I am not a fan of mice in my home or office. They poop all over, eat electrical wires, phone wires, boxes, carpet, and my food. After spending too much time cleaning up their poop in my office and having to throw out my boss’s favorite couch they destroyed I have resorted to traps to catch the pesky critters. So, far I have caught one. Last week I witnessed another mouse run by me desk several times. Not wanting to have to re-home another mouse I thought of a better plan. I would leave my office door open with the hopes of the mouse would see an escape from me and run out the door and find a new home elsewhere in our building. I think my planned worked. For the next two days I was mouse free. This morning I checked the mousetrap and to my disappointment I had caught another mouse. As I moved the fridge out of the way so I could re-home the pesky critter I realized he wasn’t attached to my trap. The first thing that crossed my mind was great I can re-use the mousetrap. After I re-homed my pesky friend I examined the trap to make sure it was still in working order. I noticed that there was an electrical cord dangling above my trap. To prevent it from getting caught in my trap I tried to move it. Soon as I touched it sparks whet flying and it smelled like something was burning. I immediately dropped it, but it was still hovering over my trap. I know it’s not the smartest thing to do, but what choice did I have, but to grab it again and yank it out of the wall? After close examination of the cord I realized that the mouse didn’t just happened to drop dead next to my mouse trap, but got shocked to death after munching on my cord.
I did think it odd that the mouse wasn’t attached to the trap, but I really have better things in life then to concern myself of why there is a dead mouse next to a mouse trap, that is the reason I set the trap out. In all honesty, I really don’t care how the mouse died. I was just happy to have him dead instead of running by my desk at lightening speed and preventing me from yet another day of being unable to concentrate at work. Thankfully for all of you that were puzzled by dead mouse next to trap, you can sleep well tonight knowing how Mr. Mouse spent his last moments.
I remember I once found 4 baby mice and could not kill them. I found a hole in my neighbor's fence and escorted the little guys out of my space and into my neighbor's yard. Silly huh. I'm not kind to those critters any more.Traps, poisons, whatever it takes to keep their population down.
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