Pyat and the Unstopabble Mouse

[pyat]

Sigh. I took this photo ten minutes ago. The mouse is still there.

I can see this mouse from the basement office. He's on a shelf in the downstairs "pantry." He's eaten three of those blocks of poison this week. Just the one mouse, so far as I can tell. He scurries off if I move, but otherwise is always plainly in view.

I've never used poison before - I preferred humane traps, or snap traps. But flooding in the summer meant a horde of mice moved into our house. I've caught or killed 20+ since June. Yesterday, the piano tuner found a huge (apparently abandoned) mouse nest under the keys of the piano. I finally put out the poison a few weeks back because it was getting too time consuming to check and rebait a dozen snap traps and four humane traps every night.

I should probably dig up a humane trap again for this one. He's eaten enough poison to win the right to life, yes?


EDIT: Just to give perspective - this an unzoomed, uncropped shot taken by raising my camera above my head from where I'm sitting in "PYat's Office of Solitude." My basement is something of a... um... garbage dump, really. :) The block of poison is in the top left "pantry" shelf.

Comments

[j-cat.livejournal.com]

Oh it is not! It's happily chowing down on bright blue DEATH!

I mean, I'm not giving you any grief about using poison. You gotta do what you gotta do, but it's about as cute as a picture of a puppy chewing on a hand grenade!

I suppose in context it's kind of cute. This mouse has clearly demonstrated that it laughs at your poison. "OM NOM NOM TRY HARDER PYAT! I POOPED IN YOUR KEYBOARD!"

This mouse has moxy. You should make a pet of it. avain says to call it 'Rasputin'.

[catsarah.livejournal.com]

I had suggested Ratsputin last week...even though it's you know...a mouse ;)

[j-cat.livejournal.com]

It took me a moment to get that.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Ra-Ra ratsputin!

[j-cat.livejournal.com]

I'm serious by the way. Make a pet of it. You can keep it down in the fortress where the girls aren't going to be tempted to take it out for walks.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Wild mice don't make good pets - it would not likely be very happy. And I fear it's going to keel over, still. But... we'll see!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Arrrgh! It DID poop on the keyboard!