If you find your house being invaded by mice looking for somewhere they can live in winter, somewhere they can toast their little mouse feet in front of your heater, eat your food, party and cavort in your walls, and generally just be tiny little, furry, noisy asshats, don’t just think cool, we can get some Ratsak, and poison the hell out of the little suckers, and that will be that.
Because it won’t be.
When they die? They smell. Bad. IN your house. Who knew?
For the last week, we have been walking through pockets of stink in our house. I have sprayed air freshener everywhere. Nothing. Opened windows. Nothing. It’s awful.
And, I am somewhat uncomfortable that our house is now insulated by dead mouse bodies. Although, who knows, it may catch on and become the latest environmentally friendly thing to do, and Kevin Rudd will offer people rebates on their Ratsak purchases.
Next time, what should we do instead? I could go with Veronica’s suggestion of mouse skin blankets, but I don’t know, call me fussy, but it just involves so much effort. Om my part. That’s bad. And I don’t sew. Ever.
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See? That the the exact reason that we haven’t bought ratsak. Not to mention, we really REALLY don’t want to cats to find and eat poisoned mice.
I have almost given up on the blanket idea too. Like you said, too much work.
Veronica:
My dog has found a couple of err…bodies. Not a good thing, but she doesn’t seem interested in them - odd for a lab, but a good thing, methinks
By Veronica on 05.16.08 12:27 pm | Permalink
oh yuck …I know.
We had a really rotten smell in our kitchen - tracked it to in the dishwasher to be precise.
We Finish freshened and re- washed , lemoned it to no avail…it stank.
The mouse had died inside the cabinet - DH had to dismantle the whole f’ing and remove it.
I am glad we got a cat … she better work.
Trish:
I’d like a cat - but the MOTH doesn’t like cats much. I’m thinking - that’s just too bad though, and want to get one anyway, but am too lazy to do the whole litter tray thing..
By Trish on 05.16.08 1:15 pm | Permalink
Find whatever hole they’re getting into and stuff it with steel wool. That’ll slow the little buggers down.
Mr V:
Seeing as how they are only little buggers, they sure cause havoc. We don’t seem to have “a hole” where they are getting in…
By Mr V on 05.17.08 7:50 am | Permalink
Bloody things.
We had a dead rat behind the fridge *vomit*
steel wool works if you can find the bloody hole.
Kim:
Bloody things is about right! Wow, another vote for steel wool. Now all I need to do is find my hole. So to speak…
By frogpondsrock on 05.17.08 8:56 pm | Permalink
Those plastic traps which are easy to set are pretty good, and you can dispose of the bodies in an environmentally friendly manner.
Tex, Tex, Tex:
I am the girl of the house. I don’t dispose of anything remotely icky. That’s what men and teenage sons are for. Because if it’s not that, then what IS their purpose?
By Tex on 05.18.08 6:09 pm | Permalink
Ewwy, the smell goes away eventually. As the rot.
And now eating my cherry ripe? Not so much any more.
Kelley:
Yeah, the smells going now. Mostly. Sorry about the Cherry Ripe (yeah right!!)
By Kelley on 05.18.08 9:28 pm | Permalink
We mix ratsak with peanut butter and put it in the roof. Mice and rats LOVE peanut butter so we throw them their own little party now and again. Never had one die in the house or the roof. The poison sends them outside to find water..gives them an insatiable thirst!
Cats should know when there’s something not right with them and should leave them alone..been doing this for years and never had a cat take one yet…they are feral little mongrels! Hate vermin {in fact i divorced a couple of them because they wouldn’t eat peanut butter!!}
Anonymum:
Ahh that explains why my dog found a few outside, but pretty much ignored them. They were out there looking for water.
As far as your vermin go, if they won’t eat what’s good for them, what else con you do but divirce them?
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By anonymum on 05.19.08 8:32 pm | Permalink
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