Scratch scratch scratch - Hello! I'm THE THING in your wall!

[Dee*Jay]

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Good morning Dee! I'm THE THING that lives in your wall! I just wanted to thank you for the delicious meal of peanut butter you put out for me last night. Frankly, I was getting a little tired of the dog food, even if The Demon and Oscar don't mind eating the same thing every day. So, I understand there are both feta and chedder in the fridge right now. What's it gonna be tonight?



SOB at all the damn peanut butter but didn't trip the trap. That makes me hopeful it is a mouse, becuase WHATEVER IT IS would have to be very light not to have tripped it. The trap is now reset lighter. Hopefully when I get home from work it will be sitting in there awaiting release over by the river.

ARGH!!!

 

[missy]

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Good luck Deejay!!
Fingers crossed it goes smoothly!

 

[Miss Sparkly]

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Good morning Dee! I'm THE THING that lives in your wall! I just wanted to thank you for the delicious meal of peanut butter you put out for me last night. Frankly, I was getting a little tired of the dog food, even if The Demon and Oscar don't mind eating the same thing every day. So, I understand there are both feta and chedder in the fridge right now. What's it gonna be tonight?



SOB at all the damn peanut butter but didn't trip the trap. That makes me hopeful it is a mouse, becuase WHATEVER IT IS would have to be very light not to have tripped it. The trap is now reset lighter. Hopefully when I get home from work it will be sitting in there awaiting release over by the river.

ARGH!!!

Rats are actually smart enough to do this too....

 

[natascha]

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Very impressed with both your guts and your writing skills. Just wanted to add, whatever you do, DO NOT go the poison route. My dad did that with a mouse in the kitchen, the darn thing ate it and then ran back behind the cupboards and such. A couple of days later we had the most awful smell . Finally we found it after taking out the fridge, it had hidden in those black cables behind the fridge and there were maggots everywhere.
Hopping for it to be solved when you get home.

 

[Dee*Jay]

Re: Scratch scratch scratch - Hello! I'm THE THING in your w

Good morning Dee! I'm THE THING that lives in your wall! I just wanted to thank you for the delicious meal of peanut butter you put out for me last night. Frankly, I was getting a little tired of the dog food, even if The Demon and Oscar don't mind eating the same thing every day. So, I understand there are both feta and chedder in the fridge right now. What's it gonna be tonight?



SOB at all the damn peanut butter but didn't trip the trap. That makes me hopeful it is a mouse, becuase WHATEVER IT IS would have to be very light not to have tripped it. The trap is now reset lighter. Hopefully when I get home from work it will be sitting in there awaiting release over by the river.

ARGH!!!

Rats are actually smart enough to do this too....

OK, well now I'm going to cry again...

 

[Dee*Jay]

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No update on Moby Rat, but I do have a question... Yesterday when the maintenance guy was over I put my furry sons out in the garage so they wouldn't bother the guy while he was climbing around on the floor and under my desk. When I got the boys out of the garage a few minutes later The Demon was eating treats out of a bag that has been previously unopened. I just assumed that he chewed a hole in the bag himself, but in retrospect WHATEVER IT IS probably made the hole. So do I need to get rid of all the food and the treats that were in the chewed bags? I.e., do you think the dogs could get any sort of disease or illness from them? Believe me, I have no problem doing it, but it just seems wasteful to throw out 30ish lbs of dogfood and a whole bag of their favorite treats if I'm just over thinking the horror factor... What do you think?

 

[mrssalvo]

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deejay, I'd probably get rid of the food. A mouse got in Zoe's food when we stored it in our garage just in the bag a few years ago and I dumped it. Hubby actually thought it was probably ok for her to eat but I wasn't taking any chances. I bought one of those big plastic dog food containers after that!!

My parents left their garage door open one night a few years ago and heard scratching in the wall. They called some type of no kill service who set a cage. It turned out to be a squirrel. So, maybe it won't be so bad after all

 

[JillyC]

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Yeah, I'd get rid of the food too, just to be on the safe side.

Good luck with whatever it is! The saga is really amusing, but of course, it's not happening in my house!!

 

[luv2sparkle]

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So did you drive the Lexus to work? Maybe the thing ran out when you backed out. Hope so.

 

[random_thought]

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Omigosh I am sitting on the edge of my seat waiting to find out what it is! At one point when I lived back in MN, our entire backyard flooded and something had built a dam in my dad's workshop...yup. Beavers. He tried to canoe in there and shoo them out with his canoe paddle but ended up tipping his boat and falling in the yucky river water. I'm happy to say that we got this on camera! I haven't seen the tape lately though and think he hid it to prevent us from sending it in to AFV!

 

[somethingshiny]

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Good grief, Sparkly Blonde! Don't tell her it's a rat!!

