Friday, January 06, 2006

 

There is no perfect trap. There are some great designs that will snap a mouse neck in two without blood, nor excess amounts of mouse hair. I've found, tho, that after a day or so the mice find ways to outsmart just about any trap. Jumping over the trap, or picking at the bait, allowing the peanut butter to be picked at and not eaten aggressively so as to not trip the trap. Somehow, that mouse can outwit a simple machine, a spring, to be exact, and foil my plans to kill it.






I view this mouse as an intruder and will find it dead or go mad seeking it's demise. I've already stayed awake more hours than I wish to count devising new, fiendish methods of mouse murder. A hammer would smash it's tiny brain from even thinking about entering my kitchen. A poison would drop him like a led zeppelin in the summertime. If I, perchance, caught a glimpse of him, I would pounce immediately, grabbing a wooden spoon from the mantle and beat it senseless, until I had nothing but a bloodied mess of what once was a mouse.

With everything that man has created in this world, including the computer, the nuclear bomb, the common electric fan...

with all that we have, there is still a struggle to keep mice away from our refridgerators like some cartoon by Fritz Lang.

posted by Hog 12:28 AM