The leavings of a mouse...

[Deleted User] · December 2013

In my effng downstairs closet! It's where we keep the dog food, fish food and random kitchen appliances (I don't like extra things on my counters). I'm so entirely grossed out and I spent 2 hours taking everything out, vacuuming and scrubbing all the shelves. I'm so freaking tired that I actually cried tears while doing this. I never cry. Then... I got a package in the mail. I open it and it's a book from a client for Haddock. The title... count to 10 with a mouse.

I laughed hysterically.

Haddock is in his swing and the vacuum is running. I'm going to invent a vacuum with soft, medium, and loud noise variations... specifically for babies.

I'm so mean I called my SO and blamed the mouse situation on him. I told him it's his fault for not fixing the dryer vent. Now I feel guilty because he's on his way to a funeral...I'm such a bitch.

I opening a bottle of wine because at least if I have a glass or 2 it'll be more fun trying to entertain a very pissed off baby.

No real point to this aside from the fact that I don't do much complaining on here and I'm freaking tired and I want someone else to understand.

Thank you...I'm finished now 8-X

Clyde013 · December 2013

I'm sorry! I'm feeling pretty shitty today also. Please pass the bottle

Pink724 · December 2013

Ugh, I hate mice. Funny about the book, though. Vent away, and drink all the wine!!

[Deleted User] · December 2013

I'm so sorry. This was me cleaning out my office a few weeks ago after I had a visit from a mouse. I still won't put anything that has to do with pumping or milk storage on the floor or touching the desk if I can help it. I would be even more grossed out if it happened in my house. Glad you got out the wine!

jackson290721 · December 2013

Peppermint oil!!

[Deleted User] · December 2013

LauraC122 said:
I'm sorry you're having a shitty day! That SUCKS. I don't mind mice but not amongst my stuff! Enjoy your wine!

Exactly. I don't mind them either just not in my house

thanks for letting me vent ladies!

[Deleted User] · December 2013

@citrusfamily I'm sorry that's a way shittier day than mine

chiboo9 · December 2013

I'm sorry. I abhor mice. Like, why did Noah allow that pair of mice in the ark?

For you and @citrusfamily:

redrocksmama · December 2013

Gah!! I HATE mice. They get into our garage in the winter and terrorize the shit out of me. Although I had to LOL at the book you got. Of all days...

If it makes you feel better I've had days where my job makes me stabby and I've walked into the kitchen to take a swig of wine. In the middle of the afternoon. Sorry not sorry.

[Deleted User] · December 2013

Yuck. Sorry to hear that. We tried peppermint oil and then eventually called an exterminator! They LOVE dog food.

roashem2008 · December 2013

Ugh I hate mice. I found one in my bathroom sink in our old house while DH was out to sea. It was the scariest moment of my life to date. I subsequently emailed H and blamed him for not taking care of it before he left. Enjoy your wine- hope your day gets better!

[Deleted User] · December 2013

Well I'm glad I'm not the only one who's being mean to their SO today

@rmnam1

fabk · December 2013

I am afraid of mice so can completely understand. I hope the wine helps!!

grapeskittles4lyfe · December 2013

give me your mice, my snakes would love to have them for supper....

[Deleted User] · December 2013

CDumovich said:
I hate mice, we killed three last year and once I realized how much they looked like our dwarf hamsters I couldn't figure out how the rodents could be pets too and made SD let them take a visit to the big backyard.

But hamsters aren't meant to live outside unless you live in a hamstery area. That's totally a word in my vocabulary at this point.

jackson290721 · December 2013

CDumovich said:

I hate mice, we killed three last year and once I realized how much they looked like our dwarf hamsters I couldn't figure out how the rodents could be pets too and made SD let them take a visit to the big backyard.

