This is a true story, without photos for a reason, as you will soon read.
Tuesday I was cleaning up dishes after breakfast when I saw a little blur to my right, where our stove is. I know that means a mouse so I turned. Right next to the stove was a mouse, staring at me. We started at each other. I know the mouse must have been startled and would run and hide under the stove. But no. This mouse stared at me, not sure of what to do, ran across the floor, ran across the floor again back to the beginning and finally (running so close to me that I nearly screamed) ran into the one former bedroom (currently my library) on our ground floor.
I am not ashamed to admit I ran out of that kitchen and left the dishes half done for about 5 minutes before I would even go back in there.
I left spouse a note, and he bought some mousetraps, put one out Tues night. (yup, when it comes to mice, I run for the husband.) Yesterday morning I saw where we had caught one and he disposed of it.
This morning, I went into the kitchen to heat up breakfast and there was a sprung trap by the stove, with a little dead mouse lying underneath the sprung trap.
So I went about my business when suddenly there was a loud clatter and a high pitched squeaking, like an "ee ee ee" but even higher pitched. THERE WAS ANOTHER MOUSE AND THAT MOUSE WAS ATTEMPTING TO DRAG THE TRAP BEHIND THE STOVE. But the space was too small. It kept trying and trying. I had to eat my breakfast hearing that pathetic "ee ee ee" and the occasional bumping of what I knew was the mouse trying to drag the trap.
And the squeaks were so loud. I never went back in to see the final, er, disposition of the matter.
I don't want to speculate if that mouse was trying to save the other mouse, or the relation of the other mouse to him/her. Or if mice have those types of feelings. It was creepy.
When my spouse came home from work, he saw the sprung trap and wondered why it was jammed up against the stove.
Now tonight, we have to try to get the other mouse. How many more are there?
Stephen King would know what to do with this story.
Do mice take revenge?
And can I ever, even indirectly, kill a mouse again after seeing that sight this morning?
Eek! I would have screamed and ordered takeout until all the visitors were permanently kicked out.
ReplyDeleteEek, big sympathy for that freaky experience. Had some mouse probs here when field mice got desperate in the long hard winter and now seem to have learned the way here even in summer. We use a humane trap and my friend takes them on 'holiday' to the woods 2 miles away. Over the year a little family must be getting slowly reunited in those woods. But even the humane trap is a bit freaky cause they rattle around in it when they can't get out.
ReplyDeleteGreat question about do mice take revenge, let's hope not, though I suppose peeing all over your house could be interpreted that way. Hope the critters are quickly dispatched so you can safely get back in your kitchen.