I've had quite a number of blog readers ask me for a mouse update. Are the mice in our condo gone?
The answer is......we thought they were, but they are not.
Last month when we were on a trip to Ontario professional exterminators visited our building, including all the units where mice had been spotted.
We saw some very high tech looking steel traps at various spots in the building when we got home and for about a week we didn't see any mice in our condo.
Then one night while he was reading on the couch my husband Dave spotted a mouse darting behind the stove. He moved the stove, broom at the ready to swat the thing, but it ran away, scurried behind the couch and disappeared.
Now Dave was on the war path!
He went out and bought rolls of steel wool and stuffed it into every visible nook and cranny in our suite. Cracks behind the fridge and stove were packed with steel wool held in place with duct tape. He was convinced there was simply no place left for the mice to get in.
He was wrong. The next night he spotted another mouse.
He went out and bought two more traps - a new kind- to add to the other six he'd already set at various spots in the condo.
But......... he spotted a mouse again two nights ago.
Later this week the professional exterminators will make another visit to our building and will stop at each apartment that's reported a mouse sighting. Dave plans to be here to have a frank discussion with the crew and explain his theories of where the little creatures are coming from.
Hopefully I'll only have to write one more blog post about mice and that will be to say they are gone.
Other posts...........
We Have a Mouse in the House
All Out War
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