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Old 10-24-2007, 03:36 AM
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Bring on the raccoons!

Because the cats are all useless. Totally useless. Seriously.

Last week, my favourite chair started smelling a little funny. It got worse. I pulled the cushions out, vacuumed in the cracks, washed it with carpet cleaner, checked in case someone put a plate on the floor and it got pushed under, and still my chair smelled. It got to the point that I couldn't sit in it. I checked the carpet around my chair, but the carpet was fine. Just the chair.

This morning I cleaned it again and it still stunk. Just awful. So, I went shopping and asked the boys to pull it away from the wall to check for food or wrappers behind it. I vacuum behind it, but you can never tell what might get behind furniture at my house.

#1 lifted the chair and apparently #3 started yelling and ran away, leaving #4 to deal with - the dead mouse under my chair!


Most likely the cats found and chased a mouse, playing with it after they wounded it. They forgot to finish the poor thing off, though, so the mouse hid under my chair while waiting to shuffle off. Why he had to do so under my chair is beyond me. Bleah.

So, one can of disinfectant and one of Febreze later, my chair smells just fine. Thank God. I hate cats.
 
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Old 10-24-2007, 10:10 AM
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Old 10-24-2007, 10:20 AM
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Re Bring on the raccoons!

Ick. Not much smells worse than a dead mouse. Except maybe a dead potato. Thank God the cats aren't vegetarians.
 
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Old 10-24-2007, 10:27 AM
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Dead rabbit. Under the house. Try that one some time. Double
 
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Re Bring on the raccoons!

Yeah, 'cause a raccoon would have WASHED the mouse before putting it under the chair...
 
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Old 10-24-2007, 01:59 PM
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Yeah, 'cause a raccoon would have WASHED the mouse before putting it under the chair...

 
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Old 10-25-2007, 09:28 PM
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Re Bring on the raccoons!

my cats always leave the mice out where I can find them easy.

I'm not sure that's any better
 
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Re Bring on the raccoons!

We don't have any indoor mice, and our cats don't go outside, so we haven't had a mouse incident for a long time. We have boring lives here.
 
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Re Bring on the raccoons!

Oh, ick! I HATE mice - dead or alive! I'm really glad you saved your chair, though!
 
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Old 10-29-2007, 10:15 PM
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Re Bring on the raccoons!

There seems to be this universal eeeeew about mice...
Here's Weetabix on the subject: dumber than a box of rocks
 
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