Along with everyone else, we have also been ill the past week. Stomach ill. I'm hoping this means a sick-free holiday, but I'm not sure I can be that lucky.
We have discovered that we have mice. A few other things we've discovered:
- Those stupid sound-emitter things that supposedly will drive rodents out of the house DO NOT WORK.
- Traps built to hide the mouse body after it dies DO NOT WORK.
- Mice never travel alone.
Three days ago, Pants purchased a pack of "old trusty" mousetraps and a pack of glue strips. He also gave me crap for how much I spent on the other two methods that had not caught even one mouse. It did not help that his "old trusty" caught one within an hour. AN HOUR. WHILE WE WERE ALL STILL UP. But it's not the snap-traps that bother me - it's the glue traps. They work like gangbusters but I hate listening to the mouse struggle in the cabinet for so long. Pants hates that they are still looking at him, pleading, when he takes them out to the trash. We both prefer the quick snap/immediate death approach.
I don't have a Christmas tree up yet, nor do we have stockings or anything else up. It would be much easier if we weren't sick every year from October 31 through the new year.
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I decorated one corner of the living room, lost interest, and called it good.
You need to seal off where they are coming in- get some expanding foam stuff and go around the foundation- check around windows, doors, vents, etc. Our biggest hole was where the tubing for the A/C came into the house. That + the snap traps should do it. If you end up needing a guy, let me know, I have the name and # of a good one.
Snap traps. Always snap traps. This is from a guy who has killed over 60 mice in three years. They're quick and they work. I don't enjoy killing them, but they could find somewhere else to live.
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