apparently, I live in squalor

[bedlamsbard]

Mouse! Mouse in our room! Mouse! In our room! Apparently it has fled, fled for the hallway and the sanctity of someone else's room, but mouse in our room.

Dude, of course I told the front desk (my RA wasn't answering her door) before I posted about it. Because I have to tell the whole Internets my horror.

Mouse in our room. All food is now in our fridge. All food is not necessarily supposed to be in the fridge, but all food is in the fridge.

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[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

There are probably lots of mouse in the entire dorm. Probably lots of them. It's a convenient food-source. Plus, rain drives them up away from ground.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

...I want a shotgun.

Not that a shotgun would do much good with mice, mind. And it hasn't been raining! Except for that hurricane last week. *cough* And I live on the first floor! Which is not ground floor, of course, because this is New Orleans, and one has to climb up a million steps to get any place.

[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

You might want to downgrade to something more practical. Like traps.

Well, still - something tells the water table in new orleans is, shall we say, quite high. (just guessing here). The dorm is likely to have a lot more mice than just one. For every one you see; probably a dozen more in the walls.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I think Emergency Services is bringing some. Not TEMS, just, uh, Emergency Services; that's who the front desk called.

Well, you know, considering the fact they can't even bury their dead below ground.

Do not tell me these things. IN OUR ROOM.

[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

Look on the bright side - it's not rats.

Or cockroaches.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

AGH.

[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

I hear the roaches in the south can fly.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

STOP NOW.

[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

You're in a girls dorm; try hairspray on anything with more legs than you. I hear it works pretty well.

Barring that, you can always add a lighter to the hairspray and torch 'em. Not sure facilities would appreciate that, though.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Spray-deoderant works well, too. One of the girls in my dorm had a rat that kept sitting in the ventilation grille and gibbering at her. She threw pillows to no avail, but the little sucker was no match for aerosol deoderant.

Having said that, I tripped over one of our rodent friends going down the stairs once. Not sure what I did to deserve that: I leave the rats alone, all I ask is that they not get in my way, but NO they seem determined to do so.

On the mouse front, Bedlam- did someone have a pet mouse? One of the girls in my first-year dorm had a pet mouse. Which became an ex-pet mouse and terrorised her wing for a few weeks before becoming an ex-pet ex-mouse.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I don't think we're allowed to have pet mice here. *glares warily* MICE IN MY DORM.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I don't have hairspray. (I know: I fail at GIRL.)

[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

Teamwork, my friend. Find someone with a wind-resistant coif.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

My friends are going to love me. MOUSE!

[ladyprydian.livejournal.com]

Traps with dried apricots or peanut butter.

Gets them every time.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

...I don't want dead mice in my dorm either. Leaving this one to Fate and Emergency Services.

[1aquaesulis76.livejournal.com]

Oh poor you! Mouse in the room is just - no. Never good. *shudder* I can sympathise though, I was faced with one first thing this morning too. At least I know where that one came from, seeing that my babiest cat ran in with it STILL IN HER MOUTH before she dropped it in answer to my yelling. Hope yours doesn't come back either, maybe a big picture of a cat (or a picture of a big cat, say a tiger?) might scare them off in future?! Glad your foods safe though - that has to be the most important thing in life ;)

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Although, to be fair, I didn't actually see the mouse, my roommate did and I took her word for it.

Now the food is in high places. The fridge was too inconvenient. *grin*