Anonymous
Post 01/10/2013 12:41     Subject: Mouse on the couch!
Time to move! And I'd buy a new couch too. In fact, I'd buy all new furniture. I am NOT a country girl and shit like that FREAKS ME OUT to the highest level.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2013 12:40     Subject: Mouse on the couch!
Anonymous wrote:Babies are not the worst problem. The worst is when they DIE in the walls or in the ceiling between floors and you have to live with that disgustingly sweet, rotten smell for months.


The smell only lasts a week or so with mice. With rats it can last a month or two.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2013 12:35     Subject: Mouse on the couch!
Babies are not the worst problem. The worst is when they DIE in the walls or in the ceiling between floors and you have to live with that disgustingly sweet, rotten smell for months.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2013 12:31     Subject: Mouse on the couch!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Get rid of the couch. Burn the house down. Then disparage the neighborhood on DCUM.


LOL!!!!!!!!!!


I'm OP and I'm laughing too.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2013 11:43     Subject: Re:Mouse on the couch!
Oh, I washed it later. Just not at 5am. It was a nice kick in the pants to do something I do pretty routinely, every 3-4 months.

But to clarify, I did NOT cozy up with the dead rodent. The cat played on my bed with the live rodent for a while, then took the game elsewhere, then killed it and left it next to the front door. At no time was there a dead mouse on my bed. A distressed and about-be-dead mouse, yes. But the actual moment of his passing was some time after he had exited the bedroom (in the cat's mouth).

Anyway, calls to get rid of the couch are so stupid I can't stand it. That's the whole point, here.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2013 11:41     Subject: Mouse on the couch!
This thread makes me want to vomit. We had a mouse two years ago and that was what convinced my husband to remodel the (ancient) kitchen where the mouse was scurrying. If we'd seen it on the couch I think I would have had to move out. Sorry if that sounds hystrionic, I've lived in some crazy places and there are multitudes of things I can handle but small rodents in my living space just isn't one of them.

PS, for the OP if she's still reading - my kids are crumb machines. Now we vacuum nightly thanks to my OCD husband but there's still plenty of mess. And never did the mouse get near our living room couch to my knowledge. I'd be very afraid of nesting in your case.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2013 11:34     Subject: Re:Mouse on the couch!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"get rid of the couch"??

OMG, you people are LAUGHABLE.

A few months ago, my cat caught a mouse in the pre-dawn hours, and brought it up to play with it on my bed. I woke up, wondering why he was jumping all around like that. "Oh. He has a mouse." So I went to lie down on the couch til the job was done. Then I went back to bed.

The amount of drama you can concoct around a one-ounce mammal is so contemptible. Spoiled idiots.


That is no way to live!


Agreed. That is so f*cking nasty. I bet she didn't even wash the comforter/duvet.


Of course I didn't! It was 5am! And what kind of lunatic needs to sanitize everything a teeny little critter touched, anyway? You prissy little princesses are going to bring down humanity, with your puny immune systems and your superbug-creating anti-germ agenda.


I didn't mean wash it immediately. Ironically, I work in microbiology/parasitology, freak. I don't even believe in constant portable hand-sanitizer. However, if I had a dead rodent and possibly remanants on my bedding-- I woudl definitely wash it that day. I didn't say jump out of bed at 5am--but the fact you are lying there with a dead rodent (read germs) is gross. My kids always come jumping on my bedding when they wake up and I wouldn't want them jumping on dead mouse remains.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2013 11:32     Subject: Mouse on the couch!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What?? I asked if OP lived in DC and what Ward because I was going to post some information about how the City will help homeowners with a severe rodent problem. You effin' evil DCUM sex-starved posters should just die.


Can you post the info for the different wards here? If not all, then 4, 5, & 6. Thanks!
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2013 11:29     Subject: Re:Mouse on the couch!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"get rid of the couch"??

OMG, you people are LAUGHABLE.

A few months ago, my cat caught a mouse in the pre-dawn hours, and brought it up to play with it on my bed. I woke up, wondering why he was jumping all around like that. "Oh. He has a mouse." So I went to lie down on the couch til the job was done. Then I went back to bed.

The amount of drama you can concoct around a one-ounce mammal is so contemptible. Spoiled idiots.


That is no way to live!


Agreed. That is so f*cking nasty. I bet she didn't even wash the comforter/duvet.


Of course I didn't! It was 5am! And what kind of lunatic needs to sanitize everything a teeny little critter touched, anyway? You prissy little princesses are going to bring down humanity, with your puny immune systems and your superbug-creating anti-germ agenda.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2013 11:24     Subject: Mouse on the couch!
Anonymous wrote:Get rid of the couch. Burn the house down. Then disparage the neighborhood on DCUM.


LOL!!!!!!!!!!
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2013 11:22     Subject: Re:Mouse on the couch!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"get rid of the couch"??

OMG, you people are LAUGHABLE.

A few months ago, my cat caught a mouse in the pre-dawn hours, and brought it up to play with it on my bed. I woke up, wondering why he was jumping all around like that. "Oh. He has a mouse." So I went to lie down on the couch til the job was done. Then I went back to bed.

The amount of drama you can concoct around a one-ounce mammal is so contemptible. Spoiled idiots.


That is no way to live!


Agreed. That is so f*cking nasty. I bet she didn't even wash the comforter/duvet.


Eh, chill out. She said mouse, not rat.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2013 11:21     Subject: Mouse on the couch!
Get rid of the couch. Burn the house down. Then disparage the neighborhood on DCUM.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2013 11:19     Subject: Mouse on the couch!
Mice are cute
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2013 11:13     Subject: Re:Mouse on the couch!
What color is the couch? Can I have it? I will take it with the nest.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2013 11:12     Subject: Re:Mouse on the couch!
Anonymous wrote:I'm in the suburbs. I can't believe people think I should get rid of the couch. I don't think there is a nest in the couch. I think it was just eating the crumbs on the cushion.


I posted earlier about furniture. And yes there was evidence of turn upholstery stuffing and nests. Plus turds and some mice in the chairs. OP might have had a mouse eating or might have a family. I also live in the suburbs.