4 days ago I was cleaning my rodents, and while I was moving one of my mice-I had a bad muscle cramp in my arm. I ended up dropping the mouse and he immediately fled into a tiny gap in the wall.
I saw no trace of him until yesterday-when I noticed something had uprooted one of my gfs orchids in her frog room and chewed most of the roots off of it (making a huge mess).
The loose mouse also *climbed* up to the top of a large aloe plant and ate most of a *dried leaf*.
There was a mouse trap with peanut butter literally two feet away that was ignored, and I know he had to have passed several other traps on the way...
Last night I got up to use the bathroom and heard the mouse in the bathroom radiator.
I let my two cats in the room and I could hear the mouse scrambling around-dodging their paws as they tried to dig it out.
It was early in the morning-so I left the cats continue their efforts while I returned to sleep.
When I got up later this morning-I assumed the cats had killed the mouse, but I saw no indicator of success.
As soon as I got downstairs I saw the two cats sleeping in their beds and the mouse (unscathed) was *there* slowly sneaking past them-inches away from both cats.
I whispered to the cats and one opened an eye and immediately struck-and missed! The mouse immediately ran under the kitchen refrigerator.
My silver cat sat in front of the refrigerator all day and periodically fell asleep while poised to strike.
At sunset the mouse came out and was killed instantly.
I'm just amazed that the mouse managed to survive for 4 days in my house...it had zero interest in any of my traditional traps...and would rather eat orchid roots and dried aloe leaves rather than peanut butter...never would have guessed it...
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