Attack of the Mice
Ok, this has nothing to do with Linux or Ubuntu, but I’m having some crazy ass mice attack my house!
It all began when I was down in my basement/office working the other night. Suddenly I hear a PLUMP on the paneled ceiling above me, then tiny running feat racing around above me. What the hell?
Then they began to multiply, I’d hear a PLUMP over hear and one over there, then running toward each other. I honestly think these tiny bastards are holding some sort of annual Mousolympics up there. I’ll hear them run, then hop hop hop, and BOOM, land.
I’m not totally ok with these rodent sporting events and the muscular mice that attend and partake in them! I’m trying to run a business here!
I’ve owned a few of these really cool live traps for a couple years now, and they work like magic (I don’t like killing the little creatures). So I have them setup in my kitchen and this morning, low and behold, the star athlete was chilling in my trap!
He took a long trip into Chattanooga with me, but apparently he was either exhausted from the night before, or just liked the smell of Starbucks and Pasties…either way he did not want to leave the trap. I literally had to shake it to make him get out and then try to scare him off into the wilderness. What a freak. The mouse, not me ;)
So any suggestions you all may have on how to put a stop to these fur flying events, please let me know (non-killing methods only please).
Hey John,
30 years ago I had the same problem in a second story apartment that had slanted ceilings. The insulation was batts filled with vermiculite. The mice would chew into the paper and the vermiculite would roll down wall, scaring the mice, who then scurried to the other end of the ceiling.
This was in our living room, and always happened when we had company.
Enjoy the races.
John
as long as you havent been bit by one :-P , waking up and having your finger a mouse’s midnight feast!
or install windows vista every piece of hardware including mice dont seem to survive that long :-P