Oh, God! I did not get them all. I only got the children! (please see post below)
I took my Tip Trap down last night, at like almost 3am because I hadn’t caught one for hours. Just to check, I put one piece of cat food in there and a fresh cap of water. This morning the cat food was gone so I decided I had to get the Tip Trap back out and try it again tonight.
Well, first time I checked on the Tip Trap it was turned over, again, and nobody was home…But, somebody did chew the label a bit. I thought, that’s odd. I set it back up again and waited. I heard a clunk and rushed in the bathroom. I opened the door under the sink (where they are hiding out) and I see the Tip Trap again on it’s side, and a mouse standing next to it. (she got up into the pipe hole before I could nab her)
Now last night all the mice I shuttled out were very small and light in color. They all looked young. The one standing before me tonight was not. It was fairly large and very dark. I think it’s the mom. She may have been trying to chew her children out of the Tip Trap, at least in my imaginary mouse world she was.
I feel so badly.
I think I have broken up a family. Her children are outside and she is still in the bathroom and I can’t catch her because she has figured out the Tip Trap.
Aaaaah! Help!
Oh God! That really sucks. Have you been able to catch the mom yet?
Oh, this is sadness. You are doing the right thing though, you are!!!
wouldn’t it be nice if there was a “mouse refuge area”…. and wouldn’t it be nice if there was a “piper” to lure them all in so that the families would not be separated.
I think this is going overboard. Hunter Cashdollar
I got my new live mousetrap, but since then I have not seen any signs of mice. I now wonder if they don’t have another way out of the house. I hope and imagine that they are all together.
I pray…
The secret lives of mice are quite mysterious.
My wife called me into the kitchen yesterday morning with a voice I had not previously heard to tell me there was a mouse. Our cat shows absolutely no interest in small animals, and I suspect the mouse was living on dry cat food. I remembered seeing the Tip-Trap at Harbor Freight Tools, and had thought it was about the cleverest thing I had ever seen, so we went there yesterday and I got 3 Tip-Traps at $1.99 each (I’ve seen them since on line for $1.49 at PetVetSupply.com (http://www.petvetsupply.com/rodmkns014.html)). This morning our little guest was in the trap behind the microwave, so I enrolled him in the Rodent Relocation Program and took him to our local park, where I had to shake him out as he didn’t want to leave.