Death Toll UpDate # 2

BixBloc ... 2 (a rather small one)

Little Looters ... 0

"Mighty Mouse"

...well, after (3) days, I finally found the missing trap, with NO animal attached.
I located the trap on the concrete floor...so this is what went down...
...(Mighty) mouse tripped the neckbreaker bar and inflicted a bloody wound upon itself in the process...it then flopped around trying to get loose and splattered blood all over,
(see previous post), flip/flopped approx.
(3) feet to the north, then...fell (6) feet down to the concrete floor ... traveled (1) foot south and around the side of a 2x4 where I found the bloody trap ... empty ... no mouse,
no blood trail, nothing.
Now, I'm even more afraid to live here...with a wounded animal on the loose!

The first casualty was of average size and not "Mighty Mouse" as I found no visible wounds.
A day after the trap incident, I did see another rather large and bold mouse at the back of my computer desk lamp, travel up the 45 degree metal rod from the lamp base to the metal lamp shade...stand on it's hind legs...look around...and sniff...then turn around and travel back down the lamp and disappear...I couldn't believe it. He wasn't "Mighty Mouse" either...
he moved to gracefully...but I'll get him too.

Death Toll UpDate # 1

BixBloc ... 1 (average size)

Little Looters ... 0

Premeditated Murder

...as I was spreading peanut butter on the trigger...I was contemplating the act of
..."Murder"...

...now I'm not a violent person, but sometimes I do think "Murder" is appropriate...
(2) days earlier, as I decended the basement stairs, there it was, laying there at the bottom of the incline, a diamond shaped piece of cracker, about 1 1/2" in size, and upon further investigation, I determined it to be of the "Graham" variety ... and while that might not be "odd" in your house, especially if you have kids, ... I do not, ... and since I have not eaten graham crackers in at least (3) months, how could it have gotten there ... I slipped into my CSI, (crime scene investigation), outfit and headed towards the pantry...spotted the Graham cracker box on the top shelf, and tipped it slowly towards me to peer inside...I found an empty cellophane wrapper and some dark tubular shaped objects laying inside the wrapper...thats when my investigative skills kicked in, and I determined it was a (mus musculus), and we all know what that means...OK, I realise not all of you have the same superior detective skills as I, ...so, I will share my findings...they were mouse turds !!!

...as I stated earlier...I was spreading peanut butter on the trigger, then I pulled back the spring-loaded neck breaker and lodged it to the gooey vibration trigger, and I was thinking
..."Murder"... ..."Murder"... ..."Murder"... yes!!! yes!!! yes!!!

...I set the trap on the top shelf, next to some soup mugs and turned a cereal box sideways, so the little looters would have plenty of room to feast ... and,
... "DIE" ... ..."DIE" ... ..."DIE"... yes !!! yes !!! yes !!!

The next morning, anxious to see my revenge enacted, I crept to the pantry, turned the box of cereal as if it were a door, and was struck by the horror that must of happened in the night...there must be gangs of the little looters...and I must have placed the booty on the border line of their respective turfs...they must have come upon the booty and claimed it as their own, while the rival gang said "No Way, It's Ours !!!"...and the knife fight ensued...
how else to explain all that "BLOOD" all over the place...and the winning gang even carted the trap back to their "Crib", where ever that is...I searched for it for over an hour and could not find it...and even saw some things moved on a shelf below...it must of been an epic battle.

I'm a little afraid to live here now, because if those two gangs find out it was me that interfered in their "Homey" boundaries...they might become one, and unite against me.
...but not if I get them first...

I've read for every (1) mouse you "see" there are (10) more in your house. I'll keep you updated on the death totals...
...If I don't post again in over (1) month...that means "they" got me first...