I saw
one running around the edge of the kitchen one morning 10am when I was making
coffee, then called the landlord and he said that the people on the 3rd floor had
reported some too and that in previous years some had gotten into the 1st
floor thanks to the dirt basement, but that this was new.
Pest
control came and set traps and there were no problems, though I’d occasionally hear something in
the drop ceiling or the walls around the kitchen when I was working late at
night like around 10pm or 11pm…
Then,
I was making rice one evening, and I noticed that the bag on the kitchen counter
had a small hole in it, and I thought that something must have punctured it at
the store and I had just brought it home and had never noticed it, since the hole was
almost too small for any rice grains to come out of.
Then,
2 days later, when I was in the bathroom at like 7:30am after making coffee, I
heard something out in the kitchen, and as I came out, I saw something scurry
across the counter and down the stove through the burner, and all of a sudden I
realized that a mouse or mice must have been coming up onto the counter and getting
into the rice.
So,
I shifted all the bagged rice up to the shelves in my apartment, and the pasta
too, and one had a hole in it and a few noodles pulled a couple inches out of
the end (from a mouse gnawing through the wrapper and biting and pulling the noodles out?).
I
also took a (not dangerous to humans) pest control trap from the bathroom and
set it on the counter so that it was the only food there.
That
day, too, I also got 4 regular mousetraps from Target and a jar of peanut
butter, and late that night when I got home from my very long day between my
jobs I set all them up on the kitchen floor and on the kitchen counter.
Since then, nothing.
My
neighbor upstairs said she’s been setting traps with peanut butter too, but the
mice haven’t been taking the bait at all.
She
thinks they’re getting too smart for traps.
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