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Still having a mice problem. I thought by blocking the stairs in my bedroom I had blocked the entrance of the mice. But that wasn't the case. Tonight was a busy night, and I kept hearing rustling around the stairs.
It's a spiral staircase, which once ran from the ground floor all the way up to the attic. At some point the section from the floor below my bedroom to my bedroom was replaced by a normal staircase (which is too steep and a too low ceiling). From my floor to the attic above my it's a spiral staircase again. They've also added a floor in my room so the bottom step sticks out a little bit above the floor on the right side, on the left side there's a gap of a couple of centimeters (everything is crooked in our house).
Tonight I was thoroughly fed up with the mice situation so I went to investigate and found that the top flooring didn't go all the way up to the stair riser below the bottom step, so there was a gap. Which is most likely (hopefully) where the mice got in. I stuffed about half a roll of steel wool in the gaps and wedged in in tightly. Supposedly mice can't gnaw through steel wool.
Tomorrow I'll check the rest of the stairs for any other gaps.
Hopefully the animal shelter will get two sibling kittens for us soon. We want two, but the biggest problem is that at the moment they only have shy siblings and when you get two shy kittens they'll most likely stay shy. If you get one that's shy and one that isn't, the one that is shy will usually change. We're going to give them another call on Friday.
We aren't the only ones that are having problems. When I was house sitting for friends, they also had mice. I heard that a lot of people in their street had mice. I've also hear people from our neighbourhood complaining. We're used to some rodents, living in the city center with a lot of restaurants and bars, but this summer it's been extreme. Normally you get mice are a nuisance in late spring/early summer for a little while and in winter too, though less. I expect it might have something to do with the extremely warm and very dry summer, which forces them to look for other sources of food and water.
It's now past 1.30am and I'm still wide awake. I don't expect to get much sleep tonight, I'm just too stressed right now. So I'll make use of this and catch up on my reading.
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