Well I have begged and pleaded and bribed my hubby to put the traps out for the past 2 or 3 weeks…I guess I have to do it now. I am so tired of washing my pots and pans before and after I use them!!

Oh, and DH and I were talking about the glue traps and about what to do with the mouse when it gets caught. We aren't monsters-we don't want the mouse to suffer (starving in the garbage can) and we don't want to hit it with a hammer or something to kill it. He said that when he had a snake years ago, they fed it mice. They would put the mice in the freezer and it would die. He figured we could put the mouse and the trap in a little box in the freezer and then throw it away when it's dead. I would think that's more humane that smashing it with a hammer?

Apparently you're right… I looked it up. I assumed that they just went to sleep like people do when they get hypothermia but it sounds like it's not a peaceful death.  I don't think I could kill anything directly like that. Poison is different because I can fool myself into thinking I didn't cause it's death. I know, I'm a wuss. Well we don't plan to use glue traps anyway.

I checked all the bait stations again. I'm not seeing any more droppings. I really can't believe that there was just one. I hope the others ate bait and croaked.

ACK! Still with the mice! We'll be fine for a week and then the cat will start nosing around again and we'll find a few mouse droppings in the kitchen. So frustrating! I just scrubbed my kitchen and bleached everything.

My dad brought over some things that you plug in the wall that is supposed to keep them from wanting to be here. He also put some bait stations in places outside-our outbuildings (we don't go out there so I don't know if there is anything living in them), our shed that's attached to the house (he also put one of those electric things in there) and in our laundry room. I hadn't put them in other places than the kitchen. We've got mouse poison all over the place now. I haven't smelled any dead mice yet.

I don't expect those plug in things to work but we figured they wouldn't hurt.

My dad said he was surprised that we had mice since we have cats and they generally avoid places with cats??? I never heard that before. He also said that they will eat clothes. With three kids and two adults-we always have about 4 loads of laundry waiting to be washed (we wash loads every night but we work full time and we're always behind). Is that true? Do we have to have all the clothes put away to keep from having mice? The clothes that are waiting to be washed aren't covered in food so why would they attract mice?

I hate mice. :(

I have read that mice don't have bladders and pee everywhere they go, especially when they eat.

A YOUNG adult cat is the best mouse protection you can get! My guy kills everything. He's a supurb hunter, not just mice but squirrels, chipmonks and moles too. (He's huge.) He eats the mice, leaving me just the stomach every morning and lines the other things up on the porch.

Ross, mine spent about 2 months this past summer bringing me live treats too. (Great fun…lol)

Before we had cats, we were overrun with field mice.

My little girl kittie hunts too, but just carries the live prey around with her for hours, only half dead and doesn't eat them.

Mostly, she's the indoor deterent.

I know all about roaches! We lived in Memphis when we were first married, about 20 years ago. We had a little apartment that was full of them. They were all over the walls when the lights came on in the morning. We had a little dog that loved to eat them and would chase them all down and gobble them up every morning.

I have never seen them up here, thank goodness!

I am grateful for my hunting cat and absolutely adore my dogs but I read that 1 out of 10 dogs and 1 out of 12 cats never finds a home. Something like 800 companion animals are euthanized each hour in the United States. I don't want to see any more puppies or kittens born until there are enough homes for all of them.