Well we’re far enough into our battle with mice that we know one thing. The cats are useless. They don’t seem to smell , hear or see the mice. We’ve decided to use mousetraps in our battle to best the tiny beasties. We decided to use some reusable plastic mousetraps. They’re a bit more expensive then the wooden ones but you don’t actually have to touch the mouse when emptying the trap. If you’ve ever had a mouse problem, what kind of mousetrap did you like best and why?
Here’s an update on the mouse situation. Basically we don’t think that our cats could find any mice, not even if they had a car gps strapped to their backs. They never so much as look at the cabinets, never mind try to get in them. Maybe they play together. So we’re using mousetraps. To date we’ve caught four mice in the kitchen cabinet. They seem to be most attracted to cookies, something we discovered when we discovered the mouse problem. We had noticed all Oreo packages were getting chewed while other packages weren’t getting touched. We’ve used peanut butter as well as the cookies. I thought we’d have caught more by now, because where there’s one surely there’s more.
Recently we discovered that a mouse had been making himself/herself right at home in the cabinet over my oven. We found droppings, and lots of chewed paper from packages in the back of the cabinet. My father told me that we’d need to empty the cabinet and set traps. I let him do the emptying, being the chicken I am. He’d take something out of the cabinet, we’d check it and then he’d hand it to me and I’d put it on the table or in the garbage. After a quick glance we noticed the paper had been chewed from around the top of a bottle of olive oil. After looking more closely, we discovered a dead mouse in the bottle. He must have gone in to eat or drink and drowned. I wonder how many more there are. And why the cats didn’t know about this.
