My sister and her family have been exiled from their own living room for several days now, due to an impinging mouse. The situation has not moved forward in the slightest since I posted about it last week.
Louis Catorze’s cat-cousins Otis and Roux have failed to catch the mouse. Or, rather, Roux DID catch the mouse – twice, in fact – but dropped it again, leaving it free to scurry off into the unknown. As my sister put it, “Roux is only good at locating them. No point expecting her to get rid of them.”
Oh dear.
Otis, despite this whole problem being his fault, has done even less to try to resolve things, so the humans have been very much on their own. At one point they succeeded in coaxing the mouse three-quarters of the way into a humane trap but, regretfully, it realised what was going on, reversed out and, once again, scurried off into the unknown.
So it looks as if the family will be stuck with their new housemate for some time. I think they’re going to need more marshmallows.
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