On Aug 14, 9:48 am, RickH <passp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
<crossposted to alt.consumers.pest-control>
> 0600 hours this morning the wife gets out of bed to use the master
> bath (on second floor). She screams because there is a small gray
> mouse doing the breast stroke in the toilet, stuck unable to climb
> out. I figure since this is a second story bath that the only way
> that mouse got there was through the roof vent. We've never had a
> mouse in the house and it would be impossible for him to get into the
> toilet by climbing it or jumping from a counter because this toilet is
> separated from the sink in a corner with no adjacent fixtures. I also
> figue it could not have crawled up to the second story through
> vertical PVC from the basement had it gotten in through the street
> main.
>
> So it must have fell in the roof vent then just too a turn at the T
> into the toilet and swam past the toilet P trap.
>
> Is there any other way he could have gotten there? That I should be
> looking to plug up an entry hole? The house is only 8 years old,
> probably no screen on the roof vent.
I don't know how it might have climbed the vent stack... and I would
wonder if the toilet lid were up or down...
Chances are best that if you have seen one mouse, there are more.
Generally, they're practically an infestation before the homeowner
notices.
I'd advise getting a few packs of rat sized glue traps and baiting
them with a couple cotton balls (and/or pistachios) about an inch from
the edge and placing them in a corner or under the sinks on each
floor.
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- gpsman
