Gaah! There's a vole in my room!
Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:35 pm
Yeah, a vole. It's like a mouse with a really small tail and they live in the mountains. So whenever I go to sleep, I often hear scratching and scurrying in the walls and cieling from what I assume are mice or voles. I figure we'll use the thing which makes a piercing noise rodents hate and humans can't hear and will make them run from the house - holding back our pets so they both don't run either from the sound or after the voles.
But last night, I actually saw one in my room! I have two cats, one of which chases rodents. That cat happened to be on my bed, purring and sleeping adorably. Besides, I didn't want to wake him up and show him the vole- it'd be heartless, and besides, he does disgusting things to rodents (can anyone say dissection and beheading?). So now I've got this vole making little squeaky sounds as it runs around my room. And we don't know where the device that makes the noise is! Help! This is kinda creeping me out. I'm not afraid of it, but.... I don't like rodent poop all over my room, and I don't want more to run wild and for us to have to hire an exterminator or something.
But last night, I actually saw one in my room! I have two cats, one of which chases rodents. That cat happened to be on my bed, purring and sleeping adorably. Besides, I didn't want to wake him up and show him the vole- it'd be heartless, and besides, he does disgusting things to rodents (can anyone say dissection and beheading?). So now I've got this vole making little squeaky sounds as it runs around my room. And we don't know where the device that makes the noise is! Help! This is kinda creeping me out. I'm not afraid of it, but.... I don't like rodent poop all over my room, and I don't want more to run wild and for us to have to hire an exterminator or something.
Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:54 pm
I went out into the hills for a couple of days awhile ago and there was something scurrying around in the middle of the night (I guessed it was a mouse/possum/lizard/etc) but it was kind of creeping me out at the time because I'm used to sleeping in dead-silence I thought something was in the room with me.
Do mouse traps work on voles? Because the little wooden ones are usually pretty cheap. Having said that I suppose using them you actually end up killing or seriously injuring the rodent which might not be something you want to do, plus you have to dispose of it.
So you actually own one of these high frequency sound things? It wouldn't be in a store-room or shed and you happen to have over-looked it when you were searching?
As a last resort, do the cats sleep in your room at night? If they do then perhaps they'll hear the rodent running around and they'll sort the job out for you... I definately know its not pleasant, the way they batter the creature around before killing it is awful
Other than that I really don't know, you could always try catching it yourself and throwing it outside?!?
Do mouse traps work on voles? Because the little wooden ones are usually pretty cheap. Having said that I suppose using them you actually end up killing or seriously injuring the rodent which might not be something you want to do, plus you have to dispose of it.
So you actually own one of these high frequency sound things? It wouldn't be in a store-room or shed and you happen to have over-looked it when you were searching?
As a last resort, do the cats sleep in your room at night? If they do then perhaps they'll hear the rodent running around and they'll sort the job out for you... I definately know its not pleasant, the way they batter the creature around before killing it is awful
Other than that I really don't know, you could always try catching it yourself and throwing it outside?!?
Last edited by Medusa on Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:55 pm
That's actually pretty cool! If they were pets anyway. One of my online friends has a chinchilla.. it's soooo cute! I was to moosh it.
Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:23 pm
This worked when I had to catch my hamster, so I think it would work for a vole.
Take a bucket with slippery sides on the inside, and put towels at the bottom. Make a slope out of a piece of wood leading up to the bucket. Put this in the center of your room. Then take seeds and make trails from where you think it could be leading up the ramp and into the bucket. It should follow the trails, and fall into the bucket but it won't get hurt because there will be towels on the bottom, and he can't get out because he can't climb the sides! ^_^
When there was a vole problem in my yard, my rabbit kinda got the vole before we could. If you don't want it getting hurt, I think the best think would be to try the bucket thing.
Take a bucket with slippery sides on the inside, and put towels at the bottom. Make a slope out of a piece of wood leading up to the bucket. Put this in the center of your room. Then take seeds and make trails from where you think it could be leading up the ramp and into the bucket. It should follow the trails, and fall into the bucket but it won't get hurt because there will be towels on the bottom, and he can't get out because he can't climb the sides! ^_^
When there was a vole problem in my yard, my rabbit kinda got the vole before we could. If you don't want it getting hurt, I think the best think would be to try the bucket thing.
Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:48 pm
Uhm...you could try getting a nonfatal trap at the nearest pharmacy or hardware store. I presume voles like peanut butter as much as mice do, but I don't know.
I once had a skunk poop on my socks at Boy Scout Camp.
Medusa wrote:I went out into the hills for a couple of days awhile ago and there was something scurrying around in the middle of the night (I guessed it was a mouse/possum/lizard/etc) but it was kind of creeping me out at the time because I'm used to sleeping in dead-silence I thought something was in the room with me
I once had a skunk poop on my socks at Boy Scout Camp.
Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:53 pm
shapu wrote:I once had a skunk poop on my socks at Boy Scout Camp.
Now that would be scary! I do hope you had a change of socks at the time!
Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:55 pm
Medusa wrote:shapu wrote:I once had a skunk poop on my socks at Boy Scout Camp.
Now that would be scary! I do hope you had a change of socks at the time!
*shudders at thought of skunk poop*
Fri Jul 23, 2004 2:25 pm
Well, I wasn't wearing them. And since I'm the prototypical Boy Scout, I had about 10 pairs of socks for a 7-day camp. So yeah, I had some extras.
Fri Jul 23, 2004 4:02 pm
Kyra wrote:When there was a vole problem in my yard, my rabbit kinda got the vole before we could. If you don't want it getting hurt, I think the best think would be to try the bucket thing.
Your rabbit got the vole?
Fri Jul 23, 2004 4:09 pm
Shoyru_Lover wrote:That's actually pretty cool! If they were pets anyway. One of my online friends has a chinchilla.. it's soooo cute! I was to moosh it.
Chincillas are soooooooooooo cute! I love them! They look liek a giant mouse, but it's so much cuter. And when they go in bottles to sleep...
Awwwwwwwwwwwww
Fri Jul 23, 2004 4:35 pm
Actually, my cat was sleeping in my bed at the time I saw the vole. He didn't notice it. Cute little useless Shmoo! I don't know if my other cat will even look twice at it- he's really more into birds. I suppose I could try to pick him up and take him in, but Lucky doesn't like me holding him. He'll only let my mom hold him... he's a momma's boy. But I really, really don't want Mango/Shmoo to kill it. He's disgusting. He breaks their back legs, then bats them about... Sometimes he dissects them (never witnessed it, but we found a dead Unidentifiable Rodent in the computer room which was so perfectly dissected we could see its spleen. I NEVER want to see another rodent spleen.) Plus he beheads voles and leaves their stomachs and heads lying about. Disgusting... (When we had a gerbil, he'd leave it next to the Gerbil cage in a Mafioso sort of way...)
I don't like the wooden mouse traps. I really don't. Ugh. So I'll try the bucket method.
I don't like the wooden mouse traps. I really don't. Ugh. So I'll try the bucket method.
Fri Jul 23, 2004 4:50 pm
I remember at band camp we had a mouse in our cabin. We actually saw it running across the back room (where no one was sleeping). We actually came to like it....we named him Fred. XD
But the chaperone set a trap anyway. In the middle of the night we heard the SNAP so we all went to the room and we found one of the girls standing over it with a twizzler hanging out of her mouth and a broken twizzler on the floor snapped in two by the trap. She claimed it was an accident but we all knew she did it to save the mouse. XD
But the chaperone set a trap anyway. In the middle of the night we heard the SNAP so we all went to the room and we found one of the girls standing over it with a twizzler hanging out of her mouth and a broken twizzler on the floor snapped in two by the trap. She claimed it was an accident but we all knew she did it to save the mouse. XD
Fri Jul 23, 2004 4:53 pm
Though I never had a problem with rodents, I suggest that you figure out how it got into your room before you catch it. Just follow it around a little and see if you can find a hole in the wall or something that would be how it moves in and out.
Fri Jul 23, 2004 5:02 pm
I have mice in my room too...I don't know where the hell they're coming from. o.O I have mousetraps all over and they run AROUND them....eugh. My cats are too lazy to catch any either.
Fri Jul 23, 2004 6:51 pm
Haha thats cool. I'll let you borrow my cat, she doesn't bother with dissection. She just eats 'em whole. 