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2 days now since the last mouse was relocated, the children have gone home to their mothers. It's probably too early to say, from the corners of my eyes I still catch little movements, phantoms of the mice that have gone into the great outdoors, but no traps have been sprung. There have been no rustlings from the garbage, no scrapings from the walls, no chewing from the cupboards, I think that may be it.
The house is as quiet as the grave.
I will post later, there is much to write about tonight, but it will take me some hours to gather and organize my thoughts.
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Bringing it to a total of 8 in 2 days. 8 mice in 2 days, 3 in 1/2 an hour (a busy spell). I've been trying to relocate them to roughly the same back area of the garden in the compost, I've added some of the old hamster food there so their comfortable. Hopefully that keeps 'em. I'm starting to think I've got to be running out of mice soon....
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Since yesterday the trap has been sprung 5 times. 3 mice have been captured relocated to more outdoorsy surroundings, running pell mell across the snow, back and forth, confused by the bright sunlight, wide open spaces. They should be OK, there's plenty of bird feeders in the neighborhood, if they settle into the right hedge they'll never be hungry. Or so I tell myself. I know there's at least 2 more, but the trap will only hold one at a time. So I've set it up again and am waiting. The remaining mice have grown cautious, they've undoubtedly notice a thinning of the ranks. Gone is the line at the chew. It's a waiting game...
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The collander couldn't hold him. I go to check on the mouse I captured, in the Medalta #3, my prisoner of war, to find that he's somehow managed to escape. I don't know how. And the trap I've baited with peanut butter - a live-catch, because I don't want to hurt the little beggars, has been sprung, but there's no sign of a mouse. The garbage is rustling again, attempts to dissect it and extricate mouse #2 to Medalta #3 fail, mouse scurries away to under cupboard.
I have to stop being so kind. It's going to have to become war. Mouse in garbage will be taken out, mouse captured will be taken out, there's to be no resettlements en-masse, it's not working, this mercy thing, it has to be war.
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It's warm enough outside and I've postponed it long enough. Too long, in fact, it's like I'm running a Superstore in here.
Watching the mice yesterday from the office, they're loving that chew-toy I bought them for christmas. Popping out from under the stove, two at a time - I thought there was only two....
Large mouse, small mouse climbing chew. Small mouse, medium mouse, is there only 2? medium mouse, large mouse, this just won't do....
There's a Dr. Seuss book in here somewhere....
It's hard to tell, it looks like there might be three mice, but I'm only seeing 2 at a time, the sizes appear to be different though....
And finally they come clean. Small mouse on chew, medium mouse above it, large mouse watching - a proper inter-generational family gathering. They pop in and out of the drawer, hanging down the chew with their tails when they want to get fed.
Then, from the corner of my eye, I see another mouse nonchalantly amble out from under the bookcase in the office.
Now they're taking the piss.
And so I pull out the drawer, manage to catch one mouse, the others escape. I throw him in my #3 Medalta, he shouldn't be able to jump out of that, but I've placed a collander over top just to be sure. A good thing from the sounds of it, there's a lot of fussing in there as he's trying to escape. When I've rounded them all up it'll be time to walk down to a wild area and relocate the family. Or any group of 2 or three at least, this might be a large scale job. Meanwhile I've booby trapped the apartment and baited traps....