Ways to Kill a Mouse

Thank you all for your very helpful ideas on rodent extermination. Since moving into the house, we have killed six! Our methods, however, have been varied. You may be interested to learn some new tricks.

1. Slam the mouse's head in a cupboard door.
2. Trap it in a cup in your living room.
3. Put poison packets under major appliances and watch the corpses appear in your basement.

Allow me to elaborate. On Saturday night upon our return from Nova Scotia, we were all in the kitchen--all including Darren and Sara and their two kids, who were spending the night with us on their way back to VA. I opened the corner cupboard to see if there was any evidence of evil mice, and sure enough, they had eaten through several containers. But that wasn't all--there was a mouse still there! I screamed and slammed the cupboard--on its head! Blood spurted everywhere. Evan and I kicked everyone out of the kitchen, because at this point nine people were screaming hysterically. A little too much confusion. Evan opened the cupboard again to find the poor animal stone dead. Score!

The other method--trapping the mouse in a cup--was one Lindsay discovered. She found a little baby mouse in her living room and very bravely threw a cup over it then called Evan to dispose of it. He hit it over the head with a blunt object, and that was the end of that one.

On Monday night I stuck little packets of poison under the fridge, oven, and freezer and in two cupboards the mice have invaded. It's the kind of poison where they eat through the bag, consume a lethal dose, get really thirsty, search for water, and die. Evan found THREE dead mice in the basement yesterday! So, here's hoping we've gotten them all.