When the dog begins to randomly walk into the living room while no one’s there, with a friendly look on his face and\u00a0his tail slowly wagging \u2013 acting for all the world like he sees dead people??!<\/p>\n
Suspect dead people.<\/p>\n
But if the dead people start leaving tiiiiiiiny liiiiiiittle poopies all over the living room rug??<\/p>\n
Begin suspecting mice instead.<\/p>\n
Dead people don\u2019t leave little poopies, I think. Nor do they gnaw the bottoms out of every chip bag in the pantry.\u00a0 Nor do they create some weirdo stash of dog food in the winter scarves.\u00a0 Which is how we discovered the mouse problem in the first place \u2013 when we were sorting out the winter scarves, second drawer down in the laundry room, and found a stash of dog kibble surrounded by little poopies.<\/p>\n
Uhhhh, gross. And now no one in the house will ever wear a scarf again.<\/p>\n
Also? Houston, I think we have a problem.\u00a0 (And when I say \u201cHouston\u201d I really mean \u201cHubby\u201d and he agreed there was a problem so he set a trap which he stuffed with chips and dog kibble.)<\/p>\n
It worked!<\/p>\n
We walked away from the experience believing we got the one mouse in da\u2019 house.<\/p>\n
Oh, hoh, hoh. Foolish mortals.\u00a0 Turns out we only got the muth-ah mouse.\u00a0 Who had, before she dined on a final serving of chips, stashed her babies in the living room, specifically in the piano.<\/p>\n
Thus the dog\u2019s subsequent and super creepy \u201cI see dead people\u201d behavior.<\/p>\n
By the bye, you know what\u2019s really, REALLY hard to get off\u00a0a piano?!? A mouse.\u00a0 Especially if all you\u2019re using is a coffee can and grown lady screams<\/a> to entice it.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>And even harder that one mouse?? Three.\u00a0 Three mice in a baby grand piano.<\/p>\n