The Battle with the Mice...

I hate mice. They run around leaving bacteria encrusted feces all over the place. They chew little holes in your fabrics and walls. They make little noises that you imagine hearing wherever you're at, whether they are there or not. They come in multiples, and you never really know just how many there are. And even if you start catching them, there is no real guaranette that they haven't left babies growing somewhere that will re-infest your house again in the near future. Mice are awful!

So of course, we have mice. They appeared out of nowhere and took over. Everywhere I'm finding their evidence. Bathrooms, play clothes, shoe baskets, pantry, oven, even eating chemicals under the kitchen sink!! We put out snap traps with cheese and peanut butter, with no luck. Moved onto the ever awful glue traps with cheese and peanut butter, still no luck. Switched to the dreaded bait.. and we seemed to have alittle luck. The bait was eaten, and we began to find poop the color of the bait all over the garage. At first I was alittle nervous about that.. considering if they are pooping out the bait that meant they weren't dead... but then we found a single twitching nearly dead little guy. Didn't find anymore, but the new bait was un-eaten and so the assumtion was made that the rest had died in the walls. But you know what they say about assumtions...

Still was finding poop in new places, but not the old. So I hoped with all that was in me it was simply old poop. Today all such hopes were dashed when I found lots of it across the back wall that I've cleaned twice since the first discovery. Still aren't eating the bait, which as been solely in the garage. Still aren't getting into all the glue traps spread through the house. I'm not thrilled with the idea of poison in the house, given they will poop poison out and leave it for the kids and dog to find. So now what do I do??

I hate mice.