Scurry scurry

[beetiger]

There is a little grey mouse that keeps dashing back and forth across my kitchen floor between under-the-refrigerator and under-the-oven. I've seen him once a day for the last five or so, quick out of the corner of my eye. I really wish I could just send one of my five mouse-eating snakes out after it, but the fact is that they are used to frozen food and it's much more likely that I'd lose a pet under the fridge than that I'd catch our unwanted visitor. So I guess I have to go buy a mousetrap or something.

Bleh.

Comments

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I was just looking for the bathroom!

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Down the hall, to the right. Next time come GM or something instead of all the scurry-scurry. :)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Down the hall, to the right.

*emerges from beneath stove, toweling off paws.*

...Oh... um... it's okay now.

Sure! I'd love to GM!

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

You could use a Havahart trap and see if the snakes like live food?

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't feed them live. It's dangerous for pets who are unused to it. I might use a Havahart and then kill it cleanly myself for them.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Makes sense. When I was helping clean a basement recently, the decision came down in favor of "don't give it to the snakes, see if the cats will address the problem." Godric did.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Sadly, our cat passed away this summer. This may be why I've now seen a mouse in the house forthe first time since we moved here a decade ago.

[catya.livejournal.com]

snakes! what kinds do you have?

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

We have 5 corn snakes and two ribbon snakes. The ribbons only eat fish, though.

[ferretlass.livejournal.com]

My cat renewed his interest in my snake when he realized the snake ate mice, too. *L*

[allessindra.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's time for another cat?

[dezertsky.livejournal.com]

Good luck. We had one last summer and bought some of those stick-em traps. I think it fell out along the road, however, because we didn't see it after we bought the traps, and after we'd been traveling for a few days. Before that, we'd sat in one place for 2 months, and suddenly found it darting from one heater vent to another, along the floor.

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

When I was little we had that sort of visitor.

So, we grabbed one of the neighbourhood cats and locked it in the kitchen. By morning he'd caught it.