My Kids Kept Me Awake All Night Releasing Mice From Traps
Last night had the same energy as Christmas morning
My wife decided to put up her Christmas decorations early this year. But when she was digging through the boxes in the pantry, she found evidence that we had some furry tenants.
To her irritation, she found the mice had eaten through a bag of macadamia nuts. She was angry because those are expensive, and she’d been looking forward to eating them. Everything got pulled out of the pantry and she hosed down the walls and floors with bleach. She even made me crawl around in there and seal up any cracks in the walls.
“You’ve got to get some traps.”
“Okay, okay, but I’m getting some live traps.”
I placed the order and the traps arrived yesterday. I went with the live traps because I don’t like setting those traditional snap traps. Sometimes they don’t kill the mouse cleanly and I think that’s cruel. I just don’t want to be responsible for inflicting that kind of suffering on any living thing.
Surprisingly, my daughters got all excited about the live traps. They read the directions, smeared on the peanut butter, and set the mechanism. We had one live trap in the pantry, and one trap in the upstairs bathroom.
