Mickey Mouse Is No Longer in the House

Tricia was in the kitchen the other day and heard some rustling noises coming from the kitchen cabinets under the sink.  Uh oh!  She went and got Ginger, our cat.  I have to be honest, I am not a cat person.  Even though she is our pet, I've never really warmed up to her.  Cats are so independent and not very friendly.

However, Ginger was created for such a time as this.  Now was her moment to redeem herself and prove herself useful.  She was created to hunt and kill mice.  It is Ginger's big opportunity.  Tricia showed Ginger in and she smelled the mouse.  The cabinet was opened and the trash can tipped over, exposing a mouse that had come in.  Ginger quickly caught the mouse, batting it around with her paws in playful, but serious. motions.

Instead of killing the mouse, Ginger opted to play with it.  Sensing an opportunity for escape, the mouse darted out from between Ginger's paws and darted quickly underneath the dishwasher.  What a faux pas, Ginger!  Ginger is in the "dog house."

Looking closely under the sink, we can see where mice have eaten holes in the sheet rock around the receptacle on the bottom right...

Not only there.  Look above the white PVC pipe and around the water line.  More holes in the sheet rock!  Not good.  I don't want a mouse in the house.

If Ginger the cat wasn't going to do her job, we'd go another route.  We purchased some glue traps, dropped a dollop of peanut butter and put it under the cabinet.  The next morning we had achieved some success, catching this little mouse in the sticky trap.

What an ignominious fate for the stealthy mouse that had evaded death at the hand of Ginger the cat only to succumb to getting stuck in a glue trap.

Where there is one, there may be two.  We put more peanut butter in the trap and put it back.  A few hours later Ginger came back in the house.  Benjamin was sitting in the den when he noticed Ginger coming in carrying a glue trap with a mouse stuck in it.  Ginger was proudly showing off as if to say, "Look what I did!"  Actually the glue trap did all the work.