A mouse in the house....
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
United States
January 9, 2016 7:09am CST
....and I don't mean Micky Mouse although I wish it was him!
I am an early riser. While I was enjoying a cup of coffee at 5:30 am I was also watching the news with the TV on the lowest sound setting. I heard a noise coming from the direction of the bedroom. I 'assumed' it was Ruby's paws tapping on the hardwood floor in her sleep. Wrong.
The noise wasn't real loud, but it was loud enough to worry me. The noise eventually made it directly over my head and it continued across the ceiling toward the guest room. I went into that area of the house but didn't hear anything.
When my husband got up I told him and he said it's probably a mouse. How it got up in the attic is anyone's guess. All was quite until a short time ago and I heard it again, back at the same spot where I originally heard it.
My husband has never been in the attic - the only way in is through one of those small doors in the ceiling and I doubt he would fit! But we have been told that the space is heavily insulated. So Mr. Mouse I hope you choke on the insulation or freeze to death when the temps drop into the 20's in a few days.
Until then, I'll just keep an ear to the ceiling and pray our visitor commits suicide.
Photo: pixabay.com/en/mouse-animal-rodent-nager-nature-1009344/
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
9 Jan 16
Oh sure, then she would step on the sheet rock and wind up in the living room Ha Ha, not a good plan at all.
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@LadyDuck (459212)
• Switzerland
9 Jan 16
@AbbyGreenhill 
Not, it does not sound to be a good plan. Leave the mouse in the attic.
Not, it does not sound to be a good plan. Leave the mouse in the attic.@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
9 Jan 16
@LadyDuck He must be taking a nap, haven't heard him for a while.
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@gr8nana6 (6614)
• Conyers, Georgia
13 Jan 16
@AbbyGreenhill I'll send you my Tiny, she is a good Mouser, lol. I hate mice and run screaming like the village idiot if I see one, hahaha.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
13 Jan 16
This one has disappeared and I am not sad about that.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
13 Jan 16
@gr8nana6 Or he found his way out, which I doubt.
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@gr8nana6 (6614)
• Conyers, Georgia
13 Jan 16
@AbbyGreenhill I bet he'll be back, he is just hiding from you for a while, lol.
@infatuatedbby (94921)
• United States
10 Jan 16
I have never been in the attic either. My dad has, you have to literally climb up and I heard it's really hot (but now it's cool so it's okay). I am afraid of heights so wouldn't dare!
I hope your visitor leaves or will suffer!!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
10 Jan 16
He has been quiet the rest of the day. Maybe he's out shopping!
@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
9 Jan 16
Because we live in the country, we struggle with mice. They can get in very small spaces.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
9 Jan 16
I think the city has them tooo - wrong, they have rats...I'll take a mouse.
@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
9 Jan 16
may have to put out traps, they just start eating walls and stuff....
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
9 Jan 16
No way to put one up there....I'll have to call Santa he's got experience on roofs.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
9 Jan 16
@AbbyGreenhill hmm, open the attic and toss up cotton soaked with peppermint oil, heard mice hate that
@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
9 Jan 16
Mice can get into the smallest openings, I think I heard they have collapsible spines or something like that so they can squeeze in anywhere.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
9 Jan 16
I want to know how he climbed the outside wall to get in.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
9 Jan 16
@fishtiger58 That's what my husband keeps saying. We had several in the basement in a previous home. They got into the Christmas decorations - ate cardboard boxes, heck they ate a bar of Ivory soap!
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
9 Jan 16
@AbbyGreenhill Those suckers can climb just about anything,.
@delyaj30 (613)
• Quezon City, Philippines
9 Jan 16
mouse are really annoying, at this very time here in my country it's already 2:30 am. I cant go back to sleep because earlier when i go to bed i heard noise just right beside my bed, where a pile of old stuffs are kept, a mouse which i think gave birth coz i heard quirks of little rats, 
@delyaj30 (613)
• Quezon City, Philippines
9 Jan 16
@AbbyGreenhill as long as they didnt destroy our clothes, sooner they will leave the house with the help of cats, the ultimate exterminators, 
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
9 Jan 16
Oh my, at least mine are not in the room with me. Good luck - you might need an exterminator.
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@LeaPea2417 (36514)
• Toccoa, Georgia
9 Jan 16
Mice are sneaky. That has happened to us before and my husband set out those mice pellets that once they eat them, they go off and die because it is poison , and you would be surprised how that little tin of open pellets will just become an empty little tin bowl sitting there. They really do eat it. We will set it in a small area in our laundry room.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
9 Jan 16
This guy is up in the attic that we can't get into. He will starve up there and the result will be the same I guess.
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@CookieMonster46 (13447)
• United States
10 Jan 16
urgh, well hope this mouse finds his way out of your house.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
9 Jan 16
No thanks...we're not cat people. I had one any years ago and I'm still not sure why I did.
@moffittjc (118570)
• Gainesville, Florida
9 Jan 16
I used to get squirrels up in my attic, and they were the noisiest little critters! I finally had to hire an exterminator to get them all out, and then a contractor to come in and seal every possible opening in our roof. That did the trick in keeping the critters out!
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
9 Jan 16
We don't have any squirrels thank goodness...no trees anywhere near the house...so we know we don't have one of them in the attic. They can make quite a mess.
@moffittjc (118570)
• Gainesville, Florida
9 Jan 16
@AbbyGreenhill I like squirrels, but I always refer to them as rats with bushy tails! lol
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
9 Jan 16
We have had one in the garage but this is the first in the attic...he must be desperate.
@jillybean1222 (6408)
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9 Jan 16
that is disturbing! i've hated it in the past when i have become aware of an unwanted visitor like that. we now have 2 cats who are good mousers. we don't seem to notice having mice anymore
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
9 Jan 16
Cats do their job that's for sure...but eve if we had a cat it wouldn't help in this situation.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
9 Jan 16
If it was inside the house it would be far worse for sure.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
9 Jan 16
I am not afraid of a mouse. It can drive me crazy and crazy people do crazy things. It will never find its way out - he is doomed.
@RRoyy2 (124)
• New Delhi, India
10 Jan 16
The picture of mouse that you have used in the post is very cute 
@righttotheheart (226)
• Delhi, India
10 Jan 16
i hate mouse as they are very dirty.. you should do something to get him out of the house i think. Its unhygienic!
@writerlisa (28)
• Sayreville, New Jersey
9 Jan 16
Hi Abby, good to see a familiar name/face here. :)
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
9 Jan 16
Hey Lisa! Yes, I've been all over and now just here! How are you liking Jersey - do you go to the Sayreville Bar - used to love that place. You're in my old stomping grounds - we moved south from Central Jersey.Welcome to myLot!
