Over the last week and a half I have been fighting a losing battle trying to catch this really clever mouse. Sunday before last Russell said that while I was at church he saw a mouse run across our bedroom floor and under my sewing table. So I of course tore everything out from under there and cleaned my entire bedroom and couldn't find it. That night I slept in the recliner because I didn't want to find a mouse my bed in the middle of the night. The next day I cleaned my house top to bottom in search of this pesky mouse to no avail. So then I remembered we had some glue traps that the pest control people had given us to try to catch lizards so I set those in places that I had found mouse droppings and the next day I looked and the stinkin thing had been caught and somehow clawed it's way off of the glue trap. So my sister Diana gave us some Di-Con to try and get it that way, still no luck. Then our pest guys came for their routine spraying of the house and I asked what they recommended and they gave me some snap traps and said to put peanut butter on them so I did that and still no catch. Then I decided the peanut butter wasn't tempting enough so I put some cheese on it and the next day the cheese was gone and still no mouse. So Sunday I was cooking and saw the little monster run between the dishwasher and the sink so I set a trap outside the opening and put a piece of popcorn on it thinking for sure I would catch the dang thing, but of course the next morning the popcorn was gone and still no mouse. So tonight I thought hmm.. what if I put two traps down by the crack and put crackers on them I wonder if that would work? And guess what? Success!!! I was laying in bed about to go to sleep and I heard the joyful sound of BOTH traps snapping!! Hallelujah!!! I caught the stinking thing!! It actually got it's arm caught in one and it's head in another!! I am so happy!! So now I am off to a peaceful mouse free sleep!! Goodnight!!
