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I have no food in my room and I've thoroughly cleaned them, but after weeks of no mice, not even in between the ceiling, there was one earlier in the week, and again tonight.
I now suspect they come from the museum next door, which closed a year ago. It's a big building and only two people live in it until renovations start (to prevent squatters). Before the museum took over the building it was an office building and before the renovations started to convert it to a museum there were anti-squatters. Back then they didn't take out the trash and let it pile up in the hallway. Resulting in a huge number of mice invading not only that building but all buildings near it. But back then we had three cats, who took care of the mice. Occasionally catching one, but their presence deterred mice. The warm and dry weather of the past months might also have had an effect.
Now we have no cats. And even if these anti-squatters are clean, a big, mostly empty building might attract mice.
The mice or this one mouse, isn't deterred by my measures. It doesn't go into the no-kill traps we have. We don't want to use kill traps and I'd rather not use poison (they might die and go smelly in an inaccessible place). So only one solution remains: getting a cat.
My father wouldn't mind one, though he wants to get a young cat. But my mother is against it. She would like one but doesn't want the responsibility anymore. I can understand that, but since nothing is working so far it's the only solution. Also there have been reports of a lot of pregnant cats and kittens being dumped at animal shelters. I wouldn't mind taking on the daily responsibility of feeding and cleaning the litter box and sharing the costs of food and vet.
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