Ben by Daniel Shelton for March 04, 2021

“Us” or “them”, Liv.

It is not advisable to share your home with flies or mice. Swat & trap!

Trevor the Gross?

I can’t imagine anyone Olivia’s age naming a mouse that has invaded her home. I have gotten rid of many mice. I even once found a nest with several babies in it. I took a hammer to those babies. It was quick and probably more merciful than starving to death because I had already caught their mother.

Love how Ben looks in the second panel!

So rather than a quick death, we should release it into the snow to slowly freeze & starve. I suspect your next stop, Ben, will be the pet shop for a deluxe cage and mouse food.

I used to work in a hardware store. Every so often we would get someone who wanted to ‘catch and release’ the mice plaguing their house. We sold ‘humane traps’. I would always advise people to wear heavy gloves when using such things. I would tell the people, that when they release the mouse if they are bitten because the mouse is panicked, they are going to go to the hospital for some really unpleasant Rabies Shots.

Ben’s look in panel two, caused the famine reaction.

Trouble with relocating is now they are someone else’s problem – if they survive.

I bought some of those sonic things. We haven’t seen a mouse since

It’s your fault Ben for being so descriptive. The less she knows the better.

I hired an exterminator to rid me of mice in my home years ago. So glad I did. He found at least 6 places in my house that they were able to enter that I had no idea existed. He fixed them that day. He also set the traps (using peanut butter as the lure) and came once a week to collect the dead and set new traps. This went on for several months before he declared me “Mouse Free.”

some people love the little furry critters until those (d%^&) mice do a few thousand dollars of damage.

for fun look up Mouse Trap Mondays on Y’tube

You should have contacted the Pentagon in advance. Trevor would have justified calling in the Army to Washington, DC today.

My wife once threatened to shoot a mouse with a .38 (bird shot load) if I didn’t get it killed and removed from the house.

At least it isn’t Algernon.