Mouse Trap!

This morning Jay went into the glove box of his car and noticed that several napkins were slightly shredded. Nothing unusual as that sometimes happens when the glove box brackets close on them. However, after looking at it more carefully, Jay noticed that there were also mouse droppings in the glove box. Freaked out, Jay called the Toyota dealer to find out how a mouse got in the car. The dealer told Jay that a mouse can get in any hole the size of its tail. We decided to put a sticky trap in Jay’s car and take the other car. However, when we went to get in the other car, Amy noticed that there were shredded napkins on the floor. Jay opened the hood of the car and inside a hole in the hood was the mouse staring at us.

We tried swatting at the mouse with a broom, but it scurried behind the hood inside the driver’s side panel. At least we now know that the mouse comes in the hood and then into the car. Therefore, we set up and elaborate trap trying to catch the mouse.

This mouse trap setup brings back memories of a trap that we made while on vacation with our friends in the Outer Banks years ago.
If only we can catch this mouse as we are terrified to go anywhere for fear of being attacked while driving.

UPDATED (Friday evening November 13):

We can home from small group this evening and in the glove box of Amy's car in a sticky trap was a mouse. Hopefully the mouse situation is no more and we can get back to driving without the worring that at any minute a mouse could be running rampant in the car.