He could have climbed up a wall or cabinet and fallen into the toilet.
"RickH" <pass****t@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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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>> <crossposted to alt.consumers.pest-control>
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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
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>> > 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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