I moved into my current apartment in May and just last week saw a very large mouse in my laundry room. I immediately closed the door and placed cardboard across the bottom. I had two bags of garbage stored there for collection day that I removed. I went out and bought several "snap" mouse traps and placed them throughout my apartment. A couple of days later I walked into my kitchen and the mouse was on my stove and it dove under one of the burners. I covered the burners with aluminum cake pans and weighed them down with pots and pans (this morning, almost a week later, I finally got the nerve to check the stove and found nothing). I bought 16 more traps - the sticky kind - and placed them throughout my apartment with a big glob of peanut butter on each one. I work night shift and when I leave in the evening I turn the lights in my apartment off to try to draw the mouse out. Since the day I saw the mouse on my stove I haven't seen any sign of it and the traps remain untouched. I plan on keeping the baited traps down for about another week after which I will just leave them unbaited. No matter what, I will keep some traps down from now on. I have never lived anywhere that's had a mouse before, so this is a new (and very unpleasant) experience. My apartment is clean, but I am being extra careful to keep all my used dishes washed, garbage is always keep in a garbage can with a lid and my pantry is a free-standing unit away from the other kitchen cupboards. What I would like to know is can anyone who has been in this situation offer any other advice or suggestions as to what I can do to deal with this, and most importantly, after how long of not seeing the mouse (or signs of) can I start to relax and assume that it's either gone or caught by one of the other tenants? Thanks for any answers provided.
2007-09-14
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