Yet another MOUSE story!

Yes, sad but true!  You see there was this little itty bitty space at the corner of a door and because the back patio is not poured yet, the little space is there, so I wadded up a napkin and stuck it in the corner.  Now I know what you are thinking...a napkin?  But a mouse will surely chew through a napkin.  Yes, I know, but that gives me the warning and guess what?  It worked!  The napkin was shredded and pulled away, so I got right on trapping that little guy.  And what I noticed was that he not only shredded the napkin he/she also started on the rubber tubing on the threshold and even on the wood!  All to get out, or to get in...I am not sure!  But I was ON IT!  So the first thing I did was set that electronic trap again and two other traps...I did NOT have any more of those "V" traps that snap your fingers off...but I was willing to go with these for the night.  Well, about 11:30 I get out of bed cause I am just so nervous about a mouse traipsing through my house...and guess what!!  The electronic trap was FLASHING!!  I caught one!!  OMG!!!   OMG!!!  I was beside myself, what to do?  I gingerly picked it up and sure enough, there was the tail...OMG!  It twitched!!  YIKES...I quickly put it back down on the floor.  I was beside myself what to do with it....so I stayed up an hour to keep my eye on it and it stayed in that trap...I wasn't sure how long it took to really give that guy a good enough "jolt" to kill it. 

Well, I finally decided I would put the whole thing into a plastic bag and leave it for Scott in the morning...he did say he would take care of any mouse in the electronic trap...So the next morning I get up and tell Scott he needs to get rid of this mouse and I open the plastic bag and .....the mouse is GONE!! YES!!  Gone as in NOT there!
However...the other trap had a mouse....Now is it the same one who was foolish enough to still go for more food for nourishment to get out of this house?  I don't know, but at least I caught one!  The next night I set all the traps again and once again I caught the bugger in the electronic trap!  Now I have had three nights free of mouse...am I done?  NOOOOOoooooo!  I live in the country..however I think I will set some traps outside the doors to get them before they get into the house.   Don't you think that is a good plan??