Also, it went under my couch, but I'm not sure where it went from there. ACK!

Not to make you freak even more, but it's probably inside the couch frame somewhere. Also, the downside of using a cat to try and get it is that, unless the cat is a serious veteran mouser, it may toy with it too much, and let it get away injured.

I have sort of an irrational hate on for the stuff, and don't even like to be around people I love when they're smoking it. Not that I know anyone who does.

Duly noted....

t kicks pot stash under the couch

In other my-family-news, I think Ben (age 9) just discovered the pains of shipping.

Over the summer, the children discovered Full House re-runs. They've just seen the episode where D.J. (the oldest daughter of Bob Saget's character) breaks up with her long term boyfriend, Steve. Ben's asking all these questions about why they would break up if they still like each other, and said he thought they would get married.

His questions about romance, love, and break ups are so sweet, they're breaking me.

I was going to organize an intervention if you were making your mom a pothead.

I made my mom go crazy at that age.

I made her a pot roast two weeks ago.

But not in the "changed her into" sense.

I prefer beef, fish and poultry for my stews.

Duly noted....

Heh.

When your mom has to come stay with you all day, you can make her smoke pot, okay?

I like this. I'll be sure to tell him, and then make plans to stay at a hotel should we ever reach the day where he's not living at home.

Not to make you freak even more, but it's probably inside the couch frame somewhere

Yeah, that's kinda what I'm afraid of.

And the cat thing--well, last time I had a mouse (not at this apartment, a few years back) we borrowed a cat and it was freakin' SCARED of the mouse!!! We ended up cornering it ourselves, with a broom, in the kitchen, and it turned out to be a little tiny thing. We almost (almost) felt bad for it.

This one was a medium-sized mouse. Not big, which is good, but not teeny tiny either. And IN MY HOUSE!!!

Also: suggestions as to where I could easily get some freakin' traps or poison or something? And what's the best sort to get? I'm given to understand traditional mousetraps, not so useful....

Many moons ago we used DeCon MousePruf, or something like that (can't recall the name exactly), and found it at the grocery store and the hardware store.

Okay, that took about 10 tries to post and it wasn't even worth the trouble. I think someone's trying to tell me it's bath time for babies.

Traditional mousetraps are better. You know exactly where the dead mouse is once it's dead. My brother baits them with peanut butter, works like a charm. You just can't be squeamish (like me) about disposing of the wee corpse.

ION, if I'm going to get a blister on the bottom of my big toe from my shoes, I want those shoes to be diamond shoes, damnit, and they aren't. I done got cheated.

Traditional mousetraps are better. You know exactly where the dead mouse is once it's dead. My brother baits them with peanut butter, works like a charm. You just can't be squeamish (like me) about disposing of the wee corpse.

I recommend a husband. I know, I know, they come with baggage, and other things that some of you don't want. But at mouse corpse disposal, they're tops!

Most of the commercial traps work fine if they're baited with peanut butter. I agree with Sail; the problem with poison is they go off and die somewhere unfortunate, like under the refrigerator. I'm not too thrilled with dealing with tiny corpses either. It's much easier if you just do what I do, which is to throw away the trap too. My theory is that it's worth a couple of bucks to spend a minimum amount of time with the dear departed.