WE GOT HIM!!!
This is mouse #2 that we've caught in the house this spring. The first one, we caught in a Fed Ex box by trapping him in the dining room. It was mostly luck that he actually ran into the box. We took him outside and left the box out there, but really, I wonder if we took him far enough because, of course, this could be the same mouse.
Tino and I both have, um, issues with lethal traps. Sadly, I also have some panicking disorder when around mice in my house. I see and hear mice and have actually had them run over my head and hands while sleeping in an AT shelter. This is different. THEY ARE IN MY HOUSE!
This mouse took two hours of our time last night, and we failed to catch him. Eventually, we decided he *had* to be in the third seat of the suburban which was in the house at the time, so we carried it to the garage and set the humane trap.
I really didn't expect anything, but I stayed away from the garage this morning so he'd feel OK about coming out, if we were right about him being in there in the first place. I came home tonight and found him in the trap, amazingly enough! I was so happy I jumped up and down. Seriously.
I will probably have a better picture later. My digital camera is all automatic and I can't get the right depth of field. Before we carry him a few miles away and release him, Tino will snap a few pictures with the Rebel and those will be better.
We are seriously entertaining the idea of getting an inside/outside (mostly outside) cat. We're both allergic to cats, so that would be a big compromise for us, but let's face it -- we live in the sticks and mice are a fact of life. I looked up this little guy and apparently he's a deer mouse. Mouse #1 was the same species, but looked more juvenile. It's possible this is the same mouse, like I said before, maybe just grown up.
Posted by nicole at June 13, 2005 08:26 PM