Is it really true that mice like cheese, or is that just on cartoons? We had an invader in our house tonight and we aren't quite sure if it's a full grown mouse or a young rat. He ran quickly into our living room and I saw a brown blur in the corner of my eye. I screamed like a girl because it frightened me and said "Houser, there's a mouse!" It kept running and then hid behind our couch. Houser said he didn't want to kill it and I said "Please, do something!"
They're so small and harmless, but somehow still they are quite unnerving. I didn't want the mouse/rat to leave the room so I guarded the door while Houser went to find some sort of weapon. He returned with a shoe. He told me to move away from the door and after a minute or two, the mouse/rat scurried through the door into the kitchen. Houser aimed and threw the shoe down hard, but the mouse/rat escaped back through the hole that it came in through. We have a small hole in our kitchen where the water from the sink drains out.
Occasionally we will see some rat droppings and figured that they come and play in our kitchen in the night but we have never seen one in our house. So tonight we set some rat traps to see if it returns. We put some cheese on the traps and it made me wonder, do they really like cheese? I guess we'll find out soon enough.
