The Mouse Hunt

We still have the dead animal stinking up the wall.  We are on day 16 of it smelling awful.  I also discovered as it ran across my foot in the bathroom one morning a mouse.  Here's the kids version of it...

Haleigh - "There were a live mouse and he was alive with the sticky paper.  My Dad throwed him in the garbage but I thought he was cute.  Some people hold their tails.  For reals.  We were looking for him very much and it was so hard to find him.  That's all I know, mom."

Carter - "One Sunday morning, mom and dad with the lights on were on the bed.  Da Da Dum.  And then they saw a mouse.  It ran out of the bathroom and it ran into my room and then mom and dad were so scared, mom screamed to death.  So then we went on, we went on.  Then I woke up and then I was going, "Mom, what are you doing on the bed?"  "I saw a mouse come out of the bathroom" mom said.  "Oh great?  Why can't I have a normal day like usual?"

Then she ran into ...actually I don't know if it was a she...one of those vents.  We checked everywhere and then Daddy went to go get some traps.  Then Haleigh and me drew some traps on some paper.  One of my traps had a mousetrap where you run into it and a cheese was in it and you get snapped.  And then, some cheese is on the ground with a rope attached to a box and it would land on him when he went back to the vent.  The next one is, we have pizza boxes and you attach it to a doorknob that can come loose and when he runs by and see's the cheese, he'll get squished by the pizza box.  It will have heavy stuff in it too.  The last biggest trap is he runs out of the vent and then it's about to squish him and then the pizza box will have knives attached at the bottom and come down and then hot sauce will come down on his back and he'll say, "I'm not a sandwich!"  then he'd keep running and a spray bottle would squirt him and then he runs and then a chomper squishes him and then he runs and then there's pepper that goes on his head.  He would make it to the cheese but then the cheese would go up and we'd trap him in mouse jail.

After we drawed the traps, I saw the mouse but then I told everybody there was a mouse in the pantry.  We all got on the treadmill except for dad and he got down, we trapped him for he wouldn't escape and dad was trying to grab him but he ran into a hole and we didn't get him.

Then on Monday we caught one of them on the glue paper.  It was a grayish, reddish one.  So we grabbed a bag and we put him in the bag and dad was getting dressed, he took the bag and he throwed it in the trash.  And that is all."

Miles: "The mouse get cheese.  Carter run, Haleigh run.  The mouse fall down, say night night.  Poop was in the box. "


So back to me...yes, I made Doug go to the store on Sunday and buy sticky traps and it's a good thing too because since then we've caught and disposed of two more mice.  So many memories of my two brothers killing unwanted creatures comes to mind.  I told Doug to just kill them and not tell me about it because I didn't want them to suffer in the garbage can outside stuck to that sticky paper.  I've scoped the entire house top to bottom to see how and why they are coming in.  Still no luck finding the entrance but at least we found their hiding spots.  I would have taken pictures of the whole fiasco but we were running around chasing this mouse in our underwear, so the story will have to do.