Trap #6 Continues

Man Vs Mouse

Intro
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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© 2000 Paul Perkins

Dead mouse?  Or just another disappointment?
Gotcha?

    The next day I checked the trap.  Bingo!  Something had sprung it.  I could tell right away that the seed had been eaten.  Was there a mouse corpse underneath?  I had to know.

When I was younger I made G.I. Joe forts that looked a lot like this.
Closer... closer....

Nibbled pretzel
Something had definitely been chewing on the pretzel.

    I flipped the traps over.  No mouse.  Fooey!  Honestly, I didn't figure that the traps would succeed.  At best they probably whapped the mouse in the head.  Then it probably came back and ate some of the pretzel.

    A fast-forward:  I didn't have have a drop to drink over the next few days.  I feared getting snapped that much.  I repeated this experiment over several days.  The mouse did not touch the pretzel, but would occasionally eat seed I had scattered around.  I'm not including pictures of the unsnapped traps.  If you want to see unsnapped traps then hit your browser's back button.

    Eventually I decided to up the ante for the mouse.  I included a piece of yummy cheese.  From my cartoon experience I know that Swiss cheese is a mouse's favorite kind of cheese.

Cheese... enjoyed by mice around the world!
Say cheeeeeese!

Nummy!
Dinner is served.

The results...