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Life & Events > Boring > How Not to Catch a Mouse.
 

How Not to Catch a Mouse.

There is a mouse in our house. A tiny little field mouse. It’s been there for a week, at least. That’s when I first saw it running across the living room. I tried to catch it by running after it, without much luck. Because really, how do you catch a mouse?

A mouse is way too fast to just grab, and it’s way too cruel to just step on it. I decided I should just get some mousetraps, and because my housemate insisted, mouse-friendly mousetraps at that. Mouse-friendly mousetraps, for those of you who care, are mousetraps that do not actually kill the mouse, but just trap it in a little box. Of course, mouse-friendly mousetraps are also twice as expensive as the non-friendly variety. (And if you know the actual term for a mouse-friendly mousetrap please do tell because I LOVE learning new English words).



I placed the mousetraps strategically throughout the house, filled with all kinds of delicious food. No luck. Apparently, our little mouse is way too smart to get itself trapped into a mouse-friendly mousetrap.

I did find the mouse a day later in our storage room, where it had managed to open up and eat some spaghetti. Of course, I was too lazy to keep chasing it until I caught it. When I looked again in the storage room the next day, the mouse was gone.

We haven’t seen our mouse for two days now, the mouse-friendly mouse traps are still sitting there untouched. But I know he is still running around the house somewhere. I just heard a scratching noise in the kitchen….Maybe that’s him.

posted on Apr 8, 2008 6:49 AM ()

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I had mice in my place once. They were very brave, sneaking to the dog's dish and stealing kibbles out of it, then hiding the food all the way at the other end of the house, in the closet, in one of my shoes.
comment by drmaus on Apr 12, 2008 3:27 PM ()
Well, I'm not sure about mouse friendly traps. You might end up with many, many mice... but who knows? Follow your bliss...
comment by sunlight on Apr 8, 2008 8:10 PM ()
They are really Wily little critters.
comment by angiedw on Apr 8, 2008 1:41 PM ()
humane mouse traps rock!!! I am so proud of you you little non animal lover!
Although I hope your house becomes mouse free soon.
comment by kristilyn3 on Apr 8, 2008 8:12 AM ()
Careful.... where there is one mouse... there are many mice!
comment by greeneyedgemini on Apr 8, 2008 7:12 AM ()

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