Dee~ It's JUST a mouse. It'll be okay. Just so you know, this thread is going to be in my "Top 10 of 2011"

 

[NewEnglandLady]

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I wish I were your neighbor, I would totally let THE THING out of the no-kill trap for you. I just bought 2 no-kill mouse traps last week and have caught and released 3 mice...or maybe it's just 1 mouse who thinks this is fun and keeps coming back for more. I put bird seed in the trap and it seems the mice can't get enough of it!

I had some old kibble sitting out. We do have a plastic bin, but this was extra food. The mice got into it and I ended up throwing the bag out, but not sure if I really needed to.

I can't wait to found out what THE THING is!

 

[dragonfly411]

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Dee - You would be very surprised at how much noise a mouse can make. We had them get into our porch and they were going along the inside of the wall outside my bedroom. It was all I heard, all night. They're noisy little pricks. The cat got rid of that problem fairly quickly.

 

[Laughinggravy0]

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Just to say excellent writing - irritating situation tho. Matata that was hysterical! Power tools!!! From scratching to drilling in one easy step.

DeeJay, good luck to you.

Oh and humane traps and mice: I lived in the country and had humane traps for micies and caught some, releasing them over the fields. There always seemed to be another one so I started to paint their little feet with red food colouring just to check it wasn't the same chap coming back again. And.... it..... was.

So then I started to experiment to see how far I had to walk away from the house and release the little thing before it wouldn't come back. Turned out about half an hour walking did it. But that wasn't winter.

Anyhoo, yes, good luck. Small helpless thing that has a knack for pinching peanut butter.

 

[junebug17]

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Oh Dee*Jay, I'm sorry for your trouble, but your post made me laugh out loud!! You're a good writer! I don't have much advice to give, I just wanted to wish you luck and I hope you can send your visitor on it's way soon.

Oh, and for what it's worth, I'd probably toss the dog food, just to be on the safe side.

 

[Dee*Jay]

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Well hellllllo my good friend Dee! I really appreciate all that additional peanut butter you left out for me, and those chips are mighty tasty too! Not everyone stores bags of baked layes in their garage like you do, so I Just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate the buffet! I'll be off slumbering in your walls right now because I'm really full after that big lunch and dinner, but I hope you don't mind if I call a few of my friends and relatives over for whatever feast you decide to leave next. You are truly The Terrified Hostess With The Mostest!


Alright people, this is ALL OUT WAR!!! It somehow ate all the peanut butter AGAIN and didn't trip the trap, and it got into a box of baked lays and other chip snack packs I must have gotten from Costco and forgotten about. STUPID STUPID STUPID!!! The worst part is, now I'm afraid to go into the garage and make sure there are no other edibles I'm not thinking of. I even parked outside my garage and walked the whole way around my complex to come in the front door of my house.

Seriously. I am NOT HAPPY. I don't WANT to kill IT/THEM, but I might have to. If it doesn't trip the trap tonight I'm going to resort to... something...

Please WHATEVER YOU ARE, don't make me do that! It would hurt me as much as it would you. (Well, almost... )

 

[Circe]

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These posts have been cracking me up.

Deej, this might be kind of an old-school solution, but do you perhaps have a friend with a cat you could borrow? My cat is about as placid a feline as you can imagine, and yet my house is always mysteriously vermin-free. The few critters I have discovered have already been dead (and the cat has been smug). It's basically Nature's Mouse-Trap ....

 

[Dee*Jay]

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Sadly Circe, no loaner cats to be had (aside from Gypsy's offer, but after that woman tried to mail the puppy they are being a little more careful about how you get your pets from one place to another... If only this had happened a few weeks ago...) !

KIDDING! Gypsy would never send me her cat in the mail... she would bring it here in person and then drink with me until it did it's feline duty!

 

[Maria D]

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I have 3 indoor/outdoor cats who are always killing poor cute rodents outside all summer long. Every other winter or so, something gets inside and I hear the scratching inside the walls. The cats just stare at the offending wall, keeping interminable watch, but they never get the damn thing! I don't know what happens but eventually the scratching stops and the cats go back to being couch potatoes and waiting for Spring. I once read that no one has "one" mouse -- if you can hear one there's plenty more. So if I didn't have the cats ready to pounce on anything that ventured out of the wall, I would definitely be calling the exterminators!

 

[lovemybling]

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I hve to agree with Maria... where there is one there is usually more at least where mice are concerned. It might be time to get PROFESSIONAL help. And of course I mean an exterminator.

But on the bright side, this is one of the BEST thread going right now.

have another glass of wine and breath

Good luck

 

[Gypsy]

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Dee-- On the plus side. Not a snake.

Matata, that is one of my all time favorite stories ever. Adore it.

Vodka Dee? I'll pour! And you are right. I would fly the cat over myself and drink with you till we got it. ((HUGS)) babe.

 

[CherryBlossom]

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hahahahahah i love reading this!!!

