So, we’ve had mice in the attic. An exterminator came last Saturday and put down bait and traps. He said the poison would make the mice thirsty. So on Wednesday I had a thirsty mouse in my bathroom who apparently escaped down the tub drain while I was at work.
When I got home Wednesday, I sealed up the holes around the pipes under the sink and cleaned up all the mouse poop, etc.
I could still hear mice in the attic and also now in my bathroom wall.
If you’ve read this far, here’s the highlight of the story. Saturday (yesterday) at around 2:00 am, I used the restroom. After flushing, I heard something splashing around in the toilet tank and scratching on the sides. Not the bowl, the tank. I was horrified. A mouse somehow got into the toilet tank! My mind took off thinking of ways to get the mouse out and into a trash bag. I was afraid to open the lid, though, incase it would jump out and run.
I waited four hours for my husband to wake up, and told him what happened. He said he would get the mouse. But when he opened the lid to the tank, there was no mouse.
Had I imagined it? Does my husband think I imagined it?
I could still hear the mice in the wall here and there throughout the day yesterday, and so did the cat, so it wasn’t just me.
But did I imagine it was in the toilet tank? 
In my old house, there were bats living in the walls. I actually saw one in the basement one time, and I could hear them scratching around at night. My roommate didn’t believe me, because of my schizophrenia, and neither did the maintenance man, but he installed bat gates anyways. Eventually, my roommate actually saw a bat herself, and stopped doubting me.
The moral of the story is that you don’t typically hallucinate mice, so I see no reason why you would start now. Maybe it just got out somehow. It’s not impossible. But it doesn’t really matter whether you imagined this particular mouse or not. The mouse problem is real.
Thanks, @Ninjastar. I wish we had bats! That was one of the considerations. I love bats! 
They would be easier to escort out of the attic, and no need for killing.
You’re right, I’ve never hallucinated rodents before. Bugs, yes, but not rodents. 
The situation is stressing me out, though. I hope they’ll all be gone soon!
Well, mice get lonely too.
I don’t think you were hallucinating it. Those mice can get into tiny cracks and spaces. And like the exterminator said, they will be looking for water.
I hope they’re all gone soon for you though, I hate vermin.
Maybe your uhm stuff is alive 
Wow 
But this was in the tank, where the “clean” water is. Not the bowl.
And, besides, I went #1. 
If you flushed the toilet he should have been sucked into the hole that the water passes through. It opens like a trap door. Oh, well.
I think he was the second time when I told my husband to flush before he opened the tank so that the water level would be lower… I think you’re right, @metime.
I feel sorry for the mouses wife and kids. It’s a cruel world.
Did the bats in the wall make a kind of ‘oar sound’ or flapping wing sound as they scratched their way forward? I was hearing that sound a couple of weeks ago. I thought I saw something black and smooth. The sounds were near my sliding door so maybe they got through to the outside.
Hopefully I’ll be putting them all out of their misery soon. If there’s a mouse Heaven, maybe they can meet up there. 
The mouse went in on his own (in the tank) and the mouse got out on his own.
If they weren’t such pests, they’re fun to keep.(not loose in the house though)
One time at work I went in early as usual, and alone, I turned on the light in the bathroom, and there was a 5" rat in the toilet bowl! (was a big ‘handicap’ sized toilet).
Not knowing who to call, I called the police on the regular line (not 911 of course) and explained my situation.
The dispatcher asked, "what’s the rat doing in the toilet bowl?"
all I could think to say was “The dog paddle.”
long story short they sent animal control and this man comes in with a very long stick with a string, enters the bathroom, then out as fast as he went in with big eyes saying "That’s a large rat!"
I took a souvenir ‘Polaroid’ picture for my album.
@hedgehog, sorry you got creepy stinky mice in your place, hopefully all will be good soon.
this thread summarizes “Of Mice and Men.”
My old cat used to bring mice into the house on a regular basis. I think he was bragging about his catches.
Thanks, @Csummers. That’s a great story! 
I hadn’t heard anything the night before last or all day yesterday, and then last night they were back to scratching at my bathroom wall frantically… it’s making me and my cat a nervous wreck! Hopefully the exterminator will be coming back out today.
Those were gifts for you. Your kitty loved you 
When I was a kid we had a cat that left all variety of headless creatures on the doormat for us. 
GET A CAT!!! FELINES RULE!!! When we moved into our new apartment, mice showed up rather quickly. Unfortunately for them, Sophie is a fully domesticated Tuxedo Short-hair CAT! She caught all three mice. Tortured them and sent a message to other mice that may have wanted to enter our home of doom. NO MICE ALLOWED. NO MICE WILL SURVIVE. After that first month, NOT A SINGLE mouse. Seriously, there is no other way to get rid of a mouse problem. It’s built into the relationship between humans and domesticated cats. They kill mice, we give them affection, when it’s wanted, and yummy food. In turn they keep us mouse free!! Sophie the cat once stood guard at a mice hole for 4.5 hours straight just waiting for one to dare show it’s mouse face. None came. Quit the poisons. You’ll just end up with rotting dead mice in the attic and walls. Get a couple of female cats. Spayed, yes but if she’s indoor it doesn’t matter. Male cats kill mice as well but female cats are so much more bitchy about it which is why I love them.
If your cat can’t catch mice, get another one. Two cats are better than one. And let the cats go into the attic. Death toll mice.
LOL, that’s awesome that your cat got to hunt indoors. I know they live to hunt.
We have a cat and he is alerting me to where the mice are in the walls (like a pointer). But, thankfully only one mouse has actually come out of the wall, and then the one in my toilet tank, but they’re pretty much staying in the attic and the walls.
The exterminator is returning today. 
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Your cat is beautiful btw