23 April 2008
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Posted by Brian under: The Red House .
The other day there was evidence that we had a visitor in the house. We didn’t see any small tire tracks around the place, or find a ping pong ball helmet, but we knew that we had a mouse. When we moved in, we were told that we needed to throw some mouse poison into the crawl space under the house about once per month. We did it the first month, and since January I basically forgot about it. So I had to make a trip to Lowes and get something to take care of our visitor, as well as try and deter any other visitors for making an un-announced drop-in. I got a good supply of the stuff to throw under the house, and decided on a glue trap to get rid of our visitor. Someone later mentioned that these types of traps were the most inhumane, but I thought it would be better than the snap types, that break the back. Setting out the glue trap, I almost caught myself in it. I accidentally put my thumb on the sticky part, and it was a bitch to get off. Eventually it did come off, and there was enough sticky stuff left to catch our visitor on the first night. The glue probably was not the most humane because when I picked up the trap to examine our visitor, he turned his head and looked up at me, as if to say “My bad; I shouldn’t have come over un-invited. You win.” I gave him one last chance to escape, assuming that he could pull himself off of the glue and chew his way out of the garbage bag before it got compacted at the dump. I have a feeling that he will not be visiting us again. Let that be a lesson to all other potential visitors; human and rodent alike: If you come over un-invited, you may just find yourself stuck on a glue trap. I may have just come up with a great way to ward off door to door salesman. A giant glue trap outside of the front door. All it takes is one salesperson to be stuck on the trap to act as a warning to all other salespeople. “Stay away, or you’ll get stuck too!!!!” Going to search and see if someone has already got a patent on this idea.