Mus musculus – House MouseBloggers will remember that we discovered we had a mouse a few weeks ago and I invested in some mouse traps to try and catch them. Seems it didn’t work.
At around 3am this morning we were woken by our Mus Musculus who was playing in the curtains in our bedroom. We opened the door to the veranda letting in an arctic blast and then tried to get the mouse to come out and be chase out the door. All that I managed was to get him to peak boo out of the curtain stick his tongue out and say na, na, na, na na… catch me if you can!
MT thought it then rushed off (Did you know that mice can run up to 8 miles an hour? True – check it out here) under the door to the hall so I gave up being a mouse hunter in the wee hours of the morning.
Intent on finding the little rodent tonight I went to fish out the mousetrap from under the cooker and lo and behold what was there? Yes, you guessed it a not so alive mouse.
Whether this is THE mouse that kept us awake I’m not sure but I’m not taking any chances. The mousetrap will stay in the hall for a few nights yet. Hopefully if there is another it will fancy a snack of peanut butter and we’ll be able to sleep in peace.
