So two nights ago I noticed a mouse in my kitchen. Let me just say that this turn of events did not make me happy. Jen and I chased the bastard for about 10 minutes, at which point he disappeared somewhere in my dining room. Where to I haven’t a clue, as I couldn’t even see anywhere he could have run to. We did have the sliding glass door open though during the chase, so we assumed after completely losing him that he must have darted out the door without us seeing him.
Enter 4am last night, when Jen wakes me up to let me know she heard the mouse rustling some plastic bags we had in the living room after a shopping trip (of non-perishables, thank you very much 
). Let me interrupt myself here to just say that I’m thankful I didn’t marry a girly-girl, since she isn’t the type to squeal and jump and all that other stuff just because there’s a mouse around. But that said, she also didn’t like the fact that he was still around, so she woke me up to take a look. Sigh. Up I am in the god-forsaken hours of the night, casually looking around when. . . I see him dart behind the living room couch. That bastard.
So began another 10 minute fruitless chase before he magically disappeared into thin air again. So back to bed I went, fully knowing I had a rodent in my house and there wasn’t a damn thing I could do about it at the time.
Tonight I took a trip to wal-mart and bought four of these traps. . . the ‘Mouse Cube’ is a glorified plastic square tube with one end that has a hinged doorway. The instructions say to put a cracker with some peanut butter on the far end inside the trap, and even spread a very thin layer on the door itself, to bait the mouse. Mouse comes along, sees/smells the peanut butter cracker, noses up the hinged door and once his body gets under the door, gravity closes it behind him and he’s stuck.
Laid out the traps in a few key areas where we’ve seen him (behind the couch, by the dishwasher, and in the dining room) and I guess we’ll just see how this works out. Fingers crossed the thing is already trapped by morning and I finally have him out of my house.
