Mouse (Continued)

The next episode of the mouse tale unfolded this morning.  What I never mentioned was that a second mouse had taken lodging in our kitchen and could be seen dashing across the floor whenever you walked into the room.

It was cute for a while and I assumed we be able to scoot it out the door at some point, but last night CP and I decided enough was enough and got down to some serious trap building.  The idea was we'd try a new design every day until we nabbed the critter, taking the opportunity to entertain ourselves with creative custom-rodent-nabbing-machinery.

I had a number of designs running through my head; involving a small 'room of mirrors', large pictures of cats to make the rat back peddle into a toothpick and CP was ready to mix an evocative female-mouse call to lure the refugee.

We deployed our firsy trap at about 10pm, a simple one-way-flap-trap.  More than that, we researched the prefered mouse diet and laid out an enticing spread.

And so it was with a degree of dissappointment when I discovered a mouse tail, a subtle electric buzzing noise and a mild smell of burning mouse coming out of the toaster at 6:12 this morning.

Mouse community 0 : Toaster 2