I just came face to face with a mouse... literally! How would you handle that?

Since you have a cat, I assume you have at least one cat carrier. Sit the carrier on your desk near the monitor, open the door on the carrier, place some food inside. The first day or 2 he will eat the food & scurry off. After a few days he will feel safe & not hurry off. With a little luck, you will see him inside & can shut the door. The grill on mine is small enough he shouldn't be able to get out until you get him where you're going with him. Then just turn him loose & hope he don't beat you home!!!

If you want to save the mouse I would try to catch him. You might be able to find a trap that won't kill the mouse. I had a friend who lived in LA of all places and they had a mouse problem due to a cat door they had. We just caught the mouse in something like a bowl trapped it and then let him loose.

hehe i wonder why do offices have mouse!! our office too have a couple... now a family and will soon be families of mouse, mice and everything a rodent is called. haha

I have caught them by throwwing a towel on them an carrying them outside far away but I have an advanage over you I have a pet rat an 2 pet mice so i dont' have a problem walking up to them an picking them up just be sure the little guy isnt eatting the wires on your computer

Get some mouse traps, and barricade your home... Put the old game of cheese and meat on it.. I guaranteed that they will fall for it!

We have never had mice within our house, but field mice have gotten into our attic. I was in my kitchen one day and noticed these little clippings of aluminum on my cooktop. I cleaned it up, but couldn't figure out how it got there. Well, I was over at my table and heard a bump on the counter at the stove and there was a little tiny field mouse that had fallen through the hole he had chewed through 4 layers in the vent going into the attic from my stove! I could only think of getting him out of the house. He was very stunned and I ran and got the broom by the time he got off the counter on to the floor. I swept him out my back door. I told my husband and he said, 'why didn't you hit him with the broom?' Well, like you, I wanted him OUT of my house quickly!! I hate mice!

I am not the type of person to jump run and scream when I see a rodent. i will be startled yes but I won't try to run away from no. I don't have a cat unfortunately and I do have a fat mouse in the house. Have not seen him in over a month but I know he is here. He is in the wall and I hear scratching noises. Sometimes it is loud crunching noises I hear. Have not been able to kill it even with glue traps, Decon traps that trap the mouse without you having to see or touch with your hands. Poison and regular mouse traps are out of the question as I have a dog and a 5 year old.

I'd be freaking out...I have a terrible fear of mice and bugs. Luckly, our Morgana would never stand for this. She chases flies if she sees them so a mouse wouldn't stand much of a chance around here. Good luck relocating it. [b]~~MY OWN PEACE WITHIN~~ **STAND STRONG AND BELIEVE IN YOURSELF**[/b]

Your story reminds me of something that happened in my home years ago. I had adopted a Siamese that had been abused. It turned out that she was half blind from the abuse (she had a skull fracture, broken ribs and heavens knows what else). Well we had a mouse come in the house...we'd hear the thumps at night and couldn't figure out what was going on until one evening my Mom and I were sitting watching television when a mouse showed up and sat in the middle of the living room. It sat there no moving for a good ten or fifteen minutes. It was like it was waiting for someone or something. Finally my cat came wandering into the living room and the chase started. The mouse would run with the cat in hot pursuit. My cat would run into something and stop to regain its balance and sight. The mouse would stop and wait until the cat would recover and then the chase would start again. This went on for about 10 minutes until my cat got tired. The mouse would then go back into its home and the cat would wander off for a nap. This went on for a couple of years. It's like the cat and mouse were fast friends! My grand daughters caught a mouse and brought it into my room to see if they could scare the daylights out of me. They were disappointed when I reached out and petted the mouse. While I don't have mice in my home (I have a couple of cats that are avid hunters) they don't bother me anymore. I guess after awhile you become desensitized to the country critters. Mice, lizards and snakes don't rattle me the way they used to. I just get something to catch them in and take them outside and re-release them.

