MICE no more!!

Can’t remember if I’ve mentioned on here or not, but we’ve had a little bit of a mice problem. Several months ago we knew we had some in our garage. Daniel put out some traps and our cat and we killed off a couple. Then did a serious cleaning of our garage and blocked the supposed entry/exits. We knew blocking the exits might cause a little harm as we would have effectively trapped any mice already in the house from leaving. So yeap… it was a risk we took… that backfired on us

I started hearing scratching in the walls of our bathroom. Of course Daniel thought I was paranoid because every time I would drag him out of bed in the middle of the night to hear them, the little mice would decide to play mean little tricks on me and make me look delusional!

Then one day I went sauntering through the kitchen and saw a mouse fly across the top of my counter tops down behind the oven. Way too much excitement for me to handle! Daniel put out traps in the kitchen and we caught one or two.

Then one day we decided to bake some cookies and realized that there was a nasty stench coming from the oven. It seriously smelled so bad we assumed that we had fried one of the stupid things. Daniel proceeded to take the entire oven apart looking for the corpse. Never found one, but did find all kinds of evidence that mice had been enjoying the insulation around the oven! NASTY!!

So we lined pretty much the entire kitchen with glue traps! And I tried to imagine that they were cute adorable little mice like the ones off of Cinderella or maybe Ratatouille. This only worked enough to help me sleep through the night sometimes.  

Well… we caught a few more and bought one of those things you plug in the wall that is the equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard to mice. I think that took care of the problem. It’s been 4 days with no more signs of mice… they haven’t been eating the little trail of oatmeal we’ve been leaving out or anything.

Aaahhh sweet victory!!