There is such a thing as too many options. I stopped in at my local Walmart (I hate shopping there, but that’s all there is to this teensy town) to pick up some D-Con to kill the bad rodents. I found the pest removal section and I couldn’t find the D-Con at first. I found about 80 gadzillion other options though. Too many frickin’ options! There were electrocuting traps, ergonomic traps, snap traps that looked like big chip-baggy clips. And then there were twelve different kinds of poison. I counted.
Who knew they put this much thought into killing pests?
I got two of the non-poison ergonomic traps. No snap noise, so I should be okay. But, when I looked at all those poisons I freaked out a little thinking that Horatio might somehow finally manage to open the kitchen door and instead of dead mice I’d have a dead cat.
And I just could not deal with that.
Hands down, my favorite do-dad was the plug-in sonic noise pest repellent. Part of me was cracking up at the thought of a noise machine scary away the big bad mice. Another part of me (the part connected to my hand) thought “well, why not?” and put it in the cart anyway.
No sign of mice this morning, but nothing in the traps either. So far, the noise makers are doing their jobs. Crazy, huh?
