Mouse Update

I woke up this morning feeling extremely guilty still about the mouse and the glue trap. When I went downstairs to the kitchen, the first thing I noticed was that a cupboard door was open. This was the same cupboard door that I had closed on the mouse last night. I looked in and the glue trap and the mouse were gone! Looking around the kitchen, I finally noticed the glue trap upside down and partially under one of my shoes - this was around eight feet away from the cupboard. Andrew thinks he was moving around a lot, trying to get off the trap and ended up on the floor and using the shoe as leverage. Based on how much it was moving last night, I just don't get how the mouse could've moved the trap that much when it was so exhausted last night. I keep thinking some of it's friends must've helped it out.

So now I'm conflicted. I'm disgusted by the fact that I still have one less dead mouse in the house. But I also don't think I can go through using glue traps again. Andrew is going to reset the standard spring trap and bait it again and he's got a new location he wants to try it with. But if we still can't catch anything, I may have to compromise and use the glue traps only if we figure out some way to humanely kill (what an oxymoron) the mouse right away.