Mouse and other stuff
Question:
Very funny story!! I’ve always wanted a ferret or two. I did have the tiny mice once though. I caught them in the kitchen (I was just a kid) and tried to hide them from my mother who would never let me have any kind of rodents or lizzards, for fear of getting mice!! I put them in a wooden trunk, with an electric blanket during the day, since we turned the heat off when no one was home. One day though, I forgot to turn OFF the blanket before putting it in the trunk, and the mice were dead when I got home ;( they were tiny, smaller than a thumb tip! I also have a very sensitive nose, and have to hunt down those strange oders!! hehe Steve laughs at me when I’m on my hands and knees crawling around the floor sniffing up all the dust and sneazing. Oh well.. he can’t seem to smell ANYTHING~! CHUCK the hungry one 
Response:
Hey….a couple weeks ago, someone posted an article about a dead mouse in her cabinet and how she had to repaint and her ferretts ran thru the wet paint….I don’t remember if it was here or at alt.ocd…if it was here, and someone can find the article, can you please send it to me? I laughed so hard, and I want to print it out to give me something to smile about. I am weaning off the zoloft (still), and feeling kinda oogy…you know what I mean. I am having alot of pain..is pain in the joints and muscles a normal withdrawel symptom? I hurt bad…feel like I have been hit by a truck! Someone please…let me know you see me…. — KayOfBoz ***All Lives Have Value*** Visit Kay’s Page at http://www.vvm.com/~kjones
Response:
Hey….a couple weeks ago, someone posted an article about a dead mouse in her cabinet and how she had to repaint and her ferretts ran thru the wet paint….I don’t remember if it was here or at alt.ocd…if it was here, and someone can find the article, can you please send it to me? I laughed so hard, and I want to print it out to give me something to smile about.
Kay…. painting the woodwork in my kitchen. Since that incident my ferret, Beebo, has taken on a tremendous fascination with paint pans, paint cans, digging his toes in paintbrushes, dragging around mixing sticks, hiding sandpaper in the closet, making little nests out of steel wool and getting high off mineral spirits fumes. My other ferret just sits in her hammock in the pantry, surveying the kitchen and watches him go berzerk with all the new "toys". I spend alot of time running after Beebo and getting my stuff back…….he runs after me muttering ferret cuss words trying to get his enjoyment. Mouse Tales ….The mouse story…..this little mouse had been chewing up things in my bread drawer, leaving mouse mistakes in his wake…..now I don’t mind sharing, but I worry about Hanta virus and other stuff. So Mr. Engineer-hubby built a mouse trap that catches them alive using a soup can, peanut, a nail, couple of rubberbands and a string. Anyway, he caught the darn mouse in about 45 min. however the lid snapped shut on his tail and crimped it. I took the mousie out to the back corner of the yard by the woodpile and let him go and he ran away. We re-set the trap, and in about an hour, "slap" we caught another mouse….but guess what……it’s the SAME mouse…..now the mouse has TWO crimped places on his tail. I fuss so much about the poor mouse that hubby builds a bigger moustrap with a Pringles can, meanwhile I take the mouse next door to monstrous huge wood pile and let the mousie go. Couple hours later…."slap"…….caught another mouse…..guess who. Yep, old ‘double-crimp" himself. So Hubby takes the little mouse down to the end of the street to a field and let him go. That night about midnight……"slap"……(now this is still going on in my bread drawer)….the SAME FRIGGIN’ MOUSE!!!! No kidding…….doublecrimped tail!!! So he took the mouse to work….32 miles and let him go in Well NOW I know why that mouse was running from a block up the street to come back……Stinky, my ferret, was running in circles at the drawer the next night and when I looked, I saw the tiniest mouse! A mini-mouse. About as big as a nickel with a tail. She jumped away, (the mini-mouse) but we caught her again the following morning and I put her in a bucket, I bet that other chubby little mouse was a mother. I figure I have about 4 more mice to catch now. That poor mouse was running back to be with her babies and now I feel awful about the whole thing. As of yesterday we’ve caught five teensy mouses with hubby’s trap. I have them in a nice 5gal bucket with a Evian lid with water in it, a mayonnaise jar lid with bird seeds, and a wad of dryer lint and a TP tube. They are pretty happy in there. So far, no more mice in the trap. Yesterday morning I come downstairs and sniff sniff<…..what stinks? So I’m sniffing around and can’t locate where it’s coming from. I’m sniffing around on my hands and knees around the baseboards….like a dog. Climbing on a ladder in the basement sniffing between the floor joists and getting dizzy. Well, I narrowed it down to the stove….I’m taking the top off the stove and sniffing…..well finally, after taking every pot, pan, Tupperware, appliance, etc out of the damn cabinets under the counter…..I found a teensy dead mouse. Beats me why he died. But to be on the safe side…..I have to disinfect and sterilize everything or I will probably imagine myself dying tomorrow of Hanta virus. I’ve been shoving everything in the dishwasher and running load after load, then stacking it on the table. Anyway….you know what, I can’t get the smell of that little dead mouse out of the spot on the linoleum where he was laying. I’ve soaked it in bleach (the vinyl, not the mouse), then Lysol, then made a paste of baking soda, poured boiling water over it. It still REEKS. And I still can’t get the general stink out of the cabinet. I wiped it down with alcohol then Lysol, bleach….and it still stinks!! <gag I decided I’d have to paint the inside of the cabinet to cover the smell, since everything is out of it, shouldn’t be a problem. The idiots at the paint dept sold me on a wipe-on deglosser ….. well it made the paint fish-eye like crazy. I mean to say that it looks like someone took a sprayer and sprayed it with oil. JEEZE!! I’ve NEVER seen such a mess in my life!!! I’m getting tense over this now, kitchen is a wreck, appliances and pans everywhere, wet paint….. Then it started raining……one rule of thumb, NEVER paint when its raining. We haven’t had a drrop of rain for six weeks and today it decides to rain…….not enough to wet the dirt, just enough to dampen the air. It makes paint get tacky and not dry to a hard shine. AAAAAAAAGHHHHHHH!!! Anyway after I painted it, and was looking at the fish-eyes everywhere, I thought I’d better go get a brush (I’d rolled it) and see if I could touch it up…….I had to run down the basement for the brush…..well, Beebo, my other ferret that normally sleeps ALL day, everyday……. but not today, today he thought he’d run over, jump in the cabinet (I don’t know why because he hates things that smell bad) and had a fight with nine other imaginary ferrets in the damn wet paint in the cabinet. You wouldn’t believe it……it’s like there was a friggin’ circus in there…..and there’s paint all over the linoleum and the cabinet doors…..and Beebo’s feet and tail. I had to give him a bath and I wasn’t nice about it. GRRRRRRRR!!!! So……how has your day been? Think I’ll go have the PA now while waiting for the paint to dry. KC Cindy
