Mouse problem...

[blueberrypancakes]

We just moved into a new place. We have mice! We are resolving the issue (albeit slower than I would prefer...), but I dont remember Jackson being quite so antsy in our apartment! Any one else have any experience with home mice infestations? (in relation to their snakes.)

[Lupe]

I haven't noticed any difference in my balls behavior. In the winter the mice like to move inside my house, our new cat has caught 2 in my room where my snakes are. My big male does seem interested in my pet rats when he is out and they are running around their cage.

[JLC]

The house we lived in last year in Colorado was infested with mice when we moved in. It didn't seem to phase my snakes at all, though. I made sure when the exterminator came out that he knew I had snakes and exactly where they were so that he wouldn't spray any poisons anywhere near them. We used poison traps on the mice, so it wasn't anything the snakes were going to get into anyhow.

No matter how tempting it might seem to be, NEVER give a wild-caught mouse to your snakes. No telling what kinds of parasites it might be carrying, nor what kinds of toxins it might have ingested. Besides traditional rodent poisons that you or others might have put out, they also get into household chemicals. Under my kitchen sink in that Colorado house, they chewed through part of a box of Cascade and ate some of that powder. Ick!

We were in that house for a year, and never did totally solve the mouse problem, although the amount of activity was cut down quite a bit. Pain in the tush, for sure. But the snakes were unaffected.

[Kamille Kirkendoll]

I think I would be more affected than any snake! I would freak.

[SlitherinSisters]

Oh my gosh that would suck! One of our cats kills anything that gets in our house from rodents to birds. I didn't even know that Iowa had shrews until we moved into our house and Enzo killed three of them! I have no idea how they are getting in the house, but they are the only wild rodent that I have seen in the house.