Moving Out! by Cindy Babyn

Author:Cindy Babyn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BISAC: REF0150000 / STU010000 / JNF053100 / REFERENCE /Personal & Practical Guides, STUDY AIDS / College Guides, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Issues / New Experience
Publisher: General Store Publishing House
Published: 2012-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

Your landlord should eliminate all potential pest highways into your place. A landlord should make sure there are no leaky taps and ensure that all cracks and crevices leading into the apartment are caulked and sealed to block unwanted creatures from getting in.

I rented an apartment in a fairly old house. When the season changed and it got cold out, I saw a mouse in my apartment. I didn’t want to kill it so I bought a “humane” mousetrap. The trap worked and I caught one. It was a little cage contraption that closed when the mouse went in there and got some food. The next morning, I put the mouse in the trap into my bike bag and I rode it a fair distance to the woods near my workplace, but when I got there, the mouse had already died. I heard after the fact that mice tend to have weak hearts, so it probably had a heart attack. Then, I just seemed to keep seeing more mice. One mouse was huge and it was not afraid of me whatsoever. It liked to engage with me in some kind of a stare-down. I am not making this up: One day that fat mouse somehow managed to get into my fridge and it was in there eating my pizza! I ended up borrowing my landlord’s cat, Toby, but it was the dumbest hunter cat ever. All he did was play with the mice. I ended up catching a few more mice and I let them go in a park closer to my house. After about fifteen mice, it came time for me to move out. I never did resolve the problem before I left but I was glad to be through with that experience!

Benoit,

Montreal, Quebec

My mom had made me a batch of apple brown sugar muffins, which were wrapped in foil. I left them on the kitchen counter to take with me to school. I started noticing that chunks of the muffin crumble tops were missing and I thought my new roommates may have been picking at them. I didn’t want to confront them about it because I didn’t want to make waves. In a day or two, I noticed mouse droppings on the counter and realized that it was little critter residents making a meal of my snacks. I told the landlord and he bought some traps for us. My roommate and I used peanut butter on the traps because we heard it was more effective than cheese. We turned off the lights, waited, and presto, those traps killed the mice. Also, since we didn’t have any pets to worry about, my landlord put some poison stuff out, too. The poison apparently gets eaten and the chemical dries out the mice so they don’t smell as they decompose. I know this is altogether a kind of gross story, but no one needs disease-ridden vermin crawling all over their kitchen. These methods work!

Mike,

Toronto, Ontario

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