are not just snap traps and sticky traps.
It's true and they are often called box traps, which I mentioned in my post above. And glue traps are not "non-lethal" nor are they humane. Once the mouse is stuck in the trap he will violently try to free himself tearing his hair and flesh off and usually breaking some bones depending on what position he was stuck in. Sometimes they'll try to eat their way off the trap even through one of their own legs. Seeing a mouse/rat stuck in one of those traps is an absolutely horrifying sight.baby duck monge said:
Lay glue traps and check them daily. I put plastic wrap or a bag around the vermin and seal it with my finger, creating a very small pocket of air which quickly runs out. The mouse will die in about a minute.
This is the most humane way of ridding your house -- and city (if you release him he'll just find someone else's house or come back to yours) -- of a disease-carrying pest who doesn't belong.
Live traps are crap and mice tend to avoid them. With poison they die and the chemicals eat the flesh away rapidly and it stinks to high heaven. Set glue traps everywhere and then kill him. He doesn't deserve to suffer but he needs to die.
This is the most humane way of ridding your house -- and city (if you release him he'll just find someone else's house or come back to yours) -- of a disease-carrying pest who doesn't belong.
Live traps are crap and mice tend to avoid them. With poison they die and the chemicals eat the flesh away rapidly and it stinks to high heaven. Set glue traps everywhere and then kill him. He doesn't deserve to suffer but he needs to die.
Do what me and an old housemate used to do.
With the lights turned off, crouch on top of the kitchen counter, each armed with a hockey stick........and wait!! When they eventually come out, jump down and WHAMMY! Play some mouse hockey for 5 minutes to make sure it's dead.......take some wrist-shots, and if you dare.....take some slapshots against your fridge door. After that, throw it out.
The 2nd best suggestion I can make is to get this poisonous powder that you put into a piece of cheese. They won't feel good, and will go back into the walls, and the mice just die. This usually isn't desired, but this poison also turns them into harmless dust. The dead mouse won't even smell much.
With the lights turned off, crouch on top of the kitchen counter, each armed with a hockey stick........and wait!! When they eventually come out, jump down and WHAMMY! Play some mouse hockey for 5 minutes to make sure it's dead.......take some wrist-shots, and if you dare.....take some slapshots against your fridge door. After that, throw it out.
The 2nd best suggestion I can make is to get this poisonous powder that you put into a piece of cheese. They won't feel good, and will go back into the walls, and the mice just die. This usually isn't desired, but this poison also turns them into harmless dust. The dead mouse won't even smell much.
Posts like this make me want to vomit. I won't be participating in this thread anymore.Abstract said:Do what me and an old housemate used to do.
With the lights turned off, crouch on top of the kitchen counter, each armed with a hockey stick........and wait!! When they eventually come out, jump down and WHAMMY! Play some mouse hockey for 5 minutes to make sure it's dead.......take some wrist-shots, and if you dare.....take some slapshots against your fridge door. After that, throw it out.
The 2nd best suggestion I can make is to get this poisonous powder that you put into a piece of cheese. They won't feel good, and will go back into the walls, and the mice just die. This usually isn't desired, but this poison also turns them into harmless dust. The dead mouse won't even smell much.
My hockey story, or the stuff about the poison?
I wasn't the best guy in my early 20s and we thought it was fun to do it with hockey sticks. Our house was completely infested, and our landlords didn't do anything to help us for 5 months, not even compensate us for all the money we spent trying to get rid of the mice in their house. We couldn't do anything about it like call the authorities because the owner sold the house while we lived in it!! Our new owner wouldn't do anything until all the paperwork went through and they knew what they were going to do with it. It was also a weird time because we had to wait, sign release forms for our old landlord, and sign new leases with the new owners. x 2
After trying many kinder ways of disposing the......oh.......30-50 mice that lived in our house at any one time, we had run out of clever ideas. The mouse traps and sticky glue traps did work well, and the poison (only used a little because we didn't like the idea at the time) didn't work either! Well, either it did, or there were so many mice we didn't know whether any died. They even crawled onto my bed when I was sleeping.
Around 4-5 months later, out of complete frustration, it was hockey time! We even left one of the dead mice on our kitchen floor as a warning to the other mice.
I wasn't the best guy in my early 20s and we thought it was fun to do it with hockey sticks. Our house was completely infested, and our landlords didn't do anything to help us for 5 months, not even compensate us for all the money we spent trying to get rid of the mice in their house. We couldn't do anything about it like call the authorities because the owner sold the house while we lived in it!!
Our new owner wouldn't do anything until all the paperwork went through and they knew what they were going to do with it. It was also a weird time because we had to wait, sign release forms for our old landlord, and sign new leases with the new owners. x 2After trying many kinder ways of disposing the......oh.......30-50 mice that lived in our house at any one time, we had run out of clever ideas. The mouse traps and sticky glue traps did work well, and the poison (only used a little because we didn't like the idea at the time) didn't work either! Well, either it did, or there were so many mice we didn't know whether any died. They even crawled onto my bed when I was sleeping.
Around 4-5 months later, out of complete frustration, it was hockey time! We even left one of the dead mice on our kitchen floor as a warning to the other mice.
I had mice 3 years ago. While I was going through chemo. There were some bad synergies going on there with the mice getting into food and me not really being interested in food. Finding mouse poop in the food that I was snacking on while going through chemo almost did me in.
Traps didn't work. We wound up going with poison. Oddly at the same time the doctor put me on coumadin for blood clots...
Traps didn't work. We wound up going with poison. Oddly at the same time the doctor put me on coumadin for blood clots...