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Post by palesa on Mar 9, 2009 14:13:13 GMT
I am very tired today and I expect that tomorrow will be no different.
We seem to have a rodent or two living under our wooden floor boards, add to the mix a Scottish Terrier who is bred to hunt rodents and you have an interesting night and day and night and day.
I have just been to the dining room and I see that she has succesfully chewed the skirting board and pulled it away from the wall, all in an effort to get under the floor to get to the above mentioned rodent.
I have some people coming to do pest control on Wednesday who will do what they need to do, but until then ...
Thank goodness I will get a bit of sleep under anaesthesia tomorrow!
No real point to this post, just needed to share. Thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2009 14:18:08 GMT
Saturday night my cat Sadie brought me a mouse(still warm) and then about 20 minutes later Mr. C.'s cat Grazie brought him a mouse. I suspect they came from outside as several doors were open.
Offerings.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2009 14:46:23 GMT
When I had mice under the floor, I don't think I slept more than about 45 minutes a night.
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Post by happytraveller on Mar 9, 2009 14:46:42 GMT
Thank goodness I will get a bit of sleep under anaesthesia tomorrow! There you go. At least one positive point  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 9, 2009 17:07:00 GMT
Poor Palesa! You sound ground down by recent events and the mice are the final straw. I have rather a bad water problem right now, so am very frugal with it doing laundry, etc. The other day I got everything washed, including the rugs -- a very satisfying feeling. This house has no closets or cupboards, so I keep my towels in one bottom drawer of a wardrobe and my jeans in the other. When I went to get out clean towels & put up the freshly washed ones, I discovered mouse droppings all over the towels in the drawer. Drat! Luckily nothing was chewed, but I had to pull all the towels and pants out and wash them.  |
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Post by palesa on Mar 18, 2009 4:37:54 GMT
Rodents are gone, thank goodness.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 18, 2009 6:14:22 GMT
So the pest control people came? Any idea what they used to get rid of the rodents?
I have a big fat rat who has made a hole from the street side under my block wall. The other night he strolled up onto the porch when both Ginger & I were right there at the open kitchen door. Now I'm afraid to go out to the compost bin at night. I dramatically set the hole on fire with rags, gasoline and sticks, but I think he just tidied up afterwards & is still using it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2009 10:10:16 GMT
Bixa,you need a cat or two
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Post by happytraveller on Mar 18, 2009 11:33:33 GMT
I'm glad they are not bugging you anymore Palesa !
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 18, 2009 16:02:55 GMT
Bixa,you need a cat or two I don't need to alienate everyone on here by describing my feelings about cats. |
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Post by spindrift on Mar 18, 2009 22:24:26 GMT
Hmmmmmm......
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 19, 2009 3:26:35 GMT
It's not my fault ~~ they started it!
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Post by hwinpp on Mar 19, 2009 6:16:06 GMT
Funnily enough, and I'm very surprised, I've never seen a rat in my house! And there's a slum right behind it.
Bixa, for me cats wouldn't be a solution either, I'd need to get dogs to get rid of them!
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Post by tillystar on Mar 19, 2009 10:47:39 GMT
Cats are evil.
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Post by rikita on Mar 19, 2009 13:22:37 GMT
indeed...  |
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Post by palesa on Mar 19, 2009 16:28:11 GMT
Hmm, I think, like Bix, I will keep my views to myself.
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