The mouse in the house is no more.
And of course it decided to go into Michelle's craft room and sniff around and find her hidden chocolate and eat it and leave little poops all over the place.
We tried the old-fashoned snap traps, but he was too clever for them. Also too clever for the bucket traps Michelle used in her commissary days until she got some thin-enough wire.
The snap traps did almost catch one of the dogs, however . . .
Now the mouse is, as they kinda say in Dutch, a doya verdomde ding -- a forlorn dead thing, if Dad is to be believed, and as he was Dutch, probably the only thing off is my spelling.
Now I'm busy fixing the hole he likely came in - this open area around our water shutoff valve. I've sealed every hole I can find and added a bit more insulation, as this has always been a cold spot in the wall. Hopefully this stops the critters from getting in.
I'm going to shrink the opening here and I've ordered a little metal door from Home Depot that should arrive on Monday, so all of that should make the spot look and function a lot better than the bigger hole and the furnace vent cover over it.
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