Mice in the Attic

 You can't see them too well, but in the picture below are 2 dead mice!  One is black above the center and the other is in the middle on top of the green logo.  Anyway, they are dead and that's the way we like mice.

We were sitting in the living room around Christmas when we heard a scratching sound from by the coffer.  It was in the attic and it sounded like something was scratching around like it was digging in the insulation.  We listened to it and then it went away.  The next day, we heard scratching in the ceiling in our kitchen above the oven.  We concluded that we had some friends in our attic who needed to be gone.

I went to Lowe's and bought some mouse traps along with some bait that they guaranteed would be irresistible to mice.  Bryan grabbed the ladder, climbed in the attic, and set 8 traps to see what we could catch.  The next day he climbed back up in the attic and found that we had caught/killed 2 mice.  The other traps were untouched.

We did discover something fascinating/gross about mice.  The first trap Bryan found didn't have any of the bait left in it but it had a dead mouse.  The second trap had all the bait and a dead mouse.  The conclusion we drew was that the first mouse was caught and killed so the second mouse ate the rest of the bait and then went in search of more food and got himself caught.  

So the saying is true:  The second mouse gets the cheese!

But the second mouse shouldn't have gotten greedy and he would have been alive longer.

Anyway, we have checked the traps a few times since then and there aren't any more mice so we think there were only 2 and we got them.  Bryan also set traps in the basement but we hadn't gotten anything in those.  We are hoping our house is mouse-free now!