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[zoozilla]

I got to the bathroom in the middle of the night and I'm greeted by this:

I can hear it eating something, maybe a nut? Sounds like it's cracking something open.

There are no signs that it's gotten into the house, but I don't like mice living above my bathroom sink. I assume there's an exhaust for the vent fan on the outside of the house somewhere, I guess that's where it's getting in from.

I couldn't even take a piss with that fucking tail hanging from the vent. Grosses me out.

What's my next step?

 

[SoulUnison]

Life is weird.

 

[Meatfist]

That sounds even worse than a normal mouse!

 

[zerotol]

Remove the screw holding the vent to the ceiling and help that little fella.

 

[GavinGT]

There's also a guitar pick.

 

[Krejlooc]

spray it with windex

it won't help, but it'll feel cathartic

 

[Orbis Tabula]

You should let it live there. It's probably cute. Maybe you can slip little pieces of cheese up through the vent, even.

 

[GavinGT]

You should let it live there. It's probably cute. Maybe you can slip little pieces of cheese up through the vent, even.

He could even bring other mice into the bathroom and start a mouse resort.

 

[Red Comet]

Get a cat and insert it into the vent outside of your house.

 

[Twilight Gap]

 

[BigJonsson]

Give it a cookie!

 

[You Are Viewtiful]

Did you know mice pee pretty much 24/7? You probably have micro-pee on you.

 

[Sectorseven]

There's almost always more than one mouse. You gotta set a trap up there somehow, and figure out a way to block their entrance or they'll just come back.

 

[Amagon]

Feed it pizza

 

[Nowise10]

Well what I would do is unscrew the vent and have like a garbage can ready near the ceiling, and just tip the mouse into the can, then take it outside and toss it.

Just make sure the can is big enough so it doesn't like jump out or something. Mice have mad hops.

 

[GavinGT]

Well what I would do is unscrew the vent and have like a garbage can ready near the ceiling, and just tip the mouse into the can, then take it outside and toss it.

Just make sure the can is big enough so it doesn't like jump out or something. Mice have mad hops.

That mouse is not going to land in the trash can.

 

[Twilight Gap]

wait, is it a wireless mouse? turn on the sync and maybe it'll move.

 

[You Are Viewtiful]

Well what I would do is unscrew the vent and have like a garbage can ready near the ceiling, and just tip the mouse into the can, then take it outside and toss it.

Just make sure the can is big enough so it doesn't like jump out or something. Mice have mad hops.

Why would it just stand there while the vent opens though? He'd also probably smell a human hand from a figurative mile away.

 

[spawnsniper]

Just give it a small motorcycle and itll leave.


Or get some tweezers and pull in the tail.. That'll teach him

 

[GavinGT]

I would say to grab the tail and try to unscrew the vent. But I feel like that mouse will struggle so hard it would rip its own tail off.

 

[Cheesemeister]

Double-click it.

 

[Finaika]

Dogs eat mice?

 

[Keyser Soze]

Maybe he is posting on MouseGAF?

 

[W-00]

Pretty much the same thing happened at my family's house some years back, except it was a rat - and it was its head that was visible, not the tail. My dad ended up stabbing it with a knife before removing the vent and extracting the corpse.

Turns out the thing had gotten itself so wedged in there that it probably couldn't have gotten out on its own.

It also chewed up the vent quite a bit while it was stuck up there. So I find your speculation that it's chewing on a nut rather optimistic.

 

[psynergylover]

take a massive shit and fumigate it out of there

 

[chrisPjelly]

Take a shit while eating cheese in front of it

 

[Namikaze]

Sucks OP but it could be worse. I had a nest of flying ants hatch in the middle of the summer up in my bathroom fan. I turned on the light to use the bathroom and literally everything was covered in flying ants. Never noped out of something so quickly in my life.

 

[andythinkpad]

Send it back to logitech.

 

[Psychological Intellect]

throw poison in there, like, a lot, and those glue traps.

check back in a week, you'll either find one dead rat, or twenty.

 

[triplestation]

Take a shit while eating cheese in front of it

Lol

 

[zoozilla]

It may have gone back up through the fan.

