Man Vs Mouse
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Research 1
Research 2
Trap #1
Trap #2
Trap #3
Trap #4
Trap #5
Trap #6
Trap #7
Trap #8
Trap #9
Trap #10
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by bCentral
© 2000 Paul Perkins
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I hate mice
I hate mice
My wife bought a bird feeder this
summer. We've enjoyed watching the colorful cardinals and other
various woodland birds perch outside our window and eat. I love
nature, and all it's beauty.
One day I noticed bird seed scattered around the seed
bag in my shed. I moved the bag of seed to the third rung of an
aluminum ladder, and placed a traditional mouse trap where the bag used
to be. I used peanut butter and bird seed as bait. The next
day I had a horrendous looking dead mouse. More
on dead mouse #1 here.
I put duct tape over the holes and kept the seed
bag on the third rung of the ladder, just in case there were more mice.
A few days later, something else had eaten a hole in the bag.
Evidently mice are able to climb aluminum ladders. I didn't know
this. I laid out another trap with peanut butter and bird seed and
expected to find a dead mouse the next day.

Killing the second mouse wasn't quite as easy. It wasn't
interested in the peanut butter & bird seed. It wasn't
interested in cheese. It wasn't even interested in licorice.
Weeks passed by without any luck. The mouse would eat food
sprinkled around the trap, but nothing on the trap. This was one
smart mouse. Out of frustration I left the trap empty and forgot
about it.
Well, about a week later I walked into the shed and
found the furry little bastard dead on the trap. I guess it let
it's guard down and decided to take a stroll over the empty trap.
Fatal mistake. At least the mess wasn't bloody this time.
I threw the mouse corpse over the fence in the back
yard to feed any hungy uberdeer.
The
Research...
Note: The spinning mouse graphic at
the top of this page is a photo I took of my wife's grossly obese pet
mouse. Having raised mice in the past, I thought it'd make a good
pet for her apartment. She left the mouse in California when we
moved east. It lived at my brother's house for awhile, but died
(probably of a heart attack) a few weeks later. I like non-disease
infested, pet mice. |