There's a mouse in the house! At first it was seen out side behind the fridge on the patio; a field mouse. Living in the desert of Las Vegas, and with our intense "growth", the earth is always being turned and uprooting many creatures that just want to be left alone, and are terrified of "man". (can't blame them!) So, when my uncle saw this little guy and told me, I said........ "Oh, just let him be. He probably came in the yard from the desert lot that used to be behind my home, before they developed it to professional office buildings."
Great idea: leave the little guy alone! Right!! Now, he is in my home and living behind my kitchen refrigerator. That little guy is fat and fast. He loves banana's and raw potato's. So, how do I get him out?? Good question.
My daughter came home with a 'no kill' mouse trap that is designed to capture the little guy in to a long black tube like contraption that is balanced with the bait at the opposite end of the entrance, and when the little guy shifts his weight to that bait end to eat, the trap falls on the entrance and he cannot get out. SOOOOO, one evening we find the trap shut and we celebrate. We walk to the end of the block where there is an open field (carrying this black tube like contraption and the little guy in it), so we can turn him loose and we can have our kitchen back. We carefully open the tube and Voala!!!.... No mouse! Empty. He outsmarted us.
Well, months have gone by and we are cleaning everywhere he has been and more. He has chewed up two of my house plants and totally demolished them so that I could not even save them, and I am pretty good with house plants. NOW, he is among our DVD's and video's. He is pretty bold, making all kinds of noise back there on the book shelves, knowing that he can move faster than I can. So, what to do??
As much as my heart says no, my mind says, get a mouse trap!! This guy has gone beyond the boundaries of sharing space............ he is now invading my space. Even the dogs don't sleep through the night, with all his racket!!
Can you relate to this?? Not wanting to kill some critter that is totally taking over your home?? I find evidence of him everywhere and I just can't bring myself to buy the mouse trap. At least not tonight. Guess a hot bath is in order.
