Critters causing better cleaning and organizing

[iris lilies]

We have a foster dog, a young dog who acts like a puppy. She is into everything. So, I recorganized our downstairs life to keep things shut away from her in a coat closet, or up on top of counters

But we have mice. We've caught 6 of them but there are others, or at least one more. They run around on the kitchen counters at night leaving droppings, so that is how I know they are around. It is a pain to constantly move items on the counter (up there to keep away from a puppy mouth) to clean. Dailey I am cleaning kitchen counters, to remove anything the mice find good and to clean their filth.

The positive of this situation is that I have made a few permenant changes to how things are organized around here, and those changes gives us efficency and spare room.

I am unhappy, though, that my experiment with Indian saris as window coverings lasted a matter of weeks. They are too tempting for Miss puppy and she grabs them and pulls them off the rod and then chews them up. Currently the remaining saris look stupid with their ends tucked into window blinds.

Keep. everything. Off. The. Floor. Is our mantra.

She chewed a foot off our 1860's dining table. I cant keep,that off the floor.

[razz]

IL, I have to admire your humour despite the aggravation of a puppy and your willingness to foster the lively ones. Things like this keep a reality check that life just keeps on trucking at its own speed. Enjoy!

[freshstart]

IL those saris were so pretty, I hope you can salvage some for after the puppy has left. It is good of you to take him in. Now you need to foster a cat to hunt the mice!

razz, like your signature line

[lmerullo]

If using knew how to post pictures here, I could fill this post with recent shreddings from "Lucifer" aka Lucy. She is very (newly) attracted to tissues, so I feel your pain.

Could you try red pepper sprinkled on items you can't remove? Just remember not to sprinkle it in her bed (which ours was chewing at an alarming rate) and then said puppy lies in bed, then snuggles mommy who pets her and ends up with it in her eyes. Don't ask how I learned that lesson!

[razz]

razz, like your signature line
Thanks. When I saw that Gandhi quote, it seemed like a goal I could work towards, and work and work. lol It is getting easier though.

[freshstart]

I'm gonna work towards that goal

[iris lilies]

IL, I have to admire your humour despite the aggravation of a puppy and your willingness to foster the lively ones. Things like this keep a reality check that life just keeps on trucking at its own speed. Enjoy!
Oh, we do enjoy her! She isnt that bad, not nearly as bad as a real puppy.

We really do not like puppies. We are used to mature bulldogs who sleep a lot. So we have a lively one at the moment, it wont kill us. she does 5-10 minutes of hard play and then she is ready to rest, so that is not too onerous. She als keep our big bulldog busy by wrestling with him, and jumpng on him and stealing his bones for play. He is good natured with her.

She really is a lovely little dog, she is so happy! Unfortunately she has a health condition where the flaps in her throat could close if she gets hot enough, and she will die. She is a special needs dogs who does not present as such.

[JaneV2.0]

There's a special place in hell for people who breed animals to the point of making them congenital cripples.

[Teacher Terry]

WE had a mouse problem and none of our 4 dogs were interested in helping:)) We set about 20 traps and within a week they were all gone. We still have some set up but only got 1 in the past month. I would get them all before they start making babies.

[iris lilies]

WE had a mouse problem and none of our 4 dogs were interested in helping:)) We set about 20 traps and within a week they were all gone. We still have some set up but only got 1 in the past month. I would get them all before they start making babies.
We do have traps set up, in places where dogs cannot reach

our elderly cat, once an excellent hunter, will not cme downstairs because she will get dog cooties. So she is not helpful. Now if the mice do venture upstairs, and there is cat food to entice them there, they will be chased and caught.

[pinkytoe]

I was going to ask if you have cats.

[Mary B.]

We do have traps set up, in places where dogs cannot reach

our elderly cat, once an excellent hunter, will not cme downstairs because she will get dog cooties. So she is not helpful. Now if the mice do venture upstairs, and there is cat food to entice them there, they will be chased and caught.

We have a similar problem. Our cat is not worried about the dogs at all, but she no longer hunts. She tells me that she has retired and at 16 earned the right to the finer things in life.