7 and Counting

The mounting death toll of mice in our house has truly reached ridiculous proportions. 7 in under two weeks. 7!!! And I can't even yet count the 7th down because that one has retreated somewhere in the house with a glue trap still attached to its body - or it devoured the entire glue trap and managed to walk away free. This one really grosses me out. When I went down this morning to prepare Leila's breakfast and my lunch I noted that a trap was missing, so I called Cesar to see if he'd found/disposed of another snared mouse this morning and he said no, he'd looked around to try and find where the mouse dragged itself and the trap this morning and he couldn't see anything without dragging all the appliances out and waking us at 5:00a.m. I made him stay on the phone with me the whole time I was in the kitchen because I was so freaked my the image of a mouse on the loose with a glue trap still attached. I just called my property manager on vacation to insist they get the 1980's era stove out of the kitchen so pest control could really get back there to see where this tribe of mice is holed up. When he was out last week he said he couldn't pull the stove out since it was all one unit with the microwave on top and that short of doing that to find their access point all he could do was continue to put out new poison and traps under the stove. I don't think my property manager picked up on the hint that it would be nice to pull the 1980's stove out and dispose of it to replace it with something new and sleek b/c she was pondering whether the appliance company could pull it out so pest control could get back there and do their thing then leave it unbolted in case it had to be pulled out for future mouse outbreaks. Heaven forbid we are still living in dear Amityville for future outbreaks!! My skin is just crawling this morning....