{"id":598,"date":"2013-01-22T10:58:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T02:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2013-01-22T19:11:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T11:11:09","slug":"mouse-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/22\/mouse-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouse Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-22-06.25.53.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-634\" alt=\"2013-01-22 06.25.53\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-22-06.25.53-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-22-06.25.53-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-22-06.25.53.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We were over-run with mice when we lived in the caravan and shed, so I was horrified when I noticed a familiar smell in the bathroom and found mouse poop in a drawer.   We had tried mouse baits in the caravan, but discovered that there were too many downsides: including a horrible death for the mouse &#8211; invariably in a concealed location that you didn&#8217;t find till you could smell the rotting carcass from 5 yards; they also bled as they died leaving even more mess to clean up.  I have found these safe&#8217;n&#8217;sure mousetraps to be effective, usually killing the mouse outright.  Unfortunately this little chap was an exception, so I had to finish the job with my trusty hoof rasp.  I felt terrible, being a vegetarian for 30 years makes me cherish all living things, I even rescue dung beetles, wasps, bees and spiders from the water troughs, but even I draw a (thin) line for a mouse in the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were over-run with mice when we lived in the caravan and shed, so I was horrified when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-22-06.25.53.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}