*gags* I have achieved dead mouse

[hiyacynth]

Just as I thought: Dead mouse in my bedroom. Crawled in behind my fannish bookshelves: specifically, behind my stacks of X-Files-, Buffy- and LOTR-related magazines and printouts. My old XF fic reeks of death, which is, I suppose, somewhat appropriate

Comments

[zixi]

Ugh! Ick ick ick!

I'm sorry your kitties aren't being good responsible kitties and properly disposing of mice. At least you have proved to them how brave you are!

Sorry for the stinky homecoming but yay you for dealing with it and such!

Good luck on the smell going bye-bye. At least we have at least one more warm day for you to air everything out.

see you FRIDAY!

[hiyacynth]

At least it wasn't as bad as the mummified bird I once found under my bed. That one actually caused that bug-music-noise to go off in my head. You know the music-noise: bla-blee-bla-bla-blip-bla-bloop! (The X-Files used it all the time when creepy/gross things were startlingly revealed.)

So, so gross.

Anyway, tonight I sleep in the sun room.

[zixi]

Ick! We found one of those when we were cleaning out/organizing the main supply room back at Perry Point. It was under one of the big shelves - very dead but thankfully, somehow, not smelly at all. I think it was a starling.

I'm amused that your head gives you sound effects.

Yay sunroom!

[lilithilien]

YAY! I understand the utter freaking out, I've got a mouse problem too (just caught another one last night, at least they're not hidden/rotting), but I am so glad to hear you found the damn thing. Gross gross gross.

I bet your room'll be so nce after this.

[hiyacynth]

Thank you! My room will be very nice and clean, it's true.

I've only had the one other mouse, and that was so long ago and there was an obvious path of entry. I'm now freaking out over how-did-this-one-get-in?? Because if my cats aren't going to catch them and eat them and/or leave them in plain view for me to find, I'm just going to end up with dead mice stinking up my apartment all the time.

Stop. Breathe. It's fine. They're just mice. I don't even mind them when they're alive.

[lilithilien]

The first one I saw looking up at me from inside the bag of dog food left me hyperventilating for over an hour! The freak out is completely understandable.

I tried to find where they were coming in, and block their entry with steel wool, but apparently they can squeeze through a space the size of a dime. So after the humane method failed, I got some tomcat mousetraps from my landlord (they're safe enough to use around my animals ... who've done a crap job with the whole hunting thing too!).

I don't mind when they're alive either, as long as I don't see them. When they start getting places where I could run into them, then we have a problem.

Good luck!

[hiyacynth]

Yeah, mice are like snakes and lizards (not really a big problem since my move from California) for me. They startle me at first, but once I know they're there, I'm fine and can generally catch them and put them out with only minor girlly-screaming.

When I found the last one, dead inside an unused quilt at the bottom of my bed I screamed and ran around in circles and may have actually cried from being so worked up. No screaming this time.

Holes the size of dimes, eh? Guess I'll flag down the Orkin guy when he comes through on Saturday and see if he has any traps. Bleh.

Thanks again for the support :-)

[cunien]

Ew! And hooray! You conquered the...well I don't really know what you conquered here, but it's all good, anyway. Except for the stinky bedroom, which I'm sure will air out soon.
x.

[hiyacynth]

Whatever I conqured, it was gross and stinky. But it's definitely better in there this morning. Glad I slept on the guest bed.

I want donuts. (unrelated)

[ramalama]

Ah, nothing says "welcome home" like a rotting corpse.