Ever noticed how "terminated" and "exterminated" mean pretty much the same thing? Was thinking about this as I, the reigning queen of mouse death, killed another two this morning. Not with my bare hands or anything, but I finally figured out how to set those freaking traps correctly.
Guess I should back up a little. We just recently noticed mouse evidence (read: "poo" as Mike Rowe on Dirty Jobs would say) in the laundry room and we couldn't figure out what the heck was going on. We've lived here for a year and a half without a problem. And it's warm now! What the heck...mice come in for warmth and water, or so I'm told.
Anyway, after Greg saw something moving in the early morning light in the laundry room, we decided to get some traps. Right now, Stacey: 3, Mice: 0.
But I'm proud of myself because I learned something today and fixed the problem, at least temporarily, for myself. Apparently, mice chew through caulking. So if you caulk a hole into your house, like where you have pipes or tubes leading out, they can eventually eat through that. I went around to the side of the house and found that the tube or pipe or whatever leading from the A/C into the house, which USED to have grey caulking around it, was now bare. Ha, ha, caught you, you little buggers!
I also learned that the way to fix this was to stuff steel wool into the hole and then caulk it shut. Well, I can't caulk it yet (too wet outside) but I did go and buy the steel wool and fit it into the hole.
So, I'm feeling quite proud of myself! : )
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