A few nights ago Jesse was in the kitchen and I was in bed reading. Suddenly I heard him shout, "We have a big mouse! He ran right across my foot."
Two cats in the house, and we have a mouse! What the heck, cats?
The next day I checked around in the kitchen and found the mouse's leavings, necessitating the disinfecting of all surfaces.
How to get rid of a mouse. Hmmm. I obviously couldn't count on those two shifless felines. I certainly wasn't going to put out poison. And spring traps were out of the question. My heart is just too tender for any kind of mouse mayhem. I found some catch-and-release traps on Amazon, ordered two, and received them yesterday. Jesse baited and set them for me. Today we had a big fat mouse cooling his heals in one of them. Jesse took him outside and set him free in the sweet autumn air. I just hope he does't find his way back in.
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On 09/24/2022, Patty McDonald said ...
I agree, don't kill that mouse set him/her free. We are overrun with squirrels and have two live traps in our garden. Our dachshund hunts and kills squirrels but we catch and release the ones in the garden.....a mile from home. Last week we caught an opossum. We released it at night near a creek. Years ago, when we first moved on acreage, we made runs out of PVC and poisoned the rats and mice. We then found a red tailed hawk and an owl dead. They must have eaten the poisoned critters. Since then, we don't use poison and don't kill critters on purpose. Our dachshund is a huntress and has caught many squirrels and birds :(
On 09/25/2022, Barbara A Annene said ...
Yikes! Nice to know there are catch-and-release traps now.
Decades ago, we lived in a rental 'shotgun' house with oour mutt dog. One winter morning as I sat in the living room, a muse appeared sitting in our warm radiator. When the dog spied the mouse, a chase was on. The mouse ran through the dining room, the kitchen, and into the dead-end pantry. It then turned around and ran straight at the dog and me whereupon we hit the ceiling and the mouse ran back to the living room and disappeared through a wee crack on the basboard by the front door. The dog and I agreed never to tell anyone.
Hugs!
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