Human 3 - Mice 0
Owning your own home is a great thing but it does come with those responsibilities you would rather leave to an adult.
For the past couple days, Jodi and I have been working on the yard. Making sure all the weeds are pulled, mowing the lawn, putting down fertilizer and raking away small amounts of yard waste left from last fall.
After time in the yard, we spend time on the house. You know - cleaning the floors, going through the cupboards, shaking out those rugs. It’s enough to make any person tired at the end of the day.
When it came time to sit down and relax we poured a tall glass of raspberry tea and sat back to look at all we had accomplished.
It was already starting to get dark out and pretty soon we’d be heading to bed. That was until we started to hear something scratching from inside the wall.
We decided to ignore the scratching, as if really wasn’t that bad, and give our tired bodies the rest it needed.
Later that week we began to hear the same scratching; but more and more - and from various parts of the house. This obviously grossed both Jodi and myself out and we knew for sure that we had now had mice and hoped not rats.
Being the computer guy I am, I popped open my laptop and did a quick Google search on getting rid of mice. I quickly found out why mice might be in our clean house and various ways to get ride of them.
I ended up going to the local grocery store and picked up a good amount of snap traps made by the good boys at Victor Pest. This was obviously my plan B as I soon found out that fox urine is a rather hard thing to just pick up at a grocery store.
So last night I set all the traps. One in the crawl space (below the house), two in the garage and two in different floor cupboards.
The next day we woke up and after Jodi went to work I checked all the traps. Trap 1 (nothing), Trap 2, Trap 3 (nothing), then - I got to Trap 4 in the crawl space and low and behold did I found my very first mouse. The cute little guy just couldn’t resist that crunchy peanut butter.
Later that day, I decided to check again to see if we were lucky enough to only have one mouse or if we might perhaps have more - we ended up having at least two more that are now in the bottom of the outside trash bin.
I hoping that I don’t find many more but I am rather happy about actually catching these little guys. I mean - you spend however many thousands of dollars to lay your head at night and what do these rodents do? They assume that you’ve got enough room for yourself and make themselves at home.
Not on my watch - not today.
UPDATE
We are now up to 4 mice which brings the total to Humans 4 - Mice 0.
rusty Says:
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