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"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike) 03/03/2019 at 00:32 • Filed to: mice

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...and I get up to use the washroom because I can’t sleep (snowstorm raging outside tonight). Use the washroom....and as I go to leave, hear scratching/scurrying noises in the wall...Mom and I had both THOUGHT we had heard some yesterday, but ignored it thinking it was just that noise you hear when water from the furnace starts flowing through the pipes when a hot water furnace hasn’t kicked on in awhile and the pipes have cooled.

F*CKIN’ WONDERFUL. With the basement flood back in October (they are only now finally putting the basement back together now), the bottom of all the walls had been ripped out down there due to water damage, and the basement door’s shot weather stripping hadn’t been fixed yet as the different contractor we were going to get to replace that entire door frame / door keeps flaking out on us. So now we may have a mouse infestation? Just freaking great...

Anybody ever have mice in their walls (with pets in the house) and have any idea how to get rid of them? Nobody’s SEEN anything, or any signs of them outside in any rooms anywhere?

gettingoldercarguy > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 00:40

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Pet cat + pet door right next to where the rodents  ingress and egress.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > gettingoldercarguy 03/03/2019 at 00:46

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That’s the thing - we have a cat, but she hasn’t been allowed downstairs since the flood as the basement has either been in shambles from the tearing out of the floors and lower walls or because of the reconstruction work. None of us have seen anything or any obvious holes, so I have no idea where their ingress and egress is...if it is mice... like I said, just guessing as we haven’t seen them or any mouse droppings, etc, I only just heard it for certain tonight. :(

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 00:46

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Oh God: yes. Many vermin at many locations. It was so bad at the last house we rented, they were in the walls directly behind our headboard . Late at night, I’d slam the walls with my fist and you could here them scurrying away. I also found a squirrel in my attic last week. Scared him out and plugged up the a hole. But there are... precautions in place should be reappear.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 00:53

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poison bait in the basement

Also it may not be a mouse. could be a flying squirrel 

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 00:53

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The sound of a rodent scraping their claws through insulation or against wood is unmistakable. Remember that mice don't even need the diameter of a quarter to squeeze though something. 

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 00:54

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I got back from a trip once to hear some crazy noises and scratching in an interior wall. So I do what any reasonable person would and make a tunnel from that wall to the door to hopefully guide the creature out. Start cutting, and it was maybe the worst screaming noise I've ever heard. Get a square cut out of the drywall and it was a baby raccoon. Maybe one of the cutest creatures I've ever seen. Also the dogs were no use. They were confused and then bored so they went to the other side of the house to nap. 

His Stigness > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/03/2019 at 01:06

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Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 01:07

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So long as your pets don’t get the corpses, this shit is awesome.  Been using it for years and no problems with the doggos... or mice.  (The doggos are good and the mice are dead)

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > His Stigness 03/03/2019 at 01:09

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I wish I had a fat man living up there with sporting potential, but no. I’ve got some non-killing stuff up there for now. He hasn’t been back but I’m not dropping my guard.

Chariotoflove > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 01:18

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We have heard what I suspect may be squirrel noises in the attic or on the roof from time to time, but if you hear clawing noises in the walls, it sounds like mice or rats.

gettingoldercarguy > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 01:29

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Whatever it is, the cat will get it when things open up.  Just be extra cautious putting on shoes when it gets to go downstairs again.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 02:27

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B rodifacoum wax block baits work very very well on rodents...

We have managed many a mouse plauge  with them...

His Stigness > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/03/2019 at 03:58

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I wouldn't. The best defense is a good offense. I have no evidence of rats at work but I'm still keeping all the food stuffs in sealed containers. 

pip bip - choose Corrour > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 05:30

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create an “electrical fault” and burn the place down

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > pip bip - choose Corrour 03/03/2019 at 06:26

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We kind-of still need to live here.....also if they are mice, they might do that for us...

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > gettingoldercarguy 03/03/2019 at 06:27

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They won’t be opening the walls though, they’d only already opened the lower 4-5 inches of each wall as they had water damage, so they’d only cut those out and replaced them.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Chariotoflove 03/03/2019 at 06:28

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I can’t see it bein g rats, they do live in Nova Scotia, but not really in our semi-rural area. More than likely mice, I think...

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 03/03/2019 at 06:30

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I imagine it works really well....there are no visible signs of them on the upper floor (our house is a 1.5 story), but if it’s pretty str ong stuff, she’s caught voles in the house that slipped in before so I would be worried she would go after the sick mice and hurt herself...

pip bip - choose Corrour > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 06:30

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:)

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 03/03/2019 at 06:32

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Doubting this is a raccoon....they are around, but I can’t see one fitting in this wall as it’s a pretty small space and it wouldn’t have had a way in. We’ve known for awhile that the weather stripping at the bottom of the basement door was crap (and the door jamb) but the contractor keeps flaking off on doing it as he apparently has a bigger job elsewhere...we’re guessing it whatever it is came in through under that door as there really aren’t any gaps into the house anywhere else...

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/03/2019 at 06:33

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Oh, sadly I looked it up last night at 2:30am when I then couldn’t sleep because of finding out there was something in the wall.....first time for us other than the cat catching the odd small vole in the basement...

