The World's Dumbest Mouse Part 2!!!!

So we finally caught the blasted mouse. Hooray!!!

Last night after we set all the traps we stayed up so we could see if we could catch him. Derek tied fishing line on to the traps and stuck them down in the mouse's favorite hangout spots. About 10:30, his official hyper time, we heard him creeping toward the vent. We heard him jump...silence...more silence...and then we heard him jump again. We were really frustrated now because it really did seem like we had the same mouse that was on the Mouse Hunt movie. So finally he did his little running leap again and he landed on the top of the vent. We were startled and pushed him back down the vent...hello...how hard was it for us to lift the vent up and throw it outside. So anyway, this next time we were ready . We had a box on standby and peanut butter all over the vent. We were so excited because we knew we had really out smarted him this time.

Three hours later... we still had not even heard the mouse. So all pissed off, we went to bed hoping that the little bugger would be caught when we woke up. Well, he wasn't and he visited me in the bathroom again...I think that he had a bathroom fetish. So, when Derek got home tonight we were really bound a determined for sure to catch the thing so we really pulled out all the stops. We took out the vents, surrounded it with sticky traps loaded with chocolate chips and peanut butter. For kicks, we blasted the heat too. Well, we waited and waited, and no mouse showed up. All we got for that one was sweating to death.

So then we started a second vent the same way. Well, I went to get a movie and when I came back, Derek was still watching the traps. I went to check on the one in the bathroom and ta daaa instead of the two traps that were there, there was only one. The little terd had taken one down into the vent with him!!!! Well Derek really was not happy then, so he thundered down stairs to the basement and started wiggling all of the heat pipe stuff until he heard him. When he found him, he got out his tools and started to take the piping down. He got it off, shook it out and ta daaaa again...no mouse or trap. Well this really did not go over well and I had to take the kids upstairs :) Let's just say this mouse was definitely going to be sorry when Derek got to him :) So we took more pipe off, and finally in the one connecting directly to the heater, shake shake shake and poof....out popped the mouse and the trap. Seeing Derek let out a little squeak and jump back really made my night!!! So we hurried and put him in an old bucket and put the lid on, and tomorrow...the little guy is going for his last ride in a garbage truck. So we got him hooray!!!! No more late night watching and now we can run the heat and not freeze!!!!!!!!!!

Tonight our house is much more peaceful :)

The World's Dumbest Mouse!!!

So on Sunday night me and Derek were enjoying our Sunday night ritual, watching the Food Network and snacking, and we heard this weird ruffling noise. The kids were both asleep and all of the windows were shut, so we couldn't figure out what the noise was. We turned off the T.V. and sat down on the floor and listened. Derek went in the hall and I was in the living room. All of the sudden there was this loud scratching noise and thud in the heat vent. I yelled at Derek to come in the room and then the noise wouldn't stop. So I all run into the bathroom because being startled makes me have to pee, and all of the sudden Derek screamed like a girl and I heard many choice cuss words! He was totally freaking out. I was scared to go out of the bathroom becuase I thought that he had let out what ever was in the vent. So I yelled at him and he wouldn't answer, he was still freaking out, so I went out really slowly to make sure he wasn't being attacked or anything. He was standing back by the couch and looking scared to death. So apparently Derek had leaned over the heat vent, with his ear right to the vent, and the noise kept getting closer and closer to his ear until he thought it had jumped out at him. I have never seen him so terrified! So of course, I busted up laughing. He went outside to get his flashlight and he came back to look in the vent, I was still laughing by the way. So he looked in the vent and saw this mouse, it's no bigger than a quarter. So the vents are pretty steep and he would try to take a running leap at the top and then he would fall back down.

Then my weird anxiety attacks started kicking in, so I ran around shutting all of the vents and put books on them so that the stupid thing wouldn't get out. Derek kept making fun of me and laughing at me now, but I kept imagining that stupid mouse on Mouse Hunt that totally killed that house and I didn't want any of that. And then, to top it off, Derek started talking to the stupid mouse and telling me that he was so cute. I told him that he'd better stop making friends with the mouse and better start making plans to get rid of it. So with firm resolve, we decided to buy as many traps as we could the next day.

So this morning, I got up to get ready for work and the stupid thing came up to the bathroom vent to greet me. I greated him with a scream and words that Jenny didn't hear, thankfully, becuase she was asleep. But I was still feeling confident because the vent was shut and i'm thinking geeze this mouse is so stupid thinking that he can jump at this thing and it will open. Well no sooner than I thought it, the mouse took another running leap and landed on the vent thing and opened it up so now he was looking at me inside of the blower thing. I screamed and swore and threw water down the vent and then I tried to open it to let the stupid thing back down. Well I shut the vent so he was still staring at me and I really freaked out. I finally managed to get the stupid thing back down the vent and I almost squished him, but not quite. Grrrrr.....Then I realized I should have just torn open the screen and thrown the vent out the window.

So then I found the heaviest books that I could and put them on the vent, and the stupid thing was still jumping up. So I hurried up out of the bathroom and stuffed a towel under the door and shut it. I wrote a caution note on the door for Derek and left the house. Well, Derek comes home and loves the warning sign. He thought I was crazy. He bought some sticky traps and he put them in the vents and we waited for the mouse to wake up for his nightly romp so now we can hear the stupid thing running back and forth through all of the vents. He is still jumping and not landing in the sticky stuff but we will get him. But mark my words, this mouse is going down....