Oh similar thing happened to me a few months ago. I live literally on the beach and there's just all types of weird stuff being blown about. I kept hearing something scratching by the wall and I figured it was outside, but I realized it was INSIDE the wall. a mouse. a rat. a ghost. who knows! all I know is that I went to a CVS drugstore and bought a BAZZILION types of rat poison and traps. The poison went in the attic away from my pets and the rest of the house was covered with those snap and twist traps.

a few days later we ended up catching a mouse and the next day a baby mouse. both were in the garage and it was HORRRRRIBBLEEE and I still can't walking into the garage... although we've restocked all the traps... they are literally just a few apart in every corner. UGH UGH UGH

 

[Deelight]

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Good morning Dee! I'm THE THING that lives in your wall! I just wanted to thank you for the delicious meal of peanut butter you put out for me last night. Frankly, I was getting a little tired of the dog food, even if The Demon and Oscar don't mind eating the same thing every day. So, I understand there are both feta and chedder in the fridge right now. What's it gonna be tonight?



SOB at all the damn peanut butter but didn't trip the trap. That makes me hopeful it is a mouse, becuase WHATEVER IT IS would have to be very light not to have tripped it. The trap is now reset lighter. Hopefully when I get home from work it will be sitting in there awaiting release over by the river.

ARGH!!!

Rats are actually smart enough to do this too....

OK, well now I'm going to cry again...

What you can do and what my dad used to do when we on the odd occasion had a mousey is tie the bait to the trap - get some thing cotton (like the stuff you sew with) My Dad would use an oiled piece of meat and wrap it up tight enough that the the vermin could nibble but not pull it off without getting snapped - worked every time. If that fails borrow a kitty DH and I had a mousey about 11 years ago in a unit we rented and our then little kitten caught it when the traps failed - played with it till it got a heart attack and died he was quite proud of himself.

Both options are gross but effective - GL

 

[Dee*Jay]

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Well kids, I am sad to report that we have elevated the readiness to DEFCON 2...

The Have a Heart trap has been tripped repeatedly, usually with all the food gone, but no mouse, rat, squirrel, skunk, possum, kitten, beaver or snake (have I left anything out???) remained for me to take over to the river bank and sing Born Free as I released it back into the great Chicago wild.

I will spare you details of the current plan; let us just say it is supposed to be instantaneous. I really am feeling a little big sick over this...

 

[lliang_chi]

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The Have a Heart trap has been tripped repeatedly, usually with all the food gone, but no mouse, rat, squirrel, skunk, possum, kitten, beaver or snake (have I left anything out???) remained for me to take over to the river bank and sing Born Free as I released it back into the great Chicago wild.

Dee, don't forget about the gators they found in the river last summer. But I'm 100% sure this is not the case. Gators can't fit into walls. Plus they don't like dry wall.

 

[somethingshiny]

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Sorry you're feeling a "little big sick" but it'll be over soon.

 

[chemgirl]

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My parents use those ultrasonic mouse repellant things in their garage and they seem to work well. There hasn't been a mouse since the nasty incident I mentioned earlier (over 10 years ago). I'm not really sure that they work, but no mice so that's a good sign.

I also second the idea of putting any food in plastic containers. Mmm chip snack packs and baked Lays...Can I hang out in your garage for a while?

 

[Autumnovember]

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Well kids, I am sad to report that we have elevated the readiness to DEFCON 2...

The Have a Heart trap has been tripped repeatedly, usually with all the food gone, but no mouse, rat, squirrel, skunk, possum, kitten, beaver or snake (have I left anything out???) remained for me to take over to the river bank and sing Born Free as I released it back into the great Chicago wild.

I will spare you details of the current plan; let us just say it is supposed to be instantaneous. I really am feeling a little big sick over this...

Ugh It would make me feel sick too....considering how slick the sucker is, he must really wanna live. Ok. Sorry, I know I'm not making it any better by saying that.


Anytime I get mad during the day I come back to this thread and reread all of your posts....I can't help but crack up!

 

[Autumnovember]

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My parents use those ultrasonic mouse repellant things in their garage and they seem to work well. There hasn't been a mouse since the nasty incident I mentioned earlier (over 10 years ago). I'm not really sure that they work, but no mice so that's a good sign.

I also second the idea of putting any food in plastic containers. Mmm chip snack packs and baked Lays...Can I hang out in your garage for a while?

I agree, can I come hang out too? I'll come with a tent and everything and catch stuart little for you.

 

[Dee*Jay]

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Everyone is welcome to come and join me right now for a drink and all the food you can forrage out of the garage! I am currently camped out at the breakfast bar (yes, I confess, having a drink -- has anyone tried the sparkling pino grigio from Trader Joes? at $4.99/bottle I can afford to drink myself into not caring too much about Mortimer and all of his little buddies down there!) waiting for someone (ahem... a *M*A*N*... Dee hangs head in shame... ) to come and assess the situation in the garage. For some reason I am OK going in there and confronting a live WHATEVER IT IS and setting it free, but I can't bring myself to go in ther if it's... um... not... alive... Or... god forbid... somewhere between alive and not alive... ACK!!!

And Lisa, I totaly forgot about the gators in the river last year! I'm just glad The Demon didn't decide to take his swim with one of those around!