So recently I've come to the conclusion that when some one asks me what I do with my time off away from work, you know, free time, well my answer is now going to be I KILL MICE! I end their not so sweet little not so harmless rodent poop dropping, trap dodging, poison eating, t-shirt eating, disease carrying little lives. I know its a little violet sounding but fun time with Luke is over. This is war. Well at least around my place. They have officially crossed the line in the last few days as I went to grab one of my favorite t-shirts out of my drawer and there was a hole large enough for a large hamster to have waddled through. Not to mention the bits of D-Con poison and mouse tirds dropped next to the shirt. Obviously the mouse or perhaps mice, judging by the ample scattering of poo, had a good time wrestling in the poison tray and had their fill and decided to go on adventure and find some good material for a nice winter bed. It appears they found my softest shirt and got to gnawing.I amazed at the entertainment value this mouse community has brought me. Seriously. The first night I put out traps it was as if they were blind to the traps. They were going off 10min after I reset them. I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and found all the traps had been set off. I thought if there is such activity I should set them again. 10min later SNAP! Clank Clank Clank Clank...I thought someone was having
spasms but it continued. So I figured I'd get up and check. I walk in the the bathroom and the mouse trap was racing across the floor chasing a mouse...now thats a mouse trap! After looking closer the mouse had ALMOST dodged death and his tail was caught in the trap! The mouse followed by the trap bolted for the hole in which he entered. The mouse disappeared but the trap was not so cooperative. It was too heavy for the mouse to pull in the hole so it assuredly left the mouse dangling for his life on the other side of the sheet rock. I was laughing hard at the sight, what the mouse was likely thinking and at his misfortune. I grabbed the trap and ended his struggle for him. He must have been wearing a helmet like this mouse pictured but got lazy and got his tail.The mice have gradually gotten smarter because in the beginning just the scent of peanut butter would have them running and hurling themselves onto the traps. Not anymore. Too many of their community have not returned from what ended up being a journey of peril. So now they can clean the peanut butter off the trap and go back to the hole with a full belly. There is now an array of potential mice "killer". Its like a buffet that includes teal colored D-con(should be called D-can't) mouse poison, some grain sticks that are supposed to kill the mice...they seem to be getting FATTER and the JIF peanut butter that laces the traps. A delicious menu if I don't say so myself.
So I had a few days off this last week and returned to my place expecting that I would find at least one mouse. I was correct. There was one but there were only 3 traps...there were 4 when I left.
I began scan the bathroom around the toilet where the hole is...1...2...3...where is the 4th? I must be hallucinating. Again 1...2...3...no 4th trap. I check one other place where I had once seen traces of mice. There it was laying upside down. I was sure it had a mouse in it if it was carried that far. I picked up the trap...and...no mouse. HOW!? I glanced again...wait...there's not a mouse but remnants. There was mouse leg. Apparently a front leg. It appeared he had fought so hard for his life he severed his leg from his body. So now tri-pod is free but left me a souvenir. I was shocked! I did laugh too...and almost took a picture because I couldn't believe it. If I didn't have lazy cats like the one pictured here I wouldn't have such a problem. Stinkin' cats. Too well fed. They need THE HUNGER. The hunger for survival.
You know this tri-pod incident made me think of how we as humans often get ourselves caught in little seemingly harmless things like gossip, sexual temptation, gossip, lust, greed, gossip, anger, dishonesty, gossip, wasteful spending, jealousy, pornography, not praying, lying and one last one...umm...gossip, etc and we find ourselves caught in a trap scrambling what appears to be for our lives. It ends up that we may escape with our "lives" but we've lost a "limb" as tri-pod did or a piece of our heart or maybe we lose the trust somone once had in us or vice a versa. I mean all we're doin' is nibblin on a little cheese or PB(gossip, lie, porn site, one bad movie, one beer too many, a super-sized meal at 1am, an extra $100 pair of jeans) and before we know SNAP...our little piece of the pie has got us trapped...trapped in debt, trapped with bad health, trapped with a dead spiritual life, trapped in a "little" lie thats not so little anymore, trapped with no one that will trust us anymore, trapped watching someone else get hurt because of our gossip, trapped in addiction to alcohol or porn, trapped with deep anger thats burning inside for years and now we're scarred...scarred in a way our life is impacted greatly. So please watch out for traps. Don't compromise. Listen to others especially those who have lived a few more years than you. Educate yourself of traps. Ask questions. Be aware so you don't fall victim. And finally if someone loves you enough to approach you and confront you about a trap they may see...have the grace and maturity to stop and honestly look around. Be objective. If its true and its not cost you something do whatever you can to stop. STOP! Its a funny picture but I know none of us would like to be like our friend tri-pod...well not my friend but maybe yours...and be scarred in a way that will remind us daily of a trap we should have looked for.And if your friends, community and people you hang out with look like the last mouse picture here...everyone caught in a trap....Uh... TAKE NOTICE! Do you want to join them???
Don't get CAUGHT UP...
There's my thoughts for today...if you have any mouse wisdom I am all ears.
Until Dukey Drops Again.......Much Love......
***Oh yeah...Kill count...
3 rabbits(unintentional)
1 ground squirrel(unintentional)
18 mice & an arm(intentional)
