4-legged mouse trap
Thanks for the comments and recommendations re: getting a cat, but we're not going to, for the following reasons:
1. Cats make me sneeze a little.
2. They make my dad sneeze a LOT, and I want my parents to be able to visit when they want to.
3. I'm not really a "pet" person.
4. I'm already a grad student with a baby to take care of. I don't want more responsibility.
5. I'm not convinced that two isolated mouse incidents, even if they were just a couple days apart, means we have a serious infestation warranting more extreme measures than a couple of well-placed, well-baited traps.
6. Even if we got a cat, it would probably deposit dead mice all over the house. Gross.
7. We don't have room for a litter box.
1. Cats make me sneeze a little.
2. They make my dad sneeze a LOT, and I want my parents to be able to visit when they want to.
3. I'm not really a "pet" person.
4. I'm already a grad student with a baby to take care of. I don't want more responsibility.
5. I'm not convinced that two isolated mouse incidents, even if they were just a couple days apart, means we have a serious infestation warranting more extreme measures than a couple of well-placed, well-baited traps.
6. Even if we got a cat, it would probably deposit dead mice all over the house. Gross.
7. We don't have room for a litter box.
Comments
It's better to think of them as sacrificial offerings.
I'm worried we're going to have mouse problems too because we also live in an old house near a woods, and our screens all suck. I shudder to think what gruesome mercy killings I might have to participate in if our little inept hunter gets to them first.
Have you read "Nuit of the Living Dead" by David Sedaris? Good mouse-drowning story.