Some pearls I have gained in this battle . . .
- You really get to know something when you are battling against it (take this to deeper places). I am really getting to know its habits, its food preferences, maybe its weaknesses. Its favorite munchie is rice. So much so, that last night it was able to eat it off a mouse trap without setting it off. BUT it also, ate rice laden with poison. Only 3 pellets so we have to wait and see what it can handle. As I lay in bed strategizing, I thought that if the certified rat poison doesn't work, I will head over to the pharmacy and get a cardiovascular med that could send it into a deadly heart rhythm. (ALL meds are over the counter here). Any blog readers who experiment with rats down in the lab have a suggestion?
- When you really want something, there is a way. (go deeper here too). With the kitchen cordoned off, we soon discovered it redirected its path. It began to gnaw through other screen windows, eat the bottom of 2 doorways (to crawl underneath), and then would enter the land of its dreams-- our kitchen. We can't keep get ahead of it! We now close every door, every window, pack every bit of food, AND it keeps coming back!
- Mice seem to be incontinent. (stay at the surface) It has no sense of discretion where it relieves itself. And there are no convenient to clean piles. I was thinking about it this morning after clean-up, it must be running along with poops just falling out the back end.
5 comments:
I can realate...I just trapped a shrew last week...summer sausage and PB was the ticket. I haven't had mice for years. Good luck! joel
Again, I hate rodents! It sounds funny but it must be really driving you crazy!
Kellie
I, too, can relate. . .only I actually purchased two of these rodents at the local pet shop. Yes, we now make a home for two hamsters. It was a family emergency the other day when one escaped. After some tricky detective work, we discovered he had scampered downstairs into our daughter's closet. Our rodent left some good trails too, which led to his capture!
The best anti-mouse medicine I know of is a cat. Have you considered this? Caroline
In case the poison didn't work yet, remember that mice tend to run along walls, etc. -- so set the traps with the trap end toward the wall. They're creatures of habit, so if you can see from the droppings where it/they typically run, lay traps there. Also, mice love chocolate -- you might try putting a layer of chocolate frosting or nutella on the trap, & sticking the rice onto the top of that. We empathize. Son William made a tidy bundle with the fees he collected for emptying & resetting our traps a couple of years ago.
you should preference your blogs by "will make you laugh"... or maybe i shouldn't read them in class. i was reading this one during my human rights class and today we're talking about child soldiers, a particularly depressing issue. upon reading this, i chuckled to myself, thankfully not out loud but if the professor saw me, he'd surely know i was online or think i'm crazy for smiling about child soldiers.
hehe anyway, i'm sorry about the rodent problems, good luck!
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