So, it's official.

[conuly]

We have mice. Or at least mouse. I'm guessing it (they?) came in through the attic, there's a gap wherever the roof meets the floor.

So this week I'll pick up a cat, it doesn't have to be a mouser, we just need "cat smell" in the house (not that sort of cat smell, the sort that's friendly and strikes terror into small rodents of the wild persuasion) and tomorrow this house is getting scrubbed. Yay. Anybody have a cat? Kitten?

Comments

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Lots. Unfortunately, I think you're too far off.

[conuly]

Most likely. No worries, there's cats and kittens everywhere. Not as many kittens as usual, which is strange, but I can pick a stray kitten up by Jenn's if I need, and they've been sick, it'd be a nice thing to do to give the kitten medicines etc.

Worst that happens, I have to ask around.

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

It might not work, though... We had mice here a few years ago when my ex lived with me, and you'd think that my house would be the *last* place a mouse would ever visit!

Jax caught one, in fact, and dropped it in my lap perfectly unharmed/alive as if it were a toy I'd throw for him. *snicker* I thought it was one until it moved, at which point I let out quite a startled yelp, knocking it to the floor. Jax grabbed it again, stared at me like I had no brain, and that time put it carefully on the nearby futon-couch where it couldn't get away. (I then caught it in a garbage can and put it outside far from the house... We haven't had one since that I'm aware of.)

[conuly]

Yes, but I'd like to have a cat around anyway :)

You're right, though. When we lived on 18th avenue, we had mice under our stove, which we couldn't get rid of (we eventually just paid to replace the stove....) and our cat would run under there to disembowel 'em... but they never left. And at that time we had three cats and a dog.

We'll probably just borrow a cat, though, instead of getting a new one. With luck, that'll scare away any rodents in the lower part of the house. I honestly don't care about the attic, since there's no way to keep them out of there due to the afore-mentioned problem with the roof.

[morganne13.livejournal.com]

Or you could rescue an older kitty from the pound......

[conuly]

My mom doesn't want a cat at all. If I get one, it'll be a young one she'll ooh and aaah over. Besides, it's rescuing one way or another, if the cat would've ended up in the pound, sick, or dead.

[morganne13.livejournal.com]

[snickers].......i think jax was trying to train you. I think you failed. :D

[nerdinium.livejournal.com]

You could also volunteer at the local animal shelter to brush the kitties, and take the hair from the brush and distribute it strategically. A couple of nice long haired cats, and you'd have enough fur to knit a sweater, and lots of kitty odors.

I'd go once a month to replenish the hair/odors.

[conuly]

*blinks*

That makes sense. In a weird way. But people would think I'm crazier than I am.

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

meh! I used to work at a kennels where there were westies and collies. A woman contacted the kennels and asked the owners to save the collie fur from when they get brushed (which was quite a bit as they were show dogs) and she'd pick it up when it got to be a garbage-can full, then make sweaters out of it. O_o

And someone just asked about what to do about mice in "hip_domestics" here: http://www.livejournal.com/community/hip_domestics/1291110.html so maybe that might help! :)

[dkmnow.livejournal.com]

Ever read the classic comic, "Maus"?

In case you're inclined to ask me how that's relevant here...don't. I wouldn't presume to know.

[end trivial silliness]

:-p

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Lots. Unfortunately, I think you're too far off.

[conuly]

Most likely. No worries, there's cats and kittens everywhere. Not as many kittens as usual, which is strange, but I can pick a stray kitten up by Jenn's if I need, and they've been sick, it'd be a nice thing to do to give the kitten medicines etc.

Worst that happens, I have to ask around.

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

It might not work, though... We had mice here a few years ago when my ex lived with me, and you'd think that my house would be the *last* place a mouse would ever visit!

Jax caught one, in fact, and dropped it in my lap perfectly unharmed/alive as if it were a toy I'd throw for him. *snicker* I thought it was one until it moved, at which point I let out quite a startled yelp, knocking it to the floor. Jax grabbed it again, stared at me like I had no brain, and that time put it carefully on the nearby futon-couch where it couldn't get away. (I then caught it in a garbage can and put it outside far from the house... We haven't had one since that I'm aware of.)

[conuly]

Yes, but I'd like to have a cat around anyway :)

You're right, though. When we lived on 18th avenue, we had mice under our stove, which we couldn't get rid of (we eventually just paid to replace the stove....) and our cat would run under there to disembowel 'em... but they never left. And at that time we had three cats and a dog.

We'll probably just borrow a cat, though, instead of getting a new one. With luck, that'll scare away any rodents in the lower part of the house. I honestly don't care about the attic, since there's no way to keep them out of there due to the afore-mentioned problem with the roof.

[morganne13.livejournal.com]

Or you could rescue an older kitty from the pound......

[conuly]

My mom doesn't want a cat at all. If I get one, it'll be a young one she'll ooh and aaah over. Besides, it's rescuing one way or another, if the cat would've ended up in the pound, sick, or dead.

[morganne13.livejournal.com]

[snickers].......i think jax was trying to train you. I think you failed. :D

[nerdinium.livejournal.com]

You could also volunteer at the local animal shelter to brush the kitties, and take the hair from the brush and distribute it strategically. A couple of nice long haired cats, and you'd have enough fur to knit a sweater, and lots of kitty odors.

I'd go once a month to replenish the hair/odors.

[conuly]

*blinks*

That makes sense. In a weird way. But people would think I'm crazier than I am.

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

meh! I used to work at a kennels where there were westies and collies. A woman contacted the kennels and asked the owners to save the collie fur from when they get brushed (which was quite a bit as they were show dogs) and she'd pick it up when it got to be a garbage-can full, then make sweaters out of it. O_o

And someone just asked about what to do about mice in "hip_domestics" here: http://www.livejournal.com/community/hip_domestics/1291110.html so maybe that might help! :)

[dkmnow.livejournal.com]

Ever read the classic comic, "Maus"?

In case you're inclined to ask me how that's relevant here...don't. I wouldn't presume to know.

[end trivial silliness]

:-p

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

um, aren't enough of our old cats running around that you sdin't need to look far? climber? kessy? Tiamet?...and would you believe Cowprint keeps trying to run up to Whisper to play. and the cat just stares at here from his spot on the floor, too lazy to chase her? i don't know which is stupider, Cowprint or Whisper

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

um, aren't enough of our old cats running around that you sdin't need to look far? climber? kessy? Tiamet?...and would you believe Cowprint keeps trying to run up to Whisper to play. and the cat just stares at here from his spot on the floor, too lazy to chase her? i don't know which is stupider, Cowprint or Whisper