New Poop...

…these are the 2 words I yelled when I walked into my bedroom for the first time after being out of town for 8 days. As you know, we have been having problems with mice. We did catch one with a trap, though! It took several tries because apparently the traps aren’t that sensitive and we kept finding empty traps with the food missing…but we finally got one!!! We tricked it by putting jelly on the trap. Sarah figured that with bread, it was pretty easy to snatch without setting the trap off. But with jelly, the mouse would have to stand there and lick it for a while…meaning more of a chance for that sucker to snap. I know…we’re becoming critter-catching geniuses. And I know what you’re thinking: cheese is the obvious mousetrap bait. But cheese is REALLY expensive here and we refuse to waste it on mice.

Well, what I found on my bedroom floor today was poop we’ve never seen before. And, unfortunately, it was much larger than the mouse poop we’ve been spotting. The only other critters we’ve seen in the house are lizards and frogs…neither of which could poop this big. I mean, it wasn’t giant or anything, but significantly larger than the mouse poop. Sooooo, we’re afraid we’ve got some rather large rats on our hands. I went around my room kicking everything that was on the floor. I mean there’s not that many places they could be hiding. Then I swept the two little pooplets out of my room and swept the rest of the house. Then I went back into my room and there was ANOTHER NEW POOP…right in my doorway. It’s as if the mystery pooper is just trying to taunt me.

I am really sorry for you that my life has taken a turn that necessitates blogging about animal poop. I promise not to dwell here, but you should know that I will probably update you on the identity of the mystery pooper and whether or not we catch him.