Keeping up with a new home -- renovating and maintaining it -- is when I felt as though I stepped over the line to the other side and became an adult. Today was a huge reminder that adulthood has arrived -- but, married or not, that doesn't mean you give up your parents entirely. This morning I was doing laundry and when I turned on the light in the bathroom near my laundry room, I noticed something in the toilet. It was a large gray mouse laying belly up. I screamed like a little girl and ran to my parent's house, which is next door. My father came running over to remove the dead mouse from the toilet as my husband, who was on the third floor in the bedroom, was wondering what was going on. My husband is not one to take care of things such as a dead mouse in the toilet. A live mouse once entered his family's home while I was there, and we both spent two hours standing on the kitchen counter with brooms, like weapons, in our hands.
Apparently, today's mouse found his way to our toilet through the pipes. As a result, I was afraid to sit on any of my toilets all day -- and my husband also had a bit of the willies. We also felt a bit useless because neither one of us had the courage to remove the mouse. We thank God my father was available -- and that he was willing to let us put off being responsible adults for today anyway. I guess in-laws come in handy for something and it's not always bad to have them live near you.
Apparently, today's mouse found his way to our toilet through the pipes. As a result, I was afraid to sit on any of my toilets all day -- and my husband also had a bit of the willies. We also felt a bit useless because neither one of us had the courage to remove the mouse. We thank God my father was available -- and that he was willing to let us put off being responsible adults for today anyway. I guess in-laws come in handy for something and it's not always bad to have them live near you.
The same thing just occurred to me! I was wondering if you have other mice join the first one? I’ve lived in this house for over 10 years and have never (and I mean never) had a mouse problem. For all those years (except for a few months), there has been a cat in the house. I really think the dang thing was dead and floated up the toilet water.
me – Thanks for sharing your story. I am sorry to hear that you had the same experience. I did not have any other mice anywhere in the house. I was worried about that, too. I have kept a close watch on the entire house, and especially my basement where the mouse surfaced in the toilet. So far, I have not seen any other critters. My neighbors did have a mouse problem, which has since been resolved, so that might have been the cause of the mouse in my toilet. Let us know how things go for you.