First It Was Spiders...Now This!!

OMG!

So I'm doing laundry tonight....and I go out into the garage to grab stuff out of the dryer when A MOUSE scurries past me from under my pantry cabinets.  A MOUSE!!  I just about jumped out of my SKIN! 

Turns out that the little bastard was eating from a bag of birdseed that I had sitting on the floor next to the dryer.  And by the looks of it, he had been at it for quite awhile.  Can't say I blame him...it's nice and warm there next to the dryer, and a nice source of food right there.  How he got all of that seed out through the ittybitty hole in the bag I'm not sure, but he sure left me a mess of empty seed shells to clean up!

Thank goodness he didn't find the bags of dog and cat food sitting there in front of the pantry cabinets!  Those have been moved to safety inside, where their only predators will be my incredibly hard-headed cats.  I'll have to put something in front of the cabinet door to keep them from prying it open and chewing a hole in the bags to get to the food.  Goodness knows that they're fat enough to live off their own bodies for weeks, but still....

So anyhoo...I high tail it up to the hardware store with ten minutes to go before closing time.  I knowthey've got those sonic blastie things that emit a noise to keep rodents and the like away.  I pick up a pack of those and high-tail it back home, where I promptly run extension cords down to ground level and plug those puppies in, aiming them at both doors.  If I seriously feel the need, I'll go back and buy some for inside the house, too.

Tomorrow, I'll be calling Terminex.  Rodents are covered in our contract, and I plan to take full advantage of this service.

A MOUSE!!!!!  shudder