Could it be a mousey? How do I tell?
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Could it be a mousey? How do I tell?
OMFG. Bad memories coming back to me. One reason why I'm never moving back to Miami because of the mice/rats that were living in the walls of our building. We were able to hear them crawling around and chewing on electrical wires (I'm guessing). Ughh.
"Signs of a mouse infestation include:"...Other signs of a rat infestation include:
- Unexplained holes in walls or food containers. Mice have the ability to gnaw amazingly precise circles.
- Spherical droppings up to 1/4″ long. (Rat droppings range from 1/4″ - 3/4″ long)
- Scampering and rustling noises in the walls and ceilings (Pay attention, this could help identify a nest or point of entry!)
- Dirty smudges and urine dribbles on floors along walls. Mice have poor eyesight and tend to run along the sides of objects instead of charging out into the open."
(from howtogetridofstuff.com)
- Urine dribbles left in high traffic areas, usually near walls and other objects. The residues will glow under a black light.
- Dirty ‘rub’ marks along the sides of vertical surfaces that they often run along.
- Gnawing damage and debris, especially around food stores.
- Entry-holes gnawed into walls."
I was in a hotel party once upon a time... dude flipped out, punched the wall. Fucking roaches POURED out.
I left. I'd have booked out anyway. Dude punching walls and the like. But that shit hastened my exit.
Kat you have 23 cats. If it's a mousey, it's deader then fuck.
^LOL!!!!!
The mouse infestation at my mom's house got so bad, they would start cannibalizing eachother to survive and control the population (this happens in the wild too, according to my high school Biology course.) Mouse piss stinks soooo bad.
We used to joke the roaches and the mice would have Wars because there would be alternating SURGES in each group's population.
As for your problem, don't use D-CON, if your cats get a hold of a poisoned mouse, it'll be a bad scene. Use a human trap, glue traps, or get a BB gun and play Sexy Ukrainian Sniper Waits For Mouse.*
*I'm KIDDING about the BB gun.....
We used to get squirrels in the attic every winter, no matter how much we caulked every opening up. They would scratch and squeak far louder then any mouse or rat I've ever heard. It drove our cats INSANE. We eventually had to put those Hav-a-Heart traps up into the crawlspace to catch them. Our neighbor thought he had the same problem, but his turned out to be a raccoon!
Have u considered the possibility that, many years ago a person was murdered and buried in the walls of your apartment? And now that the flesh decomposed the skeleton is shifting?
LOL just kidding! Probably just the whistling wind! :)
Other than traps there are ways to scare them off. Several Sonic devices work against the mices inner ear and they hate it. If you find out they are coming from outside I reccommend getting Fox piss or another natural predator ( You can get it from any good farm and ranch store ). The mice are scared of the smell and wont come in. Use it outside on drains etc. The way I have done it in the past is get like 4 cotton balls and soak them in it. Put them in a little plastic dish and put a dish at each corner of the house and at vantage points around the outside of the house. It should work no problem.
Ew on that punched wall/roach story! Gives me the shivers.
I've heard weird rustling noises in walls when I lived in a house a few years ago. I thought it was my imagination, because I never saw mice, and I have an over-active imagination when it comes to trying to sleep. (Yeah, I was the kid with monsters in my closet, and aliens at my window::))I have no clue, but if you've got a bunch of cats, I really wouldn't be worried.
Yeah, with all those kitty's, if you have a mouse, he probably won't live to see tomorrow.
My cats have little toy mice to play with. So one day Peanut had a mouse in her mouth and I assumed it was one of the toys. And then the tail moved! I almost shit my pants! I ran into the bedroom to wake up my boyfriend screaming oh my god, oh my god, Matt wake up, Peanut! oh my god! Matt shoots up from a dead sleep thinkign I meant Peanut was hurt. I showed him what was wrong. Peanut still was carryign this baby mouse in her mouth. He pried her mouth open and rescued the baby mouse. He was just a tiny little thing, very very cute, and acted like he appriciated us saving his life. He didn't try to bite or anything. He was so cute. We put him outside and he scurried off.....
It's that time of year Kat. Many wild animals will try to house themselves for warmth in walls to get out of the cold. Problem is they are destructive making their nests. I throw bars of poision where i could not reach. A few days later i smell a body. Then the smell is gone.
PS if you have animals in the home be careful. The poison makes the pests thirsty.
I've heard intermittant squeeks in the wall the last couple of nights only.
Now, I do have wood floors, and I was reading online that it could be the wood squeeking when it expands and contracts due to weather changes. Its laminate wood though, so its not pure.
The post about the droppings and urine dribbles made me feel queesy. Ugh. I am scared to check around the house now.
FTR, none of the cats have reacted at all to any of the noise, and I've only heard it a few times. Katya is a lazy-ass, but she's killed outdoor mice before. The kittens are all about the hunting, but they aren't the sharpest bulbs yet.
Finally, I live in a townhome. I have my own roof and attic, but I do share some a wall with a neighbor on each side, so it could be from them.
Oh, and I try to keep the place clean, but the cats track their catfood all over the floor. I've never even seen a roach in this place though. Ants and silverfish, yes. But never as much as a roach or spider inside.
Years ago I lived in a rickety old shack, and found two cute little white mousies in my closet. I smothered one with a towel, and the other escaped out my front door to freedom. Yup, I get nauseous thinking about how long they were in my house, and how much of my stuff they pooped on.
Just check in your kitchen cabinets, like where you keep your tupperware and stuff, and under the kitchen sink. If you have mice there will be little droppings scattered in there.
Spray the droppings and pee stains with Simple Green or Pine Sol before you clean them...It'll cut the smell and keep bacteria from harming you.
Don't let the cats kill them because sometimes domesticated cats won't eat what they've killed and will leave the little corpse laying around for you to find...whenever.
I find this thread amusing. I used to wake up & smack mice off of my blanket...Rodents have caused thousands of dollars of damage to my mom's house, all because she was a very negligent housekeeper.
Edit to add- OK, if you can't stand the task of eradicating the mice, get an exterminator and hire a cleaning service to handle it. Seriously though, the longer this goes on, the more damage they will cause.
But, but that poor mouse :( Maybe it's a bat? or a raccoon, I had a friend who had a raccoon stuck in the wall!
probably the shells of those fist sized central american cock roaches rubbing together as they pass.