We caught a mouse!

We had been seeing signs of a mouse in the house for quite some time. Our first clue was when Matthew wanted to get into Emily's stash of Halloween candy, and all of the Starburst wrappers had been chewed through. Then we noticed that something was chewing through Thumper's bag of rabbit food under the sink. One day Matthew was killing a couple of cockroaches, and then I spotted a huge cockroach that almost looked like a mouse as it sped under the couch. About a week later, I spotted the same little fella running across the hallway...but he really was a mouse! Matthew made a special trap for him, but he was quite an escape artist. On the last night of Spring Break, we finally had him cornered! Matthew went into the laundry room and stuffed rags at the bottom of the door so that Scatty the Ratty wouldn't be able to escape. We heard quite a kerfuffle as I waited standing up on the couch and Emily begged to go in and help. Finally, he was caught! We took lots of pictures and debated about whether to keep Scatty to produce electricity by running on a hamster wheel. It was determined that he needed to go. We drove to the park by our old duplex and set Scatty free. He had almost become like a pet, so it was a sad night for some of us. Hopefully he is enjoying his new life in the park and bayou! Farewell, Scatty!