Mouse in a Bottle?

So I'm sleeping on May 24 weekend - and I hear footsteps. Not the ordinary kind. The rodent-kind, on the roof. All of a sudden - boom. The darned mouse fell into the WALL. This is at 2am, the rodent is trapped and taking away from my much needed sleep because it's continuously scratching. This happened last year too on May 24 weekend. I had to again, drill a hole in the wall to get the guy out. Only this time, he didn't want to come out. So I used a bottle and duct-taped it to the wall with the opening of the bottle connected to the hole in the wall. I left some juice in there to lure the mouse out. Sure enough, after 30 minutes he came out and I ripped the bottle from the wall and put the lid on it. He was cute, as are all of them. I was planning on drowning him but instead gave him something to eat (peanut butter). I then drilled some holes so he could breathe. I planned on releasing him far, far away on my way back to Toronto the next day. Patched up the hole in the wall and ahhh.. off to sleep. NOT. The mouse was making such a racket I just tossed him outside in the bottle. Unfortunately the little guy didn't make it through the night.



Throughout the winter the mice haven't really gotten inside. But recently I've been finding two in the snap traps every week inside the place. Carpenter Ants seem to like the taste of mouse, so I always see a swarm of them around the dead mouse. They like to go in through the eyes. So now I have a mouse problem, and a carpenter ant problem. So I went out and got MaxForce ant bait. This stuff apparently is a slow toxin that kills entire any colonies. Unfortunately I didn't get the kind made for carpenter ants. No problem. I just use the mice as bait. Get back to the cottage, find some dead mice.... Drop some Maxforce on the mouse, ants gobble away.....