Dead Mouse Walking No More

It's taken:
- almost four weeks
- six different types of traps
- four different brands of traps
- 17 traps in total
- a lot of patience

...but we finally got that damn mouse.

Our little visitor met his maker this morning after being baited into a mouse house with Colby Jack cheese. Can't say I blame him for stealing a bite, it's my fave cheese too.

This mouse has, admittedly, gotten the best of us. It all started around Halloween when we found a half-eaten candy pumpkin on the counter. At first we thought it was Mason but deep inside we knew better. No way Mase would ever leave a candy pumpkin half eaten, he would have polished that thing off with one swoop.

It was at that time Nick finally declared it 'shock and awe' campaign time. He went to the store in the wee hours of the night to buy the trusty round traps that have never let us down before. After a couple nights of no mouse he started to add to the arsenal. After a couple weeks we had no less than 15 traps set up in our kitchen, a three-year-old stuck to a glue trap and a beagle with a pinched nose, but still no mouse.

Nick, feeling defeated, packed up all of the traps in a paper bag and put them away. He thought maybe there were too many distractions for the mouse and settled on leaving out just a few glue traps. Still no mouse.

Last night I freaked out and we brought out the arsenal again. We moved the washer, dryer, fridge, stove and cleaned/sprayed every single thing we could. We set two traps in the laundry room, four on the floor of the kitchen, four on the kitchen counters and two behind the couch. BINGO!!!!

We've had quite the battle with mice this fall. Remind me to tell you about our pet rat soon and no I'm not talking about Templeton.

xoxo,
Steph