Wait what? You put an animal who has never lived in the big wide world out in the big wide world? What the fuck? I get it is just a rodent, but shit, that is just wrong. If I decide I don't want my chinchillas I'm not going to throw them out back, I will rehome them. That's what a good pet owner does. Wow. I'm judging. Hard.

jackson290721 · December 2013

CDumovich said:

jackson290721 said:

CDumovich said:

I hate mice, we killed three last year and once I realized how much they looked like our dwarf hamsters I couldn't figure out how the rodents could be pets too and made SD let them take a visit to the big backyard.

Wait what? You put an animal who has never lived in the big wide world out in the big wide world? What the fuck? I get it is just a rodent, but shit, that is just wrong. If I decide I don't want my chinchillas I'm not going to throw them out back, I will rehome them. That's what a good pet owner does. Wow. I'm judging. Hard.

They were eating each other and missing limbs because of it, no one was willing to take them. I tried rehoming for three months. I tried work classifieds, Craigslist, FB... Offering them for free with food, cage, bedding, balls, tube set, etc.

Taking them to the vet never crossed your mind?

Or putting them in separate cages?

[Deleted User] · December 2013

Wait, they were eating one another? What? I'd have taken them to the vet but I also wanted to take a baby chicken to the vet because something was wrong with it's eye... So... But still? How did they live with bleeding limbs?

blairwitch · December 2013

I feel you on the mice thing...we had a bad fall with them one year. they were in and on everything. I lost count after 10. In the stove, in the cupboards, in the dishwasher (not the part where dishes go...under the top) all over the house...it sucked. Finally doused the house in peppermint oil and havent seen them since! And I think the local cats finally came back. Hope the wine helped!!

WifeyLovesHubs · December 2013

Ewwww... It feels like such a violation to find an uninvited furry creatures poop. It would make anyone's day "shitty..." So sorry! Thinking about you and sending hugs and more wine

jackson290721 · December 2013

Nope. Still judging. I think it's stupid to get an animal without having a vet that will see them.

[Deleted User] · December 2013

I'm not even going to touch that.

jackson290721 · December 2013

Sorry for hijacking your thread

[Deleted User] · December 2013

jackson290721 said:

Sorry for hijacking your thread

Not a prob! Is what she said about the vet true?

jackson290721 · December 2013

Asbromle said:

jackson290721 said:

Sorry for hijacking your thread

Not a prob! Is what she said about the vet true?

About them not seeing the hamster?

[Deleted User] · December 2013

jackson290721 said:

Asbromle said:

jackson290721 said:

Sorry for hijacking your thread

Not a prob! Is what she said about the vet true?

About them not seeing the hamster?

Yeah. I'm curious about all this now. I think someone's been caught

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[Deleted User] · December 2013

That is not the smiley I intended.

JenR85 · December 2013

Yikes! I would have flipped out!

jackson290721 · December 2013

Asbromle said:

jackson290721 said:

Asbromle said:

jackson290721 said:

Sorry for hijacking your thread

Not a prob! Is what she said about the vet true?

About them not seeing the hamster?

Yeah. I'm curious about all this now. I think someone's been caught (

I'm not sure if it is true. In my experience if a vet doesn't know about an animal, they will learn. Exotic vet that is. No clue about illegal pets.

valstulas · December 2013

1. Bumping for @mermomo5's viewing pleasure.

2. Sorry for your bad day @Asbromle and @citrusfamily.

3. I laughed at the part where you yelled at your SO while he was on his way to a funeral. I would do that.

4. First rule about hamster fight club: don't talk about hamster fight club.

5. I feel like this was a hamster Hunger Games spin off. You put them in a huge arena to battle to the death. You set out a food and water cornucopia. They're determined to kill each other, but ultimately, their fate more likely lies in the hands of predators, infection, and exposure.

elyse05 · December 2013

Wow, putting cannibal hamsters out to pasture seems kind of mean. Hopefully they don't breed and don't affect any native wildlife.

