About a month ago, hubby discovered that we had a mouse in our basement. We put peanut butter on the existing glu baords we had for cathing spiders and crickets in the basement. Next nothing, except for peanut butter beign missing from one of the boards. Hmm...stickyness gone?
Hubby deals with pest control at his job and asked the guy for advice, he set my hubby up with poison cubes, pellets and srping traps.
I somebody out ther is mad that we are using mean ways to get rid of this mouse, but eww, i don't want it in my kitchen where the food is!!!
The next day, a mouse was caught. I disposed of the body, done. Next morning the remaining poison cubes were missing?!?! A mouse could not lug those big cubes! Also peanut butter was missing from one snap trap, arhg! So pest control guy told us that it had to be a baby to be light enough to not set off the trap, but something else had to be big enough to carry the poison cubes!
At this tiem we realized that the poison thing may of been bad, in case it dies in the walls or such. So we search for the cubes, I found one, on other side of the basement wher it originally was, obvioulsy nibbles on, but the 2nd could not be found. Dh silicones the entire basement sill plate!
A morning later I found a slightly larger mouse on the gluboard, got em! But he wasn't that big!
Well, I hadn't the time to dispose of him yet so I had waited till that evening. That eveing i grab a trashbag, grab the back end of the glueboard with the bag (like picking up dog doo), and the mouse moves his head!!!! I jumped, not expecting it to still be alive, and the glue board lands on a lampbase being stored down there, and my flipflops land on other gluebaords, I made a big mess! It was hysterical (notice hubby is not involved in any removal or set up processs!). I manage to remove my shoes and get the mouse right side up, but I leave him, not wanting for him to loosen somehow and bite me. 2 hours later I check him and he's stiff, must of been a heart attack brought on by me, LOL!
Done, no more actin since then. He had tossed remaining poison pellets and cubes under our bushes along side the house, all gone the next morning. In addition the pest guy gave us somethign called a "catch-all box" its the size of a shoe box with ppison cubes set up inside. Idea is, pest are supposed to come in, nibble, leave and die somewhere else. But with this box, cats and dogs can't get into the poison, just pest sized rodents. Well, just last night Hubby informed me that the entire box is missing!!!! All I can picture is a racoon carrying this box over his head on two legs down the street, LOL!!!! Where would he take it too?
What aniamls do we really have around us??? Supermice?!?! We had Fox living next to us a short time ago, but this recent surge in rodents tells me that nieghbors complianed and had this nice fox removed by animal control, thanks :(
Hopefully that next time I'm up doing an early morning feeding with my son, that I don't look out the window to find a bear, LOL!!!
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