Time for Mouse Wars
By Morgan
@OneOfMany (12150)
United States
March 10, 2017 4:17pm CST
Yesterday I entered the room and a mousetrap was gone. Knowing it didn't vanish on its own, I ripped apart the closet until I found the mousey perpetrator. Isolating it in the confines of a section of dryer vent piping, I trapped it and wondered what I was going to do with it. If I released it outside, I would have to still free it, and it would simply return. If I killed it, the problem would only be how.
Too softhearted to do the deed (I looked into its cute, mousey eyes), I set it aside until I was ready to take it on a trip, however, in the time I was getting ready, it escaped back into my house! Somehow it freed itself and got away. My only hope was that it would react to its fear and brush with death and leave the house. Not a chance!
This morning the mouse had grown brazen and took to wandering around the entire kitchen, and left mouse turds everywhere. It seemed that its encounter had the opposite effect and it was emboldened instead of fearful. And it was probably wary of the traps too... so I had to up the ante.
Today I got some sticky (glue) traps, as much as I hate them, and some other traps. I know exactly where to focus my efforts, so tonight I'm going to set them up. It's time for war!
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
10 Mar 17
It's not like I welcomed it inside or anything. XD
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
10 Mar 17
@OneOfMany It may have just been visiting your computer mouse.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
10 Mar 17
@Asylum It was, since I caught it in the computer room!
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@marguicha (224077)
• Chile
10 Mar 17
Although I´m not a special evil person, I have no doubt about what to do with a mouse, no matter how cute its eyes. I would not set it free either near my house or near someone else´s house. Sorry, dear mouse, but that´s where your life ends.
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@marguicha (224077)
• Chile
11 Mar 17
@OneOfMany I´d say you should check which is the way to do it with less pain.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
10 Mar 17
Most people would just kill it. I have trouble killing animals. In my mind I have no problem doing it, but in reality I feel bad. I thought about drowning it or putting it in a bag and suffocating it, and even stomping on it, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. But with the sticky traps, once they're stuck, there's no going back.
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@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
17 Mar 17
I had to trap them also, as they were in the garage. They can't live there, as a lot of damage would occur. My husband told me its mean; however, I asked how many items does he want chewed or need to be tossed.
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@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
17 Mar 17
@OneOfMany Hopefully, it was a scout and no more will come now. We can hope, as if I hear another mouse cry, then there will be more drastic measures, as my garage floor looked terrible with droppings.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
17 Mar 17
@Fishmomma Let us both hope for the best then! 
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
17 Mar 17
They are cute little things, but they do not belong inside with us. Since that day I have not seen any evidence of another mouse, but I can't believe that there was only one, unless it was the first scout of many.
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
10 Mar 17
We have trapped a few over the years and taken them to the back of the property. They are part of the environment and needed for something @OneOfMany
Just can't think of what at the moment.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
11 Mar 17
In my old place I would catch them and take them 5 miles away, since any less than that and they can find their way back. They don't like to leave.
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
11 Mar 17
That's what you do when you are low on the food chain. You have to reproduce fast!
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@cindiowens (5120)
• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
17 Mar 17
Poor little mousy. I hate to kill anything, but when it is invading the home, what choice do we have? So what happens after they get stuck to the glue? Or.....do I want to know?
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
17 Mar 17
A grisly and unfortunate ending. So yes, beyond that, you probably don't want to know. The package says to just throw them away, but that would be beyond cruel.
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