It's not tiny.
There's no reason for us to have this super-mouse since we own a feisty cat and a TERRIER who demand to be inside with us–despite the infinitely more interesting possibilities for animals in the country.
However.
This mouse is cunning. We've set two traps, placing them in various, strategic locations. Yet, he scoffs at the peanut butter offering on the trap...knowing he can forage enough food crumbs in our house to last another fifty years.
And intrepid! The mouse hasn't been afraid to show himself. The other day he sauntered across our kitchen. Really. He did not skitter, like frightened mice are supposed to do when a gathering of humans are near. Like sensible people, we all jumped on our bar stools, raising our feet to avoid being attacked by the ferocious rodent.
The cleaning lady found herself facing him the other day in the laundry room. I think he was trying to intimidate her–concerned she'd remove his crumb stash. She admitted he did scare her a bit. But I don't this the confrontation dissuaded her from sweeping up the mouse's forage.
But he's still not taking the PB bait.
Clever bugger.
Incapable cat and dog.
I wish I could just convince the mouse to take a walk out the door. It's such a nice time a year. And I'm really not into killing things, even if they are classified as pests.
Any ideas? Give up? Pull out the old hamster cage? Make him a part of the family? Mice are kinda cute.
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| We lost a hamster in our house once. Maybe the mouse isn't a mouse? |
