Mouse Wars

Finally tired of listening to the scurrying feet in the walls, I decided it was time to declare war on the mice in our house. Once I tell everyone in the house what I'm about to do, that's when I find out my brother had an unfortunate awakening a week prior by a mouse running over his head while he was sleeping! EW! And sure enough, I come home from work on a Wednesday to my mother saying "Russell says there's a mouse in the bathroom - he shut the door to try to keep it trapped." As I start walking down the stairs - there's that mouse! On the landing!!!! Cute little bugger - amazing this is what's been keeping me awake. He should be singing "It's a Small World" instead of reaking havoc on my sleeping. Long story short - we were able to trap the little sucker in a gift bag (sorry Jane!) just by chance. Dad ended up stunning and killing the rodent in the front yard. So Wednesday marked the start of Mouse Wars.

I decided first that the house needs a complete cleaning - since our vacuum cleaner has been on the fritz for many years and our cleaning lady (who would bring her own vacuum cleaner) was let go, I bought a new vacuum cleaner. Woohoo - very niiice! So - clean my room by taking every piece of furniture from the walls, dust every inch of the place and rearrange the room (love that bonus piece when you clean - there's nothing quite like a re-arranged bedroom to make you sleep better at night). So - I'm working at my computer and what do I see out of the corner of my eye? A mouse! Running right past my bedroom door in full view! Amazing the gall of these nasty rodents! Shocking! I attempt to find the mouse in the family room to no avail...this happens (seriously!) three more times before I finally go to bed.

Now that I'm freaking out at every noise I hear, I'm turning on the light every 3-4 minutes and...bam! Damn mouse - just 2 feet from my nose, sitting on my desk chair! OMG! Again - can't catch the bugger.

The next day (Friday) I cleaned the basement bathroom, David's room, and Russell started in on his pigsty/bedroom. I'd come home with glue traps (sorry PETA).


Loooove Peters Hardware (great store!). Kelly recommended them and they come four to a pack for only $.99 - a bargain at half the price! (side a: english - side b: not english - look at the funny mouse!) Once the cleaning is done for the day. I set the traps. I had found traces of mouse life in several rooms in the house, so I put traps in mom and dad's bathroom, David's room, the living room and my room. I anxiously go to sleep that night, hoping to find a little mousie in the glue come morning.

enabled trap- Kix will help attract mice


evidence of wee mousies in the utility/storage room



the saga continues....