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We tolerated it for a while. Then it ate a white chocolate Easter bunny that had been left out and raised our ire. The day after I was walking to Deptford High St and bought some glue traps from one of the street vendors. I put one down and it caught the mouse in about 10 minutes. I hadn't really thought things through. I got some gloves on and tried to get the mouse off the glue so I could release him but obviously that's not how those things work. I couldn't bring myself to administer a coup de grace so went outside and dropped him in a deep puddle and drowned him. I felt bad for weeks afterwards. Still feel bad, actually.
We still have mice. Caught another one in a nipper-style trap: very quick and clean death so didn't feel bad about that. Our cleaner caught another one by throwing a tea-towel over it. She took it out to the park and let it go. I've bought various types of humane traps but they don't work at all.
Have you seen them? I think mine may not be rats because of the small size of their shit. I still haven't managed to spot any with the endoscope though. It's a two-person job: one person to look at the screen, another to manipulate the endoscope. My girlfriend has limited appetite for either job. So far I've seen more shit, that's about all.