Mouse Escapades...The End?

After weeks of being too smart for our traps, I figured out what to bait them with so they couldn't resist. Instead of the cheese or peanut butter, which rarely works, I have been nagging my husband to put Baklava in each trap. What rodent can't resist the sugary, nutty, honey, gooey dessert? Obviously, not our two mice because hubby baited the traps last night with it, scratched off one more item on his "honey do" list from me, and within an hour of going to bed, "snap" and then "snap" again...no more mice.

I actually felt a little bad thinking about it this morning. It was hard to eat my breakfast. I ate lunch just fine though so I guess I'm over it.

I bought two new traps today, hoping that there are no more mice but if two got in, maybe more did. We shall see. I have more Baklava left so a piece will be used to bait the traps again.

If you don't know where to get Baklava (and don't want to make it yourself), Walmart is selling it right now on trays over in their bakery section for the holidays. We've eaten most of it but we have plenty left to bait a few more rodents if needed. Buy some for a family get together and swipe a piece for the pests in your house, lol.

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Mouse Escapades Part II

They're winning. They're both still alive. For now.

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Mouse Escapades

I decided after seeing one whiz across my floors this morning that I'd watch and find out where it was going (nesting). I sat on the couch, really still, with a view of my dining room and refrigerator for about a half hour this morning. There I sat, at 3:00 a.m., watching for mice.

I watched the mouse come out from my refrigerator, search under my dining room table, and grab a yellow Trix cereal piece on the floor (I'm sure it was thanking my 3yo for dropping it for it). It took it behind my fridge. I heard it doing whatever mice do under my fridge for a couple minutes before coming out again to hunt for food. It took off again under the fridge where I heard it doing its thing. I was a little sad to think that I'd have to commit mouse murder because it was little and cute. I sat quietly waiting to see if it came back out when another one (yes, another one) ran through the living room and into my kitchen to hook up with the mouse already under my fridge.

OK, that makes two of them. My sadness disappeared when I realized that if these are male and female mice, we'd soon have babies and be over-run with mice. I moved the trap over by the fridge and added a few Trix cereal pieces to it. *evil grin* I also made plans to go out tomorrow and pick up some hamster treats to bait them with since cheese and peanut butter don't work. I heard them once more, sounded like they were under my cabinets, before going back to bed.

This morning, hubby and I pulled the fridge out but couldn't see anything. I had the broom waiting, hoping I'd be able to smack one with it but no deal.

A few minutes ago, I heard some bumping and a squeal. I'm not sure if the mice got into a little tussle together or if one of them got caught in the trap. Since I can't look, it'll have to sit there until my husband gets up to take care of it. It's not like it's going anywhere if it did...ever again. Gross.

I think they're going around my fridge and dishwasher, through the lower cabinets where the dishwasher hoses are snaked to my sink pipes and making a home underneath my sink base cabinet (where I have a trap waiting). I didn't think about this when my new cabinets were put in. Ewww. Do they realize how much these cabinets cost us? I think that's where I heard the squealing noise so hopefully, one of the mice bit the dust. We'll see in a couple hours 'cause I'm sure as hell not opening that cabinet to look.

They're lucky we don't catch them and hang them over our snake's cage and let Willy do his thing. Willy loves mice.

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Rodent Mass Murder

I knew we had a mouse downstairs (I heard him last night by my bed so he's awfully damn close at the moment). DH has had a trap downstairs but in the other room. Guess he'll be moving that one to our bedroom closet later. This little one isn't the subject of this post.

Yesterday I opened up my brand new kitchen sink cabinet and what do I see? Mouse droppings. IN MY BRAND NEW CABINET! One running around downstairs was an irritant but one in MY cabinets - - well, that just ticked me off. I waited a long time for these cabinets and I don't want a mouse walking around in it or leaving his mess behind! Guess he (or they?) came in around the pipes. DH put a trap in there last night and it wasn't an hour later when he heard it go off. Dead mouse. The first mouse I ever had any role in killing in my life. It's one of those new traps that is like a disk so you don't have to see the dead mouse. Do I feel bad about it? Maybe a twinge...but that's it. This is what we used and it worked quickly:

I sure didn't want to see a dead mouse (or my kids to see that). They'd be really upset so these worked great.

I also heard one (or more?) in the wall between our garage and house yesterday evening...just a scratching away. Our big shepard mutt was scared of the noise...the big chicken. DH set a live trap right by that wall in our garage. It'll hold several of them at a time so we're hoping to catch a few in that and then dump them out back in the wood at the back of the property (maybe give a snake a meal before they hibernate for the winter if the snake is lucky).

I never wanted to kill any of them before but there are too many of them trying to get into my house with winter coming. I think it's time to get the poison and put it in a place in the garage where my kids will never come in contact with it but the mice will. It's time to resort to rodent mass murder. *sigh* These things aren't as innocent as Mickey Mouse and I don't want families of them running around INSIDE my house. I even slept with the television on last night for a little bit of light because that mouse was right next to my bed somewhere. *shiver*

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