Mice

To whoever left the comment "where did the mouse come from?", let it be known that we have mice. We were told before we moved in that there were mice here, and because the house is right beside a large field and heavy machines repair shop, the landlord said exterminating would not work. When we saw the first one last fall (we moved here Sept 05) we said "aww lookit how cute that little mousie is!" and we didn't set traps or put out poison. It was only in the back room anyway, so we figured, live and let live. We did get a cat tho, but he stayed in the bedrooms because he was afraid of Lacey, so wasn't much help. Then a few months later we noticed there were more of them. Oh well, we thought, as long as they're staying in the back room, we're okay with it. Then they started coming out and eating out of Lacey's bowl in the kitchen. Then we noticed poop in the cutlery drawer. Then we saw one in the drawer under the stove. Then we noticed poop in the drawer we had kept cat food in in Hayden's room. Then we bought some traps. We killed one or two a day for a while, but it wasn't diminishing their numbers very fast. We got rid of the ineffective cat. Then we went away for a couple weeks. We had set up a sonic rodent deterrant (read: piece of crap) with the hopes that the ultrasonic sounds would bounce around the kitchen and into the mice's ears, and they would flee. (Not flea, but we have those too.) Or at least that's what the packaging said they would do. While we were away, the mice did play. They totally took over the house! The stink when we walked in was incredible. Luckily we have a carpet cleaner, because they'd peed and pooed all over the place. We shopped for tupperware containers for our cutlery and pots and pans. Jake bleached drawers and cupboards. We bought more traps and two types of poison. We were ruthless. We were cruel. So much for live and let live.. now we were at war! It worked. The front lines were pushed back far into their territory, and we re-claimed our house. We still had poison and traps out until we got Kitty. Because she isn't a scaredy cat and roams around the entire house, we picked up the traps and got rid of the poison so she wouldn't get hurt. We're hoping she will want to chase and kill the mice. That's why we wanted to introduce her to the one that Jake saw in the laundry basket the other day.

And that's the story of how we have mice.

The end.