Mouse in the house and taking advice

[Matt Higgins]

So there we are on this beautiful Saturday morning enjoying some family time. I mean it’s year 2020 family fun, 2 kids playing their iPads with their headphones on lying on the kitchen floor, @karenhiggins reading what I can only guess is a romance novel, and I’m drinking water trying to shake a Friday night of beer and video games. Then all of a sudden chaos breaks out as a mouse stumbles all over the kitchen right in front of us. The kids scream, Karen runs, and I go to look for the broom, but by the time I had my weapon the mouse had hid somewhere in our master bedroom.

I threw $30 at the problem and bought 2 of everything at Menards. Used gloves to set the old school traps because I don’t want the wild animals being tipped off by the smell of my city hands. I baited all the traps with some “mouse food” gel. I had a lot of this gel so I put it all over the sticky pads that are strategically placed throughout the house and garage. I got a repellent spray and I sprayed down all the baseboards. She wouldn’t let me spray down the pantry because it would poison the kids. Seriously though, if food is accessible isn’t that the problem? But, clearly I know nothing. I got the big bag of poison where the mice are suppose to walk into the trap. Then I said “what the hell” and went rogue by just leaving some of the poison bricks laying loose in the utility room.

Just wondering if I missed a step? I passed on the sonar sound thing because I thought we had one at home, but I can’t find it. Is it necessary? Worried that if I can’t produce at least one dead mouse by tomorrow I will be moving into a rental. We do a pretty good job and have nothing available at the moment so we would have to move in to a flip. She refuses to let my crew work on “our own home” again so that would be a conflict of interest.

I thought it was a little odd that a mouse would stumble around a Kitchin during broad daylight in front of 4 people so I google

“seeing a mouse in home during daylight”

Google says

Mice are nocturnal creatures, so they are most active between dusk and dawn. They don't usually like bright lights, but a mouse may sometimes be seen during the day, especially if its nest has been disturbed or it is seeking food. Seeing mice in the day also can indicate a large infestation in a home

Jesus, thanks google........anyway any advice?