Mice infestation
I was up all night to the sound of mice feet and tails scurrying around my room!!!
I got home from Thanksgiving break and my roommate Sara informed me that she had seen a mouse go from couch to couch when she got home from the break.
I wasn't too disturbed by this at first. I'm from Arizona. I lived in Lehi. I know gross things: bugs, snakes, frogs, even mice.
But when I wasn't alone in my room doing homework Friday morning, I was FREAKED OUT!!! That little mouse looked right at me and then scurried back to his hole in the wall at the foot of my bed! I mean this little creature was not so little! He was about two and a half inches wide!
So I went to CVS and bought my very first set of mouse traps. I got the typical spring with bait deal. I brought it home, put peanut butter on them and set 'em out. We hadn't caught anything by last night and I was feeling a little discouraged. Sara had seen a mouse since, so I'm sure they hadn't left us yet.
Well last night I got home early because I was SOOOO exhausted. I went straight to bed only to wake up at about 1:45 to I didn't know what. But then I knew. In the silent night, the sound of mouse feet was so loud! In the dark I saw the fat guy scurry to the center of my room. I turned on the light and watched him bolt to my closet to hide amongst my shoes. I hurried up and got one of the traps I'd set out in the living room. I set it right by the closet! I turned off the light and shortly after heard him come out of the closet. I watched him in the dark as he walked right up to that trap, take some peanut butter and run away. I turned the light back on and waited. With the light on and me sitting up in my bed, that little rodent walked up to that trap, plopped himself down, looked at me, and began feasting on the peanut butter before him. Nevermind the light. The Nerve!!!! I looked at the other trap and its peanut butter had already been eaten without my knowing it.
I wanted to jump out of bed and tell that mouse it had to leave! But no. I was scared out of my mind. I turned off the light and tried to just go back to sleep, but really, the sound of a little critter frolicking in your room as you're trying to sleep is so unnerving! Finally, by about 6 o'clock and after a lot of talking to that little mouse and seeing it leave my room and come back again, I saw that little mouse go behind one of my shelves and not come back for awhile. I looked behind the shelf and there was a little hole he had gone into. I took out two of my text books from school (I had that class this morning. I told my teacher that those books came in real handy!) and I covered up that hole the best I could. And it worked! I couldn't hear anything but a little chewing for about 1/2 an hour. I took a little nap, but every little sound awoke me. While awake, I could hear that little mouse squeaking. Oh, I hope he was real miserable there in that hole!! It was right by the heater, so my hope is that he burned alive! Little did I know, those squeaks were some kind of call to his other mouse friends. I turned the light back on because I thought I heard my little feet and I saw ANOTHER smaller mouse walk itself across my room and up to the little hole I had covered up. It was much smaller, so I don't know how it got out of my room or what hole it went through, but it disappeared like the other one.
I couldn't take it anymore! I went out of my room and into the living room and tried to work on some homework. The next thing I knew, there was ANOTHER medium sized mouse hanging out in the living room!! Seriously, this was a NIGHTMARE before CHRISTMAS! The clock struck 7:45 and I was out of that apartment and off to class. I got there and frantically said, "I have been up with mice all night!" I told me teacher I used his book, some classmates told different solutions for my problem and as soon as class was over I went straight to the hardware store to ask how I could better defend myself and maybe play a little offensive defense in this battle to the death! The guy gave me steel wool to plug up holes along the baseboards, he gave me two traps that he called "golden", and he gave me this little plug in that sends a high pitched sound out that humans can't hear, but mice hate! The bad news was, I had seen three mouse and that, he says, usually means there are at least twelve mice hanging out together, coming in and out. I came home and started setting everything up. I'd set everything except going along all the base boards with the steel wool, when my roommate said, "Holly!". I knew. I went in and told my roommate about my night as she told me that a little mouse had just scurried from her bed to our other roommates (they share a room).
That's when I called the landlord. As I was walking down the street to class I actually felt like calling the police! I felt like someone was breaking and entering! But I called the landlord and I got a bit of a runaround, but finally I got a hold of maintenance and the someone is here right now telling me that my room had the most holes. He sent rat poison down them and plugged them up with his own steel wool. He's still going around the house covering everything up. What a great guy!