Hello dear friend... First of all, I'd find out exactly where he's getting in????? He's obviously found a way somehow? Once that's done...immediately seal it off. Get yourself a pair of surgical rubber gloves...set them near your PC...have them ready to put on. We don't want anything to happen to you, just to be on the safe side. If you're not too squeemish, pick him up when HE least expects it. He sounds kind of docile to me. Not to mention, he's probably more afraid of YOU, than you are of him. Then give him "the boot" right out the old front door. I would also advise NOT to go the cheese route, unless you want to entice him for capture. He's obviously able to get in without the need for a "setup". Lastly, please don't kill the poor little guy, and give my love to the cat. cdrxo

Leave the cat in the room with the mouse overnight. Whalla, no more mouse; although, you may end up with a mouse corpse by your computer monitor.

You may need to keep some mouse traps and let your cat continue to scope the place out. My cat is really good at seeing things that are moving around. Especially seeing that it keeps popping up around your computer, let her stay around there, she may be able to catch the mouse. I actually had something similar happened to me, but it did not happen in the house that I am living in right now. This was crazy, I was using the restroom and there was something that had moved in the hallway. Literally the mouse had stopped took a long look at me and ran away. Eventually we got some mouse traps and caught him. We did not have a cat at the time.

I was going to say that remark about your computer mouse too. Some beat me to it. So I suggest you put down some mouse traps too. And keep the kitty around I am sure the cat will eventually get that little booger sooner or later. Do you see anywhere he could have entered the room through a hole near your computer? Put a little cheese or some peanut butter on the mouse trap.

I would try and befriend it. Probably go to the kitchen and get it some cheese, to help fill his little mousey tummy. I just moved into a new house and had to remove a mousetrap from the kitchen. I like life. All life, not just mine :)

Luckily, where I live, rodents do not live long because it is too hot where I live and there are a lot of reptiles and cats around the place. I do not have one mouse around my area because my cat and his girlfriend and her kittens next door have taken care of all of them. No rat or mouse survives in my neighborhood for long. If they do it is a miracle, or the cats are just being lazy.

OK... I am going to assume that you are living in a landed property. Cos I cannot imagine a mouse climbing all the way up to the floor where I live in an apartment block. I would really be freaked! I sure hope you manage to catch that mouse and let it go FAR FAR AWAY from your home. Recheck all your cabling and wiring. Ensure that the mouse did not bite thru the insulation. Otherwise, if there ever is a short circuit, it would be disastrous!

we had a tiny lil field mouse that moved into my litle girls doll house once. i went into her playroom and there he was.. turning sommersaults off of one of the tiny beds and jumping up and down playing happy as could be in and around the miniature furniture. i couldnt help but stand there watching him for a while and giggle. he knew i was there.. about 3 feet from the dollhouse, but continued to frolic and play without a care occaisionally stopping to sit up on his back legs and gaze at me. soo i knelt down and started talking to him hehe after about 15 or so minutes of this, and him now running out of the dollhouse to the middle of the floor where i was and back again, i got a small rubbermaid container my daughter usually kept plastic eggs in and scooped the little bugger up in it and took him outside to my backyard and released him. he didnt run away once out of the box.. but instead ran a couple circles rund my foot and then sat up on my boot lookin at me LOL i stayed out there playing with him for a little bit and when he finally got off my boot and started entertaining himself with a small tuft of pine needles, i went back inside

it happened to me also before! i closed the door of my room to make sure the rat won't go away. i didn't stopped looking for it around my room. actually im afraid of it although it is small but i can't take that a mouse is sleeping with me on my room! lucky for me, i caught it. better put mouse traps around your monitor or pieces of meat with rat poison. good luck with your mouse hunting!!!!

im always the person that catches them.. at my parents and friends etc had mice run and i was always the only one going and catching them.. same with wasps..

face to face eh....were you two looking at each others face in a lovey dovey kind of way, hope you don't plan to replace the PC mouse with a real one because then it would squeak every time you moved it LOL.