OK, my mouse story:
When I was staying at my parents' house there were piles of sunflower seeds all in between my sheets. My mom was like, "Oh it must be that mouse or pack rat we have, he keeps hoarding our stuff. Just the other night he stole my orchid from upstairs."

I FLIPPED THE FUCK OUT. There was a mouse or pack rat or who-the-hell-knows-what in my bed. Possibly while I was sleeping. I had thought that scratching noise all night was one of their dogs. Nope.

dontgiveupnomatterwhat · December 2013

When I was in high school, a mouse got in my room and it woke me up in the middle of the night. I started screaming for my dad, who got pissed off I woke him up over a mouse. So he left my room, came back with a BB gun, handed it to me, and said "fucking don't wake me up again."
For the record, I didn't shoot the mouse.

[Deleted User] · December 2013

@elyse05 ick! And it stole an orchid? Not the whole plant, right? That'd be a huge rat, lol.

valstulas · December 2013

Mamasighs said:
Those hamsters are going to mutate Night of the Lepus style and kill us all. THANKS A LOT @cdumovich.

@cdumovich Do you live near any nuclear power plants?

Pink724 · December 2013

@mamasighs LOL at illegal cannibal hamsters. I died. But poor ICHs.

I was wondering why this thread all of a sudden had so many views/responses. Ugh.

yelyah4826 · December 2013

CDumovich said:

Their breed was illegal to own in several states and because they are considered rodents the vet would not see them. I think it is wonderful you love your Chinchillas but please understand I did everything I could for as long as I could and I will never buy them again, I feel bad about what I did, but there wasn't much else I could do. We used to let them play out there while cleaning out their cage so it wasn't as if they had never been there before, and we left them food and water, but they were both infected from biting/eating each other (I even tried to put Neosporin on their war wounds) and didn't know what else to do.

https://www.hamsterific.com/ChineseHamster.cfm

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Dude vets see pocket pets.

There was a ton else you could do- mainly don't leave an animal outside to die.

Here's the thing and I am saying this and I know maybe people will think it sounds like something straight out of @mrsohearts playbook, but I swear its real and will find photo evidence if need be lol but I had a hampster when I was younger- I bought it and the little hoe had babies a few days after I got her- 13 mother effing translucent babies- who gets sold a knocked up hampster!?

Anyway I call the pet shop, they say if you can't find owners we will take them back and sell them here. I researched- called a vet (because yes they do see pocket pets!) to find out how to tell the sex of them when they got a little older and guess what? I seperated them into boy cages and girl cages, so I had like 5 different hamster cages, one for mom, males and females, I didn't want them to be overcrowded, fight or get sick and die .

When they were big enough I gave them away! Point being: the responsible thing for you to have done was to separate them if they were fighting! Also, you say they were illegal but you bought them from petsmart- pretty sure it is also Illegal for them to sell an illegal species but don't quote me on that..... I don't know how I missed this last night...

sdtchica13 · December 2013

I am not even touching the illegal cannibal hamster part of this thread.

@Ashbromle, I feel your pain on the mouse thing! Where I grew up on Long Island, you didn't get rodents in your home unless you were filthy, so imagine my shock when I moved to NJ and discovered its extremely commonplace to get them, especially if you live near woods. We had a mouse issue about two months after buying our house five years ago and I was horrified; seeing little poo balls every morning grossed me the eff out, especially since I am anal about the house being clean. I finally figured out where they were getting in and sealed the space, but that blew!

Also, a funny mouse story:

When I was three months pregnant with Corri, we had a random mouse in our wall that was trying to eat its way into our house via an air vent. DH, who is afraid of mice, flipped the eff out and jumped on the couch to cower. I called an emergency exterminator (because of course this happened in the evening) and then sat my pregnant ass on the floor in front of the air vent, armed with a can of Lysol and a flashlight for the next two hours. Every time that little fucker stuck his head out of the hole he made, I squirted him with Lysol and shined the flashlight in his face to make him retreat...the exterminator cracked up at the visual when he finally got there, lol!