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Posted by sammi's mom (sammi'smom) on 3/26/2008, 12:33 pm, in reply to "There's a mouse in the house!!! msg"
So I went downstairs this morning prepared to see anything. Didn't see anything. When I woke up Ruby was on the bed, incredibly tired after such vigilance. I fed both the cats like normal, they ate like normal.
I sat down at the computer and soon noticed Ruby hunched down next to the loveseat in the "dining" room (really more of a library). We have a collapsible cat crate there we put up when Sammi had the biopsy on the cyst next to her eye; we thought she'd like sitting without the collar. But she freaked out so we never used it. Of course, being us, it's still set up there. So Ruby's in front of if looking intensely at something.
Something that looked like dryer lint. Except it had a tiny nose, tiny ears, tiny eyes, and tiny paws. A very small young black furry mouse just about the size of the toy furry mice these guys love. It was really too adorable. It didn't seem very concerned, but maybe it was just too young to know better.
I decided to let nature take its course, and since Ruby and Sammi could not get past the crate nature decided to let the mouse slip back into whatever crack it came out of. That part of the dining room is on the opposite wall to the stove, which is where I found Ruby and Sammi hovering after failing to secure their prey next to the cage.
I have a bad feeling about opening the built-in drawers in the built-in cupboard on the wall behind the stove. Nice warm dry quiet space . . .
I'm going to buy some humane trap-n-release mousetraps. Any of you have suggestions as to brands, models, or just other ideas about our mouse problem? I put a call into some service in MA I saw that deals humanely with rodents, but they haven't called back yet.
karen
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