Me vs the mice

 Mice woke me up one night last week,  who knew mice ever make a racket?   I ordered some pretty high rated traps on Amazon they were on delayed shipping and didn't get here till thursday, I also bought a couple of the same brand at TSC saturday.    Well the TSC are a different model than the Amazon.  I had one set up in my office with a couple mice darting around while I was in there.  The larger mouse was able to just lick the bait off the paddle w/o putting its feet on it, but I put a bit of p/b in hoping that might work better.  Caught a 2nd small mouse with that.  Caught two small mice on the main floor with the same model trap.   I ordered a rat trap from amazon and some of the cheese scented paddle board old style snap traps that would come faster than thursday.  The rat trap is probably not sensitive enough for a mouse to spring it.  But I now have 3 traps in my office including the rat trap.   1 of the cheese scent paddle in my bathroom that I put some p/b on the paddle too (that has caught mice for me before)  and I added 1 new trap in my bedroom this morning baited with a choc chip wedged down securely in the bait hole and have I 4 traps,  3 different models on the main floor now.   And I have not caught another mouse after the 3 little ones with the small traps that the bigger mouse defeated.   I haven't seen or heard it again, maybe he found his way back outside when he realized I was trying to kill him, but more likely I need to do a deep clean, make sure  it has no food stash and has to try the bait if it wants to eat.   

I have got to figure out how to get more weight on Abe,  I need to do spring vaccines soon and will say I want the vet to check for things that might be keeping his weight down when he is out.   I meant to buy some different stuff to try on way home tonight but alas I forgot.    I've been giving more concentrate pellets with beet pulp, and cool calories, and I bought some alfalfa pellets and added those, sometimes he won't clean up the alfalfa.  Started feeding him extra again at night since he is at his limit of what he will clean up while tied up to eat.   He has access to big hay bale all day but he doesn't beaver on it all day, like he should since he is a bit thin and should be hungry.    I wormed him, Razz and Tanza today.   Maybe I will have to worm Abe every 2 months, maybe worm him again in a week to get something like the 5-day panacur effect.   I don't know if I'd get him wormed 5 days in a row.