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Old 10-25-2020, 06:24 PM  
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My dining room has a little sitting area, and I was sitting there the other night in a big comfy upholstered chair. The light was off in the main part of the dining room, and suddenly out of the corner of my eye I saw a dark flash run by on the floor. It was either a mouse or a spider that was so large and fast that I'd have to move and burn the house down.

I went into full wartime mode and tried to hunt it down, but it disappeared. My concern was that when I saw it, it was headed directly for a large floor vent and that's the only place it could have gone.

I told the wife, but there was little we could do without knowing what type of Predator had invaded our world.

Well, tonight the wife was sitting in a different chair in the sitting area, and suddenly a mouse flashed by on the floor. She sounded the alarm and we went into high alert. She said that it had run underneath the large comfy upholstered chair. I got my bazooka and a bayonet and looked under the chair and once again the mouse was nowhere to be found.

She had been watching the whole time and said that it didn't come out from under the chair, so with great trepidation I drew a conclusion. If it didn't leave and it's not under the chair, then...

I flipped the chair on its side, and sure enough there were three holes that were chewed into the bottom of the lining.

It's in the chair! The call is coming from the chair!



We immediately dragged the chair out onto the back porch, despite the fact that it's an expensive chair and it's snowing and Von Miller lives in our city.

So what do I do now? We've got a mouse living in our chair, and we can't guarantee that it's one mouse. It's possible that there's a different mouse living in the ductwork and we can't guarantee that it's one mouse. But then again, all of this could just be one mouse. It's been warm and just got cold, so it's possible that an outside mouse somehow got in temporarily.

How do you get mice out of a house, and how do you get mice out of a chair? This is not the type of chair that you just throw away. This chair is the chair of royalty. I've called an exterminator, but is there anything else I can do?

The thing that worries me is that I saw a mouse last year in our kitchen. We bought a bunch of traps and put them out, but never caught anything. However, we never saw any mice other than the one time. But now I'm wondering if the mouse/mice has been in our house the whole time, watching us and waiting for its chance to attack.
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Old 10-25-2020, 06:55 PM   #16
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Cats are more cuddly, but a snake could better navigate the duct system. I'll have to think about this.
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Old 10-25-2020, 06:57 PM   #17
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Old 10-25-2020, 06:59 PM   #18
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Cats are more cuddly, but a snake could better navigate the duct system. I'll have to think about this.
Some cats also suck at catching mice. My mom has like 8 of them and only a couple of them seem to be capable of consistently catching mice.
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Old 10-25-2020, 07:00 PM   #19
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At nighttime turn on all lights and walk the perimeter of the house. Look for light coming trough gaps under doors even the smallest gap a mouse can get under. In the house inspect along walls for holes and gaps and droppings. Fills those temporary with steel wool they cant chew through it.

The best traps are the old victory wood spring traps. But they can be a bitch to set. I have tried many the plastic quick set traps but they are fragile. They even say that are one time use. The best of these I have found are the Tom Cat brand as I can reuse four to five times before the plastic trigger breaks.

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Old 10-25-2020, 07:01 PM   #20
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Old 10-25-2020, 07:02 PM   #21
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Some cats also suck at catching mice. My mom has like 8 of them and only a couple of them seem to be capable of consistently catching mice.
A well fed cat is a lazy cat.
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Old 10-25-2020, 07:02 PM   #22
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They're simple sticky pads designed for spiders. We ended up catching tiny mice
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Old 10-25-2020, 07:03 PM   #23
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We immediately dragged the chair out onto the back porch, despite the fact ... Von Miller lives in our city.
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Old 10-25-2020, 07:04 PM   #24
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I'm searching the house for droppings and don't see a thing. So they're either retreating into the vents other than brief forays, or they're on a low fiber diet.
You may have a scout looking for nesting options.
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Old 10-25-2020, 07:05 PM   #25
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I like the regular traps, only with gummy bears or any other kind of gummy candy wedges firmly into the bait holder.

I’d advise against cats. I have one that was feral as a kitten. I figured she would be good at catching mice because of that wild start to life. I had her in my camper trailer one time and walked in from outside to find her playing with a mouse rather than taking care of it. The mouse ran towards me and I flipped it outside with my foot. Stupid cat!
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Old 10-25-2020, 07:06 PM   #27
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Old 10-25-2020, 07:10 PM   #30
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