Eek!

[MrsK]

I found mouse in my garage! What do I do? (I'm a city girl. Never saw a mouse outside of a cage.) Should I assume it has friends? And how do I dispose of the body? I assume you cannot flush it like a bug or goldfish. Please don't make fun of me. I know the rest of you battle rats, scorpians and opossums; I'm such a wuss.

[scrub-jay]

Get a cat? I would assume it has friends. Start sealing up all excess food. They can chew through cardboard, so go for heavy duty plastic or metal, this includes cereal boxes/crackers/snacks. Sometimes you can find a good mouser kitty that can be loaned out for a few weeks, but that might be hard. ((big hugs))

[Tenacious_D]

I sort of chuckled because I am a city girl too and have had my fair share of mice/rat sightings...be grateful it was in the garage when you saw it . As for advice...traps or a cat. Make sure there are no small holes that lead into the house. Good luck

[JDAZ11]

I would assume he has friends. He is dead, right? We had some rodents in the garage of the house we lived in over the summer and found that placing sticky traps on the perimeter of the garage worked very well to catch them... the problem with that is that then you will have a live (or dead) mouse stuck to a little trap in your garage (which was seriously gross). Anyhow, when it happened I would just put on rubber gloves and use a dust pan covered with a plastic shopping bag to scoop the whole trap into a big ziplock bag and put all of it in the trash (well i removed the dust pan).

I had just moved from nyc - where rodents are occasionally on the street, but not in apartments - so it's perhaps not the best method ever (calling an exterminator would likely work better), but it worked fine for me (kind of horrible, but got the job done). Also - not sure if you keep your garbage in the garage, but probably not a terrible idea to keep it outside (if possible) for a little bit.

Scorpions are fun to deal with too - so gross! Good luck!

[scrub-jay]

And - if you do keep your garbage outside, maybe a metal container (not plastic) would be better. If determined, they can chew through plastic outdoor garbage bins (I've only seen this in barns though).

[JDAZ11]

And - if you do keep your garbage outside, maybe a metal container (not plastic) would be better. If determined, they can chew through plastic outdoor garbage bins (I've only seen this in barns though).

gross! I didn't even think about that. Ewww.

[TigerLily]

In our last apartment, I woke up one morning to a cereal box with a huge hole chewed through the side of it. I was so freaked out, I was ready to move. Just knowing that the little thing had been in my pantry gave me the creepy crawlies for months. Anyway, we called the maintenance people, since it was an apt, and he came and put some weird little thingy behind our stove that he said one mouse would take home and it would...ummm..get rid of the rest of his family. We never had another problem.
Sorry I'm not much help, but I understand your creepedoutness

[Pollyanna]

Hmmm, I think dh just throws the rat carcass over the wall for the coyotes, snakes, or vultures to eat. Rat poison placed inside balls of peanut butter works well (providing the mouse can't get in your house and die there (yuck). Honestly, I would just call an exterminator and tell your landlord, he should pay for it.

[MrsK]

I called my mom. (Told you I'm a wuss.) She said, "Park the car on the driveway and leave it for your husband."

[JDAZ11]

I called my mom. (Told you I'm a wuss.) She said, "Park the car on the driveway and leave it for your husband."

I went with this approach the first couple of times!

[oceanchild]

Honestly, I would just call an exterminator and tell your landlord, he should pay for it.

Yeah, take advantage of renting. Traps and poison all work, but there's a good chance you'll still have to deal with the dead ones.

We have serious mouse issues in my office (for the record, the state capitol), and every time someone sees one, I spend the rest of the day with my feet up on my desk or somewhere else not on the floor. Twitch, twitch.

[Vanquisher]

Mice in my house = me in hotel until I have 100% certainty there are none. DH or exterminator can deal. Don't care. I have a quite unnatural extreme phobia of rodents.

I was a straight-A student in high school, but got my first and only F ever on a project that involved gluing mouse bones from an owl pellet onto construction paper. Heidi don't play that. I refused to even look at it.

[Michele]

It has friends. Call an exterminator.

[MrsK]

Per our lease, we are responsible for extermination.

[Chrisada]

We have mice in our garage, but it is detached. I keep everything in bins and seal them shut with tape. I've also put out poison. If you read my rant it was about a mouse chewing up the carseat DH left in the garage. I've just accepted they will always be in there. The boys always have the garage door open. Luckily, I've never seen them though.