We have had no serious activity for the past week or so. Nothing had been nibbled or opened, no drops had been sighted. Then late last night I was up reading (still on Spring Break - insert happy dance here) and heard the very clear sound of animals somewhere in the walls of my bedroom. Tonight I think we will set the traps again and see if the creature takes the bait.
Perspective
On another note, I was watching TV the other day (Saturday I think) and some station was having a special on infestations. These were people who had been literally overrun by some form of pest. Most of the stories were bug or spider related but two were rodent based.
One family was battling rats but another community was battling a mice plague. It could only be described as a plague since there were virtually hundreds of thousands of mice that had descended onto farmland in what I believe was Australia. The showed video footage of the mice running around the fields at night and it looked like the ground itself was moving. No matter what the people did, there were so many mice that they were breeding faster then they could be killed. The farms grew grain for their cattle and horses as well as for selling. Because of the extend of the mice pee and poop, all of their bails of hay had to be burned due to fear of disease. The mice also emptied the farms' grain stores which would have been sold to consumers. The houses were also overrun so the families feared disease would harm their children. It was a truly horrific and expensive experience for these farmers. Eventually, the plague ended because Mother Nature took matters in hand. The mice had no more food to eat leaving the fields barren. They resorted to cannibalism and many starved. Eventually all the mice died and the farmers began re-building their livelihoods. A years worth of work was gone but finally so were the mice.
I share this story because it put my situation into perspective. Geoffrey and I are winning our war against the mice and thank goodness for that. Lessons learned: Someone always has it worse and don't grow grain.
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