Ok, it's obvious now. Leaving all the sunflower heads on the back porch was a good idea. But I needed to seal them up. Which I never got around to. Work got busy, I was feeling overwhelmed. I'd read the instructions to seal them, but it never occurred to me why. Like that mice would see this as a buffet.
No wonder Eleanor kept wanting to go back out there. But it's unheated, and we've closed off the back room, with the heat off, to conserve energy. Today, we put the tree away properly, welcomed Eleanor back there, cleared the glass recycling we'd put out there, and I realized what happened to all my sunflower heads.
Our Mouse Killer set up a blind and got ready to hunt.
D rationalizes that perhaps they didn't come in to the rest of the house so much, because they had that spot. Sounds like wonderful rationalization to me, and I'll stick with that story for the sake of sleeping at night.
The top of the basement stairs were covered in mouseshit. I cleaned all that, laid down more peppermint and eucalyptus, and set a trap in that top corner.
One day, we will get the basement properly lit, drywalled, with shelves, and let cats run. Right now, with all the raw dirt, unknown potential exits, asbestos tape, not gonna happen. Upgrading the plumbing will have to come first, and we are not prepared to do that yet.
Right now, we're putting off cleaning that porch area properly until next weekend. Going for a massage today, for the neck-headache that will not die.
2 comments:
Please make sure that your cats are up-to-date on their shots so that any diseases carried by mice/rats will not affect the cats. The mice may have come into contact with the cats already, but just in case, you would want to be sure that the cats are safe. This might be done by simply phoning your vet and asking if there are any immunizations that cats should have prior to contact with wild mice...
We all love your cats and just want them to be safe. :-)
Class,
Yes, they are both current. Thank you for your concern.
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