Stupid Mice

I swear that the mice in my backyard are taunting me. Well, I will get them and I will kill them!!! I truly hate mice. It's funny, because I put out bread and bird seed for the birds and I love it when the squirrels come to visit, but I hate mice and want them dead. What is the difference you ask? Mice want to come into my house and contaminate it! They want to run around and make me scream, they want to poop all over the place and make me afraid to go in my basement. Birds and squirrels? They don't want in my house. They want to run or fly around my backyard and be cute. They don't want to torment me.

Those stupid mice come up on my deck and shit right in front of my door! They taunt me. My husband saw one in the backyard yesterday so we set out the traps, again. This happens every few months. You think you've killed them all but then they come right back. I guess it doesn't help that we live right beside fish creek, which is a huge provincial park. The benefits outweigh the bad, but those mice haunt my dreams. They haven't made it into the house, knock on wood, but I can't even think about that.

One time last year I thought I'd be efficient and bring the garbage bag in the house and just dump all the household garbage there instead of taking it outside. I forgot to check the bag for creatures and there was a mouse in the bag. It hopped out of the bag, I screamed bloody murder and my husband laughed at me. Let's just say that I have a very distinctive "mouse" scream. It took a bit of doing and more screaming, but my husband caught the stupid thing and got it outside.....where we put out traps and killed it.

I have six traps set outside, I checked them and I caught one mouse, incidentally, that mouse must have fought because I found the trap with it in it about 3 feet away from where it was originally. That or the trap flipped it that far. Either way, the mouse is dead and I am happy for it. I am still going to get more traps and kill any stupid mouse that dares to enter my yard!

In case you are wondering, I just use those cheap traps that kill the mice quite inhumanely, but quickly. They cost $1 for 2 traps at Walmart and I just throw the trap out with the mouse. It is money well spent.