Part 3 (parts 1 and two are here)
As I was cleaning out the garage yesterday I found the tell tail signs of little vermin everywhere.
Mouse poop!
Dagnabbit!
I found the poison traps that I put out before - all empty. One little bastard even had the quejones to make a little nest in one!
Bastards!
At first I was having a hard time killing these little guys. I mean look at how cute your average house mouse is:
But they are very destructive and their excrement smells horrible and now it's personal.
Here are a few facts about these pesky little pests:
Mice have keen senses of taste, hearing, smell and touch. They are excellent climbers and can run up any rough vertical surface. They will run horizontally along wire cables or ropes and can jump up 13 inches from the floor onto a flat surface. They can slip through a crack that a pencil will fit into (sightly larger than 1/4 inch in diameter).
I am not one to catch and release these little guys because there are just way too many of them and they breed incredibly fast. Did you know that female mice will become "mature" at about 3 months of age? The gestation period for a mouse is 19 - 24 days and a female can get pregnant again within 48 hours after giving birth.
Average litter size: 9 - 20 pups
Corky and Casey are very good vermin hunters. We find little dead mice all over the back yard, but once they are in the house they can't get to them because they run along the sill of our basement which is up way too high for their little Westie legs to reach.
So unfortunately for Mickey, Minnie, Speedy, Mighty mouse and all their little mouse friends it's curtains for you:
