BRAZEN Mouse

       My school is old. It was built in 1951. It has no air conditioning and it has many other issues. For years I have known about and even seen evidence of the mice that would live in an old school like mine. But this mouse was FEARLESS and BRAZEN.
    The relationship between the mouse and I started innocent enough. I thought I heard some scurrying when I first walked in and turned on the light in the morning. Then one morning in the corner of my eye I thought I saw something move and go under a door but I brushed it off and moved on until it could not be ignored.
     One monday I cam in and there was the mouse right at my desk. When I turned on the light it stayed, there was no running for cover it stayed. Then it went to the closet. From there it got more and more brazen. Climbing the shelves with the lights on. We would drop books and still it would stay. It perched on a drawer and just stared at me. I brought over some of the students and we looked at the mouse and made noises and it just walked closer to us. It was not scared and it did not run. For the rest of the day we heard it running and scurrying in my closet and then it would run around the edges of the classroom EVEN with 40 students in the room. (Yes I have 40 students in two of my periods.)
    One thing became clear the mouse needed TO GO!!! Who wants a mouse scurrying around your feet as you try to grade?!?!
     So I contacted the janitors and finally got some traps put around. But the mouse continued to treat my classroom and closet as it personal playground. Climbing up and down and running around and just completely making me JUMP at every sound.

   That afternoon I was working with another teacher and here come the mouse scurrying right up to the teacher and after hearing me talk about the BRAZEN little creature the other teacher finally saw it my way and admitted I was not exaggerating! This mouse was not trying to remain hidden and was not scared of the big bad people!!!!  Shortly after the mouse finally got stuck in a trap.

     Remember how I said the mouse had TO GO! Well once it is stuck everything changes. Since it is school they don't use the traps that snap (students might accidentally step in it, it is a safety hazard) and you cannot use poison (safety- this time because you don't know where the mouse will finally die); so they use sticky traps. The mouse was stuck and spinning in the ground as his front legs that were free tried to push and most to get the hind legs off.  It would squeak and squirm and now my little heart was broken. I left my room got the Janitor and said out till that Brazen Mouse was finally gone.
  My room might be safe once again but my heart is still sad to see that little mouse STUCK!