I'm sure you can recall my earlier thread about Mice in my apartment, due to the colder than usual winter those pesky little f***ers have set up camp in my kitchen due to the stove there providing them with heat and they feed off the scraps from my dishes.
This wouldn't be that much of a problem but they are noisy and they actually got into my flour and into my bread cabinet, prompting me to keep my bread in the fridge knowing that they can't possibly get in there.
Anyway, my cat isn't really of much help here since the mice hide between the cupboards and the stove and it simply is too narrow for him to get to them.
So today I went out and bought myself a couple of THESE
Which is an easier to set kind of mouse trap but none the less lethal to a mouse. Know your enemy and know yourself, so "the art of war" book says and I saw those mice walk a certain rout every single night so I knew that if I placed one of those traps in that particular rout I'd certainly get to them. I put some peanut butter inside the jaws and placed them in the spots where I knew they always go to.
Just ten minutes ago I suddenly heard a loud *SNAP* and some squeaking in panic, when walking over I found that me having placed the mousetraps in their usual rout was the winning formula: I caught a really fat one.
What to do with a mouse after you capture one? In my own case because I feel that killing animals is a sin I'd normally would release them outside the building but in the case of this mouse that would mean he'd die painfully from the injuries sustained by the mousetrap. So instead I decided to give him a sailor's grave and opened the trap above the toilet and flushed it.
So I'm feeling pretty stoked now, I'm winning my apartment back.
