Sunday, November 11, 2007
The Saga of the MOUSE
So about this mouse we have living with us. He is very content with his surroundings and doesn't seem to want to leave. How do you evict a mouse? We have tried everything. We started out with the cheap wooden traps, packed them with peanut butter, and set them out. We checked them everyday for about 3 days, when suddenly Trevor noticed that every single one of them was missing the peanut butter. That's right. That dumb old mouse was able to lick all the peanut butter off and still manage to be alive, and very well fed I might add. So then after a telephone call with my dad (a mouse eviction expert), we moved on to glue traps. Not really sure how these glue traps were going to work, we put them out and just for good measure put a great big dollop of peanut butter (since the mouse likes it so much) right in the center of each trap. Yeah, still nothing. After a few days of this, Trevor noticed that one trap looked like it had been messed with. Upon further examination, there was a foot print and a tail print in the glue, and somehow he had managed to get loose. ARGH!! Anyway, we have now moved on to a plastic trap that seems to be very sensitive to any movement, and easily goes off. Cross your fingers for us. I am tired of cleaning up after this unwanted house guest. He is messy, and disgusting.
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dude, you should just adopt it! I once dated a guy who adopted a coch roach that was living in his apartment. I saw it and exclaimed there was a roach in his bathroom and he said "ya that's bob, he's my pet." anyway, mice are way cuter than roaches. just keep him. if you catch him i'll keep him if you want...
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised the glue trap didn't work. Those things are sooo sticky. We didn't know we had a mouse in our basement until it got stuck on duck tape on the back of a poster that fell down. It just happened to run across it. It was a tiny mouse though, maybe yours is huge! Good luck.
ReplyDeleteWe also used the glue traps when I was on my mission. We caught 4 mice in a week. We learned though that once we caught them that they were stuck so we had to kill them after we caught them! So, I guess that makes me a bonafied mouse killer. My fees are cheap if you want me to take care of it! Ha ha! LOL!
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