i had a delema

I was sitting at the kitchen table last night waiting for the time to drive into town for coffee, out of the corner of my eye I saw a dag burn mouse running across the floor! WTF??? I grabbed a pan off the counter and caught it under it. now what? I grabbed a stiff cardboard and slid it under the pan, but then couldn't lift it or myself back up at the same time. my back wouldn't let me bend down that far to pick it up. so I left it. was thinking about it while at coffee...I just knew the old lady....ooooops….I mean the loving wife would come in the kitchen after waking up and figgering that one of the cats knocked the pan off the counter and pick it up...then seeing that mouse under there...start dancing and screaming and then throw the pan, then the pan breaking something, and the darned mouse would gits away! along with all the names she would call me after getting back home! well I gots brave and came on home, she was up but hadn't gone in the kitchen yet! whew! I told her all about this and the look I got from her (like I was setting her up) was priceless. we both went in and she wiggled that cardboard under, picked it up and out the door I went with the critter, drowned it ina bucket. whew!

A 44 cal makes short work of meeces. If we ever meet I'll tell you a true story about 44's and meeces.

patented 1882 Trap

Edited by chaskaduo - 19 Aug 2019 at 8:26am

 Soggy don't forget "The Knight in Shinning Armer" is a dog man. An with the herd he keeps the cats have to stay up on top of the stove to keep from being trampled,provided if he is so liberated to have both. So the cat needs a break until the facts are in.But we might say the dogs should not have been sleeping so peacefully. But I guess the Knight needs to be commended for not sleeping on the job, of guarding the dogs,and loving wife.

30  years ago we use to catch them in a waste basket at work... set a ruler horizontal from a chair to the waste basket and hang the ruler over  a few inches.. put a dab of cheese on the end of the ruler... It was a game... Setup in afternoon... mouse in the box the next morning... good for a week or two !!

My sisters remodeling of dad and mom's house finished a few weeks ago. Sister won't move in until next summer after she retires. Any who i spent last week there mowing and tree trimming and felt like the exterminator. Caught one in a trap on the second night then had a small one hop across the living room floor. Bad mistake on his part. I got up and found the fly swatter and nailed him deader than a hammer. Saw a third one but had not caught him yet. When I left I set 12 traps all baited with peanut butter. I will be back next week to see if I did any good.

if the house cats see them, they'll kill them, but not eat them which is fine. last winter we saw one cat starring at the stove, did that for almost 2 days, then it left us a dead mouse on the floor in front of the stove. guess it's kinda like cops, can't be everywhere at once!

JohnCO wrote: Might get a bit smelly in the house next week...

Yep but I was raised on a hog farm so it will smell like petunias to me. 😆😆😆😆

And I sure can't find the place they are entering. All brick home and no gaps or holes that I can find. May need to have a closer look at where the AC line enters or maybe the dryer vent.

shameless dude wrote: if the house cats see them, they'll kill them, but not eat them which is fine. last winter we saw one cat starring at the stove, did that for almost 2 days, then it left us a dead mouse on the floor in front of the stove. guess it's kinda like cops, can't be everywhere at once!

   Maybe set out a little ketchup and mustard for the cats on tuesday through sunday.