creepy poll question: what's worse to have in your home . . .

[Bertha Venation]

Poll question: creepy poll question: what's worse to have in your home . . .

Bugs or mice? If you had to have vermin in your house, what would you want to have the least? I've had roaches, but never had mice. Roaches make my skin crawl. They make me want to vomit, if not just freaking bomb the house.

I'd rather have mice. But we have six cats, so . . .

The poll's based on the hypothetical that you can't avoid having one of them. So?

[davidinalameda]

1. mice

they're no where as creepy as bugs

[ET Awful]

3. Agreed, mice are kind of cute in their own diseased little way, bugs

are just ewwwwwwwwwww.

[kick-ass-bob]

2. I'd probably say bugs, but just because mice are a pain in the ass

to clean up after my cat has torn out its insides.
:puke:

[Javaman]

4. You forgot to include *, he's the worst rat of them all

[BOHICA06]

5. Every House needs a Mouse ....

a house mouse! But Hices need not mices! One is enough.

[AndyTiedye]

6. Vee Have Vays of Dealing Wit them Mausies

Bring on the Katzen!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

18. Your black kitty looks like my Reno!

[intheflow]

7. Was infested with cockroaches when I lived in the projects.

It was the grossest thing ever!

I've also been mouse infested, but my cats kept the population in line.

Am house-sitting this week at a house with a mouse problem but no cats. These mice are ballsy, runing out and about at all times of the day and night. I can't bring myself to trap them, wish there was a cat here to make them at least stay in the walls.

Still, waaaaaay better than bugs of any kind.

[rbnyc]

8. mice are easier to get rid of.

I would rather have black widow spiders and spitting centipedes than roaches!

[seemunkee]

9. Mice are easier to deal with

The come in ones and twos, maybe a family. but bugs come in the dozens.

[cruadin]

10. I agree with the trend on this one...

I've lived in places that have had bug problems and places that had mice problems (and one place that had both).
Mice are WAY less disgusting than cockroaches, silverfish, etc.
Plus a cat or two in the house will quickly make the mouse population a lot less bold and obvious about their presence.
Cockroaches ain't askeert of no cat, and they get into EVERYTHING.

[Midlodemocrat]

11. Have had both

...in two different apartments. Now, if either showed up in my house, I would sell it and move.

[Bucknut213]

12. Mice are cute...

and mouse traps are fun.

[Bertha Venation]

14. traps are fun? you mean the "live traps" that you can take out into the

woods & let the critters go?

[Bucknut213]

22. I personally like the standard Victor traps

Mice like peanut butter

[JVS]

13. Mice are easier to kill off, but then again bugs don't leave mouse turds

[donheld]

15. No they leave bug turds

which are just harder to see.

[yellowdogintexas]

16. now mind you, I am not fond of bugs, except ladybugs of course,

but at least when they die you can vaccuum them up and they don't stink to high heaven like a mouse will.

We had a mouse die in the wall between our hall closet and my daughter's bedroom closet and it was horrible.

Not a good thing, not at all.

[WoodrowFan]

17. mice

my terrier "psycho doggie" would take care of them.

[CO Liberal]

19. When We Lived in Henderson, Nevada...

...the people in the apartment next to ours were total slobs. When they moved out, their cockroaches migrated into all the surrounding apartments. they had to fumigate five or six apartments - including ours.

We've had two field mice get into our house this year. I caught one in a mouse trap - Della (our cat) caught the other one.

[u4ic]

20. The last apartment I lived

was infested with silverfish. Crawling across the floor, up the walls, even burrowing into my newly baked bread... :puke:

We also had ants, both ground and flying, and beetles (which came through a hole in the sliding doors).

Now, apparently, we have mice. Or a mouse, as we found it in the laundry. Dead, as it would be.

No question, I'd rather have mice. Anything with more than 4 legs creeps me out. And you don't have billions of them, as I did silverfish.

[WindRavenX]

21. bugs

Mice urine and fecal matter is DISGUSTING. I don't care how "creepy" bugs are- they aren't nearly as foul.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

23. I'm leaning toward mice.

Only because I hate roaches!

My first apartment in Houston was beautiful. Nice little townhouse with a view of the tropical landscaped pool. Tons of storage excellent security and everything you could want.

Until you turned off the lights. The first night I was there not one minute after I flipped off the lights I heard them. It was like something from an Alfred Hitchcock horror flick. The scrapping and scurrying of their little legs. ROACHES!

I went down stairs and foolishly opened the pantry, there were hundreds of the vermin running across my food! They were in the kitchen sink, on the counter and in the bathroom. I left got a hotel room and moved out three days later.

I still get the creeps when I think of it!

They tried to hold me to my lease, I told them to charge the roaches rent, because I was not about to pay it.

[SmokingJacket]

24. Mice don't crawl into your beer

and float there, waiting for you to take your next mouthful.

Like roaches do. :puke:

[Placebo]

25. Wow, This poll has confused me like no other!

It's akin to the infamous butterfly ballot, I swear. :crazy:

Anyways, the only bugs we get in my house are when it's warmer and I see thousand leggers aka house centipedes scuttling into the corner, those things are GROSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

We had mice last year, for the first time in 18 years. My cat did away with them fast enough, and we only had like 3 little baby ones so it wasn't a problem per se.

[48pan]

26. Mice are easy...

A couple of cats will solve the problem right away.

Now squirrels... That's a real bummer.