Houdini Mouse

We have had this mouse. At first, he would just hang out in the kitchen. At least that's all we knew he was doing. He would leave little mouse droppings on the counter. It was a nuisance to wipe down the counter with disinfectant every day, and we kept wondering what he was coming back for since we are pretty tidy and don't really leave food out. We set out some traps. We tried the classic snap ones and also the sticky ones. No luck. Oh well.

Then, the other night, when we came home from being out somewhere, we found him in our living room, and when he fled into our new couch and hung out there for a while, I decided that was enough. No mouse could chill inside my furniture in my living room and get away with it. So we went to the hardware store and got poison, some fancy traps, and some paper traps. We set them out. A few days went by. Still no luck. Still evidence that he was coming into our apartment and not getting caught.

The real last straw came when, a couple days ago, I found some mouse droppings on the nightstand right beside our bed. What he was doing there, I will never know, and I don't want to, but I had enough. No mouse would invade my bedroom, possible scurrying across my pretty new bedding, without getting some real kickback about it. So last night, Zack stepped up our traps by cutting the sticky paper into strips and putting it on ledges and such where the mouse often goes.

And this morning, when I got up, he was caught!

It's kinda sad. He was still alive and we had to just take him out to the trash. He was stuck on that trap by 1 little leg and I kept thinking he might break free, and I know I woulda been angry if that'd happened, but I was also sad to have to kill him to get rid of him. He was just too smart for any other kind if trap.

Yay! We're free!