Our Two Little Visitors
By Sharon
@simone10 (54189)
Louisville, Kentucky
July 10, 2016 4:00am CST
My brother and I have discovered recently that we have had two little visitors on our balcony during the night hours. They left their calling card behind.
I'm referring to mice. We thought we were safe being on the second floor but that didn't stop the little buggers. Recently the field across from our apartment was mowed after letting the grass get waist high. I'm sure that's where they came from.
The other night my brother went out on the balcony around 2am to smoke because he couldn't sleep. He turned the light on outside and there was a little mouse staring back at him through the sliding glass door. It ran off so my brother went out to sit down and there was another one who seemed frozen in place. He stomped his foot and it ran away also.
I really hate to use mouse traps to catch them so we might use the kind where the mice crawl in and are trapped inside a little box. Then you can release them where you want. My brother would have to do the releasing as I am too scared of mice to do it.
Have you ever heard of mice climbing like these did to get on our second story balcony? I knew they could climb within the walls of buildings but I didn't know the could climb siding.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
10 Jul 16
mice 're purty crafty lil critters 'n can get most anyplace they wish. i was tryin' to find where they were gettin' 'nto my grain barn a few weeks back. seemed impossible since we finally ran concrete all 'round the edges. noperz, they'd dug a hole from the backside'f the barn clear under one'f the large metal containers which contain the grain.
i hope that y'all do the trap'n release. 'twas glad to hear they mowed that place though, no doubt a breedin' ground fer skeeters 'n others who're most undesirable.
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@simone10 (54189)
• Louisville, Kentucky
15 Jul 16
@crazyhorseladycx Sorry to hear that about the alfalfa stack. Hopefully they left some.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
14 Jul 16
@simone10 lol, perhaps their noses anyhow. thankfully the grain bins're mouse proof...sadly the alfalfa stack aint though.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
10 Jul 16
It is amazing how they can get up into buildings and yes they can go up sidings and other things. We have field mice here that get into the basement and the cat even caught one upstairs in the bathroom. If you don't have a cat you might want to get one to catch any mouse that might come inside your place.
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@crossbones27 (48417)
• Mojave, California
10 Jul 16
I always like people who say clean your house.90 percent of the time these days that is not the problem. It is again us destroying wildlife.
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@Juliaacv (48404)
• Canada
10 Jul 16
Is there any vines or shrubbery near the building that would allow them to climb up on? I guess they became homeless when the field was mowed and were desperate for a new place to stay. I hope that they move on.
We used the little black things that lure the mouse inside, but you put a block of poison in there and they nibble on it and then hey take off and die, unless they die inside of the box.
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