Warfare with a Mouse

 I noticed that I posted on the mouse issue already a few weeks ago.  Sadly, the saga is not over but we may have moved into a new stage in the battle.

After the spraying did not eliminate the nightly scratching sounds, Adriano set traps in the attic. Jim said that he heard a new sound that night--one that seemed like thrashing and banging around.  He assumed the mouse was caught and was trying to free itself.  Amazingly, I slept through that episode. 

When Adriano and his colleagues came to inspect the traps, they said that two of the seven traps were missing and there was no mouse dead or alive in sight.  So what could have happened?  Adriano looked all over the attic but with blown-in insulation, it was hard to find the missing traps. 

We did not hear a mouse last night.  I fear the next evidence of a mouse will be the terrible odor of a dead one.  Adriano said that the odor should rise up and not come down to us.  I hope not.  He said he is going to come back to check on the status of the traps again today.   Didn't see him today--maybe tomorrow.

We have been so happy with our apartment and with maintenance here.  But this has been frustrating.  We pay too much money in rent to not be able to get an uninterrupted night of sleep.  

To be continued....(The available mouse photos are so cute--but not appealing to me right now! So no photo on this blog.)

----------November 3--no mouse sounds for several nights now.  Shhh.  Hope this doesn't start it up again!