Friday, July 22, 2005

The Mouse is Dead, Long Live the Mouse

Yes, we have another mouse.

I possess a certain amount of shame when I have a mouse. Because it’s a comment on my housekeeping or something.

The reality is that there is an abandoned house across the street from us that seems to be riddled with creatures as witnessed by Robin & Amy’s cat leaving them gifts on the front doorstep. My theory goes like this, the house across the street is experiencing critical mass, so there was a migration and one (or maybe more) got into our basement and eventually came up through the walls to the back of one of our kitchen cabinets.

Luckily, in the redesign of the kitchen, I decided keeping food on bottom shelves was a bad idea and we no longer do that, except for the corner D (a half a lazy susan) where we keep our grains. But they’re mouseproofed and mothproofed so he was probably rather annoyed at smelling food, seeing food but not getting food.

He ventured off under the stove and probably found some choice crumbs there, because the dog can’t get them. And stumbled into one of our traps.

We’re not entirely certain that he was by himself, so we’ll continue to set the traps until we don’t find anything for a week or two.

Some people think that we should do the humane traps. I’m not quite sure what I’d do with a live mouse though. It’s not like I could just let it go in a field nearby ... nope, mice in the house get the axe, or the snaptrap as the case may be.

I will further rid my home of the plague by washing the dog this weekend to drown any fleas that might be amassing (I saw one the other night).

POSTED BY Cybele AT 3:09 pm    

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