Crazy mouse story for ya...

[GreenPartyVoter]

Oldest GreenKid came running out of the bathroom saying that Pretzel, our orange tiger, had a mouse trapped in the bath tub... IN THE DRAIN! It was a wee little baby mousie all curled up in a ball, shivering and his heart was racing and he was so scared. :scared:

So I got the cat, who was very prrrrroud of himself, btw, out of the way and put a paper bag in the bath tub. I tried prying mousie out with the eraser end of a pencil.

No dice.

I got some tweezers. After plucking out 4 tufts of fur :cry: I got mousie out of the drain and into the paper bag. I ran barefoot across the yard which was covered with heavy frost and snow and dumped the little guy out. I hope he will be ok. :( (Just as long as he is not in my house using my dishes for his potty anymore. x( )

[hippywife]

1. They are cute as

little buttons but what a bitch once they get in the house. We dealt with that last year and I hope never again! I hope he's okay out there, too. :hi:

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I actually moved one with us from another town, once. He was in

a backpack in our trailer as we moved the house from one side of the state to the other. I was a bit surprised when he jumped out at me. LOL

I had TWO jump out of the glove compartment and into my lap, once. :scared:

[hippywife]

3. Eeek!

Never had one actually land on me!

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. And I landed on one myself. I got up in the middle of the night because

Pickles was prrrrowing and meowing. I hopped out of bed and onto her tail poor thing.

Except it turned out the warm furry thing under my foot was not her tail after all, as her next prrrow told me she was a good 3 feet away.

[hippywife]

7. Now that's enough

to give you the middle of the night heebee jeebees! LOL

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Honestly I would rather have a mouse run across me while I am sleeping than a spider

[hippywife]

10. Okay, I'm with you there! LOL

I did step on a scorpion in the dark once. My husband had warned me when I moved down here to always wear shoes but I hate shoes! Luckily, I didn't get stung.

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. *freaking* Yeah, see this is why I love living in Maine. I have never worried about

putting on shoes or turning over rocks or stepping over fallen logs. No poisonous critters here abundant enough to worry about.

[hippywife]

12. Living in more northern climes does

have it's advantages that way. Husband got stung by a scorpion in bed one night. He said he was kinda glad it finally happened. He'd been dreading that happening and it wasn't nearly as bad as his imagination had built it up to be. We really don't get that many in the house anymore, thank goodness!

[zanne]

15. Not that many in the house anymore!?!?

I wouldn't be able to sleep! My worst insect encounter was when I woke up one morning and an earwig was on my face! AGH!

[hippywife]

20. Well, it was a little difficult

when I first moved here. The house is a lot closer to being finished so that keeps them out. And they don't like cold or wet. Sometimes when we have lots of rain for days on end, one or two will find their way in somehow. There used to be evenings when I would kill three in pretty quick succession. Which was a major accomplishment because at first, I used to just freeze in place and scream, "SCORPION!!!!" Gotta love the husband...he would come running to the rescue. I think he was afraid I would freak out and move back to Ohio. LOL

We also used to keep flashlights next to the bed to do ceiling checks when we would wake up in the middle of the night.

Yeah, crawling on the face isn't good, no matter what it is.

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. "Yeah, crawling on the face isn't good, no matter what it is." Well, actually

I used to love it when my kids crawled across my face when we roughhoused on the floor. When youngest GreenKid was still in didees he used to sit really hard on my head over and over (baby pile driver??) and then let his heiny slide off my face.

OK, maybe that's not as good as it sounds. But still way better than a creepy crawlie.

[zabet]

16. It is a fact...

a person will eat an average of
7 spiders in their life.....while
sleeping.

That little factoid makes me want
to sleep with duct tape over my mouth.

Also, you - at any given time in any
given place - are no further than 6
feet away from a spider....at all times.

Yeah, spiders freak me out.

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. I didn't need to know that *freaking*

[zabet]

21. Sorry...

I believe in 'know your enemy'.
:D

[hippywife]

22. There have been times when

I was so freaked out about spiders and scorpions being within steps, I always pictured myself in one of those PBS documentaries where they show the critter up close and the people all out of focus, moving around in the background. :rofl:

[zabet]

24. I can

TOTALLY relate!

:rofl:

[applegrove]

4. They are cute. I had one in my apartment and I had to get the cat to

catch it for me (no teeth marks on the little guy so I figured another catch wouldn't do any damage) - so I could rescue it out of the cat's mouth and put it outside. It worked.

Another time the cat brought a bird into the house. The bird flew to the doorframe and sat there. He let me pick him up - I guess the bird trusted me more than the cat. And freedom it was for that little birdy.

I'm glad my cat who hunts doesn't hurt the animals he catches. I'm grateful for that. We had a cat as a child that would kill anything he caught.

[hippywife]

13. Our cat is too old

and arthritic to even care anymore. Glad yours doesn't hurt them. :hi:

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Heheh. My kitty gets grumpy when I try to take his toys from his mouth. I don't think we have ever

been able to do it that way.

[applegrove]

17. Oh she was angry when I gently took the mouse out of her mouth.

The walked around grumbling for a few minutes looking for it (she didn't see me release it out the window). Then she forgot about it (she is a cat - no episodic memory for her). LOL!

[lost-in-nj]

5. When we had cats

and we had 2 at a time once..


we had a mouse under the fridge.... they played hockey with it....
they also played hockey with the moles outside......


lost

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. Yep. My tigers do that. ONe time they had a little fellow trapped behind an old hard-side tourister

overnight case, and they were staring him down hard from either end of the thing.

So what does he do? He jumps straight up and out.... AT ME!

I was around the corder and up on my bed in a flash. My feet never even hit the floor. :rofl:

Really. I don't intend to be a stereotypical woman-on-a-chair when a mouse comes around, but it's not that I am afraid OF the mouse, but rather afraid FOR it. I am so sure I will step on one and crush it. :(

[DarkTirade]

8. I helped my ex catch a rat at her house once.

They'd named it 'Eek', because when her father felt something furry run across his foot in the middle of the night in a dark room, that's exactly what he screamed. :)

But they love animals and they didn't want to hurt it, so I helped them catch it and release it into the wild.

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. My sis-in-law would have helped you. She had a pet one named Buddy-buddy