Unwanted House Critters
Well, it appears that I’ve got signs of at least one unwanted house critter — though you know if there’s one, there’s more.
The clues:
- Some thing’s definitely been imbibing in the bird seed I’ve got stored in the basement and it’s not the birdies I bought it for, which makes me very grumpy.
- Needy and Pugly have both been interested in some thing beneath the stove.
- Pugly has been barking at the wall between the kitchen and the living room for no apparent reason. (There goes my theory that he’s gone insane.)
- Two nights ago, Needy was very interested in the skittering of some little feet along the sloped part of my bedroom ceiling over my bed, which is just too chilling to think about.
Needy and Aloof really aren’t mousers. They really are the kind of cats that prefer to be given their kibble at regular intervals and aren’t really happy that they’ve been put on a diet. They don’t like wet food. So I don’t see them actually knowing what to do if they see an actual unwanted house critter.
Pugly is probably more likely to to be a good mouser, but that’s kind of icky to think about.
So, I guess I’ll be researching what to do about unwanted house critters.
I don’t know that I’m all that excited about the whole catch them and set them free thing because couldn’t they just come back? And wouldn’t I have to, you know touch them?
I’m not excited about the whole idea of poison or slow death either. I’d rather put up an eviction notice.
Tags: mice, rodents, rats, little red house, the cats, the puppy
