Brent and I woke up last night to incredibly loud crashing noises. First thought: break-in by someone unaware that there's not that much to steal? Second thought: crazed wild animal? Possum, maybe? Surely a chipmunk couldn't possibly make that much noise.
Second thought was half-right. Crazed animal, yes. But not wild. Well, only temporarily wild, I guess.
Tiamat caught her first mouse. Unfortunately, after bloodying it and leaving a grisly trail through the dining room and kitchen, she chased it under the radiator in the hall. This was an unsatisfactorily anticlimactic ending for our feline Mighty Hunter, so she swiped at it, and got her paws good and stuck on the glue trap Brent had set out months ago in our failed attempts to defeat the UberMouse.
That's when she started tearing around the place in a frenzy, knocking shit over and making a general ruckus.
4:09 a.m., to be precise.
She trusts me enough that when she saw me, she paused in her flight to let me size up the situation. Then she took off again, to take refuge under our bed.
With the glue trap.
And the mouse stuck on it.
When I tried to coax her out she panicked again, and this time, managed to knock the glue trap in squeezing out between the bedframe and the wall. So that was helpful. It's always good to catch a lucky break now and then.
So I took the glue trap with the mouse on it down to the kitchen, which is when I discovered that our kitchen floor looked like a Tom and Jerry murder scene, by stepping in the evidence with bare feet. Lucky break, over.
Then I looked at the trap, and saw the mouse was still breathing.
Argh. Not that it freaked me out. But now, on top of everything else, I can't help but recast the whole flight of terror from the mouse's point of view. How awful. I mean, you escape the terrifying cat (who, by the way, has no teeth, so what she would do with a mouse when she catches one?) and run right into a glue trap and are mysteriously immobilized. Then, you get pulled out of your hiding place by the monster chasing you, but your end isn't quick and clean. Instead, you get a Romp of Terror up and down stairs and under tables and beds. Finally, some looming shadow comes and puts you out of your misery (details unbeknownst to me, thankfully).
No more glue traps, that's for damn sure.
3 comments:
Yes, I too repent of the medieval torture devices. The problem was that we had tried everything else for the ubermouse and nothing worked.
Wow. Just....wow.
This is not encouraging to me as I may or may not have my own UberMouse to deal with. And no cat! I'm hoping for a quicker, less dramatic, significantly less bloody end to our household intruder!
PS. My verification word is menhop. I thought that was very fitting to this post.
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