Peanut butter. Much more effective in baiting mouse traps than cheese has been. After a thorough cleaning of the house this week, we've discovered some ample evidence that a mouse has been living in our house (I just heard the sound of a Canadian friend getting seriously creeped out. Sorry Kim).
So, I did what any right-minded man of the house would do: I dusted off a mousetrap and baited it with peanut butter. Extra chunky. Irresistible to mice, and apparently other animals as well.
I had only placed the trap a few minutes before I heard a loud "SNAP!" and a yelp come from our family room. Anxious to see the demise of my small, beady-eyed intruder, I ran to the family room to discover an empty trap. With no peanut butter. And a sheepish looking dog cowering on the other side of the room.
The dog hairs stuck to the trap where the PB used to be were the proverbial smoking gun. So I reloaded the trap, and as I left the room, glanced over my shoulder. Just in time to see the dog running back over to the trap. Yep, our animal has no genetic relation to Pavlov's dog.
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