Mouse in the House by Chia

Published on by Xena, Lucy and Chia

On July 4th I was tasked with catching the mouse in the house! It surprised me once, and by the time I started chasing it, it had too much of a head start. But I’m gonna find you, mousy. Here, mousy, mousy…

I’m half dachshund, and we are badger hunters! Mice are more in Xena’s area of expertise, cause schnauzers are ratters. But I saw this one first and it’s gonna be MINE!

The problem is,  I haven’t seen that mouse at all since then. Maybe she knows she’s dead meat if I get her! She’s been eating our coconut oil toothpaste, the stuff Mom mixes with Neem oil to brush our teeth. Grrrrr. Oh, and now Mom’s been referring to the mouse as “she” because “she” is so darn smart (sorry, guys)! Mom moved our coconut oil toothpaste to the very top of the stack dryer. Shoot, even she can barely get to it there! And guess what? Part of it was gone the next morning! How the dickens is this mouse getting to these places? And why isn’t it getting trapped? This time the mouse slammed the door on the trap shut on it’s way out!

She ate all the “toothpaste” in the trap again a few nights ago plus shut the trap door on her way out again! The other two traps broke trying to catch that darn mouse. She keeps going in them and eating our coconut oil and walking back out. At least she has good manners and shuts the trap door behind her!

I’m really trying, Mom!

“You won’t believe what she did the other night while we were asleep! She got on the stovetop and into the trap that had her favorite coconut oil. The door closed with her in the trap. She banged against the inside of the trap until it bounced off the stove. Then she kept banging against the inside of it until it was partway across the room. Then she got the door at the other end – the door only people are supposed to be able to pull off to release the mouse in the wild – lifted up out of it’s groove and walked away! (after she ate the coconut oil.)
 
My folks are about to look for another humane way of catching her. If that fails, well, there’s always the jaws of death. No! Not mine! (unless I catch her first) An old fashioned mouse trap. Mousie will die. Mom will cry. And then I will have failed. But it will be over.

Now the back of the trap is sealed with clear packing tape so mousy poo (yep, it poos a lot) can’t escape that way. But who woulda thought she could do that in the first place!?

I’ll catch it Mom! I’ll hold it down with this paw like I did my [toy] squirrel while I bite off its head.

Rubber bands are around the outside of the trap and hooked on each side to the burner grates on the stove. Hopefully, that will keep the trap from being bounced to the edge and off the stove top. More coconut oil is in it. We will know tomorrow if she took the bait again, or if she learned not to go into it. Mom’s also gonna place one in the bathroom. She’s heard mousy poo rustling around in there during the night.

This is your last chance, Miss Mousy Poo. Git out while the gittin’ is still good.
Chia, your arch nemesis.

In case you’re wondering, this is what the trap looks like.

35 thoughts on “Mouse in the House by Chia”

  3. She seems to have gone into hiding. Not even taking the peanut butter bait. She’s onto these traps. We’d love to get a cat in to take care of it, but not at the cost of my Dad’s bad allergic reaction to cats (no offense, BD). XOXOX Chia

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  5. Chia: No! I didn’t she she was laughing at me! Grrrrr (we still haven’t caught her)
    Xena: Mommy was going t borrow the neighbor’s cat, but Daddy’s too allergic to cats for that. But thank you so much for the offer!
    Lucy: When Mom brought a mouse home she had rescued from her workplace, Dad said he knew how this worked…he would start saving for college. Unfortunately, the mouse died that night. (We didn’t do it.)

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  6. That is one super smart mouse. We can just imagine her laughing at you behind your back. Several weeks ago, we had three separate mouse get in the house. We know it was three different ones as we dispatched each one. We think it was because we were having so much rain that they were looking for higher ground. If you would like to borrow one of us to take care of mousy poo, just let us know. 🐭 XOCK, angels Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta & Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo, Cooper Murphy, Sawyer, Kizmet, Audrey & Raleigh

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  7. Hmmm, well, 1. The mouse would never show up if I was there and 1. I wanna sleep in bed with Lucy and Mom and Dad (and Lucy, I guess). XOXOX Chia
    Xena: That was supposed to be and 2.
    Chia: Whatever.

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  12. Java Bean: “Ayyy, our Dada said something about some movie called Mouse Hunt … He says he hopes your mouse isn’t as smart as that one! Or as smart as the gopher who kept escaping the gopher traps out our the backyard by filling them with dirt, including this one time filling them with dirt that broken glass in it …”

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  13. Hey Amy just saw your comment…No Dr. Seuss Day is not next week

    I think it is in March.

    However there was an exhibit at the mall at the end of May about the art work of Dr.Seuss

    That is what the photo is advertising.

    Hugs Cecilia

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  14. How FUNNY!!!! Sounds like my life with my cat herd this year. Desperate for no more medical disasters with them. That would be me. I had no idea how lucky I was to have healthy (although insane) cats year after year. I’ll never take that for granted again. lol!!

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  21. That is a way too trap smartypants mouse!!

    We hope you can get it sooner than later…tose live traps are supposed to be mouseproof, imagine that! Our mice tried to get into the olive oil can, by chewing on the spout, sheesh! They once ate through some plastic jars of PB…and also the almond butter jars. And then in the kitchen they ate through my nut flour bag…had to through away a big new bag cause of that, ugh! Country living in an old frame house is a mouse paradise apparently!

    If we would use live traps and set them free outside they would be back inside in a big hurry, so sadly we have to keep kill traps in all kinds of places here…though not anywhere where us pups can access them. So *she* apologizes to them each time she finds on in her traps.

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  29. Chia OMDs OMDs having been owned by a mighty mini Dachshund Toto, I know the how you love a challenge and stick to it.

    That mouse in the house was history quickly

    Hugs Cecilia

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  32. Wow!!! What a smart mousie!! And an incredibly healthy one too, eating coconut oil, one of the super foods. Good luck trapping it in a way that will allow your Mom to release it faraway from your house in a humane manner. If you have to trap it the traditional way, your Mom will have nightmares about that for months. I know I would. Good luck!!

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  34. Yikes! This is important and critical work. Good luck. I’m pretty sure my mom would burn the house down if she saw a mouse. Then we would have to move to a new house, but the mouse would be gone.

    Sloppy kisses,

    Delilah

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