Surprise mouse!

[dalesql]

So, I know we have mice in the house. But since my brother is extremely allergic to cats, we can't have a cat to control them. So since I can't really do anything about them, I just have to protect my food from them and endure.

So just now, I'm watching some TV and reach over to the table next to my easy chair and grab some sunflower seeds from the bag I had there for TV snacking. The second handful I pull out and something registers in my hindbrain that there is something weird in my hand. So I look at my hand and I see something grey that is not sunflower seeds in my hand. Without any conscious thought I open my hand and toss everything on the floor. The grey thing is racing across the floor and dissapears before I realize that it must be a mouse. SURPRISE!

So I figure I must have forgotten to close them up last night and the mouse got in. So I get up and pick up the bag of sunflower seeds to throw them away. I look inside and surprise again, there is another mouse still in there! Off to the back porch and I dump the sunflower seeds and the mouse outside to fend for themselves. Last I saw of the mouse was it dashing across the deck for cover. The sunflower seeds just lay on the ground. Either way, no longer my problem.

Time to step up my mouseproofing efforts.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

We had a mouse. The glue traps worked, baited with chocolate.

I recommend putting opened snacks, bread, etc., into ziplock bags; the mice can chew through it but you can tell if they do.

[dalesql.livejournal.com]

Already do that. I just forgot to close up the sunflower seeds bag last night. Yah, glue traps work, but I prefer not to use them. The mice get stuck to them and starve to death, which is a terrible way to go. The mouse is just being a mouse, I don't feel the need to kill them slowly with great pain.

[coyoty.livejournal.com]

What's worse than finding a mouse in your sunflower seeds?

Finding half a mouse.

[dalesql.livejournal.com]

Very true.