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 03/03/2019 at 06:35

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C ould be, and they apparently live in Nova Scotia (the Northern Flying Squirrel), but they are incredibly uncommon here (as in I’ve never seen one in my life). Hell, I’ve seen normal squirrels here, but there are next to none around our house! The last time I saw any at all around here was years ago! Doubt it’s them :/

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > His Stigness 03/03/2019 at 06:36

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I guess we should do that, but there has been no obvious sign of them in our pantry...

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/03/2019 at 06:39

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The bathroom is the only room I’ve heard them in. Then again, I leave my desktop PC running 24/7 and because of the flood it’s currently still set up on the floor of my bedroom facing my bed with the monitor sitting on it, so I probably wouldn’t hear them from in my room anyway. What’s surprising is that the work crew has been making a LOT of noise directly under that bathroom because there is an unfinished bathroom there from when we moved into the house back in 2003 that the previous owners never completed . We decided if they have to redo the basement floors and lower walls due to the flood and then repaint the walls, they may as well finish that basement bathroom too, so you’d think the amount of noise they’ve been making constantly all day would’ve scared them off to a different part of the house...

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 03/03/2019 at 06:39

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Are they pet safe though? We have a cat and I don’t want her getting into anything poisonous or finding mouse corpses that are poisonous she could get sick from either... :(

LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 07:46

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I found that peanut butter on traps rather than cheese was successful, combined with figuring out where they were getting in the house and sealing that up.

OPPOsaurus WRX > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 07:59

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We have had a mouse on the occasion. We also have a cat. We’ll hear the mouse for a night or two, then we don’t. Sometimes we find it, or a part of it, and sometimes we don’t

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > OPPOsaurus WRX 03/03/2019 at 08:08

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We have a cat and the sounds are coming from the upstairs walls. She’s caught voles before, but I am worried they are not coming out of the walls upstairs but only downstairs, meaning she can’t catch them (she’s not been allowed downstairs since the basement flood since October due to the mess and the repair work down there).

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com 03/03/2019 at 08:10

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We had somebody looking around awhile back for a different reason and the only spot any of us know about is the weather stripping / door jamb on the basement door. Th at door is slated to be replaced if and when the contractor actually does it, if not we’re getting the different contractor that is doing the rest of the basement to do it...but won’t we just be sealing them in then? :(

Peanut butter traps won’t work because we have a cat who likes peanut butter and she’d get hurt on them :(

facw > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 08:31

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My parents ’ have had squirrels in attic/walls since they moved in over five years ago. They finally got around to doing something about them this year as my dad had been in serious delusion (“ I don’t hear that”, “they are just on the roof”, etc.), but finally they were impossible to ignore. Had a pest service patch some holes in the attic where they could get in, and set traps. Ended up catching a half dozen or so flying squirrels, which seemed to end the issue. Until the patching was apparently removed during installation of a new roof this fall. After that they quickly moved back in. My parents got thing re-patched, and another 13 flying squirrels were caught before the situation was back under control. The moral, as always, is don’t live in a forest, no matter how nice that isolation seems.

TheRealBicycleBuck > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 09:03

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I’ve dealt with this a couple of times. Go into the attic and look for trails in the insulation. Set traps. Peanut butter works better than cheese. 

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > facw 03/03/2019 at 09:24

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Haha, true I guess....flying squirrels aren’t really a thing in my area, though this provinc e is their habitat!

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > TheRealBicycleBuck 03/03/2019 at 09:27

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Easier said than done, but I can try....our attic is moreso a crawlspace than anything. The only way in is through a small removable panel above the door in mom’s bedroom that is no larger than a 28" or 32" TV or so...

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 09:43

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I’ve got something living in the attic right now but don’t want to dig through feet of insulation to set traps. Maybe a good job today considering not much else you can do when it’s -10.

smobgirl > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 09:43

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I get critters in the crawl space sometimes that drive the dog nuts. I know how they get in, but it’s been difficult to seal because I don’t want anything trapped in there to die. 

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 03/03/2019 at 10:09

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Well, the driveway is going to take awhile to shovel. Might try to get up there later and see what I see, but our roa’s not plowed yet, so can’t really get out to buy traps...

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > smobgirl 03/03/2019 at 10:10

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I usually feel the same way about critters, but mice are pretty scary little pests if they’re potentially carrying hantavirus around my house...I’m not really worried if I have to kill them!

smobgirl > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 10:35

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I’ve never had mice because the outside cats play with them. But tbh I’d rather have mice than have another skunk spray under the house.

I can loan you Biscuit. He’s cross-eyed but a ruthless destroyer of rodents.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > smobgirl 03/03/2019 at 11:30

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Give me all your kitties!

TheRealBicycleBuck > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 11:34

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That’s a bummer. You could always pay a pest control guy to do it. Another option is bait, but then will have dead mice in your  attic and walls.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 11:35

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This one came in through a hole in the top of the house and then fell

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 11:54

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Yeah that is the danger.  I’ve been using it for years and haven’t had a problem, but I certainly understand not wanting to take the risk.

Chariotoflove > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 13:44

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I think you’re right. I just didn’t want to seem racist. 

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Chariotoflove 03/03/2019 at 13:54

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Very considerate of you :P

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/03/2019 at 16:33

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Don’t know... primarily because we’ve never had a cat.

The dog was never interested in the dead ones even though he though live ones made excellent but disappointingly short lived chew toys.

I’d have thought cats would feel much the same way to be honest.