MICE!!

We have a mouse in our pantry... AGAIN... and I don't mean the Mickey variety...!  Creepy, disgusting, gag, gag, gag, tiny, evil thing!!  I assumed there was one, so was excited (and completely freaked out) when after finding poop for a couple weeks, Kenna called me saying, "mom something is moving in the garbage can!"  I stood back, way back... and asked unsuspecting Jadyn to come in and kick the garbage for me... (bad mother moment I know!  She's already terrified of animals...)  Anyway I saw movement...  screamed a little... stood shaking 10 feet from that garbage can... and finally after several terrified moments picked up that can and ran outside to toss it in the black beauty.  Maybe it wasn't even in there, but I was pleased with myself. :)  Until we heard more rustling the next day...  My pantry now has 9 traps in it... in all varieties... sticky traps, little houses, snap ones and bait. We are catching that mouse... this isn't a "eat the crumbs off the floor mouse."  This one (or more ICK!) is pampered and likes fresh food...  I've had to throw out several bags of chips that had been scratched into... corn bread pouches, choc chips, tortillas, pepperoni?, marshmallows, fishies, peanuts.  All unopened!!  Not to mention the sanitizing of counters every morning...  sick, sick, sick...!!  I peek in the closet every couple of hours to check those traps... so far nothing...  But...if anything good comes from this... I really don't feel like snacking on anything...  somehow seeing all those traps and thinking about where that little stinker has been running, makes everything lose its appeal... Maybe that will be the new fad diet of the year... called simply... "The Mouse Diet"!