I'll keep ya'll updated! In the meantime, watch out for mice!
I got home from Thanksgiving break and my roommate Sara informed me that she had seen a mouse go from couch to couch when she got home from the break.
I wasn't too disturbed by this at first. I'm from Arizona. I lived in Lehi. I know gross things: bugs, snakes, frogs, even mice.
But when I wasn't alone in my room doing homework Friday morning, I was FREAKED OUT!!! That little mouse looked right at me and then scurried back to his hole in the wall at the foot of my bed! I mean this little creature was not so little! He was about two and a half inches wide!
So I went to CVS and bought my very first set of mouse traps. I got the typical spring with bait deal. I brought it home, put peanut butter on them and set 'em out. We hadn't caught anything by last night and I was feeling a little discouraged. Sara had seen a mouse since, so I'm sure they hadn't left us yet.
Well last night I got home early because I was SOOOO exhausted. I went straight to bed only to wake up at about 1:45 to I didn't know what. But then I knew. In the silent night, the sound of mouse feet was so loud! In the dark I saw the fat guy scurry to the center of my room. I turned on the light and watched him bolt to my closet to hide amongst my shoes. I hurried up and got one of the traps I'd set out in the living room. I set it right by the closet! I turned off the light and shortly after heard him come out of the closet. I watched him in the dark as he walked right up to that trap, take some peanut butter and run away. I turned the light back on and waited. With the light on and me sitting up in my bed, that little rodent walked up to that trap, plopped himself down, looked at me, and began feasting on the peanut butter before him. Nevermind the light. The Nerve!!!! I looked at the other trap and its peanut butter had already been eaten without my knowing it.
I wanted to jump out of bed and tell that mouse it had to leave! But no. I was scared out of my mind. I turned off the light and tried to just go back to sleep, but really, the sound of a little critter frolicking in your room as you're trying to sleep is so unnerving! Finally, by about 6 o'clock and after a lot of talking to that little mouse and seeing it leave my room and come back again, I saw that little mouse go behind one of my shelves and not come back for awhile. I looked behind the shelf and there was a little hole he had gone into. I took out two of my text books from school (I had that class this morning. I told my teacher that those books came in real handy!) and I covered up that hole the best I could. And it worked! I couldn't hear anything but a little chewing for about 1/2 an hour. I took a little nap, but every little sound awoke me. While awake, I could hear that little mouse squeaking. Oh, I hope he was real miserable there in that hole!! It was right by the heater, so my hope is that he burned alive! Little did I know, those squeaks were some kind of call to his other mouse friends. I turned the light back on because I thought I heard my little feet and I saw ANOTHER smaller mouse walk itself across my room and up to the little hole I had covered up. It was much smaller, so I don't know how it got out of my room or what hole it went through, but it disappeared like the other one.
I couldn't take it anymore! I went out of my room and into the living room and tried to work on some homework. The next thing I knew, there was ANOTHER medium sized mouse hanging out in the living room!! Seriously, this was a NIGHTMARE before CHRISTMAS! The clock struck 7:45 and I was out of that apartment and off to class. I got there and frantically said, "I have been up with mice all night!" I told me teacher I used his book, some classmates told different solutions for my problem and as soon as class was over I went straight to the hardware store to ask how I could better defend myself and maybe play a little offensive defense in this battle to the death! The guy gave me steel wool to plug up holes along the baseboards, he gave me two traps that he called "golden", and he gave me this little plug in that sends a high pitched sound out that humans can't hear, but mice hate! The bad news was, I had seen three mouse and that, he says, usually means there are at least twelve mice hanging out together, coming in and out. I came home and started setting everything up. I'd set everything except going along all the base boards with the steel wool, when my roommate said, "Holly!". I knew. I went in and told my roommate about my night as she told me that a little mouse had just scurried from her bed to our other roommates (they share a room).
That's when I called the landlord. As I was walking down the street to class I actually felt like calling the police! I felt like someone was breaking and entering! But I called the landlord and I got a bit of a runaround, but finally I got a hold of maintenance and the someone is here right now telling me that my room had the most holes. He sent rat poison down them and plugged them up with his own steel wool. He's still going around the house covering everything up. What a great guy!
I'll keep ya'll updated! In the meantime, watch out for mice!