Hickory Dickory Dock
Posted on August 21, 2008
Filed Under .derek, Lil' Bits & Pieces |
Did I ever tell you about the day, last winter when we caught 22 mice in one day? Probably not…
One day, last January I noticed that Breezy seemed to be eating quite a bit from his lil’ bowl of kibbles. Sometimes I notice things, but they don’t register the way they ought to. This would be one of those times.
A few days later, I pulled back the curtain that covers the broom closet to see what, precisely, Breezy was doing with those darn kibbles. Oh dear. The bag of kibbles was gone. In it’s place were lots of little bits of Evidence of Mouse. Ugh.
Derek was in town and being a vegetarian, he had issues with mouse traps. Not being a vegetarian, I had issues with the mice. I attempted to build a mouse trap that consisted of a long tube (from wrapping paper), peanut butter, and a large clear vase. I even put kibbles in the vase to further entice the mice…
How would it work? The mice would follow the peanut butter up the tube and fall into the vase…Yeah.
About this time my dad came over and I believe he took one look and walked right back out…Oh the stupidity. I was so proud I took pictures. 
After a bit, we realized this was not going to work and we needed to get down to business. We hemmed and hawed and haggled and settled on this: Derek would set the traps and I would get rid of the traps. That lasted about two seconds. I used *that look*…
Derek agreed to get rid of the mice, but he wasn’t going to pluck them off the trap. Eeew. Mouse traps are pretty cheap, I just bought in bulk. I mean, really, how many mice could there be…?
The three traps are set, we head upstairs, I start working, Derek surfs and in less than two minutes…SNAP…SNAPSNAP.
Uhm. Wow. That was quick…
That went on for several hours…until, dare I say, I think we caught most of the mice. Total head count? 22
So…that was that. Let me toss out one of my favorite Star Wars quotes…”the guns…they’ve stopped”.
(yeah, because the BIG DEATH STAR is headed YOUR WAY…)
Thus, I should not have been surprised when Hayley told me this evening….”MOM, the mice. They’re BACK!”
“Dear child, how do you know that with such certainty?”
“I just saw a MOUSE run across the kitchen, towards where the kibbles used to be….”
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Ugh what a pain! If you want a pretty effective and less messy trap, set a tall tub in there with kibble in the bottom, and a yard stick leading up to the top. They will go into the tub and not be able to get back out.
Or… Call an exterminator. Its very possible you have a whole family of mice living there and if thats the case its bound to take a while.
Ugh - cute as they may be, they are NOT welcome in my house! Unfortunately, THEY don’t know that yet, so they keep on coming back. I haven’t caught any in the traps I’ve set (although the evidence that they’re around is mind-boggling), but I think they do partake of the Tomcat blocks of poison I’ve put out for them.
Hope you’re able to get rid of yours quickly and easily - they carry all sorts of diseases and germs from what I hear.
Get a cat.
I thought our 10 we caught a few winters ago was bad, you beat us hands down! LOL The little vermin even ate some of my Christmas decorations!
Now we keep everything in Rubbermaid’s.
Call the pros if it gets bad again, they can check your house for possible entry spots too. Have fun!
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Thanks!
Amber