Found out tonight that mice have a fondness for Shellac. I mix shellac in glass jars and transfer the mixture to plastic cups during use. After I’m finished, I pour remaining shellac back into the jar and leave the disposable brush or cloth and the cup on my bench to dry. I went down to my garage for the first time in a week and found the cups overturned, the foam brushes half chewed, and mouse droppings all over the bench. I laughed, turned, walked back up the stairs, and left the door open for my cat. Perhaps I need more cats.
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I'd say the mice will be holed up with severe hangovers for a while.
EdHarrison,
The alcohol evaporates. The mouse is eating bug butt juice not a mixture. (since almost all pills are coated with shellac and most of us takes pills and getting a hangover isn't one of the little warnings in the side of the bottles ;-)
that's really funny! i've got a mouse in my kitchen that the cat loves to look out for, but has yet to catch.
"that's really funny! i've got a mouse in my kitchen that the cat loves to look out for, but has yet to catch." We had one under the kitchen sink that our little orange tabby had been scouting for some time. When we went to Trout Lake and Portland last weekend, we took the cleaning supplies out from under the sink, and left the doors open.
No mousie-residue for evidence, but now mouse droppings either! So I think he's gone, tail and all.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
"I've got a mouse in the kitchen that the cat loves to look out for." Tell me about it. When my daughter was married, her husband was allergic to cats so good old dad took the responsibility. We had been mouse free for some thirty years. Well this cat loved to play. It would catch a mouse or chipmunk outside and if you didn't look it over real good when it came back in, it would bring it inside and turn it loose. Took some six weeks before we caught the first one. It almost became a second house pet. One day that cat just mysteriously disappeared.
Ah ! Slipping the poor rodent a "Mickey"
Work Safe, Count to 10 when your done for the day !!
Bruce S.
Reminds me of when i had a few mice in the attic. Once in a while one of them would come down, on night I woke up to feel something on my hand, there was a mice!
At the time i had 3 huskies that would kill any bird or squirrel or groundhog they could get. None of them got the mouse. oh well!
That's really odd! Bet it was a heckuva party!
Years ago, before I had claimed the entire garage as my own <grin> there were a couple of drawers that held hubby's and son's tools. OK, so sometime in the fall I found (in the house) a bag of sunflower seeds that were old and I didn't want to feed them to the birds. So...I toted it up the hill and into the woods and poured them out on the ground, probably 75 yards from the garage.
You guessed it! In the winter, I found a smelly mouse nest in one of the drawers, and a huge pile of sunflower seeds! Industrious little critter had packed em back down the hill and tucked them into his new home!
The drawer was so bad, I ended up rebuilding it. Put a new back in the cabinet, but this month, found droppings in there again. They had chewed a little hole at the upper edge of the back, entered, made a new nest. I was 4 for 4 when I set traps the first night, got 3 more that week. Haven't seen any new evidence since!
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
i know about the 4 for 4. had mice in the house 10 years back and set a trap under the sink. i had a mouse per night for 7 nights and that was the end of them until a year or so ago.
I had two light touch mice that would clean the peanut butter out of the holes on the Victor trap and not set it off. Had to adjust the catch to be a hair trigger to get the buggers.Work Safe, Count to 10 when your done for the day !!
Bruce S.
yep, i've had that trouble before as well.
it could worse, it could be moose shellac!
Yep, it looks like I cleaned out the ones that had set up their winter homes in the shop. I doubt the wander much from their chosen spot this time of the year!forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
The denatured alcohol probably solved the problem.
John
Three blind mice? :-)I was working at a client site yesterday and had a can of shellac with a little residue. I turned around to see the dog licking it.
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