This is No Longer the House of Mistress Mouse

Ta Da!!  Look at what we found in the humane mousetrap this morning - 'tis Mistress Mouse herself.

For anyone else suffering from a 'moose loose somewhere in the hoose' I highly recommend Steve Smith's humane mousetrap idea (www.smithsax.btinternet.co.uk). 

For the first three nights we had been using a piece of bent wire as the 'spring'  although he recommends using a bent bamboo skewer.  Yesterday I bought a bag of bamboo skewers in Sainsbury's so during the evening P re-designed the 'spring' mechanism with a bamboo skewer and, my goodness, it certainly worked.  Best of all it didn't cost a penny (well, that's not quite true if you count the 99p for 100 bamboo skewers - I do have another packet somewhere about but I just couldn't find them), and considering the huge amount of money we spent on the sonic and electromagnetic rodent repeller (as much use as a sick headache) and the two humane mousetraps from the pet shop (total waste of time) this is just as well.

Mistress Mouse is actually quite cute but I just don't want to share a house with her.  First thing this morning we gave her a lift to her new country residence about three miles away, I hope she will be very happy there, and that she will 'live long and prosper'. 

We will be re-setting the trap again this evening as I strongly suspect Mistress Mouse was not operating as a sole agent.  No doubt somewhere in the depths of the house is the Clyde to her Bonnie. 

Comments

[Gill]

Good result,well done you. One of her cousins is visting my house currently, my cats are spending hours sitting patiently waiting for it to come out. I might have to take matters into my own hands and use your pest control method.
Gill