On Aug 14, 11:43 am, gpsman <gps...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Aug 14, 9:48 am, RickH <passp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> I don't know how it might have climbed the vent stack... and I would
> wonder if the toilet lid were up or down...
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> Chances are best that if you have seen one mouse, there are more.
> Generally, they're practically an infestation before the homeowner
> notices.
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> 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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I'll keep you posted if there are more. Seat was up but a small mouse
could not possibly climb an inverted slope ****celain bowl, just like
he could not climb out of same bowl. No other "climbing fixtures" are
near this toilet for him to make a swan dive into the toilet either.
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