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Just when I started to get used to the spiders in my Pacific Northwest home, along comes another unwanted visitor. Monday evening as my husband and I were watching tv, out of the corner of my eye I spot a moving brown blur near the fireplace. After I get done soiling myself (haha just kidding), we ("we" meaning my husband) went to go investigate. Turns out it was a "field mouse." I don't know what in my family room reminded lil dude of a field, but he was fast and could not be caught that evening.
Fast forward to Tuesday morning. After a sleepless night with a flashlight handy on my bedside table, I make a voyage to Lowe's first thing in the morning for mouse traps. Since I've never bought a mouse trap before, and there are many kinds of traps, the first decision seems to be whether you want to kill them or not. Now if it were a spider, that one would be a no brainer (all spiders must die...seriously, all of them). But a mouse can be sorta kinda cute and really isn't that different from a hamster or something, right? So I make the humane and mature decision that I didn't want to kill the little intruder, just make him really, really sad.
So I leave Lowes with 5 no-kill mouse traps. I smear the ends with peanut butter (I hope the mouse likes low-carb pb) instead of cheese, which I think would attract my dog before a mouse. I placed the mouse traps around the house, including in the garage and in the daylight basement. Two days later not a bite. Either the mouse has left on his own, or he is holding out for something tastier?
2 comments:
It was grey, not brown ;)
And that is helping, how? :p
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