We have only been in this house a little over two years and all was fine, until a week or so ago when I heard noises coming from the ceiling. The husband was away at his mums for a couple of days, so “Ignore it” I told myself. “Whatever it is will be dead from starvation and the noise will stop.”
I think I was on the right track there, but turns out that whatever it was that was trespassing inside our house had invited several friends and relatives over to it’s new pad for some “housewarming, man!” and some “getting down” and some “part on dudes!”, and one thing must have led to another, until, well, in a few days the noise increased to the point where I could actually feel the ceiling caving in, the walls being systematically eaten away, and small teeth nibbling at my toes in the dark of night. I was sure whoever it was, was up there starting a family, and practising sustainable living, and growing their own food and apparently living the good life, because how else can they have survived? And now it really freaks me a little. Or is that a lot? Yeah, actually, it’s a lot.
Because…what if the party animals from our ceiling manage to get inside the house where we are, and warm themselves at the foot of our bed at night, sleep in our shoes, dance on our bench tops, slide across our timber floor doing the Tom Cruise scene from Risky Business, and generally, just do mousy things in the dead of night?
It’s time the MOTH (Man of the House) buys the Ratsak, spreads it about liberally, and shows those critters who is boss. I’m all for letting them go outside so they can “be wild and free”, but at this point, I think all it will do is make them “wild and free” enough to get back up in our ceiling, and party on. Again. *shudder*.
How have you gotten rid of mices, mouses and other invited guests in the past?
*Edit: And please bear with me for being SO DAMN FREAKIN’ slow at getting around everyone’s blogs. I’m getting that google reader thingy happening…slowly. So umm…yeah, I will get there. Eventually.
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Just popping over from the Aussie Bloggers Forum and had a good giggle at this post. I think it must be mouse plague time as we’ve had never ending problems here of late too. Huge amounts of poison later and they are still eating popping corn so we steel lined the food cupboard… that will keep the suckers out! I hope!
By katef on 04.29.08 10:05 am | Permalink
We did this once in a rental house in 2003, and a similar thing had been heard in a previous house. I was shocked to see I think it was a pigmy possum or something dying under the house because of our ratsack!! I will be very careful before doing it again. Having said that what about the wires? Lots of questions I have about it, fortunately it hasn’t happened in this house.
By Linda on 04.29.08 11:33 am | Permalink
Don’t forget that the little rascals are unscrewing the lightbulbs while you sleep and throwing little mouse turds in your mouth while you sleep…
Bwaaaaaa haaaaa haaaaaa!
By Kelley on 04.29.08 9:34 pm | Permalink
Every few years we get a rat or two in the ceiling. Darned if I know how, but I think a see a tiny, tiny hole in a tile, yet the tiles are wired in. If I can get close enough I might see that the wire had been chewed off and the tile lifted up. Darn clever!
Anway Dad used to put traps up and a day later we are watching TV on a really cold night and we hear “snap” (I won’t descibe the sound). Anyway I was always too squimish, so Dad got up and bought the dead rat down by the tail and buried it (apparantly). When he became a little too old to climb up, I went up when I heard little patter on the onset of Winter. But I used bait and went up a few weeks later and found no smell or trace. I have a feeling the rat carcase shrivells up (oh yuck) leaving just bones.
The lady across the road said she often has to bury a rat that her cats have taken across from “Our yard”. How dare she say they are from our yard. I keep the garden tidy and I don’t throw food scraps. I don’t place poions in the yard as we have cats that like to scurry around and a blue tongue lizzard. So they keep the rats and snails at bay.
By Trekalong on 04.30.08 12:48 am | Permalink
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