Current score: Mouse: 5, Jade: 0
He thinks he's winning.
Lesson #1: The more expensive the mousetrap, the crappier it is. Seriously. I paid $11 for 4 mousetraps that made grand promises on the packaging. Wanna know what happened?
Day 1-I unpackaged them all. One broke right off the bat. I loaded the other three with peanut butter and placed them in strategic spots around my kitchen.
Day 2- The peanut butter had disappeared from all of the mousetraps, and not one had even been set off, let alone caught a mouse. Repeat Day 1.
Day 3- Repeat Day 2. I used a butter knife to test how much pressure it takes to set them off (which I should have done the first day). I found that even a slightly hefty mouse could have made off with the peanut butter and lived. I set only one this day, under the sink, and I loaded it with a bit of meat, stuffed right into the little hole so the mouse would have to work for it, and hopefully die in the process.
Day4- Mouse terds all around the still set trap..meat gone. I can just imagine him chuckling to himself as he waddles his hefty butt off with dinner.
Day 5- I go a little bit crazy and throw out all of the expensive mousetraps...I have enough mouths to feed and they had already gotten into my tortilla chips and pancake mix. I've HAD IT. I figure out why they claim that you "never have to touch a mouse". It's because you "never get to catch a mouse". Whatever.
Onto lesson #2: The traps that work are $1.27 for TWO of them. And you still "never have to touch a dead mouse (like the expensive ones claim)". How? You just throw it out with the mouse in it. You can catch 17.3 mice this way, spending the same amount that I did on the expensive traps.
Now that I've schooled you all in the best way to catch a mouse, let me say...the bugger got away with it for one more night..even with the good trap!
But in the end, I win. As I've been writing this post, I heard a "snap" under my sink that made my heart leap with joy for a second.
NEW current score: Mouse: 6, Jade: 1
P.S. NEVER type "mousetraps" into google images to look for a pic for this type of post. It's deeply disturbing.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteFortunately in many years that I'm in this house I only got one mouse.
To my satisfaction, he got snatched by his tail, thus giving me the chance to take him outside and release him into the street without being hurt.
Kind regards,
José
what kind of image comes up? i'm waffling to check now!!
ReplyDeletegreat post, jade. i laughed. sorry about the mice :(
oh my goodness that is to funny jade!!! we had a mouse here and could not kill it for the life of us, so finally we did cheese and put it in its trail and got it, we heard a snap in the night so we thought we would deal with that, My Dad went to Saskatchewan for a few days so we were left here alone to deal with this mouse, We got up and checked the mouse trap and we just screamed because it was still tossing and turning!!! so Darcy came up and did a man thing with the mouse.,,hahaha
ReplyDeleteps.how do you get the little tool bars on top of your blog, like about me, considering ETSY??
Eeep may I suggest a live trap? It is a little metal box with a ramp the mouse walks up to get to the food and falls in the box (we put peanut butter in ours) then when you've caught it, you hear rattling around and you can take it outside a let it go. We usually walk ours to the golf course woods a few blocks away so it doesn't come back to our house.
ReplyDeleteEither that or one of our cats gets it.
And thank you for commenting on my blog! I am following you now! :)
Kaylee, there is gadget called "pages" where you can add different pages to your blog. If you go into the design page and click on "add a gadget", you should see it in there :)
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