While most of the civilized world was out Christmas shopping, The Husband God Gave Me and I went to Home Depot last night to buy top of the line mouse traps. I know...I said I would no longer post about mice, but I have family who read my blog, and I want them to know that I have taken every human effort to rid this place of those awful vermin.
So, we bought glue traps and those snappy kind that look like a giant clothes pin. We rushed home and added them to the old fashioned kind we have had set for months - with only minimal success - one hapless mouse was decapitated and where it's 'capit' went, we do not know.
Oh - and at Home Depot we spent fifteen minutes in the self-check out while a computerized voice told us to "REMOVE ITEM FROM BAGGING AREA" repeatedly. THGGM was cranky. He is a customer service guy, and a lack of good customer service causes him to break out in utter disgust. He had a bad case of that, he did.
Anyway, we got home and he set all the traps. Every fifteen minutes or so from the time he set them until I went to bed at 1:30, I checked the traps.
Nothing.
When THGGM got up this morning, all eight of the new traps stood empty. Of course, in one of the old-fashioned traps that has been set and ready in the exact spot for weeks - a dead mouse.
All we've caught in the dreaded glue-trap is the toaster cord.
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Oh, do keep on keeping us up to date.
Hey, whatever works...the mice must not be very hungry. My mom, they lived in the countryside, would glue a very small piece of walnut or pecan or some other nut, to the trap. Then they would have to gnaw at it and in so doing using met their demise! I surely hope SOMETHING works and rids the house eventually. It must be frustrating to have cats and still have mice!!
Just don't make the same mistake my hubby made and put the glue side DOWN! It's a very sticky mess to try to scrape that glue off your floor!
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