the last supper.......or is it

when the cats away the mice will play. OK Malia is not a cat but she does have on a cute cat outfit. shes more of a Barkley hair magnet then a mouse hunter. so now here is our latest adventure, i think that a far distance cousin of the mouse captured in kinda fuzzy's blog(fri,oct,1,2010) has arrived at our place. we have started to notice some mice droppings(gross) in the base cabinets in the kitchen. this not being very sanitary we have opted to eliminate this threat. please take note that this series of events has taken place over the last several weeks. Mr. buns has elected to help model the next series of devises.


well the first trap i tried has been successful one time before. it caught the great grandfather of the mouseaters family tree. so i knew it was tried and true. so i baited (peanut butter), and waited. with no luck after several days, i checked and the bait was gone. that Little sneaky mouse (a Nijia mouse i might call it), had eaten all the bait. so i reset it and again it evidently went in and came out with a full stomach.

so seeing no good results from the first trap, on to the next trap. i went out and picked up a new trap called a stickey trap, i baited it (Peanut butter), and waited. after several days of no luck and bait being gone i rebaited it one more time, the next morning the trap was no where to be found. after i crawled in the cabinet and opened a trap door that exposes under the cabinets. lo and behold, there was the trap.........but no mouse. it had gotten stuck pulled the trap down the hole and made its way to some rubble and pulled its self free(damn nijia), so on to the next trap.

figuring that maybe the first trap was not sensitive enough, i went out and picked up a new trap. this trap did not allow the bait to be eaten and was also pressure sensitive. needless to say after a week of trying and no results, there was still obvious signs the mouse was around(damn nijia).

so i figured, some times an oldie is a Goldie, i i went and picked up an old fashioned mouse trap or the finger breaker i like to call it. figuring the mouse had had its fill of peanut butter i went with the standard tried and true cheese. i set two traps and checked them in the morning. that damn #$@*&% nijia mouse took the cheese off and ate half of it(well truth be it was processed cheese, maybe not to his liking). so i set it again this time with real cheese and made shure it was not coming off the trap, when i awoke in the morning i could see chew marks all over the cheese mother%$#@*, what a quick, sneaky, sly, nijia mouse.

well not being successful at many different attempts i decided to bring out the big guns. not the preferred method(usually unpleasantly smelly) but a last resort -poison. after a while of the poison being placed i noticed the the nijia mouse was still eating his fill. after a week or so and no smell or mouse, i checked the poison supply, it was still being consumed? now with no recent signs of Mr. mouse i still don't know the fate of the nijia mouse. he may have packed up and moved away(next door), he may have had his fill and retired, or he may still be lurking in the shadows having the last laugh.