Comments on: Please Help Me Rid Myself Of / Name The Mouse In My Basement

By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:58:10 +0000

Holy shit

By: DCer

DCer — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:28:11 +0000

Ahem. To quote my exterminator, If you can see a mouse with your own eyes then their nesting area is so full of mice that they’re venturing out, probably about 72 mice will be the tipping point where they need to venture out. If you waited a week after seeing the mouse to think about it then you have over a hundred mice.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:02:11 +0000

I saw a mouse on the stairs at work today. You would think a mouse would have better places to go than an office building with no cafeteria and no kitchen, but a couple of weeks ago one of the little shits got into my desk drawer and ate half a chocolate bar. Also, how do mice climb stairs?

By: Maura

Maura — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:20:55 +0000

Haha. I am having the same problem, but the mouse is in my kitchen. I killed it the peanut butter snap-trap way, just before Easter, prompting Jeffrey to suggest that, like Jesus, it would soon be resurrected. And that when it’s back, it will enact its revenge, and that it was probably constructing a people trap for me right now.

By: Rosco H. McFlibbs

Rosco H. McFlibbs — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:49:42 +0000

Name it Splinter! Then, in addition to a rat (who is obviously wise and nimble) soon you’ll have radioactive, crime fighting, pizza ordering turtles as roommates.

By: AmazonRed

AmazonRed — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:31:36 +0000

You don’t have a mouse. You have mice….mice…

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:24:13 +0000

Peanut butter with the snap traps works (depending on your definition of works). Sometimes too well and you get brains on the wall.

By: Christopher / DC1974

Christopher / DC1974 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:23:20 +0000

You’ve got lowsy clue traps. I get them stuck to my shoes, my fingers, my kitchen utensils. A whole lot of things besides mice.

On Saturday I came into the kitchen to see a mouse bathing in the Wok which was soaking on the stove. That was a little creepy. I threw a lid on it and threw the whole thing in the trash. Carbon footprint be damned.

By: t

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:07:59 +0000

get one of these
http://www.wintrest.com/files/2008/01/ugly-cat-tat.jpg

By: Concerned

Concerned — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:57:52 +0000

While doing your research, have you come across any information on rats being protected under the cruelty to Animal laws in the District. Poison and Glue traps are acceptable but seem to make them suffer, however if you strike it with an object I’ve heard that’s a felony. Is this true? By the way how does a law abiding citizen dispose of a rat or mouse that’s stuck on a glue trap but still healthy and alive or stumbling due to the ingestion of poison.

A concerned citizen

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:48:49 +0000

His Most Royal Excellency Captain Pumpkinpants

For a name, of course

By: victoria

victoria — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:39:29 +0000

I’d loan you my cat but he’d just sit in a bag and watch the mouse. Or get stuck in the trap himself.

By: Urban Explorer

Urban Explorer — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:35:30 +0000

Adopt a cat

By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:14:57 +0000

Whoo, $35.00. At what price, a mouse’s life?

By: Sommer Mathis

Sommer Mathis — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:12:16 +0000

Amanda, I had good luck with these. Just make sure to put the peanut butter in the back of the platform. Happy hunting!