I wrote yesterday about the uninvited house guest we have. Because of this I was doing some general cleaning for sanitary reasons, and to discourage the little critter from hanging around in the basement in general.

Well, the little sneak must have been hiding nearby, as I turned away for a moment, it made a daring dash up the side of the shelf to the rafters and into the corner. I got a good look at it but was unable to do anything about it. By the time I got a chair and flashlight to follow, there was no trace of the rodent or where it had escaped to.

The upside to this encounter is that my cat, Titus, also saw the escaping creature and immediately got very excited. He is now dutifully keeping watch from the top of the shelf it has been running around on. I’m hoping that the fresh scent of cat will make the mouse thing twice about visiting, or that he might actually do his job and catch it! (I have my doubts)

Tomorrow I will have to go to the store and get some traps. Assuming Titus gets bored of his post and vacates the shelving unit, I intend to set up something as documented on this blog – a humane trap which uses gravity to capture the mouse. It might not work, but it’s certainly worth a try in the meantime.