I could hear it skittering around in there for a while, but now I don't hear anything.

It did leave a bunch of debris in my bathroom sink, though.

EDIT: Well fuck, now I hear it scurrying around in the ceiling. This mouse has mission impossibled my house.

 

[Nowise10]

That mouse is not going to land in the trash can.

Not with that attitude it will

Why would it just stand there while the vent opens though? He'd also probably smell a human hand from a figurative mile away.

Well I'm basing this off of my bathrooms ceiling fan, which it would have to fall down onto the vent area. If his isn't like that, then yeah it probably wouldn't work and I would just leave it or put a trap or something in the vent.

 

[LOLDSFAN]

Spray it with roach killer.

 

[EBE]

eat it

 

[Psychological Intellect]

It may have gone back up through the fan.

I could hear it skittering around in there for a while, but now I don't hear anything.

It did leave a bunch of debris in my bathroom sink, though.

EDIT: Well fuck, now I hear it scurrying around in the ceiling. This mouse has mission impossibled my house.

fuuuuuuuuuckkk that

 

[quesalupa]

Turn the fan on.
Edit:Too late now I guess.

 

[User1608]

I remember when this happened to me years ago in an apartment. It took months but the little fucker finally came down, was caught by my cat then played with before ultimately being killed. Cats are cruel. Good luck OP.

 

[The_Inquisitor]

I think they made a movie about this:

Good luck OP!!

Spoiler

This is one of my guilty pleasure movies from childhood.

 

[cameron]

There are no signs that it's gotten into the house, but I don't like mice living above my bathroom sink.

There's always more than one, and they're probably already inside rubbing against your stuff and defecating all over the place. Assuming the temperature drops this time of year in your region, they will spend the entire winter in your warm house. Get a cat or move.

 

[Twilight Gap]

It may have gone back up through the fan.

I could hear it skittering around in there for a while, but now I don't hear anything.

It did leave a bunch of debris in my bathroom sink, though.

EDIT: Well fuck, now I hear it scurrying around in the ceiling. This mouse has mission impossibled my house.

do what must be done

 

[Dr.Acula]

I was going to go to bed, but I'm gonna have to keep watching this thread all night.

 

[RoadHazard]

Get a cat and insert it into the vent outside of your house.

This is a great idea. And the cat won't mind, they love tight spaces. And hunting things to murder. Doesn't matter much what it is, if it moves and it's smaller than them it's murdering time.

 

[The_Inquisitor]

On a more serious note you probably will need to call an exterminator. They will likely punch a few small holes in your sheetrock and trap to get the fuckers out. The last thing you want to happen is 1 or 2 die in the walls. Ugh....

 

[Stallion Dan]

It'll be in your house soon, you wouldn't think it but it can likely fit through the gaps in the fan if it wanted. It'll survive the fall.

Lay some traps/get a cat that likes to hunt. I suggest peanut butter on the traps, makes it so they cannot jus grab the food and run, they gotta sit there eating it, increasing chance they'll get caught.

 

[>:)]

Show it American Porn

 

[TrAcEr_x90]

I actually had this happening but it sounded like a mouse inside the ceiling wall trying to scratch it's way out. Went on for a few nights and now it's gone. Must have kicked the bucket.

 

[Reversed]

Show it American Porn

Green waves won't do jack to that mouse.

 

[Twilight Gap]

On a more serious note you probably will need to call an exterminator. They will likely punch a few small holes in your sheetrock and trap to get the fuckers out. The last thing you want to happen is 1 or 2 die in the walls. Ugh....

maybe OP is a deadmau5 fan

 

[redmetal86]

Time to get greased up and crawl in the vent.

Maybe you can lure it out from the vents exit point somehow. If not, maybe you'll have to call someone to take care of it.

 

[zoozilla]

There's always more than one, and they're probably already inside rubbing against your stuff and defecating all over the place. Assuming the temperature drops this time of year in your region, they will spend the entire winter in your warm house. Get a cat or move.

Welp, not sleeping now.

And cat's not an option - I'm renting, and the owner doesn't allow pets (even though they own a cat themselves).